The Royal Picture Show
ON Tuesday January 28, 8pm, The Royal Picture Show will launch at 69 O’Connell Street. According to founder Declan McLoughlin, “This is an exciting festival of cinema that takes place on four weekends throughout 2014,” from February through to November.
Funded by Limerick City of Culture, these mini festivals will host a variety of films that have not been shown here before, including “new work from the local and national filmmakers and the best of international cinema”.
On Tuesday next is the Golden Globe winning ‘The Great Beauty’ will open events. Ticket details and more on www.limerickroyal.ie
Cumann Merriman
WHEN Scoil Gheimhridh Cumann Merriman opens at Limerick Strand Hotel on Friday January 31, it will be a first for the winter school to operate out of the city.
This coincides with our City of Culture designation and with respect to this, the theme of ‘Gaelic Culture from Limerick to the Isle of Lewis’ is declared. The opening speaker is Prof Peter McQuillan of Notre Dame,US and others booked for the weekned include educationalist Helen Ó Murchú, historian Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, sean nós singer Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill and Mickey Dunne.
See www.merriman.ie
Pic: Sean Curtin
‘The Shaughraun’
TORCH Players return to form at Lime Tree Theatre on February 25 for a short week with Dion Boucicault’s ‘The Shaughraun’.
That able veteran Maurice O’Sullivan will direct this 19th century comic romantic melodrama will run February 25 to March 1 as ”wonderful entertainment with swashbuckling heroes, beautiful damsels in distress, dastardly villains and a loveable rogue”.
Torch first got behind this show in 1985 and two members of that production are involved again: Maurice and reprising his role as the bold boy Harvey Duff, Jackie McBride.
This hardworking company does well drawing in crowds. Look forward to familiar actors Micheal O’Dubhghaill, Peter Hayes, Pat Kelly, Ger Meaney, Mary Harvey, Jeanne O’Connor, Sheena Murphy and Mary Jones.. You can book at www.limetreetheatre.ie
Opera Voices
VOICES of Limerick have confirmed a Gala Opera Concert in the University Concert Hall on Saturday November 29, 2014 boosted by a City of Culture grant.
“We have lined up a thrilling selection of music, much of it new for us, some of your old favourites and one especially commissioned piece by Coleman Pearse,” reports Deirdre Fox.
The choir will be joined on stage by Philip Thomas, Polish soprano Anna Jeruc-Kopec and tenor Adriano Graziani.
