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Limerick poet John Liddy’s eleventh poetry collection Arias of Consolation is his most ambitious yet, focusing entirely on the familiar Liddy territory of Limerick. The book is published by Revival Press, an imprint of The Limerick Writers’ Centre, under their Community Publishing initiative and will be launched by Professor Eoin Devereux of the University of Limerick on Sept […]
Traditional Irish Retailer makes it’s unique range Irish knit sweaters available for online buyers. According to the census, more than 11 percent of the U.S. population claims Irish heritage. Of course, as they say, everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! As one of Ireland’s largest retailers of Aran Irish Knit Sweaters, Irish Handcrafts now […]
Irish Chamber Orchestra return with a duo of concerts in Limerick on Thursday 7th October (University Concert Hall) and in Dublin (RDS Concert Hall) on Saturday 9th October @8pm. The concert features Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 – perhaps his greatest work, packed with some of the most recognised melodies in music – as well as […]
The right of the Irish peers to be represented in the House of Lords was part of the unfinished business of Ireland left behind when the Irish Free State was established in 1922, reflecting the fact that the arrangements then made were regarded by all sides as an interim settlement. Most of these peers were […]
The annual summer visit to Limerick this year was marked by the turn of the key in the door of the house that is now the family home without my mother. I wrote about that feeling of absence many years ago, in a poem called Emptynest, on the death of my father, when we children […]
