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National Famine Commemoration
Strokestown Park is honoured to have hosted the National Famine Commemoration prior to our reopening in June 2022. The 2022 National Famine Commemoration will took
National Famine Way & Strokestown Park: RTÉ One – An tSlí
We are delighted that The National Famine Way is the focus of a two part documentary on RTÉ One with presenter Mary Kennedy. “An tSlí”
Halloween/Oíche Shamhana 2021 at Strokestown Park
Halloween/Oíche Shamhana at Strokestown Park This Halloween at Strokestown Park, our wood has fallen under an Enchanted Spell …. magic is in the air Join
Culture Night Event at Strokestown Park Friday 17th September
For this year’s Culture Night, Friday 17th September 2021, Enchanted Croi Theatre in collaboration with The Irish Heritage Trust, brings to you a unique spectacle
Love and War in the Big House:A Digital Theatre Performance.
Based on the writings of Olive Pakenham Mahon of Strokestown Park House In Strokestown Park Archive, a locked diary, and a bundle of love
Treasures of the Strokestown Archive Virtual Exhibit
The new “Treasures of the Strokestown Famine Archive” Virtual Exhibit makes publicly accessible for the first time some of the most important archival records from
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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.
Heritage Council Grant for Conservation of Archives
In autumn 2020, the Irish Heritage Trust was delighted to have received two grants from the Heritage Council of Ireland’s Community Heritage Grant for the
“Famine Heroes” Virtual Events
The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park and the Irish Heritage Trust have launched the Great Famine Voices Roadshow 2020 “Famine Heroes” virtual events season
