LIVERPOOL WESTERN APPROACHES TOURS Liverpool’s Irish Heritage The winds of Irish influence blow through Liverpool everyday, and the lasting heritage is evident across the city. The Irish have always held a strong tradition of migration, from the early monks of the 1500’s until the present day. The vast port of Liverpool was always regarded as the gateway to the world, seeing millions pass through her docks over hundreds of years. Of these migrants a huge amount of them were Irish, with around 1.3 million arriving at Clarence dock during the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852. For the majority of these people Liverpool was just a stop on the way to a new life in North America, but this was not the case for all. The most impoverished had no choice but to settle within the city facing hostile, unsanitary and all together appalling conditions in court dwellings concentrated in certain areas of the city, with diseases such as typhoid being a daily threat. Our current heritage tour focus’s on how the Irish immigrants of Liverpool influenced the return of Catholicism to the city. More information here...