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CHQ building and EPIC museum signage, March 2025. Photo: CAPTAIN RAJU ↗ · CC0
EPIC explores Irish emigration through interactive galleries in the CHQ building. It follows the reasons people left and the cultural, scientific and social influence of lives built abroad.
Rowan Gillespie’s public sculpture on Custom House Quay, a place for reflection on famine and emigration.
Open place page →Jeanie Johnston replica on the River Liffey, January 2008; historical photograph. Retained historical source photograph; not evidence of current displays or access. Photo: Jnestorius ↗ · Public domain
Board a replica emigrant ship for a guided account of the people who crossed the Atlantic during the Great Famine. The physical setting makes a useful companion to EPIC’s broader migration story.
See a 1,200-year-old illuminated manuscript, walk through the Old Library's Long Room and decide whether the newer digital exhibition is worth adding to your Dublin day.
Explore the Easter Rising from the building that became its headquarters. The GPO Museum combines objects, film and interactive interpretation beneath a working Dublin landmark.