ArtsGroupie news for autumn 2025.
First up – Liverpool Irish Festival
Artsgroupie will be participating in an exclusive first screening and book debut documenting The Walk of the Bronze Shoes pilgrimage and advent of the Global Irish Famine Way.
Join them this October for a World premiere documentary and book launch
Mon 13 Oct 2025 at BOXPARK Liverpool.
Reveal unveils Liverpool Irish Famine Trail research
This milestone event marks three-years of dedicated research into the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail. Additionally, it documents the extraordinary 2024 Walk of the Bronze Shoes pilgrimage from Strokestown, Ireland, to Liverpool, UK. The documentary is produced by Overshoot Productions, directed by Ailsa ‘Ayls’ McQueen.
Event details
- Time/date: Doors 7.30 pm, event at 8 pm, Mon 13 Oct 2025
- Venue: BOXPARK Liverpool
- Booking: https://www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/reveal-launch/ use ‘Book Now’ link
- Documentary trailer: (see below).
The evening represents a unique preview to the Liverpool Irish Festival 2025 programme. The Festival is the UK’s largest Irish arts and culture-led festival, running from 16 to 26 October 2025 under the theme “Arrivals”. Through it, we’ll explore migration, settlement and finding home while marking the 180th anniversary of An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger).
About Reveal and The Bronze Shoes of Liverpool
Three years in the making, Reveal captures the creation of the Global Irish Famine Way. It is characterised by countless hours of research, endurance and dedication from remarkable walkers and researchers. The book features ground-breaking research from the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail‘s History Research Group. Both the book and film document previously untold stories of Irish Famine refugees who found sanctuary in Liverpool.
The book has been peer-reviewed by Liverpool University Press, who serve as distributors, with copies available from them on the night. Both Reveal and a limited supply of the companion volume Revive will be available for purchase on the night.
The Bronze Shoes of Liverpool documentary is supported by the Irish Government’s Strategic Diaspora Fund, via their Consulate in the North, and was developed by a local production company in the city. It will be entered into film festivals following its launch.
Funding and support
These significant heritage projects have received support from:
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Government of Ireland
- the Liverpool Great Hunger Commemoration Committee
- generous donors through a 2024 JustGiving campaign.
And secondly, the ghostly return of
Tickets are going fast for this one-night-only performance –
Saturday 25th October
7:30 pm
“As solitary a place as ever I saw…It struck a chill to me, as if I had left the natural world.”
A ghostly figure has visited the signalman twice already, each time preceding a terrible disaster. When the apparition appears for the third time, it’s up to the signalman to decode its meaning and prevent another catastrophe.
A gripping slice of Gothic horror from Charles Dickens, regarded as the greatest horror story ever written.
In the tradition of classic oral storytelling, a lantern and two players are all that is needed to tell the spine-tingling tale of the Signalman.
Directed by David Griffiths.
Starring Zoran Blackie & John Maguire.
https://www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/…/the-signalman/