External resources

Liverpool Irish Festival may only be a 10-day Festival in October, but we are also a year-round organisation.

We run occasional out-of-Festival events whilst using the rest of the year to plan, fundraise, evaluate, report and train our volunteers. In addition, we maintain the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.

For those of you who want and need more, we’re providing a list of other incredible resources, places and activities you can take enjoyment from.

Resources

Online

  • Book of Kells online 
  • CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. Free digital resource for Irish history, literature and politics
  • Fréa: Irish charity partnership
  • Gaeilge dictionary: Nifty Irish language dictionary
  • Institute of Irish Studies at University of Liverpool
  • Irish Community Care Merseyside: Welfare support, social connections and advice services
  • IFI/Irish Film Institute’s YouTube – 28 free shorts
  • Irish Government‘s website
  • Ireland’s National Archive:  Ireland’s National Archive’s Decade of Centenaries website: 1913 Lockout – Civil War
  • Irish Genealogy: Official Government of Ireland genealogy website
  • Irish Statute book: One for Irish politics nerds: basically, the Government of Ireland ‘s rule book
  • Irish Traditional Music Archive: Amazing archive of Irish traditional music, song and dance
  • Language hub: Online hub for Irish Language focused government bodies
  • Northern Irish Assembly: Website of the Northern Ireland Assembly
  • Project Ireland 2040: Government of Ireland long-term strategy
  • Paper Lanterns: A site for all things teenage and journal based
  • Read Liverpool: Online newspapers and other reference materials from Liverpool Public Libraries – you’ll need to be a member (free)
  • RTÉ Player: National broadcaster player
  • RTÉ radio: The national radio station
  • RTÉ’s Ulysses: Brilliant radio dramatisation of the whole of Joyce’s Ulysses
  • TG4 – Sean nós: TG4’s a-z index of sean nós singing
  • TG4: Free-to-air national Irish language TV station player
  • UCC: Collaborative online project between University College Cork and The Irish Examiner exploring the history of the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War
  • UCD’s YouTube channel: University College Dublin’s YouTube site for poetry and literature
  • Ulster University CAIN Archive: Online archive of materials relating to ‘the Troubles’ (from 1968 to 2007) and politics in Northern Ireland
  • Virtual Treasury: Led by researchers at Trinity College Dublin, this website re-imagines and recreates, through digital technologies, the Record Treasury of Ireland lost on June 30th, 1922, in the opening engagement of the Civil War.

Pam Sullivan - The Forgotten House 1 (c) Graham Smillie, 2022Physical spaces to go to

With strong online information available, these are places you might also want to visit in-person:

We’ll continue to add to these resources as and when they are brought to our attention.

Additions

If you have a resource you would like to add, please contact our Festival Coordinator, Pascal O’Loughlin, on [email protected]. Additions are vetted based on interest to our audiences and are subject to our working availability.