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Over 50 arts and heritage venues across Limerick city and county threw open their doors to the public for the sixth annual staging of Culture Night on Friday last, with record crowds seizing the chance to participate. The initiative, the brainchild of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, […]
Katy Perry’s Roar roared up the charts to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 list, bumping Robin Thicke to the number two position. Roar is Perry’s eighth song to hit number one. Will Roar and Perry’s upcoming album, Prism, cause people looking back at the MTV VMAs next year to think of more than suggestive sexual acts done with foam fingers? […]
One of Limerick’s best known tattoo artists has received the plaudits of an international industry legend – to such an extent that the pair are to set to join forces in a new business. All Star Ink tattoo artist and owner Ross Nagle was praised by Ami James as being one of the “best in […]
The position to hold the first Chair in Creative Writing in memory of Frank McCourt has been advertised – beginning with a salary in excess of €100,000,trailer film A Cure for Wellness 2017 Plans to create this unique post at the University of Limerick in honour of Limerick’s Pulitzer Prize winning author had been announced over […]
PrintYourStuff.ie a leading Limerick company that specialises in personalized baby gift ideas such as clothing, comforterers, soft toys, teddy bears etc. has announced the launch of their first Facebook competition. Participants can win a magnificient giant supersoft Honey Bear that any child (big or small) will fall in love with. The online Facebook competition aims […]
In October 2010, Hunt Museum hosted an exhibition that drew the masses, that of the photography and equipment of Franz Sebastian Haselbeck, ‘Fond Memories Bring the Light’. Haselbeck (1885-1973) was a professional photographer, based in the Mid West, whose work of 70 years all but died with him. Then a collaborative project between ESB Archive […]
A new book which had two launches in Limerick this week has all the ingredients to be a ”blockbuster” film or television series. That was the verdict of Limerick Leader deputy editor, Eugene Phelan, who launched the novel Shanagolden by John Redington,(Seán Ó Roideacháin)in Limerick on Tuesday night while on Monday night in Shanagolden acclaimed […]
‘ART, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder’ That adage certainly holds true in the case of murals painted near King John’s Castle last week that have caused a conflict of opinion amongst locals. The murals, commissioned by Limerick City Council, as part of the ‘Make a Move’ festival have been described as […]
Fitzwilliam D’arcy, the dashing yet aloof hero in Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice was inspired by a Limerick man. Descended from an old Huguenot family, Thomas Langlois Lefroy was born in Limerick in 1776 and went on to become Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Despite his political and academic renown, Austen’s ‘Irish friend’ is […]
