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Liverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · 5h

🕊 Our annual Great Hunger Memorial service.

1pm, Sun 26 Oct, St Luke’s Bombed Out Church.

Choirs, music and reflection of the lives of millions changed irrevocably by the Great Hunger.

www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/livir...

#GreatHunger

Liverpool Irish Great Hunger Memorial - Liverpool Irish Festival

A Memorial Service to mark the anniversary of An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger), which lasted 1845-1852 and changed Liverpool forever.

www.liverpoolirishfestival.com

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 6h

❗1 week warning❗Harry Clarke's Windows
Illustrated talk by Gerry Molumby (The Irish Post) on the work of Irish stained glass artist Harry Clarke
🗓️6pm, 15 October 2025
🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harry-clar...
Part of @livirishfest.bsky.social #LIF2025

Harry Clarke’s windows

Gerry Molumby (The Irish Post) leads this hour-long illustrated talk on Harry Clarke's windows.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place @livuniheseltine.bsky.social · 1d

Just 2 weeks to go until our 2025 annual lecture! Join us for a fascinating discussion on football's relationship with Liverpool, its economy and its people, featuring Keiran Maguire (Associate Professor in football finance) at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and more. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heseltine-...

Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture 2025: Football and the City

Exploring the role of football clubs in driving regeneration, uplifting communities and sustaining our connection to place.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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School of the Arts at University of Liverpool @sotauol.bsky.social · 1d

⭐ GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES WEEK ⭐️

📅 Tues 21 - Tues 28 Oct
🎉 Full week of sessions & workshop
🌍 Global Opportunities Fair - Tues 21 Oct

Discover amazing new cultures and make lifelong friends from across the globe!

Full schedule: liverpool.ac.uk/global-opportunities/global-opportunities-week/

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School of the Arts at University of Liverpool @sotauol.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Monday! This week @thetungauditorium.bsky.social

🎶 Tayo Aluko and Andrew Barney: Black Activist Song Cycle
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🎟️ tinyurl.com/3u9dykk4

🎶 Inspirations - Ensemble 10:10
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🎟️ tinyurl.com/mwz593vu

🎶 Imagine Lennon
📅 Thursday 9 October
🎟️ tinyurl.com/mv3nk66c

Tayo Aluko and Andrew Barney: Black Activist… | The Tung Auditorium

Yoko Ono Lennon Lunchtime Concert Series Baritone Tayo Aluko and composer Andrew Barney present a new song cycle inspired by Black History related to…

tinyurl.com

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

4th Annual Tony Birtill Lecture
🗣@irishinstitute.bsky.social's Dr Eoghan Ahern on the Impact of the Famine on the Irish Language
🗣️Local historian Greg Quiery on the Great Hunger commemoration memorial
🗓️21.10.
🧭Liverpool Irish Centre
🎟️FREE, no booking required
Part of LIF25 @livirishfest.bsky.social

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 2d

Conducting research in an ethical and just fashion, for all concerned, was the topic of a one-day workshop organised recently by Faculty colleagues. Read about their creative and productive experiences here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Visual notes produced at the Ethics for Social Justice workshop by More than Minutes.

Collage by Freddy Sperring whose collage featuring found materials including fragments of work published in Resurgence and Ecologist.

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Victoria Gallery & Museum @victoriagallery.bsky.social · 2d

Tickets still remain for tomorrow's FREE guided tour of @liverpooluni.bsky.social's flagship building at 2pm.

👇
https://orlo.uk/V7nkt

Tuesday doesn't suit? Then come this Saturday, 11 October at 2pm!

👇
https://orlo.uk/QS9hX

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University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all our #TeamLivUni students, staff and alumni celebrating in Liverpool and around the world! 🎉

Watch to see how current student, Effy, is celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and she tells us what it’s all about! 💙

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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 4d

Step inside Dublin’s architecture

From 11–19 October, participating OPW sites in Dublin will open their doors as part of #OpenHouseDublin 2025, a free festival celebrating design, heritage and the people who build our city.
Find out more at openhousedublin.com

#IrishArchitecture #BuiltHeritage

Grand neoclassical building with a blue-green dome, reflected in a calm river. Text: "Irish Architecture Foundation," "Festival of Architecture," "Open House Dublin 11-19 October."

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 4d

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time and astutely analysed by Dr Rosie Lavan, co-editor of his Colleced Poems with Bernard O’Donoghue, out next week
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time

The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

www.irishtimes.com

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 5d

🎧 Looking for a lunchtime listen? Our latest 'researcher in focus' podcast features Grace Goodwin from our Music Dept sharing her work tackling gender and regional inequalities in the music business. Smash the system here 🤘 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

Room has now been confirmed for this event, so please join Dr James Gallacher and us on 30 October in @liverpooluni.bsky.social's Rendall Building for:
"Gerard Keenan and The Honest Ulsterman"
FREE registration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1764858010...

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University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · 6d

WATCH | Discover Lightbulb Moments at Tate Hall, @victoriagallery.bsky.social 💡

A free exhibition with 150 objects from the University’s collection and the National Archives, exploring how curiosity sparks creativity. Curator Steve Slack explains more…

#LightbulbMoments #RedbrickReborn

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

Registration for @pmpnconf.bsky.social's next conference, co-organised by our PhD @coffeoglobin.bsky.social, is now open!
🗓️13 & 14 November
🧭ONLINE
🎟️FREE registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ℹ️ performingmagicinthepremodernnorthconference.wordpress.com/2025-nov-13t...
#medievalsky

Conference schedule for Day 1:
WELCOME, DAY 1
(11:00-11:15) Solveig Marie Wang

SESSION I – Chair: Solveig Marie Wang
(11:15-11:45) Housing Complexes: Domestic Protection in Central Medieval England c.800-1215
– Jennifer Coulton, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
(11:50-12:20) ‘Bewitching Corne’ and other ‘such ridiculous fictions’: Elizabeth Sawyer and Popular Obsessions with Maleficium in Early Modern England
– Paul Barret, Independent Researcher
(12:25-12:55)
The Transformation of Ghosts in the Byland Ghost Stories
– Regina Papp, University of Pécs

COFFEE BREAK (12:55 – 13:15)

SESSION II – Chair: Selu Ita
(13:15-13:45) ‘Ley this or set this on her & she shall be deleuryd’: Parturient Women Performing Magic in Late Medieval England
– Jessica Boynton, Independent Researcher
(13:50-14:20) The Division of Labour between Magicians and the Church in Rus’ and Muscovy
– Shannyn L Bald, University of Illinois

Conference schedule for Day 2:
(11:00-11:05) Jennifer Hemphill

SESSION III – Chair: Jennifer Hemphill
(11:05 – 11:35) Obtaining Knowledge from the Earth Dweller: Dreams, Earth and Healing Charms from the Icelandic Grimoire Jarðskinna
– Kári Pálsson, Independent Research
(11:40-12:10) A re-examination of the Icelandic magical staves (galdrastafir)
– Roberto Luigi Pagani, Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
(12:15-12:45) The Galdrabók: practical spells and formulas in the magical material of 17th century Iceland
– Giorgia Sottotetti, Independent Researcher

COFFEE BREAK (12:45 – 13:00)

SESSION IV – Chair: Ségdae Richardson-Read
(13:00-13:30) Revisiting Perceptions of Magic in Viking Age Society
– Harley Nicole Botham, University of the Highlands and Islands (13:35-14:05) Old Norse Magical Vocabulary: Problems and Potential
– Joseph Fenwick, University of Edinburgh
(14:10-14:40) The Poetry of Magic: Poetic Techniques in the Jarðskinna Manuscript
– Galen Miler-Atkins, Independent Researcher

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 6d

This month's most-read @uk.theconversation.com article from a Faculty colleague is @downham.bsky.social's thoughtful review of a new book exploring the reign of Æthelstan (924 to 939). Check it out here (35,588 readers can't be wrong).

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom – a deep and nuanced analysis of a complex monarch

A well-rounded view of the king, his government, religion and more.

theconversation.com

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University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · 7d

Today marks the start of Black History Month, and we're proud once again to join the celebration of Black history, arts and culture. 💙

There's many events in Liverpool taking place that you can get involved with! Find what's on here 👉 www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/equali...

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

For full programmes of the festivals, please see:
LIF 2025 (16-26 October2025) - www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/
LitFest (17-19 October) - www.liverpool.ac.uk/literary-fes...
To get updates from us, email [email protected] to be added to our newsletter.

Liverpool Irish Festival - Programme announced - 19-29 Oct 2023

Annually in on October, 10 days of 40+ outstanding Irish arts and cultural events celebrating the connections between Liverpool and Ireland.

www.liverpoolirishfestival.com

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

And finally we will see out October with a public lecture on Gerard Keenan and "The Honest Ulsterman" by our alumn Dr James Gallacher, who will be joined by Derry poet and author Michael Foley.
🗓️ 6pm, 30 October 2025
🧭 UoL campus (room to be confirmed)
🎟️ FREE: www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...

Gerard Keenan and The Honest Ulsterman

Please note: Booking link will be provided once the room on the University of Liverpool campus has been confirmed. You are invited to a public lecture to discuss Belfast writer Gerard Keenan, better ...

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

Then it's back to LIF2025 for an Irish Language Taster (and history) session with our Dr Eoghan Ahern.
All welcome - no previous knowledge of Irish required!
🗓️ 6pm, 22 October 2025
🧭 UoL campus (room to be confirmed)
🎟️ FREE: www.eventbrite.com/e/1753116200...

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

Then we will be hosting Anna Fitzgerald at LitFest as she accepts the John McGahern Book Prize for her debut "Girl in the Making".
🗓️ 5:30pm, 19 October 2025
🧭 @victoriagallery.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-john-m...
ℹ️on the John McGahern Prize: www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie...

The John McGahern Annual Book Prize

Join us for the 2025 Liverpool Literary Festival

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

First up, we are looking forward to hosting Gerry Molumby (The Irish Post) for his illustrated talk on the work of Irish stained glass artist Harry Clarke as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival.
🗓️6pm, 15 October 2025
🧭UoL campus (room to be confirmed)
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harry-clar...

Harry Clarke’s windows

Gerry Molumby (The Irish Post) leads this hour-long illustrated talk on Harry Clarke's windows.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

It's October and that means time for @liverpooluni.bsky.social Literary Festival and @livirishfest.bsky.social (and pumpkins🎃)
We are delighted to be contributing events to both festivals, see 🧵👇 for more details of all our October events or check out www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie...

Events | Institute of Irish Studies | University of Liverpool

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place @livuniheseltine.bsky.social · 7d

It's October, which means our annual lecture is this month! Marking Everton's move to a new stadium and Liverpool's 20th top flight title, we focus on the deep and complex relationship between football and the city. Join us on 21 October @liverpooluni.bsky.social news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/01/c...

City’s relationship with football in spotlight at Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture - University of Liverpool News

City’s relationship with football in spotlight at Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture

news.liverpool.ac.uk

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