A look inside EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is an interactive journey about how a small island made a big impact on the world. Discover 1500 years of stories, history and culture in 20 interactive galleries. Explore why 10 million people left the island of Ireland and see how they influenced the world. Follow in the path of their descendants, and discover how 70 million people around the world today claim Irish heritage.
Open daily in CHQ in Dublin's Docklands. Visit epicchq.com to book your ticket and begin your own journey.
EPIC Ireland - The Irish Emigration Museum (Dublin)
Vlog #34 Epic The Irish Emigration Museum
A Trip to EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
CAPA official vlogger Tylor Brooks visits EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum and learns about Ireland's history, culture, diaspora, and the potato famine.
Europe 2019 (Pt. 56) - EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum - Dublin, Ireland
August 10, 2019 - For such a small country, Ireland sure has had quite an influence on the entire globe; its people sure get around, just as my ancestors did many generations ago!
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum focuses on Irish history, what made so many people leave, and the influence the Irish people have had on the entire globe, from its people to celebrities and business and beyond.
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This is EPIC - A Museum Like no Other
Discover 1500 years of stories, history & culture in 20 interactive galleries at Dublin's best new attraction.
Find out why EPIC is rated 5 Stars on TripAdvisor & one of the Top 10 things to do in Dublin by booking your visit today. Visit epicchq.com to begin your journey.
EPIC Ireland | Dublin's New Visitor Experience and Museum
VR Tour of EPIC
At EPIC we're proud of how we've used the latest in digital technologies to bring to life the many hundreds of personal stories of Irish emigration. And because technology keeps advancing, we're developing a VR tour to help people experience EPIC and it's 20 galleries in 3D.
LIVE - The Duke and Duchess Of Sussex Visit EPIC in Dublin
Herstory: Ireland's EPIC Women
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is proud to partner with RTÉ, the BAI, Underground Films and Herstory for 'Herstory: Ireland's Epic Women'. This series tells the stories of six compelling Irish people from history, exploring Irish culture, heritage, innovation and experience – past and present – through a uniquely female lens.
Find out more at rte.ie/herstory and epicchq.com
Those featured include:
Lady Mary Heath, record-breaking aviatrix, from Limerick
Kay McNulty, ground-breaking computer programmer, from Donegal
Dr. James Barry, pioneering surgeon, from Cork
Mother Jones, activist and “the most dangerous woman in America”, from Cork
Oonah Keogh, world’s first female stockbroker, from Dublin
Ninette de Valois, choreographer and founder of the Royal Ballet, from Wicklow
The series will begin on Monday, 3rd February 2020 at 8:30pm at RTÉ One.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is an interactive journey about how a small island made a big impact on the world. It shares the lives and stories of women and men that are not commonly found in history books. The touchscreen technology in the museum makes the EPIC experience an accessible, fun and educational way for visitors to learn about Irish history, culture and people. Described as one of Ireland’s National Treasures, EPIC was named Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction in the 2019 World Travel Awards. It is wheelchair accessible and buggy and child friendly. epicchq.com
Epic The Irish Emigration Museum
The Power of a Name Exhibition
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum invites people of Irish heritage all over the world to bring their family name back to Irish shores.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin, Ireland announced the launch of a major new exhibition inviting people from all over the world to pay tribute to their Irish ancestors who emigrated, by adding their names to the museum.
People are invited to be among the first to include the names of their ancestors and the details of their journey to be displayed in an interactive exhibition in EPIC. This will be on display to all visitors of the museum, showing the spread of Irish emigrant names throughout the world.
People can also add their name via the EPIC website by visiting epicchq.com/names. As well as their names, the exhibition will include where they emigrated from and the year they left.
For more details see epicchq.com/names
Blazing a Trail Exhibition: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women
Due to popular demand, ‘Blazing a Trail: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women’ will return from 2 January 2020 at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. The exhibition celebrates the lives and legacies of 21 pioneering Irish diaspora women of the 19th and 20th centuries who blazed a trail in a wide range of fields. The exhibition is a collaboration between EPIC, Herstory and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
In 2018 we celebrated the centenary of the enfranchisement of 8.4 million women aged 30 and above across Britain and Ireland, and the election of Constance Markievicz, the first woman MP. From its inception in the 1860s, the movement for equality was a global one. It was fought not only by suffragettes, but also by many pioneering Irish women around the globe who made long-lasting contributions to their host societies. This exhibition tells the stories of Irish women in all corners of the world who blazed a trail in many fields: politics, sport, education, medicine, literature, the arts, the sciences and humanitarian work.
Some of the Irish women featured in ‘Blazing a Trail’ include designer and architect Eileen Gray; computer programming pioneer Kay McNulty; poet, mystic and trade unionist Eva Gore-Booth; tennis champion Mabel Cahill; medical missionary Sr Dr Maura Lynch; and ‘most dangerous woman in America’ Mother Jones. As part of the exhibition, Hungarian artist Szabolcs Kariko has created original portraits of several of the women.
‘Blazing a Trail’ is free and open to the public at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in The CHQ Building, Dublin from 2 – 16 January 2020, 9.30am-5.30pm. The exhibition will then travel to Irish embassies around the world over the coming years.
EPIC Irish Emigration Museum Dublin (Spot James Patrice)
I went to the museum of emigration in Dublin called EPIC Museum at Customs House Quays. It tells the story of Irish emigration over the years and traces back the Irish heritage of famous people. Spot Irish comedian James Patrice too (he hasn't been immortalised in the museum yet but you'll see).
Duke and Duchess of Sussex visit EPIC
Deputy Museum Director announces royal visit to EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, taking place on Wed 11th July 2018.
Epic Museum - Dublin, Ireland
Welcome to Epic Museum which is where you can learn all about the vast and fascinating history of Ireland and the Irish immigrants! Join my private tour guide, Garvan Rushe and I, as we take you through the fascinating (and relatively new) museum! To learn more about Epic, visit their website:
And to learn more about Garvan Rushe's private tour company, Dublin Tour Guide, visit their webpage: dublintourguide.ie
Is Dublin good for tourists? RTÉ Prime Time investigates.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum was featured on RTÉ Television as a Dublin tourism highlight. Following a thread on UK website Mumsnet that suggested Dublin was too dear and too dirty, Louise Byrne and Conor Wilson of RTÉ Prime Time visit Dublin's tourist attractions, talking to tourists, tourism experts and locals. This was broadcast on RTÉ Prime Time, 26 November 2019. See for more.
They visited the Dublin Whiskey Museum, the Guinness Storehouse, the Phoenix Park, Temple Bar and EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.
Isabella McDougall, one of Ireland's Earl Grey orphans
EPIC is an immersive experience that tells the many and varied stories of Irish emigration in 20 interactive galleries, including that of Isabella McDougall, one of Ireland's Earl Grey orphans.
EPIC is open daily in CHQ Dublin. For details and to book tickets visit epicchq.com.
Video shot by Independent.ie