The new Dunbrody Famine Ship experience, in New Ross, County Wexford, tells the story of Irish emigration and the impact of the Great Famine. The new educational tourist attraction is expected to ...

THE MULTI-MILLION-EURO upgrade of the Dunbrody Famine Ship and Visitor Centre into a world-class facility aims to place New Ross firmly on the map as a tourist town and have significant spin-off ...

The New Dunbrody Famine Ship experience will be located in New Ross, Co Wexford. It is expected to generate €9 million and support 36 jobs in the first 10 years.

The Dunbrody is a 176-foot wooden replica of a 19th-century ship of the same name built in Quebec for a New Ross based shipping operator in the 1840s. It first sailed from the Co Wexford port in 1849.

It saw the long awaited and much anticipated arrival of the Dunbrody Famine Ship at its permanent home alongside the purpose built visitor centre on The Quay in New Ross.

Sheffer by the coffin ship’s mast and fire pit. That experience of maritime flight is the subject of “ Fleeing Famine: Irish Immigration to North America, 1845 – 1860,” the illuminating exhibition ...

4 July is being celebrated in New Ross, County Wexford as Irish America Day - the anniversary of America's declaration of independence from Great Britain.

Irish America Hall of Fame Opens at Dunbrody Famine Ship On July 8, the Dunbrody Visitor Center in New Ross, Co. Wexford was celebrated as a new home for Ireland’s emigration history. The ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — Rarely has a ship been bailed out so often before leaving port. Now, after three years and many millions, the Jeanie Johnston is finally ready to set sail to the New World this ...

Major work is under way to ensure that the replica Irish famine ship, the Dunbrody, is seaworthy in time for the arrival of the Tall Ships flotilla in Waterford estuary in July.

Thousands of people have attended the breakfast time launch of the replica famine ship Dunbrody in New Ross.

In the mid-19th century, more than a million Irish fled the potato famine in search of a better life. But the fate they met aboard so-called "coffin ships" headed to the New World was often as bad ...