diff --git a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 # exceptions).
 add_library(MLIRBindingsPythonExtension ${PYEXT_LINK_MODE}
   MainModule.cpp
+  IRModules.cpp
 )
 
 target_include_directories(MLIRBindingsPythonExtension PRIVATE
@@ -66,5 +67,7 @@
 target_link_libraries(MLIRBindingsPythonExtension
   PRIVATE
   MLIRIR
+  MLIRCAPIIR
+  MLIRCAPIRegistration
   ${PYEXT_LIBADD}
 )
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.h b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.h
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.h
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+//===- IRModules.h - IR Submodules of pybind module -----------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef MLIR_PYTHON_IR_MODULES_H
+#define MLIR_PYTHON_IR_MODULES_H
+
+#include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
+namespace py = pybind11;
+
+#include "mlir-c/IR.h"
+
+/// Wrapper around MlirContext.
+class PyMlirContext {
+public:
+  PyMlirContext() { context = mlirContextCreate(); }
+  ~PyMlirContext() { mlirContextDestroy(context); }
+  // Parses the module from asm.
+  MlirModule parse(const std::string &module) {
+    return mlirModuleCreateParse(context, module.c_str());
+  }
+
+  MlirContext context;
+};
+
+void populateIRSubmodule(py::module &m);
+
+#endif // MLIR_PYTHON_IR_MODULES_H
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.cpp b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.cpp
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/IRModules.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+//===- IRModules.cpp - IR Submodules of pybind module ---------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#include "IRModules.h"
+
+// Implementation of IR submodule.
+void populateIRSubmodule(py::module &m) {
+  /*==========================================================================*/
+  /* Context bindings.                                                        */
+  /*==========================================================================*/
+  py::class_<PyMlirContext>(m, "MlirContext")
+      .def(py::init<>())
+      // Parses the module from asm.
+      .def("parse", &PyMlirContext::parse);
+
+  /*==========================================================================*/
+  /* Module bindings.                                                         */
+  /*==========================================================================*/
+  py::class_<MlirModule>(m, "MlirModule")
+      // Get operation and dump.
+      .def("dump", [](MlirModule module) {
+        mlirOperationDump(mlirModuleGetOperation(module));
+      });
+}
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/MainModule.cpp b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/MainModule.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/MainModule.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Bindings/Python/MainModule.cpp
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 #include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
 
+#include "IRModules.h"
 #include "mlir/IR/MLIRContext.h"
 
 using namespace mlir;
@@ -24,4 +25,8 @@
     return std::make_tuple(std::string("From the native module"),
                            context.isMultithreadingEnabled());
   });
+
+  // Define and populate IR submodule.
+  auto irModule = m.def_submodule("ir", "MLIR IR Bindings");
+  populateIRSubmodule(irModule);
 }
diff --git a/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/ir_test.py b/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/ir_test.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/test/Bindings/Python/ir_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# RUN: %PYTHON %s | FileCheck %s
+
+import mlir
+
+TEST_MLIR_ASM = r"""
+module {
+}
+"""
+
+ctx = mlir.ir.MlirContext()
+module = ctx.parse(TEST_MLIR_ASM)
+module.dump()
+print(bool(module))
+# CHECK: True