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Cantamus Ladies Choral Group - 3-part Ladies Church Choir based in the parish of Monaleen provides photos, profile and repertoire.
The Dolmen String Quartet - West of Ireland-based classical string quartet available for weddings and special occasions gives information on its history, members, music and booking arrangements.
University Concert Hall - Profile, virtual tour, calendar, booking enquiry area, information for conference planners and promoters and contact details.
Hunt Museum - Museum formed around a personal collection, with original works of art and antiquities from the Neolithic Period to the present with a special emphasis on the Medieval Period. Provides background, opening hours and location, details on the Hunts, the building and the Museum Friends.
Island Theatre Company - Information on the company, its programme, repertoire and history, with photos.
Fresh Film Festival - Annual film event for young people aged 12 - 18 years, including feature films, workshops and the Irish Schools Video Competition, with details and contact information.
Safe Bet - This professional band providing dance music for weddings, and parties, mostly across the mid-west of Ireland, provide details of members, a sample set list, MP3 samples and a booking form.
University of Limerick Folk Group - Details of the group, their activities and events. Includes photos, contact information and a discussion board.
Blas: International Summer School - Info on a twelve day intensive course with practical content for which university creditation is available, includes lectures, tutorials workshops, fieldtrips, sessions and lunchtime and evening concerts.
Irish World Music Centre - Set up in 1994 by Dr. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. Information on courses, programmes, events and news.
Boherbuoy Brass and Reed Band - Profile, history, news, photos, contact details and booking form.
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Arts and Entertainment "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Arts and Entertainment "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Arts and Entertainment I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe Arts and Entertainment "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Arts and Entertainment That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Arts and Entertainment "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Arts and Entertainment Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Arts and Entertainment You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
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