In 2021, Liverpool Irish Festival began our custodianship of the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.

We formed a volunteer History Research Group (who’ve since undertaken 1,300+ hours of research) and released a book: Liverpool Irish Famine Trail: Revive (available in the Museum’s gift shop or here).❤️📍🔱

Having trained in tour creation and management – and thoroughly researched the Irish objects on display in Museum of Liverpool – the History Research Group now lead tours of the Museum of Liverpool’s Irish objects. Visitors will be provided with headsets so they can hear the tour guide throughout the tour whatever activity is taking place around them. These headsets work over hearing aids.

Visitors who take these in-person tours will additionally take in the Pilotage Building, just outside the Museum. Tours are anticipated to take approximately 45-60mins, depending on audience questions. To keep this very simple, people who would like to join are asked to congregate under the large screen in the Museum’s atrium. Tours will leave at 10.30am, 12pm and 2.30pm. There is no booking system, but if a tour proves extremely popular, visitors may be asked to wait for the next tour.

These activities have been made possible with funds from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.