Manchester City Council

Manchester Irish Festival 2008

Date: 7th Mar 08 - 20th Mar 08

Every day

Location: Citywide

A city-wide showcase of Irish culture and celebration of all things Irish.

The popular Irish Festival Market (7-9 March, Albert Square) offers a taste of Ireland with arts, crafts and speciality foods from across the Irish Sea. Alongside the market stalls, the Irish Café will be serving up food and drinks.

• Irish Festival Market Opening Times: 7-8 March 10am-6pm, 9 March 10am-4pm.

The St Patrick's Parade (9 March) will see over 70 floats, bands and walking groups wind their way through the city to Albert Square.

The St Patrick's Parade will start at 11.45am from outside the Irish World Heritage Centre, Queens Road and progress along Cheetham Hill Road, Corporation Street and onto Cross Street and around Albert Square before returning to the Irish World Heritage Centre by the same route.

For more infomation and the full programme of events visit the Irish Festival website (external site).

Cost: Some events are free.

Treasures of Central Library

Date: 4th Feb 08 - 28th Mar 08

Every day

Location: Central Library

Caricature: the art of satire

Have a chuckle at our selection of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian prints and drawings. This display includes works by Rowlandson, Gillray, and Cruickshank, plus some original cartoons drawn for local papers a hundred years ago.

Central Library Opening Hours

Venue: Central Library, St. Peter's Square, Manchester, M2 5PD. Telephone: 0161 234 1900 (switchboard). 

Treasures Roadshow

You can look and touch at these special sessions where you can get up close with some of the star items in the Treasures exhibition. Specialist staff will be on hand to talk about the exhibits and tell the stories behind them.

Science & Humanities Library (First Floor) Central Library, Thursday 6 March, 12.30 - 3.30pm
Newton Heath Library, Tuesday 11 March, 2.30 - 4.30pm

Cost: Free

Arkwright's Mill

Date: 5th Mar 08 - 11th Apr 08

Every day

Location: Central Library (1st Floor, Exhibition Area)

An exhibition

Richard Arkwright built the first steam-driven spinning mill right here in Manchester in 1782. It heralded the beginning of the factory system and the establishment of the city as a major industrial power.

Bernard Champness talks about Arkwright's Mill on 3rd April at 2pm in the Committee Room, 2nd Floor, Central Library.

Central Library Opening Hours

Venue: Central Library, St. Peter's Square, Manchester, M2 5PD. Telephone: 0161 234 1900 (switchboard).

Cost: Free

Road

Date: 5th Mar 08 - 12th Apr 08

Every day

Location: Central Library (1st Floor, Exhibition Area)

Photography by David Oates, Sabrina Fuller and Sarah Eyre.

Exploring the effects of regeneration on the areas that surround three of Manchester's main roads.

Central Library Opening Hours

Venue: Central Library, St. Peter's Square, Manchester, M2 5PD. Telephone: 0161 234 1900 (switchboard).

Cost: Free