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Victorian Christmas Experience

The annual Strokestown Park Victorian Christmas Experience is back for 2019! There will be lots of festive attractions for all of the family including meeting with Mrs Claus, traditional crafts, hot chocolate and petting animals. The highlight is a visit Continue reading →

Investment of €5.1 million for National Famine Museum

Strokestown Park, 23rd October 2019: Brendan Griffin T.D., Minister of State for Tourism and Sport today announced Fáilte Ireland investment of €3.9million for the new National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park in Co. Roscommon. This is the largest investment Continue reading →

DECLAN O’ROURKE LAUNCHES NATIONAL FAMINE WAY

Ireland’s Newest Heritage Trail Launched

Descendants of the #Missing1490 are being traced

Thursday 30^th May 2019: A group of walkers including international Famine experts arrived this evening at the Jeanie Johnston Famine Ship and EPIC, The Irish Continue reading →

Great Famine Voices Roadshow 2019

SECOND GREAT IRISH FAMINE VOICES ROADSHOW TOURING THE USA AND CANADA

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

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President Higgins Visits National Famine Museum

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 →

Secret Garden Easter Trail 2018

Celebrate Easter at Strokestown Park, Co. Roscommon in the idyllic setting of our walled gardens at 1pm on Easter Sunday, 1st April. Children will search for clues in the nooks and crannies of the garden to receive the chocolate Continue reading →

The Seventeenth Century Church – Mausoleum

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.

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The History of Strokestown Park

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

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Winter in the Garden

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

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Jim Callery Awarded Prestigious EU Prize for Cultural Heritage

In May 2017, Jim Callery was awarded Europe’s top honour in the heritage field – a prestigious European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award for the “restoration and establishment of the world-renowned National Famine Museum & Archive which has been the largest act of private philanthropy for cultural heritage in the history of modern Ireland”.

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Victorian Christmas Experience

Investment of €5.1 million for National Famine Museum

DECLAN O’ROURKE LAUNCHES NATIONAL FAMINE WAY

Ireland’s Newest Heritage Trail Launched

Descendants of the #Missing1490 are being traced

Great Famine Voices Roadshow 2019

SECOND GREAT IRISH FAMINE VOICES ROADSHOW TOURING THE USA AND CANADA

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

President Higgins Visits National Famine Museum

Secret Garden Easter Trail 2018

The Seventeenth Century Church – Mausoleum

The History of Strokestown Park

Winter in the Garden

Jim Callery Awarded Prestigious EU Prize for Cultural Heritage

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