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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-a-city-of-benevolence/
SUMMARY:Liverpool Central Library: Liverpool: A City of Benevolence?
DESCRIPTION:In their illustrated talk\, (ArtsGroupie founder and director)
  John Maguire and (Liverpool Irish Festival Artistic Director and CEO) Em
 ma Smith examine Liverpool’s humanitarian response during An Gorta Mór.
 \n\nRecent research confirms over 1.5 million Irish people arrived in Live
 rpool between 1845-53\, necessitating unprecedented operations to feed\, t
 ransport\, house\, and — sadly — bury those who perished.\n\nThis pres
 entation traces Liverpool’s evolution as a gateway for human movement. F
 rom its first wet dock (1715) facilitating Irish and European trade\, to b
 ecoming Britain’s leading port in the 1740s — including the morally co
 mplex transportation of 1.3 million enslaved Africans — Liverpool develo
 ped infrastructure and systems for mass human transit.\n\nBy the 1830s-40s
 \, Liverpool’s connection to Ireland had deepened through the developmen
 t of the Liverpool Manchester Railway\, with Irish railway workers making 
 up 30% of the workforce. Today\, the impacts of The Great Hunger still sha
 pe the city. Listeners will hear how famine is declared and what ongoing d
 eprivation means to Liverpool.\n\nThe presenters will analyse how Liverpoo
 l’s Select Vestry — often acting against national policy — saved cou
 ntless Irish lives during the Famine years. By contrasting local humanitar
 ian efforts with government indifference\, this talk explores what constit
 uted true benevolence in a time of unprecedented crisis\, revealing why Li
 verpool and Ireland maintain such profound connections today.\n\nFree to a
 ttend for the first 50 arrivals. Limited to 50.
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LOCATION:Liverpool Central Library\, William Brown Street\, Liverpool\, L3 
 8EW\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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