Liverpool will remember the victims of the Irish famine this weekend by holding a commemorative service in St Luke’s Church grounds.
Sunday’s service at the bombed-out church will be led by a representative from the Local Famine Committee and will be attended by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Cllr Frank Prendergast.
He will lay a wreath at the Irish Famine Memorial alongside the Irish government’s minister for heritage Jimmy Deenihan.
The 12.30pm service will be followed by a minute’s silence. Beforehand, the minister will be taken to see a plaque on the gates to Clarence Dock.
Unveiled in 2000, the plaque inscription reads in Gaelic and English: “Through these gates passed most of the 1,300,000 Irish migrants who fled from the Great Famine.”