Launching October 2025 at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.
Across the world, Irish journalists have worked to reveal human rights abuses and hold the powerful to account. Their reporting on conflict and hardship has shaped public opinion and provided an impetus for change. In the major centres of Irish settlement, they have challenged negative stereotypes and helped immigrants adapt to their adopted homelands. And they have, in some cases, entirely refashioned what it means to be Irish, crafting new identities in London, Paris and Buenos Aires. EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is pleased to present Frontlines, a temporary exhibition exploring two centuries of Irish journalistic achievement.
Date: 10th October 2025 – 31st March 2026
Time: 10am – 6:45pm (last entry 5pm)
Location: Gallery at EPIC
Cost: Entry to exhibition is included in general admission tickets.
A Note from the Curator
“Across the world, Irish journalists have worked to reveal human rights abuses and hold the powerful to account. Their reporting on conflict, famine, and hardship has shaped public opinion and provided an impetus for change. They have chronicled the lives of people on the margins and brought home the realities of inequality. In the major centres of Irish settlement, they have challenged negative stereotypes and helped immigrants adapt to their adopted homelands. And they have, in some cases, entirely refashioned what it means to be of Ireland, crafting new identities in New York, Paris, and Buenos Aires.” — Catherine Healy, Historian-in-Residence and Curator
Exhibition Highlights
Visitors will encounter remarkable objects and stories that reveal the risks and responsibilities of journalism on the world stage: Des Mullan: A travel typewriter and stamped passport used by Mullan feature within the exhibition. His frontline reporting from Biafra in 1968 and 1969 documented the devastating famine caused by Nigeria’s government blockade during the civil war. Mullan’s coverage not only bore witness to human suffering but also helped launch a fundraising campaign that raised the equivalent of €1.6 million today, financing mercy flights carrying food and medical aid. Kit Coleman: Galway-born Catherine Ferguson, better known as Kit Coleman, was among Canada’s most celebrated writers. In 1898, she became one of the first accredited female war correspondents, reporting from Cuba during the Spanish-American War despite military resistance. She later co-founded the Canadian Women’s Press Club and served as its inaugural president.
Charlotte O’Conor Eccles: Determined to make her mark in the male-dominated world of Fleet Street, Eccles went on to contribute widely in Britain and Ireland. She championed women’s education and penned both journalism and satirical fiction, including The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897). Michael Davitt: Best known as the founder of the Irish National Land League, Davitt also worked internationally as a journalist. In 1903, he investigated anti-Jewish pogroms in Kishinev, Russia. His dispatches were widely reprinted and later compiled into a book, Within the Pale: The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia.
Ivor Prickett: The Cork-born photographer travelled to Sudan in 2024 to document the civil war and resulting famine for The New York Times. Alongside fellow Irish journalist Declan Walsh, Prickett’s work was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation in 2025 that exposed the illicit gold trade fueling the conflict.
Plan Your Visit
Dates: 10th October 2025 – 31st March 2026 Location: EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum (included with general admission) Tickets: https://epicchq.com/visit/tickets-and-tours/ Header Image Credit: W.H. Russell (1820-1907) from Tallaght, often described as the father of modern war journalism, photographed in Crimea. Library of Congress.
