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Celebrating our ‘Roots’ This St Patrick’s Festival, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is proud to be an official festival partner, embracing this year’s theme of Roots. Across the weekend, visitors can enjoy a full schedule of live performances and interactive experiences as a bonus with their museum ticket. Traditional musician Dee…
Celebrating our ‘Roots’
This St Patrick’s Festival, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is proud to be an official festival partner, embracing this year’s theme of Roots. Across the weekend, visitors can enjoy a full schedule of live performances and interactive experiences as a bonus with their museum ticket.
Traditional musician Dee Armstrong and folk duo Sweet Jayne will fill the galleries with music, while Moth and Butterfly will captivate younger visitors with enchanting storytelling sessions. Back by popular demand, St Pat and Snakey McSnakeface also make a welcome return, adding to the festival fun for families.
Alongside music and live performance, visitors can also enjoy a literal taste of Ireland and bring their tastebuds to life with Irish crisp tasting and red lemonade sampling, a playful nod to nostalgic Irish flavours.
As an official treasure hunt location, the CHQ Building where EPIC resides will also be part of the city-wide adventure, inviting visitors to join the celebrations across Dublin.
Pop-up Performances
St Pat and Snakey McSnakeface
St Pat and Snakey are back between the 14th – 16th in the ultimate chase through the museum vaults.
Moth and Butterfly Storytelling Sessions
Lose yourself in these immersive storytelling sessions in our Storytelling Gallery.
Musicians Sweet Jayne and Dee Armstrong
Move to traditional Irish music across the weekend in our Playing the World Sports Gallery.
The Cúpla Focal Tour
A museum experience, with beagán Gaeilge.
The Irish Language is álainn, and it deserves to be spoken… and learned. Introducing the Cúpla Focal Tour – a journey through EPIC’s 20 galleries, with a few words and phrases in Irish to take home with you.
Taking place daily over the bank holiday weekend, and across Seachtain na Gaeilge, EPIC is taking a moment to celebrate our national language and make it accessible to our visitors, whether they grew up studying it, or have never heard a word of it before. You don’t need to know the entire language, but a cúpla focal added to your vocab goes a long way in keeping it alive in the modern day.