The Ireland Canada Homecoming 2025 Remembering the Peter Robinson Settlers of the Ballyhoura Region - 200th Anniversary SAVE THE DATE: 15th - 21st September 2025 Join us in 2025 as we remember the settler families of Ballyhoura Country who set sail from Cobh in 1825 to Ontario- establishing a new life in what we know today as Peterborough in Canada. Going from one complex economic and political crisis to another, their stories of resilience and courage survive through their diaspora worldwide. Step back in time and experience the newly commissioned “1825: The Robinson Experiment” with Callback Theatre, premiering for this week long event. Connect with the homes of the settlers through Meet and Greets in the settler communities homeland across the Ballyhoura area of North Cork and Limerick. Explore, touch and taste the communities of origin through heritage walks, talks and tours Listen to traditional Irish Music, Storytelling and dance. A magical remembrance concert and hybrid one day conference in Saint George's Arts and Heritage Centre in Mitchelstown. Take part in a very special event which will be held to create a forever memorial remembering our settler families and their “roots” in the Ballyhoura region. DOWNLOAD THE HOMECOMING 2025 EVENT PROGRAMME If you wish to take part in the commemoration of the Peter Robinson Settlers, or would like to find out more please fill out the below contact form: Contact Form Once you have confirmed your wish to physically attend the event using the contact form above, we ask that you fill out the travel information form below. This will help us design the programme that will be meaningful for you and your family when travelling for this event. The form outlines your travel plans, whether as part of a bigger trip or if you are joining us for one or two events. The programme plan once complete will also have events that will require booking and can be confirmed towards year end. By completing the Travel Information Form below, it will help us in completing the programme, and arrange the necessary logistics. Travel Information Form May 21 1825 “We the undersigned Clergymen and Magistrates hereby certify that the above named persons who have been selected by Mr. Robinson from the neighbourhood and Mitchelstown and from the borders of the counties of Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary, are persons totally unable to pay for their own passage to America and come within the description of persons deemed fit subjects for emigration to Canada, being persons without employment and generally bred to agriculture, and who have lately been dispossessed of their lands……”. – We also beg to add that our best thanks are justly due to Mr. Robinson for his unremitting attention to the selection of proper persons for emigration and his willingness at all times to attend to the suggestions of the Gentlemen in the neighbourhood”. Find out more about The Peter Robinson Settlers - An Assisted Emigration Programme. Ireland Canada Homecoming 2025 Join us for a week-long event marking 200 years since the Peter Robinson Emigration to Canada, honouring the brave families of Ballyhoura and Munster. Find Out More Manage Cookie Preferences