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Coronfin Traditional Festival
1st - 7th March, Corofin, Co Clare
- Traditional Music with various sessions in the local pubs and a concert nightly in Teach Ceoil. www.coronfintradfest.com
Delamere - "Bookmarks"
Friday 5th March 2010 at 8pm
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Seeing your photograph (along with those of 2 Ireland Rugby players, a national broadcaster and an elite athlete) on your university bookmark is food for thought. But this is what happened to our intrepid comedian, Neil Delamere! Best known as the star of RTE's The Panel and BBC's The Blame Game, Irish comedian Neil debuts his new show, "Bookmarks". Trinity College has Oscar Wilde, Dublin City University has Neil Delamere....Hmmm.....It was a sign. Life is just a series of bookmarks, the events that highlight how far we've come and how far we've left to go. They could be anything, weddings, funerals, charges being dropped, even facing your fears (don't!).Neil considers these markers as well as how his photo appeared on the thing in the first place! Time to Explore! Oh yeah...we also get to find out how long Neil will live!
Tickets: €25 University of Limerick Concert Hall
Tommy Fleming
Saturday 6th March at 8pm
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UCH is delighted to welcome back "The Voice of Ireland", Tommy Fleming, following his sell out shows here in previous years! Tommy comes to UCH in the wake of the release of his new album and dvd this December, "Song For A Winter's Night". Tommy Fleming is one of Ireland's top entertainers and has had a hugely successful career over the past 16 years. Tommy's recording career together with live performances has guaranteed him some of the fastest selling Irish albums ever."Song Of A Winter's Night" is a special album and DVD that has been a dream of Tommy's for many years. This special album is a mix of Christmas classics together with some comtemporary seasonal tracks suitable for Christmas' for many years to come. Tracks include "O Holy Night", "In the Bleak Mid Winter", "Christmas 1915" and "Song for A Winter's Night" written by Gordon Lightfoot.
Tickets: €32.50 University of Limerick Concert Hall
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Mother's Day
Sunday, 14th March 2010
The Ideal Gift this Mother's Day - Afternoon Tea for the Lady of the Manor from €26.50 per person. Served daily between 2.00pm & 5.00pm in The Drawing Room & Library at Adare Manor. Advanced Booking is necessary.
GIFT VOUCHERS ARE AVAILABLE NOW!
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Limerick Musical Society presents
Fiddler On The Roof
Thurs 11th, Fri 12th & Sat 13th March at 8pm
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The multi award winning Limerick Musical Society return with one of the most famous musicals of all time...Fiddler On The Roof!Fiddler On The Roof is set in the little village of Anatevka where Tevye, a poor dairyman, tries to instil in his five daughters the traditions of his tight-knit Jewish community in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail Fiddler On The Roof has touched audiences around the world with its humour, warmth and honesty. Some of the musical numbers include "If I Were A Rich Man", "Miracle of Miracles", "Sunrise Sunset", "Do You Love Me" and "Tradition". Produced by Richie Ryan, Musical direction by Maire Keary-Scanlon.
Tickets: Thurs €16.50 / Fri & Sat €22 / Conc. €20 University of Limerick Concert Hall
Limerick comes alive this March 12th-17th with the St Patrick’s Festival and this year, it’s bigger and brighter than ever!
The National Lottery Skyfest (Part of the national St. Patrick’s Festival) Limerick City Friday, 12th March 6PM
The National Lottery Skyfest will light up the skies over the majestic treaty city of Limerick. King John’s Castle provides a stunning backdrop to this year’s breathtaking fireworks display where dazzling colours and explosive effects will be unleashed over one of Ireland’s most well-known and cherished treasures, the River Shannon. And all this choreographed to an amazing soundtrack curated by 2FM’s Jenny Greene. Shannon Development have organised pre-show activity which will kick off at 6pm and includes live bands, fire jugglers, face painters, campanology and much more. As an exciting lead up to the main spectacle, St. Patrick’s Festival will present street performance group Arcana who will wow the crowds in their upbeat unique style and open the National Lottery Skyfest in a thunderous spectacular fashion. Fireworks commence at 7.30pm. www.stpatricksfestival.ie Ensuring those at home can share in the celebrations, the show will be broadcast live on RTE 1 from 7.30pm followed by a special National Lottery Lotto draw live from Limerick City. Best Viewing Points: Clancy’s Strand, O’Callaghan’s Strand, Howley’s Quay, Arthur’s Quay Park, Sarsfield Bridge Tel: 061 317522 www.ShortBreaksIreland.ie
Limerick Racecourse Fixtures
Saturday, 13th & Sunday, 14th March National Hunt 1.30pm St Patrick's Weekend www.limerickraces.ie
- Sunday the 14th is the Annual Family Fun day & this year have gone a step further by opening the gates for the Ladies to receive FREE general admission for Mother's day.
St Patrick's Spring Fest & International Band Parade
Limerick City 14 March
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Limerick plays host to the St. Patrick’s Spring Fest and Limerick International Band Festival with something for all the family. Highlights include the Limerick International Marching Band Competition and St Patrick’s Day Parade. The International Band Parade, which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2010, will see a number of bands marching from O'Connell Avenue to Arthur's Quay Park where they will perform a recital for the large crowds who are expected to attend the parade. In recent years Limerick has held one of the best band parades that you could be found anywhere in Europe and is a great family day out as is the St Patrick's Day parade.
Telephone:+353 (0)61 40 0200 Email: entertainment@eircom.net Website: www.limerickcity.ie
St Patrick's Day Celebrations at Bunratty Castle & Folk Park
17th March, Bunratty, Co Clare
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Enjoy traditional Irish music, set dancing classes, kids disco, snakes disply, an appearance by St Patrick and much more! www.shannonheritage.com
KODO -"One Earth Tour"
Thursday 18th March at 8pm
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For nearly thirty years, Kodo has experienced the boundless potential of the ancient Japanese drum, the taiko. Inspired by the powerful natural beauty of their home on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan, Kodo infuses traditional forms with fresh global influences to create new musical expressions that are utterly unique. Since 1981, Kodo has delivered over 3200 performances in 46 countries, becoming Japan's most acclaimed performing arts group. For the past nearly three decades the One Earth Tour has been the heart and soul of Kodo's year, an ongoing voyage that has taken the group around the world several times over in a continual quest for new expression and exchange of ideas. Through these travels, Kodo meets myriad artists, both in Japan and abroad, who contribute to the group's multicultural palette and spur a perpetual evolution. In 2009 in particular, a diverse array of special projects has brought about a significant change in the group's attitude on stage. Highlights of the programme will include Chonlima, a piece not seen in recent years in Europe, which evokes the thunder of a great horse galloping across an open field at full speed. Likewise Miyake, and its tight formation of drummers crouched low to their instruments and striking horizontally, pushes the minds and bodies of the performers to their limits with its demands of strength and rhythmic precision. Quintessential Koko compositions such as O-Daiko and Yatai-Bayashi are rendered wtih such force that they can literally be felt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz4K_6F4pbk Tickets: €35 / Conc. €32.50 / Students €30 University of Limerick Concert Hall
Co. Tipperary Drama Festival
19th - 27th March, Holy Cross, Thurles, Co Tipperary
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The festival which has been running since 1983, presents 9 great nights of theatre by groups from all over Ireland. www.tipperary-drama.com
The High Kings Live 2010
Sunday 21st March at 8pm
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The High Kings are hitting the road again to bring a new live show to Irish audiences.The last 2 years have seen The High Kings achieve platinum status with their Debut CD and DVD, complete 2 sell out tours in Ireland as well as racking up numerous TV appearances. Their highest accolade yet came as they were voted Best Newcomer and Best Folk Act at Ireland's Music Awards, sharing nominations wtih accomplished Irish acts such as The Wolfe Tones and The Dubliners.In this new show The High Kings are showcasing their incredible versatility and skills as multi instrumentalists, bringing a rousing acoustic flavour to well loved Folk songs. This new show will feature songs from their highly anticipated new album.This is a chance to see The High Kings up close and personal, as they continue to live up to their reputation as a phenomenal live band, serving up laughter, good times and even the odd sing along!
Tickets: €30 University of Limerick Concert Hall
raglane.com presents
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Tuesday 23rd March at 8pm
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You may think that you know all there is to know about Gilbert O'Sullivan. That he was a huge star in the 70's and that he fought two massively important music industry legal cases. All this, however, is only the tip of the iceberg. Gilbert O'Sullivan's has sound tracked films and television shows from "Stuart Little 2", "The Simpsons" to Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides", Meera Syal's "Anita Me" and the Japanese manga cartoon "Mailson Ikkokou". Most recently "Alone Again (Naturally)" featured in the hit BBC series "Life On Mars"His songs have been covered by amongst others Andy Williams, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Bobby Darin, Sarah Vaughan and more recently Har Mar Superstar and Donny Osmond. In 2004 his latest best compilation (Berry Vest of) saw him return to the top twenty. The music scene has rediscovered the long lost decade of the 70's, with bands such as The Feeling tracing a lineage back to ELO and Queen, while Ben Folds in particular has been producing the kind of lyrically clever, eloquent pop music that O'Sullivan made his own.Do not miss Gilbert O'Sullivan live in concert at UCH!
Tickets: €38.50 University of Limerick Concert Hall
Fresh Film Festival
Limerick City 22 March - 25 March
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Fresh Film Festival is a film festival for young people that takes place in Limerick city every year. The festival provides educational screenings of fims that have a resonance for young people, and it runs workshops in aspects of filmmaking. The festival's flagship event is Ireland's Young Filmmaker Awards which showcases films made by young people between the ages of 7 and 18 from all over Ireland and abroad. The festival provides a platform for young people to come together, to see each others work and to have their work screened before an audience of their peers. It is great fun and a must for any aspiring filmmaker. For more information please or to download an entry form please go to our website at www.freshfilmfestival.net or call us on 061 319555 Fresh Film Festival is the place where you talented filmmakers, 18 years and younger, can come to screen your masterpieces, learn new filmmaking skills, chat to each other about what’s new in the World of cinema and challenge the competition!
Telephone:+353 (0)61 31 9555 Fax:+353 (0)61 31 9555 Email: info@freshfilmfestival.net
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
War and Peace
Wednesday 24th March at 8pm
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The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is joined by two stunning soloists for an evening of dramatic, beautiful music, ending with a bang! Limerick born Mairead Buicke, one of Ireland's top young sopranos, is the soloist in Barber's Knoxville, singing of that lazy summer of 1915, the swing on the back-porch, the streetcar rattling by.....Then expect fireworks from Tchaikovsky! The wonderful Scottish violin star Nicola Benedetti makes a welcome return to Limerick, joining the RTÉ NSO for the red-blooded romantic virtuosity of his Violin Concerto. To finish, the orchestra takes centre stage for the famous and irresistible 1812 Overture.Beethoven Symphony No. 2Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915Tchaikovsky Violin ConcertoTchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Tickets: €23 / €20 / €15 Conc. €21 / €18 / €13 University of Limerick Concert Hall
Irish Chamber Orchestra & Anthony Marwood
Thursday 25th March at 8pm
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Anthony Marwood directs a programme that ranges fro the court of Louis XIV where Lully wrote his Ballet suite to one of Mozart's timeless violin concerti and Schubert's exquisite fifth symphony.
For full ICO Autumn/Spring Season Details - www.irishchamberorchestra.com
Tickets: €25 / €15 Conc. Available University of Limerick Concert Hall
Munster V Glasgow Warriors
26th March 2010 - 20.00 KO Thomond Park Stadium
The rematch of the first ever Munster match in the re-developed Thomond Park will take place on Friday 26th March 2010, as Munster take on Glasgow Warriors in Thomond Park (Kick Off 20.00). Tickets Click here to buy tickets or phone the Ticketmaster Hotline on 0818 719300. Price Full Price: €22, €35, €40 School Pupil: €7 Book Online Information
STONES IN HIS POCKETS
by Marie Jones
Thursday 25th - Saturday 27th March at 8pm
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"Marie Jones will have you crying with laughter...a sensational comedy...a must see!" RTE Entertainment The boys are back in town.......The multi award winning comedy by Marie Jones, Stones In His Pockets, returns home! Having played all over the world including a five year run in West End, Stones In His Pockets, returns to Ireland for an extensive tour this autumn and will come your way at the LIT Millennium Theatre for three performances only Thursday 25th - Saturday 27th March. Don't miss this award-winning, hilarious and moving tale of a quiet Irish community turned upside by the arrival of a Hollywood movie shoot. Universally loved by all who see it, Stones In His Pockets is brought to life by two highly talented actors who play 15 characters between them - from the two cheeky lads intent on stardom to a Hollywood Goddess!Starring Simon Delaney (well known for his many TV appearances including the very popular series, Bachelor's Walk and Conor Delaney (Quinnius in the hit show I, Keano). Directed by David Bownes, designed by Jack Kirwan and produced by Lane Productions (I, Keano, Alone It Stands, The Shawshank Redemption and Haunted).BEST NEW COMEDY (Evening Standard Awards), BEST NEW PLAY (Olivier Awards), BEST PLAY (Irish Times Awards).
Tickets: €25 / Conc. €22.50 / Students €20 LIT Millennium Theatre
