There is simply no better place to be in Ireland in October than Wexford, when the town becomes a hive of cultural activity to celebrate the annual Wexford Festival Opera. Now in its 72nd year, Wexford Festival Opera continues to amaze and delight in equal measure, when operatic performers from all over the world convene at the National Opera House for two weeks of world-class opera.
Mayor welcomes re-opening of Limerick s libraries
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THE Mayor of the City and County of Limerick has welcomed the re-opening of Limerick Museum and Limerick City Gallery of Art, and Limerick’s network of libraries.
The cultural institutions welcomed visitors back yesterday morning for the first time this year while libraries across the city and county will open this Tuesday.
With the reopening of libraries, people will allowed to browse and select their own books. However, reading spaces or access to the internet will not be available under the current government guidelines.
A full list of Library opening times is available here.
Galleries are open again: These are the exhibitions you can view in Cork, Munster and Dublin
Highlights include the Zurich Portrait Prize at the Crawford, and a selection of new acquisitions at IMMA Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
Mike McGrath Bryan Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork Zurich Portrait Prize: The second year the shortlisted entries for the prestigious prize have been available to see in the Cork gallery. You ll also be amazed at the standard in the Junior section of the prize. For Those That Tell No Tales: Photographs by Dara McGrath in which he has revisited the sites of killings in Cork during the War of Independence. Each picture is accompanied by a text explaining the context of the violent death that took place there.