BeSPOKE 2016 Limerick’s Cycling Festival launch – Richard Lynch, a student from Dooradoyle primary school and elite cycle style rider Sean Putt. Pic: Don Moloney /...
Garryowen Lions Wooden Spoon Event. The Garryowen Lions in collaboration with the Daughters of Charity Disability Support Services in Limerick, will host this year’s International Wooden...
Dance artist Luke Murphy returns to Dance Limerick with his provocative and powerful new work “On Triumph and Trauma”. This bold and visceral work for four...
Picture by Oisin MCHugh/FusionShooters UL trauma training This week Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), UAE, Health Sciences Division were invited, as part of an international delegation, to...
A full scholarship for an LIT MA Space programme has been announced. Prior graduates to this scholarship opportunity include Blindboy Boatclub, of the Rubberbandits. Limerick Institute of...
Polska Eire Festival 2016 –Pictured above: Polish Vice-Ambassador to Ireland Mr Piotr Rakowski, Sheila Deegan, Limerick Arts Council & Limerick 2020, Deputy Mayor Cllr Gerard Mitchell,...
County Limerick Youth Theatre present The Rescue, with partners the Knocklong Development Association. The performace is to run from Friday, May 13, to Sunday, May 15. The Rescue will form part of the Knocklong History Weekend which commemorates the famous rescue of Tipperary Volunteer Seán Hogan from police custody at Knocklong railway station on May 13, 1919. A dramatization of Hogan’s life up until his release at Knocklong, The Rescue is a Participative Arts piece featuring a cast of over 50 characters. Performances will take place in the disused creamery which has been transformed to recreate the Knocklong of 1919. Attendees will find themselves immersed in 1919 as they follow the performance through the site which now features a farmhouse, a priest’s house, a butcher shop, apaddock, a pub and grocery, a stable, a cottage, a school house, a church and the train station. Attendees will also be afforded the chance to participate in the ‘Dance’ a recreation of the dance Hogan attended the night before he was captured. The scene will feature set dancing and traditional music facilitated by Pat O’Dea and tea and cake will be served by the local crochet club ladies. ...
Three academics from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick were amongst those named as recent recipients of the Irish Research Council Awards (IRC) New Foundation Awards. The awards...
Picture above: Niamh Mannion’s mother Denise collected the Persil Award for 2016 on her behalf, and is pictured with judges Brendan Courtney and Sonia Lennon. The winning...
University Concert Hall is delighted to present A Nation’s Song 1916 to 2016 on Saturday May 21 at 8pm, to commemorate the Centenary of the 1916 Rising....
LIT Mental Physical Health Seminar – Phelim Macken, LSP, Gearoid Prendergast, Mid West Regional Drug & Alcohol Forum, Claire Fahey of Headstrong, the National Centre for Youth...
Limerick Spring Festival 2016 will take place this year again. Photo: Oisin McHugh. The Limerick Spring Festival 2016 of Politics and Ideas celebrates the role of...
ILoveLimerick loses team member John McNamara April 14 2015 – Last Thursday one of my closest friends, acclaimed Limerick fashion designer, John McNamara, passed away after...
Éigse Michael Hartnett 2016 launched in Newcastle West, in honour of Munster’s poet laureate. Internationally acclaimed and award-winning author Colum McCann will join Donal Ryan, Rita...
New Limerick Rose 2016 – Pictured above Marie Hennessey and David Shelly General Manger Of Bunratty Castle Hotel. Picture: Will Nolan. Marie Hennessey from Rooska, Athea...
The GAFF, Limerick’s artist and community run resource centre, announces its programme of work for 2016. Just over two years in existence, The Gaff (Limerick Theatre...