• Ireland’s Emigration Story: Discover how the Irish went from famine to fame and fortune abroad in the course of a few generations, as you trace family roots in Ireland.

Highlights include: 

• EPIC Museum, Dublin and Famine Memorial, Dublin. The story of Ireland’s many exiles is told at this informative, interactive museum that sheds light on many family histories. Nearby, a set of haunting sculptures evokes a famished march to a coffin ship in the Dublin docklands. 

• The Deserted Village on Achill Island. Poignant cottages stand deserted on a hillside in Mayo, emptied during the Great Hunger as villagers left in search of sustenance or a new life abroad. 

• Titanic Belfast: Experience one of Europe’s finest museums, documenting the tragic loss of so many lives bound for a new life in America. 

• Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience, Co. Wexford. Explore this recreation of a coffin ship that transported the desperate to new lives… or often to their death at sea. 

• The Kennedy Homestead, Co. Wexford. Experience a glimmer of Kennedy mystique at the place from where the President’s grandfather started out on the quest for a new life in the New World. 

•  Cobh Heritage Centre: The Queenstown Story exhibit on Irish emigration, Co. Cork includes a genealogy service to help you trace your family roots. 

Outstanding Experience:

The Irish Famine Museum at Strokestown House: This superb museum is set in an infamous Anglo-Irish house, and is filled with stories of the Strokestown Estate, where violence swirled in the wake of mass evictions of tenant farmers during the famine.