The Acoustic Club @ Record Room, The Commercial Bar, 47 Catherine Street, Limerick TUES 18th July 2023 8.30pm Songwriter Open-Mic Plus Special Guest songwriter Jack Keeshan Prepare for another captivating summer evening as The Acoustic Club, renowned for its songwriter open-mic sessions, gears up to present a remarkable event on July 18th at the prestigious Record Room, nestled within The Commercial Bar on Catherine Street in Limerick. This special occasion will feature a truly exceptional emerging talent, Jack Keeshan, Jack Keeshan, is a proud native of Roscrea who stands out as more than just another young musician with a guitar...
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Launch of ‘Our House, Delirious’ New Prose and Poetry Book by Cahir Writer, Margaret Galvin published by Revival Press, Limerick.
Launch of ‘Our House, Delirious’ New Prose and Poetry Book by Cahir Writer, Margaret Galvin published by Revival Press, Limerick. Join a Celebratory Evening of Story Telling and Music Cahir House Hotel, Wed 28 June 2023, 7.30pm Cahir writer, Margaret Galvin’s sixth collection, Our House, Delirious, published by Revival Press, Limerick will be launched at Cahir House Hotel on Wednesday 28 June at 7.30pm. The evening will feature short extracts, read aloud by Margaret Galvin and other guests, interspersed with musical entertainment. All are welcome. Margaret Galvin’s previous poetry collection, The Finer Points, published in 2019 by Cahir Historical Society certainly...
Finnish Born Songwriter is Special Guest at June Acoustic Club
The Acoustic Club @ Record Room, The Commercial Bar, 47 Catherine Street, Limerick TUES 20th June 2023 8.30pm Songwriter Open-Mic Plus Special Guest songwriter Jenny Räisänen,. Prepare for a captivating summer evening as The Acoustic Club, renowned for its songwriter open-mic sessions, gears up to present a remarkable event on June 20th at the prestigious Record Room, nestled within The Commercial Bar on Catherine Street in Limerick. This special occasion will feature a truly exceptional guest artist, Jenny Räisänen, who has her roots in Finland but has found her artistic haven in Limerick, Ireland. Jenny’s musical journey has been profoundly influenced...
BOOK LAUNCH: ‘Where I’m From’ by Sheila Fitzpatrick O’Donnell
Revival Press invite you to the launch of WHERE I’M FROM a new collection of poetry from Sheila Fitzpatrick O’Donnell FRIDAY 26th MAY 2023 7.30pm The People’s Museum of Limerick 2 Pery Square, Limerick Launch by Mairtin O Briain This book is much more than a snippet of a poet’s memoir, as exemplified in the title poem, wherein the poet explores the Limerick of a church-ruled childhood with its rebel adolescence and detail of place; followed by poems of protest, social injustice, homage and the poet’s enlightenment in the God Pod of Glenstal and Shanagolden. The book is further strengthened...
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...
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.