The Ireland Pavilion presents Chinese visitors with a vision of Ireland as a country offering a fascinating blend of history, scenery and culture; the World's most open economy exporting high technology, food, fashion, music and culture; and that Ireland offers China an eager English-speaking business, research and education partner within Europe.

Ireland Pavilion from left. Office of Public Works www.opw.ie		Ireland Pavilion from right. Office of Public Works www.opw.ie		Ireland Pavilion at night. Office of Public Works www.opw.ie

 

 

Visitors will be surprised to discover a history and cultural continuity that goes back to the Stone Age, whilst enjoying a whole range of contemporary audiovisuals, exhibits, displays, readings, music and performances. Successive enclosed exhibition galleries will present the climate, landscape, settlement patterns, people, lifestyle, urbanism, architecture, economy, produce, creativity and imagination, technical innovation, research and educational opportunities of Ireland. These threads will be woven together in the climactic 'Celtic Dreams' immersive audiovisual space.

The vision for the pavilion is to leave the visitor with an image of a country and a people with a long history, very beautiful scenery, historic buildings, very green and fertile, produces food and education and technology, and has a strong cultural and artistic identity; it is a small country and part of the European Union; Ireland is a country, like China, that within a generation, has experienced a great movement of people from rural to urban living and relies on the collective spirit and wisdom of its people, built over many thousands of years of history and culture, to absorb, learn from and manage this new experience.