Over 50 arts and heritage venues across Limerick city and county threw open their doors to the public for the sixth annual staging of Culture Night on Friday last, with record crowds seizing the chance to participate. The initiative, the brainchild of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, […]
Limerick Sarsfield’s Day festival to commerotate a forgotten hero
Limerick’s debt to Patrick Sarsfield is to be celebrated next month in an event the organisers hope will become an annual affair. Supported by Failte Ireland, Sarsfield’s Day is part of The Gathering 2013 and takes place on Saturday, August 10. It will feature horsemen riding through the city in Jacobean dress and climaxes with […]
Thousands visit newly refurbished King John’s Castle
SIMON Spratt is standing in the place where his grandfather lived; in fact, three generations of his family grew up here. It was a rare privilege and a most unusual, even an iconic setting to grow up within these walls – of King John’s Castle. “This is authentic,” said Simon, as he kicked around the […]