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MERCURY Rev are to play an ‘intimate, acoustic’ show in Limerick as part of a tour in support of classic 1998 album Deserter’s Songs. The American indie group will play Dolan’s Warehouse on Wednesday, April 18, on a 20th anniversary tour celebrating the seminal album. The intimate, acoustic evening featuring many of the stories and songs surrounding Mercury Rev’s album, […]
THE Limerick-based Fresh Film Festival has put out a final call for entries for Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year 2018. Fresh, which encourages young people to make films by hosting annual film festival for young people, takes place in Limerick from March 20 – 25 and is open to young people from 7-18 years […]
ALMOST 30 theatre Limerick makers are to create five short plays in one venue which will be written, rehearsed and directed in one 24 hour period. Belltable:Connect is about to embark on an ambitious time-limited challenge that will see thespians write, direct and star in five original plays across the course of one day and one […]
POPULAR local theatre company Callback make a return to the Belltable this week with new show Janey Dillis – Queen of the Wild Interior. Written and directed by John Sheehy and starring Cora Fenton, Janey Dillis is about a woman prone to fantastical flights of fantasy who hasn’t left her house in 25 years. The […]
AN EXHIBITION celebrating the Limerick inspired graphic novel, Savage Town, opens tonight at Ormston House, marking the first exhibition of the year at the cultural resource centre. Created by Declan Shalvey, Philip Barrett and Jordie Bellaire, the graphic crime novel is set in the city at the beginning of the noughties and is loosely based on […]
KATIE Kim makes a much-anticipated return to Limerick for a show this weekend. The Irish musician, quite simply one of the finest on the national scene, plays Upstairs in Dolan’s for promoter Seoda Shows this Saturday night (9pm, €10). Those lucky enough to witness a spine tingling, intimate show in Bourke’s Bar for the promoter […]
JOHN B Keane’s complex Big Maggie is being brought to the Pallasgreen Community Centre by the Grean Drama Group. The curtain will fall at 8.15pm on this Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, January 26, 27 and 28. Ann O’Dwyer, producer, promises an entertaining night like all John B’s plays. “It is a little bit different from […]
DANCE Limerick wants people to “dive in and discover” the fruits of its new festival taking place in February. What Next is the city dance resource organisation’s – and Ireland’s – newest dance festival and takes place from February 9-10. Inspired by the impressive talent of rising dance artists from Ireland and abroad, Dance Limerick […]
MEMBERS of the public and poetry enthusiasts are being offered the opportunity to hear one of the country’s most exciting poets give a reading at UL next week. Martin Dyar, from Co Mayo, is the 2018 Arts Council UL Writer in Residence and also an award-winning poet. His work is now on the Leaving Certificate […]
