Liverpool’s annual Irish culture festival kicked off last week.
The festival runs over 10 days and holds events across the city ranging from traditional music, poetry reading and Gaelic.
A charity and culture fixture in Liverpool’s calendar, the city councils’ culture and arts investments programme are supporters of the organisation.
Founded in 2003, the festival celebrates the close connection between Liverpool and Ireland, specifically remembering the influx in the Irish migrating to Liverpool after the famine when over a million Irish arrived in the city.
Irish culture still lives on in the city, with Irish bars being found on every corner of the city.
The festival’s social media editor, Izzy Ponting, spoke about what she believes is the importance of the festival.
She said: “Whether they stayed or carried on to other places [Irish that came over during the famine] they were a part of our history, and I think it’s built such a lot of what our city is now.
“So, I think celebrating and remembering those people and celebrating the ways their culture continues is really, really important.”
Festivities began on the 16th of October and will continue until the 26th.
Featured image: Megan Rogers-Jones
