The Ireland Pavilion at Expo 2025 combines Irish timber with Japanese building materials, in the form of an abstracted Celtic spiral.

The pavilion provides an environment in which our visitors can engage on a personal level with our exhibitions, performances and pavilion team. Located beside the main entrance to Expo, the Ireland Pavilion acts as a gateway for visitors to the entire Expo site.

Upon approach, visitors are greeted by a gilded monumental sculpture, the Magnus RINN, set in a garden evocative of an Irish landscape. The curves of the pavilion and its wooden cladding reflect and compliment the curvature of the Grand Roof, the elevated wooden walkway which forms a ring around the Expo site.

Government of Ireland architects from the Office of Public Works designed the pavilion, made up of three elliptical areas and a central interlocking space, to represent an abstracted triskele in three dimensions.

The triskele is an ancient motif which has appeared in Irish art and craft since Neolithic times. The symbol was used by the ancient Celts in Ireland as a way to mark sacred sites, such as Newgrange passage tomb in the UNESCO Boyne Valley heritage site.

The triskele plays an important role in Irish history, and continues to be a popular and recognisable symbol in Ireland today. The design will bring visitors on a journey through three ellipses inside the pavilion.

The pavilion is clad in Irish-grown Douglas fir timber, provided by Coillte. The wood of the cladding echoes the wood of the nearby Grand Roof, evoking a connection between Irish and Japanese craft.

'Creativity Connects People'

Ireland’s theme for Expo is ‘Creativity Connects People’, a concept which is brought to life in our pavilion. Through this theme, we show how imagination is central to all human progress and to empowering young and old to live full and productive lives.

Magnus RINN

Outside the pavilion, a monumental sculpture conceptualised by Joseph Walsh and made in collaboration with his team will act as a tangible expression of our theme, combining beauty of form with natural materials and creative making.

The sculpture, Magnus RINN, will sit in a specially made landscape designed by Hiroyuki Tsujii, the custodian of the Karasaki Pine Tree, in collaboration with Joseph Walsh Studio.

Kwaidan Project

On the walls of the pavilion VIP space, located on the first floor, specially framed ‘Kwaidan Project’ prints have been hung.

The ‘Kwaidan Project’ is an Irish-Japanese cultural collaboration. It is exhibition of fine art prints & photographs by 40 Japanese and Irish artists inspired by Lafcadio Hearn's masterpiece 'Kwaidan'. In addition to its permanent presence at the Ireland Pavilion for the six months of Expo, the exhibition is currently touring.