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Music of Limerick’s most famous soprano to be brought to life to mark 200th anniversary

THE MUSIC of Limerick’s most famous soprano will be brought to life this Thursday to mark her contribution to opera worldwide as well as the city’s cultural heritage. A video installation charting the life of world renowned soprano Catherine Hayes ...

06 Nov 2018 at 19:00

All Time Greats

POLL: Limerick’s All Time Great - Dolores O’Riordan and Catherine Hayes

TWO Limerick music icons who lived in vastly different times go face to face in the second of our polls to find Limerick’s All Time Great. Cranberries frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan goes up against 1800s operatic superstar Catherine Hayes in the ...

29 Jan 2019 at 17:25

City View

Concert to give wings to new Nightingale project

NICKNAMED ‘The Madonna of her day”, Catherine Hayes is perhaps the most famous performer Limerick has produced on a global stage. A classical soprano, Hayes was born on 4 Patrick Street in Limerick and by the end of her career had travelled ...

28 Apr 2016 at 15:37

All Time Greats

PROFILE: Limerick’s All Time Great - Catherine Hayes

CONSIDERED to be the Madonna of her era, Patrick Street-born singer Catherine Hayes had become a sensation in the world of opera at just 20 in the 1840s. Hayes, one of Ireland’s first female celebrities in the cultural world, studied in ...

24 Jan 2019 at 15:39

Deaths

Final resting place of Limerick-born opera superstar gets facelift

THE final resting place of one of Limerick's most iconic international performers has been given a clean-up, and a lick of paint in the green-and-white. World famous opera singer Catherine Hayes Bushnell, who hailed from Limerick city ...

27 Sept 2025 at 17:59

Nostalgia

Limerick Chronicle files: Curtain call for famous city theatre

ON the evening of Monday, January 23, 1922, Limerick’s Theatre Royal was destroyed by fire. During its long career of almost eighty years, many noted figures appeared on its boards. Amongst them were Charles Dickens, Daniel O’Connell,...

08 May 2018 at 16:57

Community

Grave painting of Limerick opera superstar 'done without permission' under investigation

MANAGEMENT of the London graveyard where the world-famous Limerick-born soprano Catherine Hayes is buried have said the repainting of her grave was done without permission. Volunteers from the Limerick Association in London led by ...

03 Oct 2025 at 20:59

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