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Printmaking summer workshops

*LIMERICK Printmakers are behind a series of Summer Workshops for young adults aged 13 โ€“ 17 years that will be hosted by artist and print tutor Jonathan Curran. Printmaking covers an impressively wide range of techniques, styles and activities and Jonathan will cover a selection of these in this four-day series.

Aimed exclusively at young adults the workshops will encompass multiple exciting forms of printmaking including monotype, rollup, drypoint, chine-collรจ, cyanotype and silkscreen.

Demonstrations in each method will be followed by a hands-on workshop, taking place daily from August 7 to 10. Queries to Niamh at [email protected] / 061-311806 and know that places are limited.

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Tour of Maigue Poets

*LIMERICK Writersโ€™ Centre has organised a bus tour of West Limerick and the Maigue Poets Country on Friday August 24, from 12noon to 4pm. The pick up spot is Dolanโ€™s Bar on the Dock Road.

โ€œJoin us on a magical trip around County Limerick for a guided tour of places associated with the poets of the Gaelic tradition,โ€ suggests Dominic Taylor, the tireless head of the LWC. โ€œMichael Hartnett, Daithi Oโ€™Bruadair, Sean Oโ€™Tuama and many more and weโ€™ll be taking in Newcastle West, Broadford, Ardagh/Athea, Bruree and Croom, home of The Maigue Poetsโ€.

This will be no dead poetsโ€™ society as their written words live on like firefly in the eye. A fragment here from Hartnettโ€™s elegaic โ€˜Inchicore Haikuโ€™:

โ€œOn a brick chimney
I can see all West Limerick
in a jackdawโ€™s eye.

โ€œPoets drink poems
in the noise of the dark day.
Nightโ€™s at the window.โ€

Cost per person is โ‚ฌ15 and booking in advance is required. Contact Dominic at 087-2996409 or email [email protected]

 

Meet The Poetry Circle

*ON FOOT of the Maigue exploration with live readings, it is timely to introduce The Poetry Circle. Dominic tells us that โ€œLimerick has always had a strong poetry community, from the Bard of Thomond Michael Hogan to Desmond Oโ€™Grady to the present day poets plying their wares in the pubs and cafes of the city.

โ€œThe Poetry Circle is a collective formed in honour of Desmond Oโ€™Grady to spread news of activities and events by written and spoken word poets and artists. If you are thinking of holding a poetry event, let us know and weโ€™ll help you promote the event.”