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Irish Heritage Trust Launches National Famine Way App
Free App on Apple and Android contains audio and video content Follows the story of Strokestown’s 1,490 Famine Emigrants and geolocates along the trail Brings
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Irish Tour of Glass Famine Memorial Launches at Strokestown Park
An installation of 1,845 hand-blown glass potatoes 1845: Memento Mori was launched in Ireland on 29th May here at Strokestown Park, Co. Roscommon, kicking off
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Songs of the Great Hunger released for National Famine Commemoration Day 2021
Songs of the Great Hunger released for National Famine Commemoration Day on May 16th, 2021 The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park and The Irish
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State-of-the-art National Famine Museum to Open in 2022
We are delighted that the new, state-of-the-art National Famine Museum will open at Strokestown Park in 2022. Funded by Fáilte Ireland and Westward Holdings Ltd,
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Fáilte Ireland Safety Charter
We made changes at Strokestown Park in 2020 due to Covid-19 and follow strict health and safety regulations. We are delighted that all of
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Landscape Trails
The wider demesne of the 300 acre Strokestown Estate is currently inaccessible to the public and we have plans to develop this to be enjoyed
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Strokestown Park Events Space
The beautiful historic vaulted stables are beneath the room where the internationally significant Strokestown Great Famine Archive is stored. There is potential to bring this
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Strokestown Park’s Famine Archive
The compelling Strokestown Park’s Famine Archive – most of which has not seen the light of day in over 170 years – was discovered by
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National Famine Way Shoe Stories Film
At the height of the Great Irish Famine in May of 1847, twelve-year-old Daniel Tighe was forced to walk 165km with 1,490 assisted emigrants from
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Blog: Conservation of Strokestown Leases
The Archive at Strokestown Park is a rare example of an intact Estate Records Collection dating from the late C18th to the mid C20th centuries.
