Talks & Tours

<em>#LIF2023</em> general info

#LIF2023 general info

#LIF2023 will take place across the city region Thurs 19-Sun 29 Oct 2023.

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Guided tours of Museum’s Irish collections 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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Wilde’s <em>The Ballad of Reading Gaol</em> 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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Conflict, Diaspora and Empire 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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Liverpool English with Tony Crowley 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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Scotland Road walking tour 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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South Liverpool walking tour 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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<em>Brave Maeve</em>: writer reading for kids 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)

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

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 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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