#LIF2023 general info
#LIF2023 will take place across the city region Thurs 19-Sun 29 Oct 2023.
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21Oct
Guided tours of Museum’s Irish collections
The Festival’s Liverpool Irish Famine Trail‘s History Research Group will lead tours of the Museum of Liverpool’s Irish objects.
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23Oct
Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol
In this talk, Dr Deaglán Ó Donghaile (Liverpool John Moores University) discusses Oscar Wilde’s 1898 poem; The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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25Oct
Conflict, Diaspora and Empire
Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish nationalism in Liverpool, 1912-1922 is a cenenary talk, developed and delivered by Dr Darragh Gannon, University College Dublin.
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27Oct
Liverpool English with Tony Crowley
Book launch for Tony Crowley’s Liverpool: A Memoir of Words, held as part of #LIF2023.
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28Oct
Scotland Road walking tour
Greg Quiery leads a 2-hour walk through the former heartland of Liverpool’s Irish community considers schools, statues and graveyards.
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28Oct
South Liverpool walking tour
Greg Quiery leads a 2-hour walk visiting Hope Street and Rodney Street buildings, hearing from some of the colourful characters who populated them.
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28Oct
Brave Maeve: writer reading for kids
Pose for pictures, colour in some great illustrations and hear author and illustrator Stu Harrison tell the story of Brave Maeve.
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Liverpool Irish Famine Trail lecture (online)
Lecture on the plaque and memorial sites of the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail, comissioned by Armagh, Craigavon and Banbridge Borough Council.
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Museum of Liverpool – self-guided Irish trail
Use this page to download a PDF of the Musem of Liverpool’s Irish community trail. Suitable for families.
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In:Visible Women 2021
In:Visible Women Day 2021 marks the delivery of the Final Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry, by partnering with the Tuam Oral History project to release survivor stories and artist responses.
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