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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. […]

Book Now: Limerick Literary, Cultural and Heritage Walking Tour

Limerick Writers’ Centre The Limerick Literary, Cultural and Heritage Walking Tour. Join Limerick writer and Failte Ireland approved regional tour guide Joe Coleman for this fun and lively tour around literary Limerick. Learn about the rich history of writers and events that make literary Limerick unique. Tour length 2 hours. Every Thursday June 9th – August […]

Inside the Savoy in its Heyday!

Old Limerick: Feathery Bourke’s, Cornmarket Row.

“I had an uncle, Feathery Mickey Bourke, who lived with us when we were children. He was very much part of the family, silent and odd and lefty lefty as he was. In many ways I was his kind of fair haired boy, because I was the eldest and he had a shine to me […]

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 […]

RTE Archives. The Bard of Thomond 1986

CLICK LINK: https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21220198-limerick-poet-michel-hogan/ Restoration of tombstone of poet Michael Hogan, Bard of Thomond, which was among tombstones damaged by vandals in Mount Saint Laurence Cemetery, Limerick. Report shows old photographs of Michael Hogan and Limerick City. Damaged tombstones. Hogan’s Pub where actor Des Ronan plays the bard to raise money for the restoration […]

SPOTLIGHT On Limerick’s Cultural Heroes – Kathy Tiernan

You’ve Been Framed – Artist Kathy Tiernan’s Story Kathy Tiernan is a founding member and co-ordinator of ArtLimerick – a group of artists who have the desire and passion to build a community around Limerick Art and aim to promote emerging and established local artists and to showcase their work. There is such a wonderful […]