The Limerick Writers’ Centre Presents As part of April is Poetry Month in Limerick 2023 The Desmond O’Grady Memorial Reading Wed 19th April at The People’s Museum of Limerick, Pery Square. Start 7.30pm This reading commemorates the late Limerick poet Desmond O’Grady. O’Grady, was born in Limerick in 1935, started writing poetry in his teens. This early work was strongly influenced by TS Eliot and Ezra Pound, whose poems he encountered at weekly meetings of the Limerick Poetry Circle in the White House Bar. At the age of 19 he moved to Paris to teach English at the Berlitz School...
Book Launch: Songs for Older Life by Ron Carey. Fri 14th April 2023
Revival Press invite you to the launch of Songs for Older Life by Ron Carey Fri 14th April 2023 7.30pm The People’s Museum of Limerick, Pery Sq., Limerick. The book will be launched by Greg Carey. Ron Carey’s latest book celebrates the power of creativity in older life. It is a book of wonderful, compelling poetry, complemented by the stories and struggles of creative men and women. People like Mary Wesley, whose novel The Camomile Lawn, written when she was 70, scandalised British society with its attitude to sex. Laura Ingalls Wilder who wrote her first book, Little House in...
‘On the Nail’ Reading with Anne Donnellan, Eoin Devereux & Stan Notte. Wed 12th April 2023
April is Poetry Month in Limerick in association with ‘On the Nail’ Literary gathering A Reading with Three Poets. Anne Donnellan, Eoin Devereux and Stan Notte The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Square, Limerick 7.30pm. FREE ENTRY. Anne Donnellan grew up in the countryside outside Ennis, County Clare. She has lived and worked in Galway for over forty years. Anne’s earliest background was in primary teaching. Her post graduate studies in Law and International Human Rights lead her to lifelong advocacy works in solidarity and justice issues ranging from the progression of age friendly local policy to serving on...
Book launch: This Deluge of Words by Michael Durack Fri 7th April
Michael Durack’s third collection of poetry This Deluge of Words will be launched Fri 7th April at the People’s Museum of Limerick 7.30pm. The launch will be performed by poet D’or Selfer. Michael Durack’s humanity and generosity of spirit are evident in all his poems, leaving the reader nodding in agreement, often with a broad smile. He acknowledges that poetry need not always be serious, but he treats every theme with characteristic compassion. = Fiona Clark-Echlin Durack’s voice is engaging, clear and compelling – a poet attuned to those singular moments that both intrigue and inform us, often years and...
April is Poetry Month in Limerick – A Reading with Three Poets
The Poetry Circle presents as part of April is Poetry Month in Limerick 2023 A reading with three poets Wed 5th April 2023 Jim Burke, Imelda Maguire and Anton Floyd 7.30pm The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Sq., Limerick Jim Burke lives in Limerick, Ireland, and, with John Liddy, was Co-founder in 1975 of The Stony Thursday Book, making the publication one of the longest-running literary journals in Ireland. He completed his MFA in Creative Writing in Manchester Metropolitan University in 2018. Imelda Maguire was born in Kildare, grew up in Limerick, and now lives in Co. Donegal. She...
Poetry Day Ireland – Poetry from the Deep Mind
Thursday 27 April, 7.30pm The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Sq., Limerick Tickets: Free Poetry from the Deep Mind: A Poetry Reading and Presentation by John W. Sexton. A performative examination of the Aisling/Vision Poem from the perspective of a 21st century Irish poet. John W. Sexton identifies with the Munster Aisling poetry tradition, and his poetry spans tangential surrealism, magic realism and experimental metaphoricism. His eighth poetry collection, The Nothingness Kit, was published by Beir Bua Press in 2022. A chapbook of his surrealist poetry, Inverted Night, came out from SurVision Books in 2019, and his Aisling collection and manifesto, Visions...
Book launch: I Am Lewy by Eoghan O Tuairisc, Translated into English by Micheal O hAodha
Limerick Writers’ Centre and Quay Books in association with Bullaun Press are to launch I Am Lewy a vivid, warm voice brought to us from the Irish by Mícheál Ó hAodha in this translation of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s novella, An Lomnochtán (1977). The launch will take place on Fri 31st Match at 6.30pm in Quay Books, 11 Sarsfield Street. Bilingual writer Mike MacDomhnaill from Newcastle West, co. Limerick will officially launch the book. All are welcome and refreshments will be provided. I Am Lewy is the story of Loodeen Winders, six year old boy growing up in the turbulent early...
Brochure Download: April is Poetry Month in Limerick 2023
DOWNLOAD the BROCHURE HERE: April leaflet – Print File – edited-13-3 The Limerick Writers’ Centre Presents April is Poetry Month in Limerick 2023. During the 30 days of April, with over 15 events and over 20 performers, Limerick’s annual poetry festival April is Poetry Month in Limerick returns. Once again poetry will fill the streets and intimate venues of this historic city of Limerick. Long associated with poetry and literature the Limerick Writers’ Centre inaugurated the festival in 2013. For the month of April Limerick will showcase the best from the world of...
Book Launch: The Road That Rises by Dermot Hayes
This memoir by Dermot Hayes explores and documents his experiences as an activist and campaigner across many causes over seven decades: particularly in Youth Work, Community Activism, Trade Unionism, Workers Co-Operatives, Environmental Causes and Disability Rights campaigning. The Road That Rises traces his activism and causes over the prevailing social, economic and political conditions of Co Clare, Ireland and the wider world, including a personal account, with observation and reflection on his experiences from a 1950’s Irish childhood through to the present day.
