The Departure

Approaching the ‘William Graves & Son’ ticket office, our living emigration museum exhibition shows you a country in crisis. With crops failing and food prices soaring during the potato famine in Ireland, more than a million people are forced to leave their homes in a mass Irish emigration for an uncertain future abroad.

As you await your departure, you overhear conversations of fellow emigrants: a couple quarrelling over what to pack, a young man reading aloud a letter from his brother in Detroit.

Before boarding, our audio-visual gives you a special insight into the plight of these brave and desperate travellers.