Hello Everyone, Just to let you all know, our open call is still running until the 23rd of September for anyone who would like to get their submissions in. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, we have had an amazing response, with absolutely excellent submissions. It promises to be an exciting week in…
Tag: poetry
Street Line Critics at The Model in Sligo
Street Line Critics will be at The Model in Sligo on the 24th and 25th of June. If you are around the area do come and take a look. There will be a presentation on the projects work and influences to date, followed by a workshop, which will take Sligo’s rich poetic heritage as a…
Culture Night: Eric O’ Neill on the streets of the Crescent (Top of O’Connell Street)
Our Georgian City With fanlights above, and doors of distinction below. These features of Georgian architecture obvious to those in the know. With red brick facades, carrying the dust and grime of many a year. Their golden proportions blinding to the thousands of visitors who stop and stare. Limestone plinths glimmer in the rain soaked…
The Street Line Critics Book Launch is here!
Hello Everyone, The waiting is finally over! We would like to invite you all to the launch of the Street Line Critics Book. It will be an opportunity to meet those involved in the project and listen to some of the submissions to the project being read at the open mic. It will be launched in the White…
Trista Hurley-Waxali outside the White House on O’Connell Street
You thank the cars who yield as you’re crossing, the same way you order a pint. Quick and honest. – Trista Hurley-Waxali
Clare Glynn Chitan outside Limerick’s Colbert Station
Limerick Junction The Station large and dome like, clinically clean Cream tiles with loneliness lingering in every pore Birds flying high, coming home to roost, to nest under the eaves Family’s grouped together, like midgets around the carriage doors Filling in the silent moments with meaningless chit chat Another youth his passage paid is leaving…
And we will be published!
Hello Everyone, We have a very exciting announcement to make. Limerick Arts Office is s providing us with funding towards the self-publishing of a book on the Street Line Critics Project. So a huge thank you to them for their support. It is a huge encouragement and will help us bring the project further into the…
Kieran Carey at Ormston House
Doric or Ionic “ Doric or Ionic was the thought I had, about the reminants of another past time. They intrigued me and are the welcoming smile to all the art that hang on the walls. They fit in with images yet hold their own when it come to glitz and glamour, Like gods in…
Clare Glynn Chitan at Ormston House
What memories linger with in these walls What spirits visit and walk these halls Stairs and rooms, memories from years to year Spirit of joy and sorrow ring out in the air Secrets, whispered from room to room Telling of births and deaths, now silent as the tomb. Laughter and tears mothers voices children’s calls….
Brendan Hayes at Ormston House
‘THREE ORDINARY GHOSTS NEAR ORMSTON HOUSE’ They were just three ordinary ghosts that I met, going about their ghostly business- so was I surprised? Well: I was surprised that I wasn’t more surprised by meeting the three ordinary ghosts. I guess they were not at all spooky – No silly sheets over them with burnt-out…