Irish Famine and Emigration Exhibition Dublin
- 1 hour
- Skip the line
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 4 languages
Highlights
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.
Inclusions
What's included
- A translation guide is available in French, German, Italian and Spanish
What's not
- A Book of the exhibition may also be purchased.
Itinerary
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.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Museum / Exhibition located on the 2nd floor of the Stephens Green Shopping Centre
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 90 travellers
- Operated by
- Irish Famine Museum / Exhibition
- 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
How it compares in Dublin
- Its from-price is 40% below the median of the 33 attraction tickets we list in Dublin.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 13 of 33.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Dublin
Dublin is Ireland's friendly, literary capital on the River Liffey, a city of Georgian squares, historic pubs, live music and a gift for storytelling.
Trinity College holds the illuminated Book of Kells and the soaring Long Room library, while Dublin Castle, Christ Church Cathedral and St Patrick's Cathedral trace the city's medieval and colonial past. Georgian squares such as Merrion Square, with their brightly painted doors, and the green expanse of St Stephen's Green provide elegant calm.
Top-ranked sights in Dublin: Dublin Castle, Temple Bar, Trinity College Dublin.
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