Liverpool Irish Festival issues statement about the Southport atrocities occurring w/c 29 July 2024 containing assistance links.
Category: Community, Family & Sport
The Ullaloo, plus Liverpool Irish Famine events
Press release announcing #LIF2024's vigil, memorial and song commission, The Ullaloo, which will be performed on Sun 27 Oct 2024.
Stopping to admire trees
Festival Coordinator Pascal O'Loughlin tells readers about his late mother's connection with trees at home in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
A radical departure from the silence
Lyn Gardner considers Heart of Glass and Mark Storor's The Suicide Chronicles and the film My Truth and Yours, screening at #LIF2024.
Departures – the long read
Read about the core theme of #LIF2024 — departures — to give you an inside view of the programme's depth and scope.
#LIF2024 programme announced
#LIF2024 announces its official programme, themed on 'departures', providing a wide-range of events, exhibits and activities.
Compensation schemes for survivors
A scheme has opened offering financial payments and health support for those who spent time in Mother and Baby and County Home institutions in Ireland.
The Walk of the Bronze Shoes
Commemorative 'bronze-shoe' walk along Ireland's National Famine Way to Liverpool, fundraising for Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.
New Festival Chair announced
John Chandler passes the Chair of Trustees role to Dr Ann Hoskins after 21-years of Liverpool Irish Festival service.
Tony Birtill scholarship 2024
Details of how to apply for the 2024 Tony Birtill Scholarship, geared to assist one person per year to learn and share the Irish language.
Song commission: open call
We seek a creative to write a (choir ready) song that honours the people, legacy and resilience of those that came through An Gorta Mór.
Irish language teacher appeal
Keep Gaeilge alive! Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl seeks new teachers to help spread the grá (love). Can you help?