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Irish Famine and Emigration Exhibition Dublin
About This Tour
Step into Dublin’s Irish Famine Exhibition with advance admission that allows you to skip the entrance line and explore at your own pace. Discover the Great Famine of 1845–1852 through powerful 19th-century photographs, historical newspaper accounts, personal letters and original famine-era artefacts. Learn about the human story behind starvation, disease, poverty, eviction and mass emigration from Ireland to Canada, America, Britain and Australia. Your visit also includes a short historical documentary. Located in central Dublin, this self-guided experience is particularly suited to history lovers, visitors interested in Irish heritage and ancestry, and travellers wanting to understand one of the most important periods in Ireland’s history.
What's Included
✓ Included
- A translation guide is available in French, German, Italian and Spanish
✗ Not Included
- A Book of the exhibition may also be purchased.
Itinerary
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Visitors walk through a series of illustrated wall panels featuring remarkable 19th-century photographs and an easy-to-follow narrative explaining the story of the Great Irish Famine.
Learn about the mass emigration that followed, a story also explored in other Dublin attractions such as EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum and Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship and Famine Museum.
Guests may also choose to sit and watch a 15-minute documentary overview film explaining the causes, events, and global impact of the famine.
Along the way, see moving artefacts including historic newspaper reports, a personal letter from a father to his son, and a famine soup pot once used to feed starving families.
A high-quality book about the Irish Famine is also available to purchase as a meaningful souvenir or gift to bring home.
Learn about the mass emigration that followed, a story also explored in other Dublin attractions such as EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum and Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship and Famine Museum.
Guests may also choose to sit and watch a 15-minute documentary overview film explaining the causes, events, and global impact of the famine.
Along the way, see moving artefacts including historic newspaper reports, a personal letter from a father to his son, and a famine soup pot once used to feed starving families.
A high-quality book about the Irish Famine is also available to purchase as a meaningful souvenir or gift to bring home.
Good to Know
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children must be accompanied by an adult