The Everton Fans’ Forum will be hosting an evening as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival in October that will celebrate the history between Everton Football Club and Ireland, with guest speakers including former players and author, Michael Walker (deCoubertin, The Guardian).
The evening will also consist of quizzes and giveaways. Keep an eye on evertonfc.com/fansforum and @EFC_FansForum for more details.
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This event is held in partnership with the Everton Fans’ Forum and deCoubertin Books. It is a special collaboration developed as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival.
£5/£3 on the door, first come first served
Film screening with Q&A with the film’s Executive Producer, Roger Shannon (Professor of Film at Edge Hill University).
I Could Read the Sky, adapted from the Booker longlisted, photographic novel of the same name, explores identity, loss and exile. It is the moving story of an old man (Dermot Healy, in an acting role) living in a bedsit in London, remembering his life, growing up on the west coast of Ireland and his journey to London. Unravelling the strange, twisting drama of a working man’s life, the film moves from a decaying rural past to a vividly modern present, driven by a dynamic soundtrack drawing from both to deliver flowing, lyrical storytelling. It is the state of memory that the film evokes, not ‘memory as re-enactment’, but as texture, finding the essence of how we remember. Memory as fragments, as details and layers, memory that comes at you out of the dark. From behind closed eyes, with its abstractions of light and form and sudden moments of precise clarity, taking us on an inward, visually extraordinary labyrinthine journey to the film’s end
Directed by Nichola Bruce, the film stars the acclaimed Irish writer Dermot Healy and includes cameos from actors Maria Doyle Kennedy, Brendan Coyle and Stephen Rea, writer Pat McCabe (Butcher Boy) and the author Timothy O’Grady and photographer Steve Pyke.
Connected Irish is a network of businesses, services, academic and cultural representatives who collaborate to plan, welcome and provide access to other Irish linked businesses and resources in the city. The Liverpool Irish Festival is a serving committee member and as such is supporting this year’s St Patrick’s Day programme of events, including a Connected Irish led business breakfast at Liverpool Town Hall.
Business breakfast invitation, 8.30am, Fri 17 March 2017
As a member of Connected Irish, the Liverpool Irish Festival would like to invite you to attend the Connected irish Business Breakfast, which members are presenting at the Town Hall, with guest speaker and Liverpool Lord Mayor Councillor Roz Gladden. Download your official invite here.
Presenting and supporting members include the Institute for Irish Studies, Irish Community Care Merseyside, Liverpool Irish Centre, MSB Solicitors, Shenanigans (celebrating their 20th anniversary this year!), Agnes Fitzgerald, C&D Propoerties and Pall Mall Physio.
Book now using our Eventbrite link to ensure you receive your place as spaces are limited and we are operating first-come, first-served procedures.
City activities
Liverpool’s Irish connections cannot be underestimated and therefore St Patrick’s Day is a huge feature in the city’s cultural calendar. We have pulled out a few events being put on by close friends of Connected Irish, which we would recommend you considering.
Click here for our list.
Liverpool Irish Festival are proud to announce their line up for Mersey River Festival 2017, where we will takeover the Liverpool International Music Stage on the Kaskelot (accessible via Albert Dock Gates, from the Strand).
Our line up runs the gamut from nautical tradition, through to lyrical, wistful, contemporary and fun.
12pm – The Rock Light Rollers (Gerry Smith + 5 friends)
1pm – Emma Lusby
2pm – Seafoam Green presented by Mellowtone (Dave O’Grady + support)
3pm – Mamatung (Jodie, Becky and Emma)
4pm – Tippin’ it Up (Chris Kelly and John Marshall).
For more information on the line-up, click here.
This event is free to enter and no tickets are required. It’s drop-in, drop-out and casual. We hope to see you there!
If you are interested in the history of shanty-singing – here’s a short history, as provided by Rock Light Roller’s band member, Professor Gerry Smith.
Christy Keeney (Donegal, ROI) is a glass and ceramics artist, selected for the Bluecoat Display Centre’s impressive and influential In The Window exhibition, a monthly exhibit celebrating 12 artists annually.
Having studied at the Royal College of Art, Christy has developed his artistry from painting through to glass and ceramics.
His figurative ceramics explore the human condition and his forms incorporate and morph sculpture and draughtsmanship. Now based in his native Donegal, his sculpted, slab-built heads and figures feature details drawn into the wet clay surface.
A fun and inclusive class for all the family, including traditional ceílí dances with a bit of set dance and sean-nós (Irish ‘old style’ tap dance) thrown in.
Movema are a multi-award winning company specialising in dances from around the world and long-time collaborators with the festival. These weekly classes are led by Director Maria Malone, who regularly calls at ceílís around Merseyside
Come along and help us celebrate this triple-whammy event, which includes a ceílí, with Irish music for all the family.
The event is the ‘Grand Opening’ of Movema World Dance Studio, with taster-workshops for everyone in all your favourite dance styles! We will also be celebrating Movema’s seventh birthday (hurrah!) with special dance and music performances from our performers and community groups, alongside secret surprise guests! In addition, visitors are encouraged to take part in raffles and competitions, with all proceeds going to stage two of our development to provide showers, studio mirrors and other facilities to communities using our studio. Come and celebrate with us and allow us to show our thanks you for your support over the past seven years.
Movema are running this event in collaboration with Tinderbox Fairs, Red Brick Vintage Ryde and The Wild Loaf
Come along to this unique, Grade II listed pub, full of curios and character to join in the weekly toe-tapping music session. Famed for its collection of artefacts, murals and ship’s tables (front lounge), this pub is a must see!
A fun and inclusive class for all the family, including traditional ceílí dances with a bit of set dance and sean-nós (Irish ‘old style’ tap dance) thrown in.
Movema are a multi-award winning company specialising in dances from around the world and long-time collaborators with the festival. These weekly classes are led by Director Maria Malone, who regularly calls at ceílís around Merseyside
A fun and inclusive class for all the family, including traditional ceílí dances with a bit of set dance and sean-nós (Irish ‘old style’ tap dance) thrown in.
Movema are a multi-award winning company specialising in dances from around the world and long-time collaborators with the festival. These weekly classes are led by Director Maria Malone, who regularly calls at ceílís around Merseyside
