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!
What was life like aboard a ship for nineteenth-century emigrants? Who were the Irish people who invented the submarine, who founded the Argentinian Navy or who were pirate hunters in New Zealand? This new exhibition running from 15 March – 1 May will explore the history of the Irish at sea and their stories of adventure, opportunity and tragedy.
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.
Dr. Niamh Shaw, space explorer, artist and communicator will speak about Curiosity and its place in science and technology as part of Space Week 2018.
Embrace your inner-Dracula and have a fang-tastic Halloween party, this Tuesday 30th October. Come dressed as your favourite spooky character, do creepy arts and crafts, play games and most importantly have loads of fun!
This Halloween, Catherine McGuinness will be returning to the museum for a seriously slimy science lab. Come along, get creative, get a little spooky and learn something new in this fantastically disgusting workshop.
This October we welcome back Karen from SENSEable Tots for a fun, sensory workshop of exploration and messy play!
From the Napoleonic Wars to the 1917 Revolution, discover the fascinating events in Russia through the eyes of these remarkable Irish women.
Discover Dublin’s best museum & highest-rated visitor attraction this Culture Night and explore the unforgettable story of how the Irish influenced & shaped the world in 20 interactive galleries.
Join Ellen Alden as she recounts the story of our great great grandfather Florence Burke, a famine era emigrant who, like countless other Irish men, fled starvation only to soon find himself fighting at the front lines of the American Civil War.
In our August Tiny Tots Tuesday we are welcoming the lovely Sarah Sparkles for a morning of storytelling, puppets, singalongs and everyone’s favourite – bubbles!
At this fun art workshop, we’ll be making our own books. What will you write inside? Whether you want to come up with your own fantastical fairy tale, a biography written by your pet or a journal about you…the only limit is your imagination!
We’re inviting the public to come along on the weekend of 18th and 19th August to share their stories of migration through objects, as part of Europeana.eu Storytelling Collection Day.
Our Discovering and Inventing Gallery highlights the amazing Irish contribution to Science and the Cosmos! On the 21st and 22nd of July we’ll have a drop-in creation station in our Education Zone for the kids to make their own astro art.
This July we’re celebrating all things science at EPIC with a special Tech Tour outlining the amazing technology and design used to make our museum!
This Tiny Tots Tuesday in July, we are delighted to join forces with The Gaiety School of Acting to present a Parent and Toddler Theatre class!
As part of the Tall Ships Festival we’ll have an art dock for the creative kids in your life to craft their own ships; from tall ships to pirate ships!
Join us for an evening with acclaimed author Michael Smith as he speaks about the Irish explorers at the heart of the gripping story of Antarctic exploration.
This year begin your Bloomsday Festival journey at EPIC and The Bakehouse. This special Bloomsday breakfast and tour combination will provide a heady Joycean feast for the senses!
