Press release announcing #LIF2024's vigil, memorial and song commission, The Ullaloo, which will be performed on Sun 27 Oct 2024.
Tag: ireland
Celebrating Irish Craft
A retrospective of Irish In The Window makers goes on show throughout Oct at Bluecoat Display Centre. Outlined here are some of the makers.
Trad seisiúns (sessions) in Liverpool
Board secretary John Chandler walks us through the variety of trad seisiúns (sessions) that people can visit across Merseyside.
Stopping to admire trees
Festival Coordinator Pascal O'Loughlin tells readers about his late mother's connection with trees at home in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
A radical departure from the silence
Lyn Gardner considers Heart of Glass and Mark Storor's The Suicide Chronicles and the film My Truth and Yours, screening at #LIF2024.
#LIF2024 programme announced
#LIF2024 announces its official programme, themed on 'departures', providing a wide-range of events, exhibits and activities.
Song commission: open call
We seek a creative to write a (choir ready) song that honours the people, legacy and resilience of those that came through An Gorta Mór.
Four Creatives / Artists wanted
Four Citizen Research Group leads sought for creative community activities, linked with the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.
Those roads – a new song from Úna Quinn
Liverpool Irish Festival present a newly commissioned song -These Roads- from Úna Quinn and Neil Campbell, commemorating An Gorta Mór.
The Liverpool Mysteries Trilogy
Jack Byrne is a Liverpool-Irish writer, living abroad,who writes books on the subject of his ancestry and birthplace.
Boundless: Transitions – exhibition and online talk series
A year on from Fion Gunn's Arrival/Departures exhibit, we check in to see what she's working on, this time with A-Maze Artists Collective.
Why do artists give away their work for free?
Liverpool artist Pam Sullivan reflects on her art's social conscience and what leaving a mark means to her.