A Night at Limerick’s Acoustic Club - LIMERICK
Songs in the City A Night at Limerick’s Acoustic Club by Kieran Beville Dominic Taylor On a cold Tuesday evening in Limerick city I ducked into the Number Three Bar on Glentworth Street. It was open-mic night at The Acoustic Club—a weekly gathering that has quietly grown into one of the most democratic stages in the city. Every Tuesday from 9pm this modest space transforms into something halfway between a cabaret and a confessional booth. The crowd is a mixture: some attentive, others talking over the music, pint glasses clinking, oblivious. That, perhaps, is the charm of open mics: the attention of the room is never guaranteed—it must be won. The Curator and the Chronicler Dominic Taylor, poet, songwriter, and the club’s tireless organiser, opened the evening. With fellow musician Fergal Nash providing guitar support, he launched into ‘Conspiracy’—a sharp-edged catalogue of the myths and suspicions that continue to swi...