Limerick Lace
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Launch of the redesigned beginner lace kit
As part of Heritage Week 2024, Friends of Lace Limerick are excited to invite you to the launch of the redesigned Limerick Lace Beginner Kit on Thursday, 22 August 2024 at 3pm. The launch is taking place as part of our two-day pop-up exhibition(22 and 23 August, 10am to 4pm) in the centre of Limerick…
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South Armagh Lace Gathering
This post was published first on the Laces of Ireland project website. On 21-23 June 2024, following the invitation received from the South Armagh Lace Collective, a delegation of Friends of Lace Limerick , including Susan Frawley, Fidelma Cosgrave, Toni O’Malley, Eva Ryley, Marina Poster and Gabriela Avram, undertook a trip to Culloville in South Armagh. On the…
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Limerick lace pop-up exhibition
For this year’s Heritage Week, we have decided to bring our lace out of the museum setting and on to the main street, so that people who are not frequent museum goers or are unaware of Limerick’s lace making history and traditions can come upon our exhibition accidentally. We want to demonstrate that lace making…
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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…
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Limerick Lace Beginners Workshop
We were delighted to collaborate with the Northstar Family Support Project in offering an initiation into Limerick lace to a group of ladies yesterday, 28 May 2024. Eva Ryley presented the first steps in Limerick lace: setting the hoop , threading the needle, copying a pattern and attaching it to the hoop, creating an outline…
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Invited Speaker: Gabrielle O’Gorman
On 27 April 2024, we had the honour to host Gabrielle O’Gorman at our monthly Lace Day in the Limerick Museum. Gabrielle spent two years in the Pennywell Magdalene Laundries in the 60s, and was taught to make Limerick lace. She worked on the christening robe gifted to president J.F. Kennedy on the occasion of…
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Classes starting in May 2024
An additional term of Limerick lace classes is starting on Wednesday, May 1st, at 7pm. The classes are taking place on Henry Street in Limerick. This is a 10 weeks term, and beginners are welcome. The classes are being taught by Tony O’Malley helped by Eva Ryley. You can sign up here.
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The 2024 Amazing Lace Symposium
On Saturday 23 March 2024, after a break of more than 4 years caused by the COVID 19 pandemic, we were delighted to welcome lace makers, lace artists, lace historians, lace enthusiasts and lace curious participants back. The Amazing Lace Symposium 2024 was, once again, hosted by the fabulous Absolute Hotel, situated on the banks…
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Friends of lace AGM for 2024
Friends of Lace Limerick met on 24 February 2024 in the Limerick Museum for the 2024 AGM. On the agenda, we had the Chairperson’s report, the Treasurer’s report, the Secretary Report, and the election of the new committee for 2024-2025. After listening to the three reports, we proceeded to elect the new committee. This is…
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The Laces of Ireland Project
In June 2023, Friends of Lace Limerick applied for funding via the Creative Communities on a Shared Island programme, strand 2. In October 2023, we found out that we were one of the nine projects selected . The project focuses on supporting collaboration and exchanges between lacemaker groups and heritage institutions on the island of Ireland, and…