Press release announcing #LIF2024's vigil, memorial and song commission, The Ullaloo, which will be performed on Sun 27 Oct 2024.
Tag: irish
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.
Departures – the long read
Read about the core theme of #LIF2024 — departures — to give you an inside view of the programme's depth and scope.
#LIF2024 programme announced
#LIF2024 announces its official programme, themed on 'departures', providing a wide-range of events, exhibits and activities.
Tony Birtill scholarship 2024
Details of how to apply for the 2024 Tony Birtill Scholarship, geared to assist one person per year to learn and share the Irish language.
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.
Irish language teacher appeal
Keep Gaeilge alive! Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl seeks new teachers to help spread the grá (love). Can you help?
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.