SECOND GREAT IRISH FAMINE VOICES ROADSHOW TOURING THE USA AND CANADA

Bringing together Irish emigrants and descendants during the Great Famine of Ireland

The Great Famine Voices Roadshow 2019 is a series of open house events in the United States Continue reading →

We were honoured to welcome President and Sabina Higgins to the National Famine Museum in early July. The President officially opened the newly refurbished National Famine Museum in 2013 (which was opened in 1994 by President Mary Robinson) and Continue reading →

Sitting on the church lawn now a wildflower meadow in Strokestown Park there is a ruin, the remains of a seventeenth-century church, very little is known about this church.

Many people have heard of the evictions and clearing of tenants during the Great Famine 1845-1849.

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So far the weather has been rather mild, which creates a wonderful working

This is an edited version of a talk about the Strokestown Park Ice House, given by one of Strokestown’s fantastic tour guides – Aidan McBride.