In just a few days, on Tuesday 26 October, we’ll be screening ‘2600’ at the Liverpool Irish Festival and discussing its aims and contexts, and the wider questions of history, memory, and commemoration it involves. As we prepare for that online event, we wanted to share this special recording of the poet and historian Greg … Continue reading Greg Quiery’s ‘Vanished’: Poetry, Memory, and Loss

The second film in the Whose History? series, '2600', is now live! Our living memorial to the 2,600 anonymous migrants who fled the Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, and died in Liverpool, features 26 individuals or family groups connected to the Institute of Irish Studies and the University of Liverpool. On a very hot … Continue reading ‘2600’ is live! And it’s coming soon to the LIF

While our work on the four films in Whose History? is complete, and we’re now in the new and exciting phase of releasing them (the first, ‘Hey Joe’ went live on the University of Liverpool website last week), we continued to be moved and inspired by stories which resonate with those we set out to … Continue reading Black History Month inspires