The Day of the EPIC Museum

EPIC stands for Every Person Is Connected which is the theme of the Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin.  This was one of the places we visited today. 

Mark and Julie had booked a tour to County Wicklow today and the rest of us had planned to have a quiet day in the city, beginning with a leisurely breakfast together. 

Following breakfast in the hotel, Carolyn, David, Wallsy, and I set off for a walk to nearby Phoenix Park and the Wellington Monument. We didn’t see any of the famous Fallow Deer, but did find a little squirrel feasting on acorns. 

After checking out the impressive and very tall Wellington Monument we caught the Hop on Hop off bus back up town to O’Connell Street and walked on a little further to the CHQ (Custom House Quay) building which houses the Irish Emigration Museum. 

The museum deals with the diaspora of the Irish to many countries over the centuries for reasons which included famine, conflict, and economic migration. These and many other topics are organised into separate rooms with interactive displays and cleverly presented information. 




The topics dealt with are things such as belief, inventions, famine (as depicted in the above statues found on the banks of the River Liffey outside the museum), story telling, music and dance, eating and drinking, discovery and invention, to name but a few. We spent approximately 2.5 hours moving through the exhibit and found it to be a wonderful reconstruction of a wide range of historical periods and events. 

We walked briefly along the river to the grand canal docks then, before strolling back towards town and a Hop on Hop off bus which would return us to the hotel. 





This trip was much slower than anticipated owing to the late afternoon traffic and we didn’t reach the hotel until 6:30. Reluctant to go out again, we booked a table in the hotel restaurant for dinner where the six of us, again reunited, shared stories of our day’s adventures. 

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