EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
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Ready-made walk · Dublin

Along the Liffey to the Docklands

4 stops · ~1 hr 50 min · 3.2 km

Riverside

Follow the Liffey east from the cast-iron Ha'penny Bridge to James Gandon's Custom House and EPIC, the Irish Emigration Museum in the vaults of a former customs warehouse. End at Grand Canal Dock, an old industrial harbour reborn as a technology district.

The stops, in walking order

  1. EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
    iWilliam Murphy (CC BY-SA 2.0)

    Stop 1: EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

    ~1 hr here

    EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is a privately owned museum in the vaults of Dublin’s CHQ Building, where the exhibition traces Irish emigration and the worldwide diaspora.

  2. The Custom House
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    Stop 2: The Custom House

    ~3 min here

    The Custom House is the grand riverside government building before you, designed by James Gandon in Palladian architecture.

  3. Ha'penny Bridge
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    Stop 3: Ha'penny Bridge

    ~3 min here

    Ha'penny Bridge is a pedestrian crossing over the River Liffey, built in May 1816 from cast iron cast in Shropshire, England.

  4. Grand Canal Dock
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    Stop 4: Grand Canal Dock

    ~3 min here

    Grand Canal Dock is the waterside urban area gathered around an enclosed harbour, where the Grand Canal meets the River Liffey.

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