Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT, Limerick, was established in 1852 and is a world renowned Art and Design School, with excellent facilities and beautiful bright studios located on the Clare St Campus, Limerick and also at Clonmel LIT Campus. LSAD has an award-winning reputation in Ceramics, Fashion, Visual Communications, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture & Combined Media and Teacher Education.
History of Clare Street Campus:
The Clare Street Campus is located on the site of an old Lancastrian School, developed in the early 19th century for the education of the poor. When attendance figures at the school dropped, it gradually fell into disrepair, and in 1821, the school was purchased for £200 by the Christian Brothers. In 1858, part of the garden was let by the Christian Brothers to the nuns of the Good Shepherd Convent for an annual rent of £10. When the Christian Brothers left the building in 1888, it was sold to the nuns for £200. The nuns established a girls' reformatory on the site of the old Thomond Brewery, adjacent to the convent, which was one of three breweries still in operation in Limerick city in the 1870s. They also established a Magdalene Laundry on another adjacent site to the reformatory. Both sites continued to operate until it was sold to the Regional Technical College in 1994 and has been the home of the Limerick School of Art & Design since.
Photography Credits:
Images supplied courtesy of the Irish Film Board and Film in Limerick.
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