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We're thrilled to bring our heritage exhibition: Look Back to Look Forward to EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum in April.
The exhibition, created to celebrate Irish in Britain's 50th anniversary, is filled with oral histories from across the Irish community and has exhibited in London, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham.
From the construction worker who stepped onto English soil speaking only Irish, to the daughter of one of the falsely accused Birmingham Six fighting to free her father; to the woman who had no choice but to leave the institutional Ireland she grew up with, and another who helped organise lesbian and gay ceilidhs when she moved to Britain.
The exhibition captures the history of Irish in Britain's member organisations and the communities they serve, made possible thanks to generous funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
It has also been shortlisted by Museums and Heritage Awards for 'Temporary or touring exhibition of the year'.
Thousands of visitors came to see it - it was a privilege to have so many of them share their own stories with us.
It's an important time to understand and celebrate stories that have defined our diaspora history in Britain.
These oral histories, 50 years in the making, are coming home.
If you can't make it to Dublin, do take a look and a listen at online version of the exhibition HERE.