www.modernart.ie

As it says itself: "The Irish Museum of Modern Art is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art". The home page is very well designed, with flashing pictures referencing "tradition" and "innovation". It also has one-click connections to exhibitions (current, forthcoming and recent), collections and various programmes. A fine museum deserves a fine site, and in this case IMMA certainly has one.

www.jamesjoyce.ie

ITS homepage says "You are now in the heart of Dublin . . . and the official site of the James Joyce Centre". The site, unfortunately is a letdown. Not one of the connections from the links page works unless you know how to adjust their incorrect links, and even then some don't. The internal newsletter link is also broken. If there is a newsletter, it's not online. The brief history of Joyce is good, but overall the site needs a lot more work.

www.nationalgallery.ie

THE Irish National Gallery is one that we can be immensely proud of, and their website is one they can be proud of. The section on recent acquisitions, including a portrait of Gay Byrne, is a very good way of keeping up with what is new since you last visited. The general information on opening times etc. is prominently displayed so there's no excuse for not going. There are some online pictures of the exhibits, but there's nothing like going to see them "live".

www.folkpark.com

The Ulster-American Folk Park, which is near Omagh, Co Tyrone, is an outdoor museum which tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Recently reopened after temporary closure due to the foot-and-mouth crisis, this site does what a good museum site should - it makes you want to visit it. It could do with a bit more research information, but that might detract from the number of potential visitors.

www.kehoes.com

This is a most unusual and unique site in that it celebrates a pub which is also a maritime heritage centre in Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford. Pubowner James Kehoe spent nearly 30 years diving and retrieving artefacts from wrecks in the waters around Wexford and now, where possible, these have been fully restored and displayed in the bar. With pictures of the ships' bounty and interesting historical information, sea-dogs will find plenty to interest them here.