Donegal musician Rory Gallagher's favourite guitar is to take its place at the National Museum at Collins Barracks in Dublin.
The Ballyshannon-born guitarist's iconic Fender Stratocaster will be one of a number of amazing items which have shaped Irish history in one way or another.
Gallagher bought the guitar for £100 at Crowley's music store in Cork, in 1963.
Over 60 years later, it was purchased for over €1 million at a Bonhams auction in London in October 2024, by Live Nation Gaiety Ltd who donated the guitar to the National Museum of Ireland.
The guitar is just one of over 250 objects which will go on display to the public from tomorrow as part of the biggest expansion of the public galleries in over two decades at the National Museum at Collins Barracks.
'The Changing Ireland Galleries' are opening following a full refurbishment of a part of Collins Barracks that had been untouched since the departure of the Defence Forces almost 30 years ago.
The galleries will feature hundreds of political, social and cultural objects from the museum's 20th and 21st century collections with extraordinary and everyday objects that have been witness to the last 150 years of Irish life.