#LIF2024‘s guide is here. Our newspaper will follow soon! Theme: Departures
Out now is this year’s fold-out leaflet with handy go-to schedule, to followed soon after with this year’s newspaper, containing a nifty pull-out guide, venue list and lots of #LIF2024 ‘departure’ themed articles.
Every year, the Liverpool Irish Festival commissions artists, creatives, activists and academics to write articles linked with the year’s theme. Over the years, we’ve compiled these in to many formats and for many reasons. Below are all the leaflets, newspapers and brochures we’ve created, with some additional information about their numbers and reach. It forms an archive of our past and shows how we’ve developed.
And once again, we have our annual newspaper, full to the gunnels of features, activities, listings and notices.
2023 – leaflet. Theme: Anniversary
This leaflet was posted to 55,000 homes across Merseyside. It features a quick view of #LIF2023 and a feature on the development of the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.
We used the leaflet to cut down on the paper waste we had been creating by printing so many newspapers. Whilst the newspapers were a wonderful way to support audiences during COVID, we felt this was a more ethical way of drawing sharing the Festival. Still, the newspaper has been so well liked by creatives, venues and audiences we wanted to maintain our commissions and the paper; we just wanted to print fewer to be greener. You can see the 2023 newspaper below.
Below is an option to scroll the leaflet as an online magazine, in full screen. To do this, click the open-sided square icon. For zooming in or out, keep your finger held down on the ‘Shift’ key and scroll up or down on your mouse. If you’d like to exit full screen mode, just hit ‘Esc’.
2023 newspaper. Theme: Anniversary
We printed 7,000 newspapers in 2023, delivering them to all our Festival venues. This differed from the previous year when we had still been in the grips of COVID and many people were not picking things up in public spaces.
Featuring over 20 commissions, it develops the theme of anniversary, producing a significant timeline of Irish and global anniversaries.
Click here to view a PDF. This is downloadable, but beware, at 56-pages, it’s about 30MB!
As with the leaflet above, below is an option to scroll the newspaper as an online magazine, in full screen. To do this, click the open-sided square icon. For zooming in or out, keep your finger held down on the ‘Shift’ key and scroll up or down on your mouse. If you’d like to exit full screen mode, just hit ‘Esc’.
2022 newspaper. Theme: Hunger
In 2022 we printed 30,000 newspapers and sent them in to 28,000 homes. The world was still coming out of the global epidemic of COVID.
The Festival had not long taken over the custodianship of the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail, so hunger seemed an incredibly poignant theme. We had so much content we expanded the paper!
Want to download your own PDF? Click here (but be mindful that it is almost 40MB).
As with the documents above, below is an option to scroll the newspaper as an online magazine, in full screen. To do this, click the open-sided square icon. For zooming in or out, keep your finger held down on the ‘Shift’ key and scroll up or down on your mouse. If you’d like to exit full screen mode, just hit ‘Esc’.
This year sees us launch out biggest ever Festival newspaper (48 pages!), arriving on doorsteps and in venues from 26 Sept 2022. As you can see, it has artist features from Pamela Sullivan, Kieran Murray, Carrie Barrett, KingFast, Maria Paul, Cherry Smyth, The Armagh Rhymers and Jaki McCarrick, plus
- Children’s activities
- A Festival calendar
- Full event listings
- Stories and articles on people, films and tours
- Memorials
- More Festival information.
2021 newspaper. Theme: Exchange
In 2021, we continued to issue newspapers directly to people’s homes. That year, we posted 28,000 copies to homes across the north west; with a further 2,000 available from participating venues. This helped to lower the potential for transmission of COVID-19 and gifted people with a newspaper full of artist commissions, stories and children’s activities. Take a quick peek below (we recommend using full screen if flicking through the newspaper pages), or download a PDF version, here.
2020 newspaper. Theme: Exchange
In 2020, Coronavirus affected how we delivered information. We sent almost 20,000 newspapers to homes across Merseyside. You can download a 2020 PDF of the newspaper, using this link.
Additionally, you can see the online version here. You can choose to read through individual articles, but please be aware that these have not been type set.
2019 brochure. Theme: “Unique stories, creatively told”
2018 and archive guides
Below you can view previous year brochures, 2003-2018, minus 2003 and 2006. We hope you will enjoy skimming through those we have uploaded.
