The Peter Robinsons Settlers – 200th Anniversary Exhibition

To commemorate the 200th Anniversary of The Peter Robinsons Settlers departure from Cobh on May 10th, 1825 we were asked to design a commemorative exhibition detailing the history of this unique emigration story of the people of the Ballyhoura and Blackwater Valley area of County Cork.

Peter Robinson’s leadership and vision were instrumental in orchestrating the relocation of  2,500 Irish families to Canada,
offering them a chance for a new beginning. Working closely with Cobh Heritage Centre Team and Historians,  we planned to tell this unique  story using smart, beautiful design with diligent research, writing and planning to tell this unique emigration story.  The exhibition is designed to inform, entertain and educate using creative design placing learning at the heart of our design process and understand its role in providing fun, thought-provoking and fulfilling experiences that will be enjoyed and remembered.

Following the  public wreath laying Ceremony in the harbour of Cobh, on Friday 9th, May 2025 to mark the 200th anniversary of The Peter Robinson Settlers departure from Ireland, the exhibition was opened to the public in The Cobh Heritage Centre. Various presentations were made on the day and some of the descendants from the first Settlers families spoke of their long association with Cork and Ireland, the birthplace of their forefathers.

At Eamon Sinnott & Partners we work closely with heritage organisations, county councils, historians, academics, tidy town groups and community groups to bring their unique heritage projects to life. From detailed research, initial planning, design, interpretation, artwork, illustration and print production… we take projects from a blank sheet of paper and a conversation to finished internal and external heritage installation.

The “Queenstown Story” is the story of Irish Emigration. The scattering of the Irish is one of the great migration stories, in Cobh ,The Cobh Heritage Museum is uniquely positioned to tell this story from the port where 3 million of our people left from. Follow the story from the 1600’s when transportation to the British overseas colonies was commonplace, from Virginia and New England to Barbados, Jamacia and Monserrat.