Press release announcing #LIF2024's vigil, memorial and song commission, The Ullaloo, which will be performed on Sun 27 Oct 2024.
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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.
Irish language teacher appeal
Keep Gaeilge alive! Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl seeks new teachers to help spread the grá (love). Can you help?
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.
Liverpool’s football transformed by Irishman
Ireland Reaching Out traces the Irish heritage of a man who would change the shape of football in Liverpool forever (John McKenna 1855-1936).
Liverpool: a story for everyone
On the launch of his third book, Ged Melia gives us an insight in to his most recent creations set in 1840-50s Liverpool.
My Liverpool experience: Carrie Barrett
Charting her experiences at Liverpool Irish Festival's, Limerick-playwright Carrie Barrett, examines and shares her experiences.
Poetry: an anniversary collection
Anniveraries are often marked by poems, and vice versa. Catherine Harvey takes us on a poetic journey of commemoration.
Tony Birtill – an ongoing Irish legacy for Liverpool
Thomas Ryan, Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl, reflects on the legacy left by friend, peer and fellow Gael, Tony Birtill.