Qualla: Limerick School of Art and Design https://qualla.com/limerick-school-of-art-and-design en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Limerick School of Art and Design https://qualla.com/limerick-school-of-art-and-design Limerick School of Art and Design: Introduction https://qualla.com/limerick-school-of-art-and-design/ The Clare Street site where the Limerick School of Art and Design's main campus stands today has worn a great many uses across the past four centuries. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries part of it was Farrancroghy, a public execution ground. In the early nineteenth century a Quaker named Joseph Lancaster opened one of his pioneer mass-education schools there - the entrance gave the street its local nickname, the Long Can. The Christian Brothers bought the building in 1821 for two hundred pounds; the Good Shepherd Sisters acquired it from them in 1888 for the same amount, expanded it, and ran a girls' reformatory and a Magdalene laundry on the same ground until 1994. Then the Regional Technical College bought the site, refurbished it, and an art school moved in. Every brick at LSAD's Clare Street campus has a previous story. Some of them are not happy stories. The students learning life drawing in the converted convent chapel today are working on top of that history, whether they know it or not.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-school-of-art-and-design-wp/gc3g-limerick-school-of-art-and-design-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Limerick School of Art and Design: Ornamental Art, 1852 https://qualla.com/limerick-school-of-art-and-design/ On 3 July 1852, a public notice in the Limerick Chronicle announced the opening of the School of Ornamental Art at the Leamy Institute on Hartstonge Street, offering instruction 'in all those branches of art which are applicable to manufactures and decoration.' The school opened ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-school-of-art-and-design-wp/gc3g-limerick-school-of-art-and-design-ornamental-art-1852.mp3 0:06 2 full Limerick School of Art and Design: The Red Tech and Its Wars https://qualla.com/limerick-school-of-art-and-design/ In 1896 the Athenaeum's trustees handed the building to Limerick Corporation. By the turn of the twentieth century the courses had outgrown the space, and the various departments moved to George's Street - now O'Connell Street - and eventually consolidated in December 1911 at the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-school-of-art-and-design-wp/gc3g-limerick-school-of-art-and-design-the-red-tech-and-its-wars.mp3 0:06 3 full Limerick School of Art and Design: Moving and Moving Again https://qualla.com/limerick-school-of-art-and-design/ By the 1960s the School of Art needed more space and ambition than the Red Tech could offer. In 1962 it moved to the former County Infirmary and Nurses' Home in Mulgrave Street. In 1980, after another decade of growth, it formally became the Limerick School of Art and Design unde...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-school-of-art-and-design-wp/gc3g-limerick-school-of-art-and-design-moving-and-moving-again.mp3 0:06 4 full Limerick School of Art and Design: The Good Shepherd Site https://qualla.com/limerick-school-of-art-and-design/ The convent had run a girls' reformatory next to it on the site of the demolished Thomond Brewery from 1879. It had run a Magdalene laundry on a third adjacent site - the old Farrancroghy execution ground - for over a hundred years. Magdalene laundries were institutions where unm...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-school-of-art-and-design-wp/gc3g-limerick-school-of-art-and-design-the-good-shepherd-site.mp3 0:06 5 full Limerick School of Art and Design: Programs, People, the Mouseman of Limerick https://qualla.com/limerick-school-of-art-and-design/ LSAD today is a constituent art college of the Technological University of the Shannon, with four departments - Fine Art and Education, Design, Digital Arts and Media, and Midlands Media and Design - operating on four campuses (Clare Street and Moylish in Limerick, Clonmel in Tip...

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