The National Famine Way™ is a unique 165km waymarked walking and cycling trail with a poignant story dating back nearly two centuries. A once in a lifetime experience, it follows in the footsteps of 1,490 famine-stricken tenant farmers and their families who were forced to march to Dublin by their Strokestown Landlord in 1847 and compelled to emigrate to Canada via Liverpool. From the glass memorial wall at the National Famine Museum | Strokestown Park in Co. Roscommon it meanders through the quaint towns and villages of Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands and Ireland’s Ancient East. It ends, appropriately, at the Famine Statues in Dublin’s Docklands near the Jeanie Johnson Famine Ship and EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, meaning the trail is topped and tailed by two iconic award winning museums. The National Famine Museum is currently cared for and managed by the Irish Heritage Trust.

Full details are available here: https://nationalfamineway.ie/

Hear from some of the leading local and international famine historians in Trim Library next Wednesday 11th March featuring talks, presentations and a panel discussion. Taking place from 2.30pm to 4pm.