Event cancellation notice

We are sorry to advise that all the #LIF2021 The Mersey Mash events have had to be postponed until 2022. This means the community conversations, and recording sessions, can no longer run as part of this year’s Festival.

We remain committed to collecting these stories, and creating the film, but life-circumstances for the project’s owners means we are not able to run the events in October as originally planned. Please stay tuned for further sessions, most likely to be scheduled for 2022’s Festival.

Original listing

Across the Festival, Doug Devaney (and his camera man and recordist, Barry) will be collecting your stories.

Why? They will be brought together to create a ‘magazine film’ -called The Mersey Mash– which we’ll present to attendees, at the Liverpool Irish Centre, on 2 Nov.  It will form a record of #LIF2021 and give Doug more information for his podcast The Plastic Podcasts (plasticpodcasts.com).

To collect these recordings, Doug et al will run the following drop-ins, which we’re calling Mersey Mash Mixers! You don’t have to sign up, but if you have an interesting or meaningful story to tell about Liverpool, Liverpool Irish or Irish connections, Doug would love to hear from you. You can drop-in to any of the sessions (or more than one if you’ve a few stories and fancy a change of scene) within the times shown. Doug will be there to listen, question and record! Pop along.

Image © timajo

The Mersey Mash: Mixer #3

11am-1pm (not 2pm as in some listings), Thurs 28 Oct. Liverpool Irish Centre. Free, no booking necessary

Wednesdays were traditionally the day for the tea dance at Liverpool Irish Centre, back in the Mount Pleasant days. This Wednesday will see an extra pair take their place on the floor (or near to it) as Doug and Barry set up their talking shop at the Boundary Road Liverpool Irish Centre for three hours of chat, char, and cha-cha-cha. In between waltzes -and seeing whether Liam’s got white pudding in at the shop- they’ll be there to hear your stories of how the Irish changed Liverpool, and how Liverpool changed the Irish.

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We are proud to state this event is linked with Black History Month and the Cuture Liverpool programme.