Local artist, Margaret O’ Brien exhibits at Nenagh Arts Centre

by Kate Walsh Nenagh artist Margaret O’ Brien‘s current exhibition Roads is now showing at Nenagh Arts Centre, Banba Square until Friday 19 October. Margaret is a graduate of Limerick College of Art and Design where she attained her degree in Fine Art. Working mainly in oils, (but sometimes in mixed media), she has exhibited […]

Busy Weekend Of Family Entertainment Ahead as Biggest Ever Literary Festival Takes Place in Nenagh and Dromineer

A busy weekend of workshops, readings, café trails, discussions, walking tours, and the very special literary event on the lake is ahead for the people of Nenagh and Dromineer as the county’s only dedicated Literary Festival finally begins. This year’s Festival is the biggest ever, over five days, and hosts a packed programme of writers […]

Literary Festival to hear how local historian Danny Grace helped create a memoir set around Nenagh

Author Maggie Wadey comes to Nenagh with The English Daughter The story of how author Maggie Wadey Castles found her mother’s roots and the warm welcome she received from local historian Danny Grace feature strongly in her moving historical memoir, The English Daughter. In it she tells of coming to Nenagh following her mother Agnes […]

Here, There and Everywhere: Rosita Boland in Conversation with Manchán Magan in Dromineer Nenagh Literary Festival

Living in North Tipperary affords us the best of many worlds. We have mountainous areas, the best of agricultural land as well as bog, and the lordly Shannon to the north western borders of the county. Standing at the Millennium Cross recently, with several counties visible from that magnificent viewing spot, the eye travelled beyond […]

Expanded Dromineer Nenagh Literary Festival Attracts Celebrity Authors To Nenagh

International award winning authors Joseph O’Connor and local success Donal Ryan are among the celebrity authors who will be attending this year’s Dromineer Nenagh Literary Festival to be held in venues in the town and lakeside village over the first week of October. The festival, expanded this year to six days, will be the biggest […]