ANDY O’Gorman, who took part in a Limerick Writers’ Centre scriptwriting course in 2010, recently complimented LWC for encouraging him to pursue his dream.Andy’s first script, Dead Dog Bounce, was among 40 long-listed from hundreds of entries for the RTÉ Filmbase Short Script Awards. Originally from Patrickswell, he did the LWC scriptwriting course with tutor, [...]

A Gaelic version of Frank McCourt’s, Angela’s Ashes, is to be launched in New York. The Irish language publication of the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir will be launched at the Irish Consulate, at 5:30-7:30p.m., on 15th November, as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year of Irish arts in America. Angela’s Ashes has sold millions [...]

A Three-part documentary on Frank McCourt and the legacy of his book, Angela’s Ashes, has been produced by ilovelimerick.com in association with the Limerick Leader. The first part of the series follows Angela’s Ashes tour guide Mick O’Donnell around Limerick, stopping at notable points in the author’s life. The series – A Tribute to Frank [...]

TIME SINGS IN THE MIRROR In the depths of time a small hand sows love like raindrops; light dust falls on the feelings, an ancient song or a fragrance of that room that lingers in memory. Love is the same, transferred; there are eyes deep inside the mirror which remains permanent. And youth passes, the [...]

Registering change is a favourite pastime of writers and, indeed, anybody interested in one’s formative surroundings. Whilst rambling around Limerick during the summer months there is much to occupy the prodigal’s return in the observation of the familiar or in the hand of alteration. Strolling through the People’s Park the reassuring presence of Spring Rice [...]

In a full and forthright EXCLUSIVE interview with Limerick.com controversial author, journalist and broadcaster Gerard Hannan talks about his Limerick childhood, his brush with the Dateline: June 8th. 2002 LIMERICK.COM: Thank you for agreeing to do this interview. HANNAN: You’re very welcome. Why should I turn down such an opportunity to communicate my thoughts and [...]

The annual summer visit to Limerick this year was marked by the turn of the key in the door of the house that is now the family home without my mother. I wrote about that feeling of absence many years ago, in a poem called Emptynest, on the death of my father, when we children [...]

There is no more a monolithic Limerickman than there is a Dubliner who hasn’t read Ulysses yet who is supposed to be more Joycean than Joyce himself.But imagine that such a superman of the Shannon once existed and became victim of a Big Bang and is now diffused throughout the city, his gemlike qualities coated [...]