The UK's largest Irish arts and culture-led festival announces nearly 40 events.
The Liverpool Irish Festival has announced its 2026 programme under the guiding theme 'I Am Here'. Celebrated as the UK’s largest arts and culture-led festival, the upcoming edition features an expansive roster of almost 40 separate events and exhibits spanning multiple disciplines.
The festival programme includes music, theatre and performance, talks, guided tours, visual arts, film screenings, literary voices, and dedicated family activities. Designed to engage diverse audiences across the city of Liverpool, the lineup is structured with a mix of free and ticketed offerings.
At the core of this year's creative focus is the theme 'I Am Here', which explores what it means to arrive, stay, and be seen. The theme is deeply rooted in heritage and memory, connecting contemporary creative expressions directly to the historical legacy of the 1.8 million Irish Famine people who passed through or settled in Liverpool.
Through this focused curatorial lens, the festival connects performance and visual arts with historical narrative, examining creative identity, visibility, and diaspora experiences across both historical and modern contexts.
As the UK's largest arts and culture-led festival celebrating Irish connections, the Liverpool Irish Festival provides an essential platform for cross-water dialogue, historical memory, and artistic visibility for Irish creative disciplines abroad.
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