NEWS & EVENTS
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EPIC wins Best Entrepreneurial Tourism Innovation Award at 2019 ITIA
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum was awarded the Best Entrepreneurial Tourism Innovation Award at 2019 Irish Tourism Industry Awards, which was organised by the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC), Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland.
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Irish Times cartoonist Martyn Turner exhibition launched
The new exhibition of Irish Times’ cartoonist Martyn Turner’s work had its official launch at an event in EPIC, as part of The Jonathan Swift Festival. ‘The Times We Live In: Martyn Turner’s Satire’ will run from 29 November to 7 December.
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EPIC Founder Neville Isdell receives Outstanding Achievement Award
EPIC Founder Neville Isdell receives Outstanding Achievement Award at the Docklands Business Awards 2018.
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Abair Series: Gnás – Thousands Are Sailing
Join storyteller Helena Byrne and traditional singer and multi-instrumentalist Macdara Yeates for an evening of songs and stories of emigration. The event will also feature a ‘songs from the floor’ session, giving audience members a chance to provide a song or story of their own, relevant to the given theme.
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Across the Waves: The Seafaring Irish Exhibition
Have you ever wondered what life was like aboard a ship for nineteenth-century emigrants or seventeenth century merchants travelling to start new lives abroad? This new exhibition will explore the history of the Irish at sea and their stories of adventure, opportunity and tragedy.
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Slime Lab with Catherine McGuinness
As part of St. Patrick’s Festival, Catherine McGuinness will be returning to the museum for a seriously slimy science lab. Come along, get creative, get a little green and learn something new in this fantastically disgusting workshop.
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