Discover one of Dublin's Surprising Stories at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is proud to add a new immersive audio-visual experience to their Award Winning Museum.

Ireland Never Leaves You is an immersive audio-visual experience which tells the contrasting tales of two Irish emigrants.

Sitting in EPIC’s historic vaults, visitors are transported on board the Jeanie Johnston tall ship. Lights dim and candles flicker on screens around the room as Patrick Kearney tells his story on the main screen. The 23-year-old gardener left Tralee back in 1849 to escape the poverty and hunger engulfing Ireland during the Great Famine.

After sitting below deck with Patrick, viewers are then brought on board a modern Aer Lingus flight where Dubliner Emma Dabiri highlights a very different emigrant experience. Though she lives in London, she regularly returns home and chats to her family on the phone.

This new gallery was made possible by funding from Fáilte Ireland’s ‘Dublin’s Surprising Stories’ grant scheme and the work of Dublin-based brand experience agency nineyards.

The space was brought to life with twelve integrated screens, surround sound audio and advanced LED fixtures. To create a fully immersive experience, Nineyards then used innovative video mapping software to co-ordinate all these elements and bring them in line with the storytelling on the main screen.

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