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A printable Liverpool Irish Festival 2021 calendar for you to download (two page PDF). Please print responsibly.
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From London to Liverpool: Irish Film London at #LIF2020
Irish Film London have partnered with the Festival to include a specially curated selection of short films that reflects this year’s theme of ‘exchange’ and, particularly, the challenges faced by the LGBTQI+ community.
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The Struggle
Reflecting on people’s convergent and different views in the late 20th and early-21st century, The Struggle is a film trilogy by Rachel Garfield.
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22Oct
The Curious Disappearance of Mr Foo
A two-hander about the forced repatriation of Liverpool’s Chinese seaman, taken from verbatim accounts, featuring Tina Malone and Simon Wan.
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25Oct
In:Visible Women 2021
In:Visible Women Day 2021 marks the delivery of the Final Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry, by partnering with the Tuam Oral History project to release survivor stories and artist responses.
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25Oct
Jack Byrne – A Revolutionary Century: The Irish in Liverpool in Fact and Fiction
Join authors Greg Queiry and Jack Byrne for a conversation about the image -and reality- of the Irish Community in Liverpool.
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26Oct
Cultural Connectedness Exchange Network #6
Cultural Connectedness Exchanges allow network members to come together to make plans, voice sector concerns and learn from creative people.
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26Oct
Near this Place: Famine Lives and Afterlives in 2600
A plaque on Mulberry Street -erected by the Great Hunger Commemoration Committee- marks the resting place of some 2,600 people, who emigrated from Ireland during the Famine. This film documents the plaque’s meaning.
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26Oct
IndieCork: Mountrath and the North: Watchparty
IndieCork has partnered with the Festival since 2013, bringing a wealth of new Irish filmmaking talent to our screens. Producing a dynamic showcase, especially for emerging Irish voices, IndieCork often illuminates the zeitgeist, showing the preoccupations of the makers.
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27Oct
Susan McKay – Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground
Susan McKay’s Northern Protestants – On Shifting Ground is a portrait of a community at a point of political crisis.
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30Oct
Hold the Sausage: screening and maker exchange
Presentation of short film Hold the Sausage and interview with its makers and IndieCork Director Mick Hannigan, presented on Liverpool Irish Festival’s YouTube channel.
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11Nov
The Mersey Mash: watch party
After the interviews, the events, the laugher and the tears, The Mersey Mash reaches its final destination – the end edit. The final cut.
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