From April 15 to October 15, 2019, theIrish Famine Exhibition opens, a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to one of the most terrible episodes in Irish history: that of its Great Famine (1845-1848).
Open 7/7 from 12pm to 6pm, this exhibition will be held on the 2nd floor of the Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre in Dublin. This eagerly-awaited event will give you a better understanding of the dramatic circumstances surrounding the Great Famine, which claimed almost a million lives…
The program includes period objects, “soup pots” (one of the most powerful symbols, showing that the luckiest Irish people were condemned to live on soup alone), written testimonies, period photos, sketches, maps and statistical figures… There are also interactive documentaries, and a DVD of the entire exhibition…
Allow around 1 hour for the tour. The place is brilliant, fun and interesting, and treats this terrible historical episode with finesse and dignity.
For the record, this is the second edition of the Irish Famine Exhibition. The event was in fact held for the first time in Dublin, in the summer of 2017. The exhibition was then called“The Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1852)” and was intended to commemorate the 170th anniversary of the Great Famine.
The exhibition was a great success, and many visitors asked to see it again.
The Great Famine was one of the darkest moments in Irish history. Between 500,000 and 1 million people are thought to have died… not to mention the great wave of emigration as survivors tried to flee the country for the United States.
This episode is considered one of the worst famines in history (when comparing the number of deaths to the total Irish population).
What’s more, this Famine was highly criticized, as Ireland was at the time part of the world’s richest empire (the British Empire). There was enough food in the country throughout the “famine” years, but this didn’t prevent the deaths of over a million Irish people.
The exhibition attempts to decipher the causes of so many deaths, and sheds light on the British-Irish conflict that led to this tragedy.
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