Limerick Summer Festival of Literature 2014
Limerick’s newest literary festival – Limerick’s Summer Festival of Literature – took place in July. A joint venture between The Limerick Writers’ Centre and Campus Life Services of UL the festival will run from Friday 18th July to Sun 20th July, and this year it will incorporate the Bring Your Limericks to Limerick International Poetry Competition with over €1000 in prize money. The competition was made an international event last year as part of The Gathering celebrations in the University of Limerick and was an enormous success. The festival was officially launched by the vice chairman of Limerick City of Culture 2014 and former chair of The Gathering Tim O’Connor Friday 18th July at the Pavilion on the UL campus.
As well as showcasing the famous five-line Limerick verse, the festival also included readings, book launches, performances, workshops and stand-up comedy with the Treaty Comedy Club over the three days. Dominic Taylor of The Limerick Writers’ Centre and Director of the Festival, says ‘we hope to make this festival a popular event with something for everyone, both serious and light hearted with the international Limericks competition being the centre piece of the weekend’.
Already signed up to take part are Limerick person of the year and Booker nominated novelist Donal Ryan, who will give a reading on Friday 18th at 7.30pm. Limerick born internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Lynch will host a master class on writing the novel on Sat 20th and two Limerick authors Críostóir O’Floinn and John Liddy, who has been appointed Limerick City of Culture writer in residence for July, will have new books launched plus, there will be lots more.
The centrepiece of the weekend is, of course, will be the Bring Your Limericks to Limerick International Poetry Competition. Last year over 600 people entered the competition from all over Ireland and the world, with 50 finalists turning up on the night to do battle for the €1000 prize. Last year’s event was won by North of England performance poet Christine Robinson after a tense competition. This year an equally exciting contest is expected with again flamboyant local actor Myles Breen hosting on the night.
Last year also, to coincide with the competition, The Limerick’ Writers’ Centre commissioned local historian Dr Matthew Potter to write a history of the Limerick verse and its association with the area. Outlining the reason for the book he explained that “The aim was to create an awareness of the connection between the place and the poem so that Limerick can establish itself internationally as one of the few places that gave its name to a literary form. Think Shakespeare and Stratford, Joyce and Dublin, Burns and Scotland, Limerick and the Limerick”. This year again the book will be highlighted and a new print run will be launched over the weekend.
Entries are now been taken for the competition and local, national and international wordsmiths are encouraged to take part. You can enter on-line at facebook.com/limerickcompetition or pick up an entry form from your local library and various venues around the area.
Lord Mastadon Promo
A promo for RTÉ Storylands 2014.
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Limerick My Home by Dermot Kelly
Dermot Kelly is a hero of Limerick folklore as far back as the mid 1950's.He first came to prominence as a star in the Limerick hurling team of 1955. This team was trained by Mick Mackey and became known as Mackeys Greyhounds This team defeated hot favourites Clare and included in this team were other hurling legends such as Ralph Prendergast and Viviene Cobbe. Dermot played with Claughen G.A.A and was a bank manager by profession. He later became known as the singing bank manager and composed many fine ballads such as Limerick my Home and Joseph McHugh as well as some golf ballads on Padraig Harrington relating to his sucesses in winning The Open - at Carnoustie 07, Royal Berkdale 08 and PGA at Oaklands USA.
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Christopher Columbus Lewd Limerick Song 1980s ????
I picked up this cassette tape in the late 1980s. The name of the cassette tape was “Totally Lewd Limericks” the tape was produced by Network for Learning. The performers are British. I'm unable to find any information on the performers. The tape was released January 5th 1987.#Limerick #LewdLimerick
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2017 Varsity Quiz Championship Season Quarter Final 1
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University College Dublin), formally known as University College Dublin – National University of Ireland, Dublin is Ireland's largest university, with over 1,480 faculty and 32,000 students. It is located in Dublin, the Irish capital.
The university originates in a body founded in 1854 as the Catholic University of Ireland with John Henry Newman as the first rector, re-formed in 1880 and chartered in its own right in 1908. The Universities Act, 1997 renamed the constituent university as the National University of Ireland, Dublin, and a ministerial order of 1998 renamed the institution as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin.
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2016 Stegner Award Recipient Timothy Egan
2016 Wallace Stegner Recipient
Event Date: Apr 13, 2016
Event Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Old Main Chapel
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Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore, or an understanding of the West.
Timothy Egan has demonstrated singular achievement, creativity, and dedication to the perception of the West and Western issues. Mr. Egan writes op-ed pieces with a Western perspective for The New York Times once a week. He is also the author of seven books, including The Worst Hard Time, which won the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction.
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Norway | Wikipedia audio article
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Norway
00:04:23 1 Etymology
00:08:12 2 History
00:08:21 2.1 Prehistory
00:10:44 2.2 Bronze Age
00:12:14 2.3 Iron Age
00:13:51 2.4 Migration period
00:15:35 2.5 Viking Age
00:18:26 2.6 Civil war and Norway at its greatest extent
00:22:14 2.7 Kalmar Union
00:24:54 2.8 Union with Denmark
00:27:02 2.9 Union with Sweden
00:32:30 2.10 Dissolution of the union
00:33:48 2.11 First and Second World Wars
00:38:00 2.12 Post-World War II history
00:41:37 3 Geography
00:45:58 3.1 Climate
00:49:23 3.2 Biodiversity
00:51:31 3.3 Environment
00:52:30 4 Politics and government
00:59:10 4.1 Administrative divisions
01:00:55 4.2 Largest cities
01:01:03 4.3 Judicial system and law enforcement
01:03:58 4.4 Foreign relations
01:05:40 4.5 Military
01:07:07 5 Economy
01:11:55 5.1 Resources
01:17:33 5.2 Transport
01:21:36 6 Demographics
01:21:45 6.1 Languages
01:25:39 6.2 Population
01:28:29 6.3 Migration
01:31:08 6.4 Religion
01:38:28 6.5 Health
01:39:49 6.6 Education
01:40:39 7 Culture
01:41:17 7.1 Human rights
01:44:02 7.2 Cinema
01:45:58 7.3 Music
01:49:29 7.4 Literature
01:52:48 7.5 Research
01:54:08 7.6 Architecture
01:56:22 7.7 Art
01:57:44 7.8 Cuisine
01:58:47 7.9 Sports
02:01:41 8 International rankings
02:02:00 9 See also
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Norway (Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk); Northern Sami: Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northwestern Europe whose core territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.
Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres (148,747 sq mi) and a population of 5,312,300 (as of August 2018). The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden (1,619 km or 1,006 mi long). Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak strait to the south, with Denmark on the other side. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea.
King Harald V of the Dano-German House of Glücksburg is the current King of Norway. Erna Solberg became prime minister in 2013 and was reelected in September 2017. Erna Solberg replaced Jens Stoltenberg who was the prime minister between 2000 and 2001 and 2005–2013. A unitary sovereign state with a constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the Parliament, the cabinet and the Supreme Court, as determined by the 1814 Constitution. The kingdom was established as a merger of a large number of petty kingdoms. By the traditional count from 872, the kingdom has existed continuously for 1,145 years, and the list of Norwegian monarchs includes over sixty kings and earls. From 1537 to 1814, Norway was a part of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, and from 1814 to 1905, it was in a personal union with the Kingdom of Sweden. Norway was neutral during the first World War. Norway remained neutral until April 1940 when the country was invaded and occupied by Germany until the end of World War II.
Norway has both administrative and political subdivisions on two levels: counties and municipalities. The Sámi people have a certain amount of self-determination and influence over traditional territories through the Sámi Parliament and the Finnmark Act. Norway maintains close ties with both the European Union and the United States. Norway is a founding member of the United Nations, NATO, the European Free Trade Association, the Council of Europe, the Antarctic Treaty, and the Nordic Council; a member of the European Economic Area, the WTO, and the OECD; and a part of the Schengen Area.
Norway maintains the Nordic welfare model with universal health care and a comprehensive social security system, and its ...