Joe Taylor

Limerick GIY (Grow It Yourself)

Hi everyone. Limerick Grow It Yourself is reconvening and from September 2022 will hold monthly/ bi-monthly meetings. More on this will follow over the summertime. In the meantime, we are hoping to pay a visit to Green Earth Organics which is an organic farm and business based outside Galway City on Saturday, June 4th 2022. […]

SPOTLIGHT On Limerick’s Cultural Heroes – Myles Breen

The Importance of Being Myles Breen Myles Breen is a Limerick legend! I first met him at UCC in 1984 when we were engaged in postgraduate studies in Education. We both auditioned for a part in a UCC Dramatic Society play by Samuel Beckett. Myles got a minor part and the role I auditioned for […]

SPOTLIGHT On Limerick’s Cultural Heroes – Nicky Woulfe

Radio Days in Lockdown – A Profile of Nicky Woulfe When I first announced on social media that I was going to write a weekly features column for the Limerick Leader, focusing on local arts and entertainment many people contacted me, both publicly and privately, to congratulate me and to wish me well. What surprised […]

Part 4. Becoming a Writer In this ten-part series Kieran Beville aims to inspire, encourage and assist aspiring writers to fulfil their dreams to become authors.

The Novel (part 4) Coincidence plays a part in the development of many stories. Use it with discretion, exercise as much judicious constraint as you would with the use of the salt and pepper condiments. The element of coincidence occurs in all our lives and most of us have had experience of it, […]

A Halloween Themed Reading/Performance

Limerick Writers’ Centre in association with Samhain Halloween Festival present A Samhain Themed Reading/Performance Fri 29th Oct 2021 7.00pm to 9.00pm Treaty Brewery, Nicholas St., Limerick Join our guest readers and musicians Stories and poems from – John Liddy and Mike MacDomhnaill Plus a special live recitation of the Bard of Thomond, Michael Hogan’s ‘Drunken Thady and the Bishop’s Lady’ […]

UL President ‘disappointed’ at omission of Limerick Northern Distributor Road from NDP

UL President ‘disappointed’ at omission of Limerick Northern Distributor Road from NDP Mon, 04 Oct 2021 University of Limerick President Professor Kerstin Mey has expressed disappointment at the omission of the Limerick Northern Distributor Road from the revised National Development Plan published by Government today. “While I very much welcome the ringfencing of […]

An Island of Scribes and Bards. Part 1 – The Big Picture by Kieran Beville

Kieran Beville – Proud Limerick-man and former teacher of English Literature – begins a three part series on Irish writers and notably Limerick authors, showcasing their immense contribution to Ireland’s rich literary heritage. It seems that every other person in Ireland is a writer or an aspiring writer. This is reflected in the […]