💃 A next-generation céilí is coming to Liverpool!
Join Movema and The Saltcutters for Irish, English, Scottish and beyond. No experience or partner needed.
🗓 17 Oct, 7–11pm
📍 St Bride’s Church
🎟 £20 | 16+
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@livirishfest.bsky.social💃 A next-generation céilí is coming to Liverpool!
Join Movema and The Saltcutters for Irish, English, Scottish and beyond. No experience or partner needed.
🗓 17 Oct, 7–11pm
📍 St Bride’s Church
🎟 £20 | 16+
@irishinstitute.bsky.social#Lif2026 has started, we are delighted to support Sonja Tiernan's talk on her book "Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer" on 19 October (free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sonja-tier... check out the @livirishfest.bsky.social website for the full programme: www.liverpoolirishfestival.com
@livirishfest.bsky.social🎻 Friday night seisiún!
Bring an instrument, bring your voice, or just come along and listen. Peter Kavanagh’s welcomes everyone for a night of Irish tunes and songs.
🗓 16 Oct, 9.30pm–late
📍 Peter Kavanagh’s
🎟 Free, just turn up
#LIF2026
@livirishfest.bsky.social💃 Keep dancing after the Festival!
A six-week Irish set dancing course starts 27 October at Liverpool Cricket Club. No partner needed, and all sessions are relaxed and informal.
🗓 Tuesdays, 7–9pm
🎟 £60 for 6 weeks
🔞 16+
@livirishfest.bsky.social🎭 Two sisters. One table. A lifetime of unfinished business.
High Tea by Victoria Fradgley explores family, memory, inheritance and the things that refuse to stay buried.
🗓 17 Oct, 3pm
📍 Liverpool Irish Centre
🎟 £10 / £8 conc
@livirishfest.bsky.social🚶 Explore Scotland Road’s Irish history with Vauxhall Neighbourhood Council.
Visit Scottie Press, St Anthony’s Church & crypt and The Rotunda Café’s history display.
🗓 18 Oct, 10am
🎟 £20 / £15 conc
#LIF2026 #IAmHere
www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/scotl...
@livirishfest.bsky.social📚 A whole day of Irish literature at Liverpool Central Library!
Hear from Vitor Vicente, Sue Divin, Doug Devaney and PJ McKeown as they explore identity, belonging, memory, borders and home.
🗓 17 Oct, from 10.30am
🎟 Free, booking essential
@livirishfest.bsky.social🖼 Meet the makers behind In the Window!
Adam Frew and Maureen Lynch discuss their creative practices, materials and how their work connects with #IAmHere.
🗓 11am, 16 Oct
💻 Online
🎟 Free, booking required
@irishinstitute.bsky.social❗1 week to go❗
Delighted to support @sonjatiernan.bsky.social's talk at @livirishfest.bsky.social #LIF2026
"Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer"
🗓️6pm 19 October 2026
🧭The Black-E
FREE registration: www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/sonja...
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@livirishfest.bsky.social🎶 Round off the official #LIF2026 dates with Emmy Award-winning five-piece The Shamrocks.
Expect harmony-led Irish songs, multi-instrumental musicianship and favourites including Danny Boy, The Wild Rover and Whiskey in the Jar.
🗓 26 Oct, 7.30pm
📍 Philharmonic Hall
🎟 £22–£43, booking required ⬇️
@livirishfest.bsky.social🎃 Celebrate Samhain with Comhaltas and Armagh Rhymers!
Expect music, games, dancing, costumes and spooky fun. Children aged 4–12 particularly welcome - and everyone from 13–113 can join in!
🗓 4pm, 25 Oct
📍 Liverpool Irish Centre
🎟 Free, just turn up
@livirishfest.bsky.social🕯️ Join us at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church for a service marking the Great Hunger of 1845–1852 and its legacy in Liverpool and beyond.
There will be speeches, performances, a minute’s silence and shared singing.
🗓 1pm, 25 Oct
🎟 Free, donations welcome
@livirishfest.bsky.social🕊️ Opening this Saturday, 3 October: The St Brigid’s Arms
A fictional pub created by and for women of Irish heritage across the North of England.
Explore art, music, dance and personal stories of migration, identity and belonging.
📍 October - April 2027, VG&M
🎟 Free
@livirishfest.bsky.social🕯️ Join Liverpool Irish Festival for our annual An Gorta Mór Vigil.
Starting at Clarence Dock, where Irish Famine migrants arrived, we’ll walk to the Great Hunger Commemoration Memorial at St Luke’s.
🗓 10am, Sun 25 Oct
🎟 Free, donations welcome
