Past Events

Gradam Ceoil masterclass: accordion

Gradam Ceoil masterclass: accordion

Liverpool Irish Festival and TG4 bring you three exceptional masterclasses with (recent) past Gradam Ceoil winners and experts in the fields of accordion, fiddle and concertina.

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TG4's Gradam Ceoil: An Irish Trad Night

TG4’s Gradam Ceoil: An Irish Trad Night

Liverpool Irish Festival hosts a night rich with exceptional Irish music from two recent Gradam Ceoil winners and a TG4 presenter and fiddler.

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Ireland's Call (by John Connors)

Ireland’s Call (by John Connors)

John Connors performs this gripping story of three young men, in Ireland’s Call.

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Kilkelly + Sue Rynhart

Kilkelly + Sue Rynhart

Linking visual art with music, music with story and story with a cross-album narrative arc, Kilkelly reveal –in great depth- their new concept album: The Prick and the Petal.

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IndieCork: The Dark Green Horror

IndieCork: The Dark Green Horror

IndieCork Film Festival is a platform for new and emerging filmmaking talent. LIF2019 will premier films directfrom IndieCork.

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Scotland Road Walk

Scotland Road Walk

Featuring the stories of heroic men and women, footballers and rock stars, two hidden statues, a graveyard and the legends of Dandy Pat and James Carling.

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Celtic Animation Film Festival

Celtic Animation Film Festival

The theme for this year’s Celtic Anmation Film Festival is women in animation and content focusing on women’s issues. 

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The Spirit of the Reels: Liverpool Céilí Band

The Spirit of the Reels: Liverpool Céilí Band

Welcome to the launch of the book about the famous Liverpool Céilí Band of the 1960s and 70s.

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South Liverpool Walk

South Liverpool Walk

A walking tour that visits the remarkable architecture of the Hope and Rodney Street areas, discovering the history, politics and culture of Liverpool’s vibrant Irish community.

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A New Leaf Tour

A New Leaf Tour

A New Leaf is a compelling children’s story about a woodland and its discovery of an enchanting new leaf; written and performed by Brian Acton.

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A New Leaf Tour

A New Leaf Tour

A New Leaf is a compelling children’s story about a woodland and its discovery of an enchanting new leaf; written and performed by Brian Acton.

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Jack Lukeman

Jack Lukeman

Playing the Liverpool Irish Festival for the first time, Jack Lukeman (Co.Kildare) is becoming a Liverpool regular, having played the Philharmonic Music Room and Vince Power’s 2018 Liverpool Feis previously.

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#LIF2019 Official launch

#LIF2019 Official launch

Providing a snapshot of the festival ahead, the launch welcomes you to get a taste of Ireland, in the natural home of Liverpool’s Irish community.

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Hello Delia Murphy

Hello Delia Murphy

Hello Delia Murphy is an illustrated, beguiling talk with songs –compiled and performed by Delia’s niece, Carmen Cullen- accompanied by Gerry Anderson on guitar.

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Watch me grow / a trip here a trip there

Watch me grow / a trip here a trip there

A collaborative digital and physical exhibition, run by Art Arcadia at Sefton Park Palm House for #LIF2019, ‘A Trip Here, a trip there’ grows across the Festival, hence its original title ‘Watch Me Grow’.

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