Berina Kelly – Jewellery in the Window
Impressive display of Berina Kelly jewellery at the Bluecoat Display Centre shown ‘In the Window’ as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival.
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It’s The Travelling Life: Part I – The Art of Falling Apart
It’s a Travelling Life takes place at The Brink as part of The Art of Falling Apart as part of the Liverpool Mental Health Festival and George Henry Lee’s as part of #LIF2018.
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It’s The Travelling Life: Part II
It’s a Travelling Life takes place at The Brink as part of The Art of Falling Apart as part of the Liverpool Mental Health Festival and George Henry Lee’s as part of #LIF2018.
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Materials library
The Materials Library at Liverpool Everyman is the ideal cultural hotspot to browse a festival brochure, pick up a bite to eat and encounter some of the city’s performance artists.
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18Oct
It’s The Travelling Life – Private View
It’s a Travelling Life takes place at The Brink as part of The Art of Falling Apart as part of the Liverpool Mental Health Festival and George Henry Lee’s as part of #LIF2018.
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Repeal the Eighth
Liverpool Irish Festival and OUTPUT Gallery invited artists to show their response to this year’s #YesTogether/Repeal the Eighth campaign. This is the result of that call.
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Repeal the Eighth – Private View
This event is the private view for the Repeal the Eighth exhibit. Pop in and have a look at a creative response to the biggest ever vote on body autonomy.
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18Oct
Frieling the Music
Taking inspiration from Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, LJMU Masters student, Corey Harbinson, presents new text, music and songs.
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18Oct
Liverpool Irish Festival Launch
Opening the festival with a taste of home (Irish stew), a glass of the black stuff and migration stories told by poets and performers and sung by Bill Booth and followed by Catherine Cook.
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18Oct
Ye Vagabonds
The Liverpool Philharmonic present Ye Vagabonds for the Liverpool Irish Festival 2018.
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19Oct
Irish Builders of Modern Britain
An invitation to Irish navvies and nurses -or their connections- to discuss the shape and role of an Irish legacy project in the making at the Cunard Building.
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19Oct
Frieling the Music
Taking inspiration from Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, LJMU Masters student, Corey Harbinson, presents new text, music and songs.
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19Oct
Irish Craft Beer Festival
Irish beer, Irish soft drinks and Irish food all served at the Handyman’s Superrmarket (the sister to Smithdown Roads Kelly’s Dispensary) for #LIF2018.
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19Oct
Eggsistentialism
Eggsistentialism takes a light-hearted but unflinching look at one of life’s most compelling dilemmas: should making a life for oneself involve making another?
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19Oct
Kíla
Kíla‘s eight members come from the differing musical backgrounds, resulting in a fresh blend of freewheeling instrumentals, furious jigs and primal rhythms.
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Seisiúns/Sessions
The Liverpool Irish Festival is proud to support a number of seisiúns/sessions running across the city. Bring an instrument and play along!
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20Oct
Your World workshop
Focussing on identity Your World explores how to adapt in new locations; what it is like to long to belong and how to ground yourself without losing you.
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20Oct
In:Visible Women
In:Visible Women is a concept, platform and trail that runs through LivIrishFest annually. It discusses the role of women in Irish society and creativity.
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20Oct
New Voices with Alex Clark
Alex Clark presents authors Sally Rooney, Lisa McInerney and Anthony Joseph who have have enjoyed considerable critical success and are clearly writers to watch in future.
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20Oct
Irish Craft Beer Festival
Irish beer, Irish soft drinks and Irish food all served at the Handyman’s Superrmarket (the sister to Smithdown Roads Kelly’s Dispensary) for #LIF2018.
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20Oct
Scotland Road Walk
Exploring Liverpool’s world famous dockland district, its Irish traditions, connections to the Easter Rising and forgotten graveyards and tunnels. #LIF2018
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20Oct
The Guilty Feminist – Liverpool Irish Festival special
Presenting a special Liverpool Irish Festival programme, The Guilty Feminist considers the noble goals of 21st centurty feminists and the paradoxes and insecurities which undermine them. This is their first time in Liverpool!
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20Oct
Irish Craft Beer Festival
Irish beer, Irish soft drinks and Irish food all served at the Handyman’s Superrmarket (the sister to Smithdown Roads Kelly’s Dispensary) for #LIF2018.
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20Oct
Sebastian Barry in conversation with Professor Roy Foster
Two stalwarts of Irish literature – Sebastian Barry and Professor Roy Foster – in conversation as part of the Liverpool Literary Festival at #LIF2018.
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20Oct
Baggage
Two women find a common place where they can come together as friends. A play about friendhip, homelessness and hope by Bev Clark at #LIF2018.
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20Oct
The Hot Sprockets
Take some good-time revolutionary spirit, add a pinch of psychedelic flavour, simmer it down with some indie soul and you get close to the cosmic vibe of The Hot Sprockets.
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20Oct
The Jesse Janes
A great band to spend the evening with, The Jesse Janes will wow you with powerful harmonies and sheer range of instruments!
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20Oct
The Morning After the Life Before
A personal, entertaining tale of weddings, ‘coming out’ and arguments over who takes out the bins.
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Hooley
As well as a gale or an argument, a ‘hooley’ is a big old Irish party with music, dancing and –most importantly- oodles of fun.
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21Oct
Irish Heritage Walk
This local history walk features Irish journalists, Italian craftsmen, Lancashire slavers, Polish Impressionists and Liverpool pirates in an exploration of arts and politics.
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21Oct
Irish Craft Beer Festival
Irish beer, Irish soft drinks and Irish food all served at the Handyman’s Superrmarket (the sister to Smithdown Roads Kelly’s Dispensary) for #LIF2018.
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21Oct
Lamb
Depicting an unconventional relationship between a naïve young cleric and a troubled child, Lamb is vivid and unsettling. Cert 15.
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21Oct
Eamonn Hughes -‘The Train and the River’- Van Morrison’s Belfast
Drawing on his work with Van Morrison, Hughes examines Morrison’s representation of Belfast as an alternative to images of it as a city of conflict.
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21Oct
The Corner Boys
Ladies Who Punch proudly present the UK tour The Corner Boys, by award-winner John MacKenna, as part of #LIF2018 at Liverpool Irish Centre and The Crown.
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22Oct
Architectural Migrations
Dr Claire Kinsella (Staffordshire University) considers the tensions and contradictions between Irish identity, migration and the high-rise built form.
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22Oct
Féile Voices : 30 years of Féile an Phobail
Marking 30 years of Belfast’s Féile an Phobail and the book release of Féile Voices at 30, telling the story of a significant cultural and political festival.
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22Oct
IndieCork: New Irish Shorts
IndieCork Film Festival is a platform for new and emerging filmmaking talent and these programmes are a useful showcase of emerging Irish voices.
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22Oct
The Corner Boys
Ladies Who Punch proudly present the UK tour The Corner Boys, by award-winner John MacKenna, as part of #LIF2018 at Liverpool Irish Centre and The Crown.
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22Oct
IndieCorkfeature: Making the Grade
Making the Grade is a story of the transformative power of music and the pride and happiness it provides both the students and teachers.
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22Oct
Lankum
A traditional folk group, Lankum (Dublin) combine distinctive four part harmonies with uilleann pipes, concertina, Russian accordion, fiddle and guitar.
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23Oct
The James Connolly Reader
The James Connolly Reader looks at a leading figure in Ireland’s 1916 anti-British rule campaigns and socialist philisophy.
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23Oct
IndieCork: New Irish Shorts from Women
Following on from IndieCork: New Irish Shorts, this evening’s programme represents the best of the female led shorts at IndieCork Film Festival 2018.
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23Oct
Two Plays: Baggage and When Nora Met Jim
#LIF2018 presents Baggage and When Nora Met Jim. Both plays have been written in Liverpool and feature local actors. Expect low-fi tech, but high-fi impact.
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24Oct
David O’Doherty: You Have to Laugh
David O’Doherty is back on tour with a brand-new show made up of talking and songs played on a crappy keyboard from 1986.
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24Oct
Rat in the Skull
Rat in the Skull is an interview between a Royal Ulster Constabulary inspector and a Catholic man in London detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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25Oct
Responding to Robert Tressel: A Panel
The panel will consider Robert Tressell’s work The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, lorded internationally as a seminal text for socialists.
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25Oct
The Biggest Show in the Country
Inspired by daily radio phone-in The Nolan Show, The Biggest Show in The Country swaps guns, bombs and bullets for glitter, banter and ballads.
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25Oct
Kitty
A play commemorating the significant influence Kitty played in Liverpool by helping to turn the tide on an epidemic spreading through the city; cholera.
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25Oct
A bridge of Tunes: Bernadette Nic Gabhann and Mikey Kenney
Two traditional fiddlers come together to celebrate the musical links between Ireland, Liverpool and Lancashire and a history of shared tunes and dances.
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25Oct
To Have to Shoot Irishmen
Inspired by true events, To Have To Shoot Irishmen weaves movement and live folk song into a tale of militarism, corruption and the power of rebellion.
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26Oct
Celtic Animation Film Festival
The Celtic Animation Film Festival celebrates and encourages animators to share practice, tell stories and reflect on Celtic culture and concerns.
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26Oct
Countess Markievicz…
First wave Irish feminism had one goal; get votes for women. The battle of complex political issues, nationalism and unionism are explored in this talk.
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26Oct
Socks in the Frying Pan
Cheerful brilliance from this County Clare band as part of #LIF2018.
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26Oct
To Have to Shoot Irishmen
Inspired by true events, To Have To Shoot Irishmen weaves movement and live folk song into a tale of militarism, corruption and the power of rebellion.
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26Oct
Samhain with Conleth McGeary
Samhain exists as a festival for the dead. Celebrate this Samhain with Conleth McGeary!
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27Oct
Family Day
Celebrate the Liverpool Irish Festival – with family and friends – in a day incorporating music, talks and activities for everyone to enjoy, across the day.
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27Oct
South Liverpool Heritage Walk
Walk though Liverpool’s historic Rodney and Hope Street areas, discovering colourful characters and long-lost histories.
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27Oct
To Have to Shoot Irishmen
Inspired by true events, To Have To Shoot Irishmen weaves movement and live folk song into a tale of militarism, corruption and the power of rebellion.
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27Oct
The Jesse Janes
A great band to spend the evening with, The Jesse Janes will wow you with powerful harmonies and sheer range of instruments!
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28Oct
Family Céilí
The Family Céilí is a popular event at the Liverpool Irish Festival. It returns to the spiritual home of the Irish community, the Liverpool Irish Centre.
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28Oct
Stephen James Smith
Stephen James Smith is a Dublin poet and playwright central to the rise of the vibrant spoken word scene in Ireland today; support is Ciarán Hodgers.
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