Liverpool Irish Festival Events 2008

Christy Moore
With Declan Sinnott
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 October at 8.00pm, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BP
Tickets available here or box office 0151 709 3789



We are delighted to welcome back a Festival favourite. Irish music legend Christy Moore founded 70s folk band Planxty followed by Moving Hearts in the 80s Moore is now best-known as a solo folk singer-songwriter, guitarist and bodhran player.

Why not make a night of it? Liverpool Irish Festival is currently working on events to run either side of Christy Moore's performance. Check back here at the beginning of April for more information.

Burial at Thebes
Friday, 17 October 2008, 7.30pm, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BP
Tickets available here or box office 0151 709 3789

The Manning Camerata presents the world premier of this modern opera and the first time that Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney has exposed his version of Sophocles' Antigone to musical interpretation.
Composer Dominique Le Gendre will use the orchestra, soloists and chorus to recreate the action in the epic poem with narration by the poet Anthony Joseph. It is a groundbreaking approach to a 1,000 year-old tragedy with universal and contemporary resonance.

Ed Byrne - Different Class
Sunday 26 October, 8.00pm, Royal Court Liverpool, 1 Roe St, Liverpool, L1 1HL
Tickets available here or box office 0870 787 1866

Half toff, half pikey... All comic!
Comedy favourite returns with a blisteringly funny new one man show about marriage, class, the youth of today and anything else that strikes him as humorous. It hard to say any more than that as this blurb had to be written in April when the new show was barely taking shape. He might end up doing an hour about going to the Opera for all I know. Oh, no he's done that.

Fergal Keane - The Penance of Memory
Wednesday 22 October at 6:30pm, Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool University



A lecture by BBC foreign correspondent and columnist.

Throughout the festival:

The Liverpool Irish Experience
17 October - 2 November, The Third Room, Everyman Bistro
Free Entry (During Bistro opening hours)

County Mayo artist and musician Mike Absalom presents a series of paintings created especially for the Liverpool Irish Festival 2008. For more information about Mike Absalom and his work click here.

Please check back regularly for updates.

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