Events

2014 – Amazing Lace exhibition and publication of the Amazing Lace book

2015 – Bring Out Your Lace event, organised by Limerick Museum and Archives

2015 The Florence Vere O’Brien competition 

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 2016 Hybrid conference 

2018 – Bring Out Your Lace 2018

2018 Amazing Lace Symposium

17-11-18 Limerick Museum , Limerick lace symposium in the Absolute Hotel. Picture: Keith Wiseman

2019 – Handover of the Florence Vere O’Brien Lace Collection

2019 – Limerick lace added to the National Inventory of Intangible Heritage due to the efforts of Dr Matthew Potter, Curator, Limerick Museum and Dr Susan Frawley of Pennywell Lace and Friends of Lace.

2019 Amazing Lace Symposium

2020 Making lace in public places- Hunt Museum, February 2020

2021 Zooming in on Limerick lace, on line talk as part of the Lifelong Learning Festival

2022 The legacy of Amy Whitelegge – lace designer, lacemaker and teacher – talk by Merrie O’Sullivan as part of Heritage Week 2022

2023 February – Friends of Lace Limerick’s first AGM

2023 May – Visit to the Cork Public Museum

2023 August – The legacy of Maude Kearney – talk by Randal Hopkinson and Matthew Potter; Pop-up exhibition; Bring Out Your Lace – Limerick Museum- Heritage Week 2023

2023 December – The launch of the Maude Kearney exhibition

2024 March – Amazing Lace Symposium 2024

2024 March – Visit to the Sisters of Mercy Heritage Centre, Charleville

2024 April – Pop-up exhibition and demonstration, Limerick Museum, as part of the Lifelong Learning Festival

2024 April – Talk by Gabrielle O’Gorman

2024 June – Visit to Carrickmacross, Armagh and Culloville

2024 August – Heritage Week – Pop-up exhibition and launch of the redesigned Limerick lace kit, 16 Rochas St.

2024 August – Bring Out Your Lace – The People’s Museum, Limerick

2024 September – Culture Night – Launch of film – If Lace Could Talk

2024 October – Visit of the South Armagh Lace Collective to Limerick

2024 November – Limerick lace workshop with UL Crafts Society

2025 January – Visit at Wexford Archives to see the New Ross Lace collection

2025 February – Amazing Lace Symposium 2025

2025 March – AGM