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The real story of the Great Irish Famine, told at the Dublin Docklands where it left its mark.
A private tour of Dublin Docklands covering the causes and aftermath of the Great Irish Famine, with an option to add fast-track EPIC Irish Emigration Museum tickets.
Travel back in time to 1845-1849 to learn about the Irish Potato Famine, one of the greatest hardships in Irish history, seeing the Famine Memorial statues and the Jeanie Johnston famine-ship replica in Dublin Docklands, with extended options adding fast-track tickets to EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Private pickup from your hotel or accommodation in central Dublin, or a convenient central meeting point if you prefer to walk to the start.
The real, haunting bronze figures on the Custom House Quay depicting the Famine's toll.
A replica of a real famine-era emigrant ship, docked on the Liffey.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour of Dublin Docklands covering the causes and aftermath of the Great Irish Famine, with an option to add fast-track EPIC Irish Emigration Museum tickets. Travel back in time to 1845-1849 to learn about the Irish Potato Famine, one of the greatest hardships in Irish history, seeing the Famine Memorial statues and the Jeanie Johnston famine-ship replica in Dublin Docklands, with extended options adding fast-track tickets to EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum.
The Great Famine (An Gorta Mor) struck Ireland from 1845, when potato blight first destroyed the staple crop much of the rural population depended on, through the worst of it in 1846-47 - remembered in Irish history as "Black '47" - and into the early 1850s as its effects kept reshaping the country. Historians still debate the exact toll, but most estimates put the death toll at roughly one million people, with some figures running lower and others higher, while a further one to two million emigrated in the years that followed - a demographic shock severe enough that Ireland's population, which stood at over eight million before the Famine, had fallen to around 6.5 million by 1851.
This private tour of Dublin's Docklands walks through what that history actually looked like at the point of departure. The Famine Memorial's bronze figures, sculpted by Rowan Gillespie and unveiled in 1997 on Custom House Quay, depict starving emigrants heading toward the ships that once left from this exact stretch of quay. The Jeanie Johnston moored nearby is a faithful replica of a real 1840s emigrant ship that, unusually for its era, never lost a single passenger across sixteen Atlantic crossings carrying more than 2,500 people - a rare point of hope inside an otherwise brutal chapter.
Extended options add fast-track tickets to EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum, housed in the vaults of the CHQ Building - a listed 1820s former customs warehouse - which opened in 2016 and tells the wider story of where that emigration led, from the Famine generation through to the present day.
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