Enjoy some of the finest seasonal tastes of Ireland at our ‘A Taste of Autumn’ event on Wednesday 6th November, in partnership with The Bakehouse, Freshii, Urban Brewing, Ely Bar & Grill and Mitchell & Son, held here at EPIC, winner of Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction 2019.
Enjoy a spooky experience at EPIC this Halloween as spirits big (and small) will gather for the inaugural family Samhain festival on Monday 28th October! From turnip carving and creepy creative workshops, to traditional Halloween games and hijinks, expect lots of spine-chilling fun as you immerse yourself in an authentic Halloween experience.
Cork-born Ethel Voynich was raised in London, where she became involved in anarchist circles and translated the writings of exiled Ukrainian revolutionary, Stepniak. In this talk, Dr Angela Byrne will discuss her transnational radical networks and the extent of her involvement in the Russian revolutionary movement.
In this talk Margaret Hickey, bestselling author of Ireland’s Green Larder, will look at the Irish attitudes to food and drink that emigrants brought with them when they were displaced and arrived in a foreign land. An event as part of Taste the Island.
Enjoy some of the finest tastes of Ireland at CHQ’s ‘Taste The Island’ Launch Night, held here at EPIC. Discover why Irishness is celebrated globally as you delve in to the 200 year old vaults of the CHQ Building before tasting some of the best food and drink on offer at CHQ, featuring the freshest ingredients from Irish producers.
In our October Tiny Tots event the wonderful Susan from Singaling will be joining us again for an adorable singing session. We’ll be exploring music and play in these workshops, so bring your little one along for a morning of fun, song and dance.
This Space Week, join us for our first EPIC Space Camp! Follow in the moonwalk of Irish space experts like Niamh Shaw and Jocelyn Bell Burnell in this fun and messy arts and crafts workshop to find out what it’d be like to live on another planet.
If Ireland is known for anything, it’s for being green! Now you can join in the ranks in this adorable plant and grow workshop for families. An event as part of Taste the Island.
Join us for a very special screening of ‘Thanks to Your Noble Shadow’ on September 3rd. In 1935, a young missionary nun travels to the other side of the world thinking she will never see home again. At 100 years old, Jennie O’ Sullivan unexpectedly returns to Ireland.
We’re delighted to welcome Culture Night visitors to EPIC once again in 2019. This event is now fully subscribed. If we have cancellations or no-shows on the night we will be admitting people on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to capacity limits.
It’s back to school and the new term of Tiny Tots Tuesday is starting too! For a special discounted rate, come along, have a tea or coffee and meet local families while your little ones get to explore, make and do.
EPIC and CHQ are delighted to launch ‘Summer Evenings’, taking place every Thursday from 4pm- 10pm throughout July, August and September, with late openings, cultural events, gourmet food stalls and craft beer!
Ever dreamt of travelling the world? As part of National Heritage Week, follow in the footsteps of the many Irish emigrants we feature in EPIC without stepping a toe out of Ireland in this interactive gaming session, where the floor is the board and you are the games piece!
Wondering what was it like to be Irish and gay during the 1980s and 1990s in New York? Brendan Fay, activist and film maker weaves stories of activism and friendship from the streets of New York, here at EPIC as part of Heritage Week.
We are delighted to once again join forces with the Gaiety School of Acting to present a sensational Summer themed Parent and Toddler Theatre class!
The Boxer Uprising, a pneumonic plague that killed 60,000 people, the Russo-Japanese war and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, Reverend Fredrick O’Neill lived through it all. Join us as Mark O’Neill describes the extraordinary life of his grandfather, an Irish Presbyterian missionary in Manchuria from 1897 to 1942.
As part of Pride Festival, join us for these tours highlighting non-binary stories in the museum and discover Ireland’s LGBTQ+ past through to the present day.
This Father’s Day we’ll be celebrating the dads and grandads in our family tree, and making some lovely family memories here at the IFHC and EPIC! Come along to this baby hand and footprint session and get creative with us.
In this Tiny Tots Tuesday we’ll be joined by ChatterKids, where we will explore language development and encourage your child to get chatty through a series of fun interactive games and songs.
Every Wednesday this July and August, EPIC and the IFHC will be using arts, crafts and games to explore some of the museum’s most curious characters in these fun, adventurous workshops!
This exhibition reflects on the role and influence of Irish educators across the globe over the centuries, and highlights Ireland’s long history of exporting male and female educators to work with communities all over the world – a tradition that continues today.
Love museums? Think you have what it takes to be the next big (or little) curator? Join EPIC Museum and the Irish Family History Centre for Cruinniú na nÓg in this creative workshop, where you’ll design your very own mini-digital museum!
As part of TRANS-FUSION Festival Ireland, EPIC is delighted to welcome TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) chair Sara R. Phillips to host this fascinating talk charting the history of the Irish Transgender diaspora.
Join us for The National Famine Way Custom House Quay Commemoration Symposium and explore the impact and legacies of the Great Hunger and Famine Migration on Dublin and Ireland, as well as the experiences of emigrants and immigrants in Dublin today.
Join us for the Launch of the National Famine Way Custom House Quay Commemoration that is being held in the CHQ building on Custom House Quay on 30th May to commemorate generations of emigrants who left from the Dublin Docklands area. Featuring a free, ticketed performance by Dublin born musician Declan O’Rourke.
As part of the Bealtaine festival and to celebrate International Museum Day 2019 we will be hosting an intergenerational storytelling event on the 18th May. All ages are encouraged to take part and the stories will become part of the museum’s archive. Please bring letters, photographs or any other objects that help to tell your story.
Join us on Tuesday 11 June for a messy play session with Karen from SENSEable Tots, in this fun sensory workshop for your little ones. Watch them learn through sensory play and exploration at this session, and be sure to wear clothes suitable for mess and mayhem!
Like the Dublin of Ulysses, contemporary Dublin is a vibrant multicultural cityscape, bursting with stories waiting to be told. This Bloomsday, we have asked four Irish and Irish-based writers to share their own Odysseys of their own home places, whether in Ireland or further afield – to tell a story of those places that will be inscribed upon their hearts forever. On Wednesday 12 June.
Join us for a live performance of a very special musical piece ‘The Gift’, a melodic commemoration of a donation made by the Choctaw Nation to the Irish people at the height of the Great Irish Famine. The newly developed piece by Stephen Gardner will be performed by the exceptionally talented Ellen Demos, Arun Rao, Alex Petcu and Seán MacErlaine. On Tuesday 28 May.
There’s a slime and a place for getting messy and it’s here with us at EPIC! Catherine McGuinness will be returning to the museum for a seriously slimy science lab. Themed around Easter, we’ll be making slime in spring colours, such as pink, blue and yellow! Come along, get creative and get a little slimy!
Join the Irish Family History Centre in the CHQ Building for a fun grandkids and grandparents art session as part of Bealtaine 2019. Paint a plant pot with granny and grandad to celebrate your family and create your very own design to show off and share your family roots.
This Easter we’ll be making some lovely family memories here at the IFHC in this baby hand and footprint Pitter Patter and Paint workshop!
In this workshop inspired by Irish legend of the Púca and the Easter tradition of colourful eggs, we’ll create our very own Púca and friends egg-themed characters.
Join us over the Easter break for a fun filled trail themed around the Irish legend of the Púca! Based on an old Irish legend, the Púca often appears in Irish folklore as a rabbit or hare to teach naughty humans a thing or two! Follow his paw prints through our galleries and learn some Easter themed stories along your way. For ages 4+.
Calling all budding writers and artists! In this workshop inspired by Irish storytelling culture, you’ll learn how to write and illustrate your very own story. Using simple prompts, stamps and stencils, prepare to take the Irish legend of the Púca on a fun-filled Easter adventure!
This May we welcome back the sensational Singaling for a sunny Summer singalong in this adorable workshop. Bring your little one along for a morning of fun, song and dance on Tuesday 14th May.
Join Kathy from Bump Baby and Me for a fun and energetic yoga class, focusing on strengthening and balancing your body while connecting you to your breath and baby, on Tuesday 9th April.
EPIC is proud to be part of this year’s St. Patrick’s Festival official programme, and we’ve a great selection of events, performances and workshops planned to keep everyone entertained this year.
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.
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.
With a panel of guest speakers chaired by Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland, join us for a discussion on Irish maritime history and heritage, and to explore Ireland’s relationships with the wider world over past centuries and into the future. As part of St. Patrick’s Festival.
This St. Patrick’s Festival we are celebrating storytelling at EPIC in this interactive story workshop with award-winning children’s writer Sarah Webb. There will be mapping, drawing and the chance to create your very own underwater adventure story!
Join award-winning writer, Sarah Webb for this interactive sea-themed event for the whole family at EPIC. Create your own colourful sailing ship, revisit favourite childhood rhymes and songs and discover new ones from Ireland and beyond.
This March we’re celebrating Spring with Singaling and having not one, not two, not three… but four Tiny Tots Tuesdays! Taking place on 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th March, we’ll be exploring music and play in these adorable workshops, so bring your little one along for a morning of fun, song and dance.
Join EPIC’s Historian-in-Residence Dr Angela Byrne and Dr Leanne McCormick and Dr Elaine Farrell of the Bad Bridget Project to uncover truths about Irish immigrant life for women in 19th and early 20th century North America. On Wednesday 27th February.
A new exhibition will run in EPIC from 22 January – 5 March about soldier Laval Graf Nugent von Westmeath, born in County Westmeath in 1777.
As part of Tradfest 2019, join talented young singer Oonagh McArdle for a workshop which explores the art of Sean-nós, taking place on Saturday 26th January. This two hour workshop is suitable for all with a passion for singing, and all skill levels are welcome.
Due to popular demand, and to coincide with Nollaig na mBan, ‘Blazing a Trail: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women’ will return from 4 – 18 January 2019 at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.
The IWC and EPIC come together to host the IWC’s Nollaig na mBan event in praise of women writers around Ireland. The event coincides with the relaunch of EPIC’s ‘Blazing a Trail: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women’ exhibition.
This February at EPIC we are delighted to welcome the Gymboree team to our Tiny Tots Tuesday! Bring your little ones along for a morning of music, dance and games in this lovely, interactive workshop on Tuesday 12th February.
This January we are kicking off the new year with a messy play session and we are delighted to welcome back Karen from SENSEable Tots for another fun sensory workshop for your little ones, on Tuesday 8th January.
We’re delighted to announce a bonus Tiny Tots Tuesday just one week before the big day! Bring your little one along for a morning of festive fun and magical music with the Singaling team, on Tuesday 18th December.
We’ve joined forces with the Gaiety School of Acting to present a Christmas themed Parent and Toddler Theatre class. Join us for a morning of imagination, storytelling and adventure as we engage, bond and experiment with drama and performance!
An intergenerational activity for parents, grandparents, and children to learn about the Battle of Mount Street Bridge. We’ll be using a combination of technology and history to uncover this fascinating story, which is one of the most significant battles of the 1916 Easter Rising.
As part of the Jonathan Swift Festival, which celebrates the great Irish tradition of satire and subversion, we’re exploring the work of a contemporary satirist, Martyn Turner. Open to the public from 29 November – 7 December.
For our final Europeana Story Collection event on 24-25 November, we want to focus on collecting your stories on around the theme of Migrant Women.
Blazing a Trail: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women is a new exhibition with Herstory and the DFAT running at EPIC from 12-25 November.
In our November Tiny Tots Tuesday we’ll be exploring music and play at this adorable workshop with the wonderful Singaling team! On Tuesday 13th November, here at EPIC.
Paintclub presents a Halloween special ‘Paint & Wine’ evening, where you’ll have the chance to re-create this Dracula inspired painting beneath Dublin’s streets, in the beautiful historic vaults at EPIC.
A family Paintclub workshop for adults, teens and older children to re-create Dracula inspired paintings in the light filled vaults at EPIC.