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Top authors back Limerick Le Cheile’s creative writing anthology

LEADING Limerick writers Donal Ryan and Roisin Meaney have given their backing to a new anthology of creative writing. Members of the Limerick Mental Health Association’s peer support project, Le Cheile have put together an anthology reflecting all ...

12 Dec 2018 at 06:02

Books Literature

Award winning Vince returns home to Limerick for launch of his debut novel

WHILE he has a string of literary awards to his name and has had work published all over the world, a love for his native Limerick ensured that Vince Moran returned home to launch his debut novel. The publication of Gabriel’s Lark at the weekend ...

25 Nov 2018 at 16:00

Local News

April is poetry month in Limerick with events on streets and venues

THERE will be sessions full of stanzas throughout the month of April, as 26 events and 44 performers take hold in the city. The Limerick Writers Centre officially opened poetry month this week. And over the 30 days of next month, Limerick’s ...

30 Mar 2019 at 17:00

Local News

Five line anti-Trump verse wins Bring Your Limericks to Limerick competition

LIMERICKS took up lodgings Upstairs at Dolans over the weekend, as over 30 masters of the five-line poems took part in a unique competition. The venue was packed for the fifth annual Bring your Limericks to Limerick contest, organised by ...

30 Aug 2018 at 13:02

What's On

Bring Your limericks to Limerick: Famous verse to be written in contest

THE chance to become this year’s champion limerick writer is up for grabs in Limerick, with €500 on offer for the winner. The Bring Your Limericks to Limerick Competition returns this year for a sixth outing - one more than there are ...

03 Jun 2018 at 10:10

Books Literature

Plaque dedicated to literary icon Kate O'Brien in native Limerick

THE PRESIDENT of University of Limerick, Prof Des Fitzgerald this week unveiled a commemorative plaque for Limerick-born literary icon Kate O’Brien. In 1897, the famous author, playwright and poet was born at Boru House on Mulgrave ...

06 Oct 2017 at 06:45

What's On

Bring Your limericks to Limerick expands into three day festival

THE Bring Your limericks to Limerick poetry competition takes place this weekend and has expanded into a three day festival of literature, arts and culture this year. The event takes place from today, Friday to Sunday, with the ...

25 Aug 2017 at 08:00

Books Literature

SLIDESHOW: A River of life in words in new Limerick literary anthology

FIRST came a poem. Then, with a little gentle push from the Limerick Writers’ Centre, came trickles of words that built into a powerful stream of words, eventually becoming the River People, an anthology of stories, poems and ...

19 Dec 2017 at 17:28

Local News

Tribute to Dickens, who found Limerick the 'oddest place'

THE LATEST in a series of plaques commemorating famous writers with an association with Limerick will be unveiled next week. On Friday week, May 6, the Limerick Writers' Centre will inaugurate a commemorative plaque to ...

26 Apr 2016 at 15:00

What's On

Finalists do battle to be 'king of Limerick writers'

THE Bring your limericks to Limerick poetry competition returns this week, with 25 finalists ready to do battle for the international poetry crown. The competition, a joint venture between the Limerick Writers’ Centre ...

23 Aug 2016 at 07:10

City

Charles Dickens plaque unveiled at former Limerick hotel

LORD Alfred Tennyson, Franz Liszt, Daniel O’Connell, Richard Nixon, and Ted Kennedy are among “a long, illustrious list of people” who once stayed in the former Cruises Hotel on O’Connell Street. Demolished in 1991 ...

12 May 2016 at 09:00

What's On

Entries open for international limericks competition in Limerick

THIS year’s Bring your Limericks to Limerick International Poetry Competition will take place in August. A joint venture between The Limerick Writers’ Centre and Global Limerick, the competition final will take ...

15 Jun 2016 at 07:10

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