Spotlight: Kathy -You’ve been framed - Kieran Beville
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Kathy Tiernan is a founding member and co-ordinator of ArtLimerick – a group of artists who have the desire and passion to build a community around Limerick Art and aim to promote emerging and established local artists and to showcase their work. There is such a wonderful spectrum of talent here in Limerick (music, literature, visual arts) and it makes me immensely proud of this city and county.
Kathy also has a picture-framing business which she runs from her studio/workshop in Grange, Kilmallock and this is the bread and butter aspect of her livelihood. Kathy says, “I often get funny looks when I tell people I’m an artist. Everything from that nod of the head to the raised eyebrow and always the question ‘but what’s your real job’? So much so, that I tell people I’m a picture framer. Nobody queries that job.”
A Wexford poet is looking forward with excitement to the launch next week of her first collection of poetry called Redress , published by Revival Press in Limerick.
Anne McCarry, a native of Kilmore living in Wexford town, writes under the pen name A.M. Cousins. She embarked on a MA in Creative Writing course in UCD with the original ambition of writing the perfect short story but was seduced by poetry and has been under its spell ever since.
Anne joined the writing course as a mature student after the birth of her first grandchild in 2013 and she won the prestigious FISH poetry prize in 2019 for a poem called Not My Michael Furey .
Spotlight: Keeping alive our literary traditions alive - Kieran Beville
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The pandemic has impacted on all of us in various ways. Covid restrictions are especially difficult for business and artistic communities locally, nationally and internationally. Many artists, writers and musicians have had to forego public exhibitions, book launches and gigs, which has a financial and psychological impact.
Nevertheless, lockdowns have been a time of creativity for many of these artists and that is a positive outcome.
Limerick is a thriving centre of culture in terms of art, literature and music and the Limerick Writers’ Centre (LWC) and its poetry imprint, Revival Press (RP) are an integral part of that community, worthy of attention and support.
OBITUARY: Literary Limerick mourns Mark Whelan
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LITERARY Limerick will mourn the death of Poet Mark Whelan of Vizes Court, off St. Joseph’s Street, and formerly of Colbert Park, Janesboro who passed away (peacefully) at University Hospital, Limerick on Tuesday January 19 2021.
Mark was born in Limerick in 1960 and, with Paul Sweeney, was instrumental both in the establishment of Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival, of which he was a committee member, and in the revival of The Stony Thursday Book literary journal, for which he was editor of four editions.
His collections of poetry are Scarecrow Dyptich (Anam, Press, 2003), Pushing The Pull Door (Revival Press, 2008, with illustrations by Limerick artist John Shinnors), and The Seer of Wounds (Doghouse, 2012).