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🎶 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 ⬇️

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🎃 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

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🕯️ 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

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🕊️ 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

#LIF2026

🕯️ 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

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🎻 One last tune?

The second #LIF2026 seisiún at Peter Kavanagh’s is your chance to bring an instrument, bring your voice or simply settle in for an evening of Irish traditional music.

📅 9.30pm–late, Fri 23 Oct
📍 Peter Kavanagh’s
🎟️ Free, just turn up!

#LivIrishFest #Trad

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✨ Opening next week: In the Window at Bluecoat Display Centre.

Irish makers Adam Frew and Maureen Lynch bring together clay and silver in this free exhibition.

🗓 from 10am daily, 1–31 Oct
📍 Bluecoat Display Centre

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🍀 Join us for another chance to explore The St Brigid’s Arms and hear from the people behind this unique exhibition celebrating Irish women's stories.

📅 Thurs 22 Oct, 11am
📍 VG&M
🎟️ Free

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💚 What does it mean to arrive, to belong and to say: I am here?

Over 50 musicians and dancers from across Merseyside come together at Sefton Park Palm House for a spectacular evening of Irish music and dance.

📅 Thurs 22 Oct, 7pm
📍 Sefton Park Palm House
🎟️ From £5

#LIF2026 #IAmHere

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📰 The Choctaw Gift and the Power of Recognition 🍀

Our latest blog explores the Shared Lands project and the enduring connection between Choctaw and Irish communities — through famine, solidarity, recognition and shared history.

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