“Welcome, feast and revelry”
ROBERT Byrnes of Bobby Byrnes’ Bar on Wolfe Tone Street has long excelled in supporting an annual Robby Burn’s night of festivity, song and poetry. Mark the vital date of Tuesday January 25 on your dance card for the 8.30pm aroma of Enniskillen haggis, mashed turnip, scotch fancies and almighty night of poetry and purple prose. The ‘dul isteach’ is free for this delightful celebration of Scotland’s close culture.
“Come along and tell others,” suggests Michael Potter who has pulled together Robby Burns night over the past decade with buddy Noel Flannery. “This year we have Mayor Maria Byrne of the host house as guest and Michael Egan on the pipes. Panto’s Mrs Potts – Myles Breen, will also pay a visit”.
Good fun guaranteed, especially with UL’s Gordon Lessells reciting the lengthy Tam o’ Shanter. Out with the fiddles and tartan scarves and ballads of fond endeavour. As the noble young poet (1759-1796) once declared, “There’s some are fou o’ love divine, There’s some are fou’ o’ brandy”.
Takes your partner, ladies and gentlemen, for your sup of choice.
Youth Arts Festival
LIMERICK Youth Theatre led in to the Belltable’s first festival of 2011 with The Yokohama Delegation. The bright young things around us continue to perform with County Youth Theatre’s film Make a Wish, shown this Thursday 13 at 69 O’Connell Street.
Programme notes supplied by Belltable say Make a wish was made with participants from St Joseph’s Foundation and Enable Ireland, and is “a three-strand narrative exploring integration in a rural Irish community”.
Why not refer to website www.belltable.ie for the real skinny on this week of music, social gaming, plays, cinema and visual arts? Rappers PVG have played, Social Gaming Weekend is this Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 and My Limerick Youth Arts Exhibition, curated by Hugo Byrne and aimin Walsh, embraces all media in works submitted by artists aged 15 to 23. The art works are staged across the city until January 31 in association with Georgian House and Hunt Museum.
“My Limerick is a fantastic opportunity for young people in Limerick to exhibit their work,” says project co-ordinator Monica Spencer. “It is the first time that the main galleries in the city have come together to present a youth arts exhibition. Work may be exhibited for sale or on a ‘not for sale’ basis”.
Saturday 22 sees a screening of skateboard whiz Rueben Shortt’s video Mount Kennett at 8pm, again at 69 O’Connell Street’s cool Belltable.
Flying solo together
EMMET Kierans and Erica Eyres run concurrent solo exhibitions at Occupy Space in Thomas Street from this Thursday 13. Previewing over a couple of hours from 7pm, the shows are available on a Wednesday to Saturday basis, 1pm to 5pm until January 29.
Kierans left LSAD with a 1st class degree and took his MFA in Glasgow School of Art. Based in Wickham St Studios he has won numerous awards and exhibited international.
Eric Eyres is a trained Canadian artist who is also an MFA from Glasgow. Based in Scotland now, “through videos and bodies of drawings, she uses humour and narrative to examine the psychology behind disturbing human behaviours”.
