Interested in the history of the Irish coming to America? Look no further than The Tenement Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which tells us the story of an Irish family immigrating to the United States.

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. has been accused by a major Irish scholar of rewriting Irish history to make it far more favorable to the British perspective in their new exhibit entitled “Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland.”

Campaigners are confident that a museum to commemorate the 1916 Rising will be opened on an historical site at the centre of controversial rebuilding plans.

Marie Reilly, a premier Irish fiddler who recently released her new album "The Anvil," will perform at Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.

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When you step into the new Great Hunger Museum near the campus of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, you are almost entering hallowed ground.

On Friday, September 28 Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum was dedicated at an invitation-only ceremony at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, before its official opening to the public on October 11.

On Friday Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, will dedicate Ireland’s first Great Hunger Museum, which when it officially opens to the public on October 11 will become the world’s largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials relating to the Irish Famine.

The crisis moment in our collective history, the year zero through which our past and our present must always travel, is 1847.

Quinnipiac University President John L Lahey has announced that Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Museam An Ghorta Mór, home to the world’s largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials relating to the Irish Famine, will open on 11th October 2012.

Merrion Square in Dublin is set to be home to the capital city’s second chocolate museum.

The Herald reports that Rycon Ltd will be bringing the Chocolate Museum to Merrion Square’s oldest building, The Apothecary Building, and is set to open next year.

The National Wax Museum in Dublin says it hopes to immortalize Olympic gold winner Katie Taylor by constructing a waxwork of the boxing champion.

The Asgard, a restored gun-running boat from the Easter Rising era, will be on display at Collins Barracks, Dublin as part of a permanent exhibition.

Robert Ballagh, a Dublin artist renowned for his portraits of Irish literary and historical figures, is “ashamed and profoundly depressed” that Irish galleries and museums are closed en masse this summer, he told the Irish Independent.