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Pohoto of queue of audiecne members alongside the brick wall of Toxteth Reservoir, taken on a sunny day during Beckett Unbound 2024
Review of the year 2023/24

28 June 2024

Pride flag
Exploring LGBTQI+ themes in History, Languages and Cultures modules

18 June 2024

Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Irish Gothic

2 April 2024

6 Irish Centre members posing in front of a Christmas tree
Spotlighting the Irish Centre

29 November 2023

A 15th century woodcut which shows the scene from Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis where the saint celebrates a mass on the body of a sea monster.
The Future of the Past with AI

30 October 2023

Three students sitting on a bench at the graduations
Celebrating the HLC Graduations

25 August 2023

A colour photograph from the 1960s showing 4 nurses in their uniform on the open platform at the back of a green double decker bus.
Irish Nurses in the NHS: the Liverpool story

5 July 2023

Irish medieval manuscript
Investigating Medieval Irish Records

23 June 2022

ancient medieval manuscript
Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland

28 April 2022

A brief history of St Patrick's Day
A Brief History of St Patrick's Day

16 March 2022

Photograph of Crosby Beach
Our Favourite Places to Visit Outside of the City

8 August 2021

How the Institute’s “Agreement” exhibition came about (Ken Bartley, ArtisAnn Gallery)

29 November 2019

Watch the Inaugural Seamus Heaney Lecture

31 October 2019

Professor Frank Shovlin visits the University of Notre Dame, USA

15 October 2019

Viking Wirral on Wheels Bike Tour

16 September 2019

Liverpool skyline - photo by Charles Pragnell from Pexels
Five things to do during Welcome Week

13 September 2019

Women and military power in the tenth century

30 May 2019

Frank Shovlin
'The Singer's House' by Seamus Heaney - Poetry Day Ireland

2 May 2019

Prince of Wales meeting the crowd
Highlights from our Prince of Wales and President of Ireland visit!

14 February 2019

Bertie Ahern
Bertie Ahern on the Good Friday Agreement, Brexit and a United Ireland

20 December 2018