Halloween at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

This October exciting Halloween-themed events are taking place at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum – perfect for families and those curious about Irish culture and the origins of Halloween.

Beware of Dracula! Halloween Family Tour

His famous character Dracula, a notorious vampire, has somehow escaped from his book in our Storytelling Gallery and into the vaults of EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. Can you and your family help track him down and spell him back from whence he came?

• Themed tour includes a walkthrough of EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.
• Working with our guide, you and your family will locate clues hidden in our galleries to Dracula’s whereabouts.
• Discover more about Bram Stoker’s life and the famous novel Dracula that shaped how the world imagines vampires today.
• Stop off for a Storytelling session, where Bram will bring to life some tales of creatures from Irish history and folklore that may have inspired Bram’s creation.
• Work together to create your very own vampire myth, suitable for the Ireland of today!

Book: https://epicchq.com/beware-of-dracula-halloween-family-tour/

• Date: 26^th October – 3^rd November
• Times (5 Tours Daily): 10.00am, 11.30am, 1.30pm, 3.00pm, 4.30pm
• Cost: Child: €15.00 | Adult: €23.00
• Ages: 6 – 12

Ghosts, Ghouls and “Goodie Glover Day”: The Irish Origins of Halloween

Halloween is fast approaching and it’s time to delve back in the origins of Irish traditions and explore how Samhain became Halloween. Irish ghost stories and funerary traditions travelled with the Irish diaspora and often became entangled with local customs to form entirely new traditions over the centuries.

• Learn about The Dullahan (“dark man”) a malevolent harbinger of death who served as the inspiration for the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
• Discover how the local practice of burying corpses with a stake through the heart influenced the writings of Irish emigrant Bram Stoker, author of Dracula.
• Uncover the tragic story of ‘Goody Annie Glover’ the unfortunate Irish woman who became the last person hanged for witchcraft in Boston in 1688.
• Learn how the influx of Irish immigrants, who brought their traditions and folktales, helped shape the story of jack-o’-lanterns in America.

Book: https://epicchq.com/ghosts-ghouls-and-goodie-glover-day-the-irish-origins-of-halloween/

• Date: 29th – 31st October
• Time: 2:00pm
• Cost: Child: €15.00 | Adult: €23