Tag: AugustCraftMonth

  • Bring Out Your Lace 2024

    Bring Out Your Lace 2024

    Does your family have any piece of lace hidden away in a drawer? Maybe a family heirloom, or something you have acquired at some point that you wonder about.  Friends of Lace Limerick in collaboration with People’s Museum Limerick are organising a special event on Saturday, 24 August 2024, where you can bring in your…

  • Lace Talk: Maude Kearney: Luminary of Limerick Lace

    Lace Talk: Maude Kearney: Luminary of Limerick Lace

    As part of National Heritage Week, the Limerick Museum is offering a lace talk on Friday 18 August at 2pm in the museum. Dr Matthew Potter, Curator of Limerick Museum, will give a talk on famed Limerick lace-maker Maude Kearney (1873-1963). For over fifty years, Mrs Kearney ran a lace-making business in Limerick City called…