A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of the in-demand Irish passport, Saoirse Hanley looks at how it signified our independence, the doors it has opened for people seeking a new life here and abroad, and gets a glimpse of James Joyce’s official paperwork
Saoirse Hanley with her passport at the ‘On the Move’ exhibition in the Epic museum. Photo: Gerry Mooney
“We all come from somewhere,” is the phrase in lights that welcomes you into Epic, the emigration museum.
But when you want to go somewhere, or indeed, enter the country from whence you came, you need a passport.
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