This Derry four-piece describe their song-writing as “Primal architecture with Pop sensibility. Put simply ‘Werewolf pop'”.
Unorthodox, edgy and political, Strength NIA’s music carries strong, lyrical messages, but with attitude enough to make you leap! This is the debut event of their new album tour, so a ‘don’t miss’ for new music buffs. strengthnia.com
This is a partnership event between the Liverpool Irish Centre and the Liverpool Irish Festival.
Following its festival success in 2014, Stephen Smith’s Committed is back in full force with Falling Doors Theatre.
Set in 1993 in a Catholic ghetto in Belfast, Dan McCrory (Republican ex-prisoner) has been sent to organise the people against a plague of petty crime. Where the police are not welcome, the “Concerned Resident’s Committee” become be judge and jury. However, as Dan finds – to his cost – justice must wield a double-edged sword. Playwright Stephen Smith is a published poet and was a political activist and teacher around the time of the troubles in Ireland.
Committed was written in Liverpool, following Smith’s experiences as a concerned Belfast resident, during the aftermath of the ceasefire. Directed by Sarah Van Parys, a LJMU and Young Everyman Playhouse Director’s Course graduate, this is a compelling and intense play, fraught with the difficulties of the Troubles @fallingdoorstheatre
A regular feature on the Liverpool Irish Centre’s calendar, the Supper Céilí provides a night of céilí dancing, with live music from Michael Coyne.
The Secret of Kells (Cert PG, 78mins) is an animated fantasy film in which magic and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of colour and detail that dazzle the eyes.
It is a sweeping story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times. Directed by Tomm Moore (Newry, NI) and Nora Twomey (Cork, ROI).
Join Empty Spaces Cinema at The Handyman Supermarket for a pop-up film festival celebrating Irish cinema with a mixture of movies that look at Irish life.
The Irish Pub (Cert 15, 76mins) takes a loving look at traditional Irish pubs and the people who run them, highlighting the friendships they share with loyal customers. Directed by Alex Fegan (city of birth or residence unknown).
Join Empty Spaces Cinema at The Handyman Supermarket for a pop-up film festival celebrating Irish cinema with a mixture of movies that look at Irish life.
How can we use our creativity to influence others and affect change? Blackwell’s Liverpool will host a workshop looking at zines and posters as activism. Through the medium of collage, attendees will make handmade booklets and posters to photocopy and distribute amongst friends, whilst discussing what UK citizens can do to help people seeking abortions in Ireland. Everybody is welcome. Some materials will be provided, but please bring along anything you would like to use.
Run by Liverpool Blackwell’s, in partnership with the Liverpool Irish Festival.
“Better than Coronoation Street” – review from audience member for Mon 23 Oct 2017 performance!
Body and Blood is a new play exploring a buried cultural history – arranged marriages in Ireland. Inspired by writer Lorraine Mullaney’s grandmother who had an arranged marriage, Body and Blood is a dark comedy that tackles a tough subject with humour and live music.
It’s 1956, and young Aileen comes to London looking for her sister, who fled Ireland to escape an arranged marriage to an elderly farmer “with a face like the Turin shroud”. Instead of finding her sister, Aileen finds a new life of freedom and possibilities. Will Aileen choose this new life or return to Ireland and make the sacrifices required to stay true to her roots? And will she discover why her Uncle Colm refuses to return home? Body and Blood explores the conflicts and culture clashes resulting from migration and the pull of traditional Irish values, highlighting how far Ireland has come since the 1950s.
Sat 21 and 28: Liverpool, Ireland and the luck of the Irish Beatles! – Walks from Hope St to the City Centre
Also running: Sun 22 and 29: Liverpool, Ireland in our Bones – The Georgian Quarter
Liverpool Music Tours are offering two cultural walking tours. The first Liverpool, Ireland and the luck of the Irish Beatles starts in The Casa (Hope St) and takes you into the city centre. The second Liverpool, Ireland in our Bones starts in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms (pub on Hope St) and takes you through the glorious bohemian Georgian Quarter. These are tours with a difference. The theme is drawn around music, performed live at each destination. Each includes visits to three pubs of important historical significance to the city. Your ticket covers you for the walk, the history knowledge of your guides and their performances along the way. You buy a refreshment of your choice in each pub – should you wish to -to enjoy as Alan Burke and Debbi Stanistreet take you on a magical musical history tour. Roll up!
Saturday tours start in The Casa (Hope Street) and Sunday tours begin in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms (pub) on the corner of Hope Street and Hardman Street.
Sun 22 and 29: Liverpool, Ireland in our Bones – Walks of the Georgian Quarter
Also running: Sat 21 and 28: Liverpool, Ireland and the luck of the Irish Beatles! – Walks from Hope St to the City Centre
Liverpool Music Tours are offering two cultural walking tours. The first Liverpool, Ireland and the luck of the Irish Beatles starts in The Casa (Hope St) and takes you into the city centre. The second Liverpool, Ireland in our Bones starts in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms (pub on Hope St) and takes you through the glorious bohemian Georgian Quarter. These are tours with a difference. The theme is drawn around music, performed live at each destination. Each includes visits to three pubs of important historical significance to the city. Your ticket covers you for the walk, the history knowledge of your guides and their performances along the way. You buy a refreshment of your choice in each pub – should you wish to -to enjoy as Alan Burke and Debbi Stanistreet take you on a magical musical history tour. Roll up!
Saturday tours start in The Casa (Hope Street) and Sunday tours begin in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms (pub) on the corner of Hope Street and Hardman Street.
Finns Hotel Ceilidh Band will play – for one night only – fundraising for Irish Community Care. Finns Hotel is a long established, but recently dormant, ceilidh band which started during the miner’s strike in the 1980s.
Irish Community Care works across the Liverpool City Region; in Cheshire and Wigan and Greater Manchester, too. Irish Community Care supports Irish and Irish Traveller people through times of uncertainty, trouble, hardship or isolation. We make sure people have a decent place to live and are safe and well. We ensure that they settle well in the community, whether as new arrivals in the country/area or from prison release, maximising their income through training, employment and welfare benefit entitlement and helping them to feel part of and connected to local communities.
All money raised will contribute to this much needed work.