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.
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
As part of the ninth Liverpool Biennial, jointly presented with Bluecoat a series of new commissions by Irish artist Dennis McNulty under the title Homo Gestalt, which includes a data driven installation in Bluecoat’s Vide, a digital app and an off-site performance work set around New Hall Place, a 1970s 13-storey brutalist style office located in Liverpool’s commercial district.
McNulty is interested in regulatory systems – mechanical, technological, managerial, financial, biological, cognitive, social – and how their structures, constraints and possibilities affect our behaviours and environment. For this new body of work he draws on fictional and real world sources, such as More than Human by science-fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, which describes a scenario in which multiple humans blend abilities to act as a single organism. McNulty pairs this idea with the ‘multinode’, a concept developed by pioneering cyberneticist Stafford Beer to describe a collective biological or mechanic decision-making entity. The result is Homo Gestalt, a collective technology, performed into existence by audience participation.
Homo Gestalt forms part of Liverpool Biennial 2016’s Software episode, pointing to a broader social and cultural understanding of technology beyond pure technical applications
Bluecoat Display Centre is delighted to present a solo show of stunning hand blown glass by the Irish glass artist Catherine Keenan. Catherine says “The physical rhythm required to work with molten glass is what I fell in love with. I wish to communicate the vitality and exuberance of the making experience. I like to be playful with the material and hope that my pieces themselves are joyful in the use of colour and pattern”.
Catherine Keenan’s fascination with hot glass began while studying at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Graduating in 2006, she is currently Resident Artist at Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart. Keenan has since won many awards and is presented in important national collections including Ulster Museum and the National Museum of Ireland
How did Liverpool react to the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin?
What do we know about the Liverpool people who took part? Curated by library and Records Office researchers, with archivist Helena Smart, this exhibition of artefacts tells a forgotten chapter of local input in to Ireland’s history, providing a fascinating insight into the library itself, its resources, and local history.
Told through documents, photographs and articles from materials ordinarily held by the Liverpool Record Office and Central Library, additional material has come from the Liverpool 1916 Commemoration Committee
