EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is one of Dublin’s must-see museums. Housed within the walls of the famous CHQ Building on Custom House Quay, the establishment is one of the city’s top attractions, and is entirely dedicated to Irish emigration and its diaspora scattered around the world.

It plunges you into the terrible world of Irish travelers, embarking on dangerous crossings, fleeing the Great Famine, misery and poverty… in search of success in other countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia.

An edifying, modern and interactive museum, where you can find out if you yourself are an Irish descendant!

Visit EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

Discovering Irish emigrants and their terrible journeys

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum – EPIC Ireland CHQ Limited

More than 10 million Irish left their country for new horizons.

10 million to make perilous and sometimes deadly journeys, to escape poverty, famine or simply to try their luck elsewhere… in faraway lands full of promise.

Crammed onto unsanitary ships, suffering from disease or hunger… The journeys of these Irishmen were not always salutary, and sometimes took on tragic dimensions, between shipwrecks and health disasters in terrifying coffin ships.

These are the stories told by EPIC (EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum), which strives to give an accurate account of Irish emigration in all its forms.

To help you get the most out of this experience, the museum gives you a passport at the start of your visit. You’ll have to identify yourself as an Irish traveller of yesteryear… and try to get your passport stamped at the end of your visit!

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum – EPIC Ireland CHQ Limited

An effective stratagem that will allow you to immediately identify with the millions of Irish people who have decided to flee Ireland to try their luck on more favorable horizons…

The exhibition is ultra-modern: giant screens, interactive experience, captivating scenography, all in rooms with exposed stonework and authentic vaults: everything is done to plunge you into the heart of the history of these Irish expatriates… and soak up an atmosphere charged with emotion.

The museum devotes a large part of its exhibition to the Irish diaspora in the United States, their living conditions there, and the expansion of Irish culture in America, particularly in Boston. (As a reminder, Irish immigrants succeeded in spreading Irish culture across the globe after fleeing Ireland and its terrible famine).

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is therefore a grand, interesting and poignant attraction, offering an interactive experience of rare effectiveness. Take a stroll through the vaulted rooms, where the atmosphere is unique, suspended in time.

One of our favourites in Dublin!

And if you’d like to extend your experience and find out even more about Irish emigration, we’re just 300 metres from the EPIC museum, on the banks of the Liffey where you’ll find the Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship & Famine Museumthe replica of a Canadian three-masted ship, famous for taking many Irish to America! You can climb aboard and discover an equally interesting exhibition!

Irish genealogy: what if we interviewed your ancestors for you?

If you’ve enjoyed your visit and would like to delve even deeper into the history of the Irish population, don’t hesitate to visit a neighboring attraction, located within the EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum building: theIrish Family History Centre.

This is a specialized genealogy center. Here you may discover some Irish ancestors: some of our contributors offer to search their documentary database (civil status papers, birth and death certificates, etc.) in order to trace lost ancestors! And they’re so well-developed, you might be surprised to learn that you have Irish ancestors in your family!

An interesting experience, where the genealogists take the time to help you with a smile!