{"id":273555,"date":"2026-01-31T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273555\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:40:12","slug":"nostalgia-and-new-hope-as-iconic-limerick-venue-prepares-fo-first-music-event-in-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273555\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia and new hope as iconic Limerick venue prepares fo first music event in three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Theatre Royal holds stories of stars who have been and gone since its foundation in 1853 from Houdini to the Cranberries, the venue will now welcome the talent of today in its walls\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rocky O'Shea (left) Sean Flynn (right) outside the Theatre Royal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dba92208-dd9f-4055-8a02-8fe4509841ca.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rocky O&#8217;Shea (left) Sean Flynn (right) outside the Theatre Royal<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As Limerick music festival All We Have Are Days gets under way across multiple venues in the city, nostalgia from days gone by and a fresh sense of hope for the future of local arts are felt deeply by proud Limerick man Sean Flynn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Today, Sean works in film as a locations manager for Troy Studios as well as being part of an organisation called Trad Folkin Rocks that promotes the \u201cwide umbrella of traditional music in Ireland in all its guises\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Theatre Royal holds stories of stars who have been and gone since its foundation in 1853 from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12212,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-273555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-edana-flynn","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}