Past Events

Throughout 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Europeana will run a series of migration collection days and events involving museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections across Europe. As part of this special Europe-wide project, we’re inviting all Irish people who have lived abroad or those who have family members or ancestors who have emigrated, … Continued

2:00pm – 4:00pm, 17 June. Tickets €15 Book Tickets This Father’s Day, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum will be hosting a ‘Paint with Dad!’ workshop in partnership with Giddy Studios. Bring dad along as your creative inspiration and paint a mug just for him! Together you’ll come up with a design, choose your colours and paint your patterns … Continued

11:00 – 13:00, Saturday 16 June. Tickets €25 – Click here to book This year begin your Bloomsday Festival journey at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, in association with Bakehouse. This special Bloomsday breakfast and tour combination will provide a heady Joycean feast for the senses! Begin at Bakehouse, Irish comfort-food specialists, where you can relish a … Continued

CHQ is collaborating with Irish Family History Centre and EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum with Tiny Tots Tuesday! In our first ever Tiny Tots Tuesday on 15 May from 10am – 11.30am, we’ll be exploring music and play in this adorable workshop with our special guest, Mischa from ‘Me And You Music’. Bring your little … Continued

Dublin Port are bringing an exciting photography exhibition to CHQ’s Liffey Corner this May! Their exhibition #MyPortPerspective will be showcasing the winners & runners up from a competition they ran last year for the best images that captured Dublin Port. The exhibition will be showing the best 30 images from the competition, and will be … Continued

The Struggle is a large scale painting installation that explores the distinctions we create between being human and being animal. Distinction is the method we use to construct our reality: separating one from another in the continual act of severing what used to be whole. We distinguish humankind from the rest of nature, our countries … Continued

Stewart Duffy is Dublin photographer who specialises in exploring the beauty of Ireland’s lesser known landscapes and capturing their texture and intensity on a grand scale. The vibrancy and detail of his landscapes create a connection between the audience and the subject, evoking an intimacy between the two; Audiences commonly identify personally with the scenes … Continued

The 110 specially designed hares were been displayed in different locations around Dublin in January 22nd January and were all gathered here at CHQ. Each 3ft tall hare have been created by some of the most talented Irish artists and it is hoped that the live and online auction will raise much needed funds for … Continued

Morning Gloryville is an immersive morning dance experience for those who dare to start their day in style. Nothing wakes you up more than a soul-shaking dance, electrifying music and for those who need it, a mind blowing double espresso! See more at: Morning Gloryville Dublin: facebook.com/morninggloryvilledublin   

We were delighted to have DCNYF present this year’s two-day Spring Festival Fair in February at The chq Building where you could feast your senses at both indoors and outdoors activities. Along with Lion, Dragon and Unicorn performances there was also be an appearance of the famous Monkey King, or Sun Wukong, known as a … Continued