Rare! Mike Hogan was spotted in Limerick today at the pub “The Commercial”.
Thanks to Instagram user Marcella Urigu (@marcellaurigu) for sharing this great photo and for the info.

Spotted in Limerick city today near King John’s Castle (exact location: Google Street View), a new mural of Dolores O’Riordan in the making. The photos were posted on the Facebook public group “Limerick City Citizens” by user Nathalie Roche…

…and on Twitter by user Ryan Meaney

UPDATE – NOVEMBER 1

Still in the making, here’s one more photo posted on Twitter today by JJ Bowles – Limerick’s Oldest Pub

It seems the artist took as a reference 3 photos from The Troubadour in Los Angeles on the 15 July 1993. Have a look at the original pics by photographer Donna Santisi on Getty Images by clicking here, here and here. Thanks to DORSpain for noticing!

It looks like the name of the artist is Aches from Draw Out – Urban Exhibitionists.
Have a look at the video-teaser posted last week on Facebook where you can recognize the exact wall:

The wait is (almost) over. The cartoonist theHand just announced on the dedicated Facebook Public Group and Instagram that his “CalenDolores 2020” in loving memory of Dolores O’Riordan will be available on www.doloresoriordan.it on 21 October 2019.

He also posted a video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrCd61qHsg

There is no more information for now, like price or expected delivery, but it should appear pretty soon. The countdown has now started… 5 days to go!
Stay tuned.

UPDATE – OCTOBER 22

Due to technical difficulties setting the storefront, the release date has been delayed. Also the website www.doloresoriordan.it moved to www.calendolores.it

Sinéad O’Connor will be recording “No Need To Argue” (track) tomorrow for a tribute album to Dolores in aid of Pieta House (Irish non-profit organisation that provides a free, therapeutic approach to people who are in suicidal distress) .
The singer announced it on Twitter earlier today:

UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 26

Sinéad O’Connor published another tweet today regarding the recording of the song:

…and just a few minutes after she posted a second tweet (well… no comment!)

Noel Hogan joined the band Kodaline on stage tonight at “Electric Picnic” festival in Stradbally, Ireland to play “Zombie” as a tribute to Dolores O’Riordan.

Here’s a short video from the stage posted on Instagram by Josh Javor:

UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 2

Below almost the complete version of the song recorded from the crowd, shared on Twitter by Maria Flanagan (@OneFineDay_ie), part 1 and part 2:

https://twitter.com/OneFineDay_ie/status/1168479274501910529

It looks like the short movie “Told You” funded by Limerick City Council & Limerick Arts Office, and which was just completed, is featuring a soundtrack written by our very fav drummer Dr Fergal Lawler.
We have no info yet as per when this short will be released.

Source: MADE IMAGE Films (Facebook)

Thanks to Sigma for grabbing our attention on this!

Artist theHand announced on socials recently that the “CALENDOLORES 2020” was now completed and will be available soon.

theHand on Twitter:

thehand71 on Instagram (different preview):

In the mean time you can see all previews of re-edited pictures for calendar at re-launched website www.doloresoriordan.it

Our friends from Cranberries MEXICO shared live videos on Facebook from the “Homenaje a: Dolores O’Riordan” show in Ciudad de México.

If you didn’t watch the show live, the videos are still available for replay:

VIDEO 1:

https://www.facebook.com/CranMex/videos/396251354580075/

VIDEO 2:

https://www.facebook.com/CranMex/videos/1199368266906748/

Cranberries MEXICO published 2 Facebook live videos of the rehearsals yesterday with the Orquesta Filarmónica Communitatis. Show on July 19th!

Animal Instinct:

https://www.facebook.com/CranMex/videos/356390161698255/?__xts__[0]=68.ARDP5LQzzuYUoEOpSW_u1D8pKU08_VIK4bMpZ6hi1beUEN943JoriW01r74R7dBKx8WSOxD5LOeFm1sfcZPpvZ_NsOuFgy_q6bI3wOEkvu-e6KxqisbPF124I0H0aeSIvbmv0-Nb1l5hpC-FI5QCZBuYQD5IobROJFuH32YOD3X81C9KwZ5-PdtzfUcFPvhjhdvBkeFTZcRKfAP9kRlTzMt330d8H0n4PRowK0bstn4YVrCJ6PIv52FnzErGtSnpb-A0RbLNM2cYAO2lAm2o9MLuLhM3nh446UGjiscRbVoUCkUDFk4KVhZO9rT_d6Zdt3Vwd-_tmWm57M18-jrqwiOkl3xZqyRVysk&__tn__=-R

Salvation:

https://www.facebook.com/CranMex/videos/2124064407891953/?__xts__[0]=68.ARB8MOhw1z_NBTYdxw8C3Amd0B_yddHALSNW_YtmZHv55_bVutWoR_cnxxqL35BdNopwpdel-0Y29rEZJqDIjNgAZrsveSKfMQnylV4xm6JUWDuZtGPjTFofPDLIR9uiq3azH4MSv0-tS-XzcG5Isoy-pyRRigC-eJbbD_EWaUmXSkq95NG9RgyZJ_I1HLiO0sl98Ql0VlSTtYicQQ2oQWxVIWk5wd5zBAcLC24TWIbHAoNJy9p1TCHL3Zzi0GvuUJJ_8Mttro1SZTvSWQiGFqmHsamv9NSLZHiuDjd9joR71PvO5qpVmwaDO3_jZFFNmYVjmsIf_PSx7M1UZuHS0evRS3OjFG6anuURJQ&__tn__=-R

A tribute to Dolores O’Riordan by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Rock will be held in Ciudad de México (Mexico City) on 19 July 2019. The concert will take place at Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli, Sala Silvestre Revueltas at 8pm.

Grab your tickets on ticketmaster.com.mx

Our fellow Cranberries fans from The Cranberries Brasil are organizing another CRANMEETING next month on 27 July 2019. Like the past year, the event will take place in São Paulo at CASP (Cervejaria Artesanal São Paulo) where 3 bands will play Cranberries and Dolores solo career songs.

FREE ADMISSION

The Cranberries shared on Instagram and Facebook a video of a “cool collaboration of Cranberries fans from around the world”

Have a look at Elio‘s CranBedroom, a beautiful wallpaper is covering the wall. For sure a happy Cranberries fan!

Shared today on The Cranberries Instagram and Facebook accounts, a backstage photo of Noel Hogan & Robert Smith at Malahide Castle in Dublin yesterday where The Cure were giving a concert.

Olé Koretsky shared a “lovely photo” yesterday on Twitter and Instagram. Olé and Andy Rourke together again… and Giovanni the cat!

On June 21st / 22nd 2019 the Kevin Memorial Celebrity Golf Classic will take place in Ballyneety, County Limerick, Ireland. All proceeds will go to the Heart House Project.

They will be auctioning off some generously donated prizes (mostly sports memorabilia) including a Cranberries promotional shot signed by Dolores, Noel, Mike and Fergal kindly donated by Eileen and Sandra O’Riordan. This will be accompanied by a signed copy of “In The End”

Cranberries fans interesting in bidding for these beautiful items can email a bid to James.Hayes@ul.ie

Artwork & Photography created by Ken Coleman, from his photo shoot with The Cranberries in 2016. Move your mouse to view the photo in 3D. Only available on Facebook.
How cool!!

https://www.facebook.com/artofkencoleman/posts/2385949468090326

No need to introduce Cranberries Italia. Until May 3rd in Roma, Italy, you can visit their AWESOME memorabilia exhibition “memories will never end…” at Discoteca Laziale (Roma Via Giolitti 263).

Have a look at some photos of the event on their website here.

Today is Mike’s birthday!
Sending love and our best wishes to you, Mike… and hope you get some rest after this challenging period.
xx

Johanna Cranitch posted a message on Instagram today regarding “In The End” and The Cranberries.

…and on a lighter side, she added a great screen shot in her Instagram Story, just read 🙂

Dan Brodbeck posted a message on Instagram today regarding “In The End” and The Cranberries.

“In The End” by theHand. Posted on the cartoonist’s Instagram and Facebook accounts.

Professor Eoin Devereux will be presenting “Waltzing Back –  an illustrated lecture on The Cranberries 1989-1993” at The Odeon in Dublin on 9 May 2019. A welcome reception will begin at 6pm followed by Prof Devereux’s lecture, Q&A and networking opportunity.

Full details and booking: https://bit.ly/2FFv0BE 

Professor Eoin Devereux – Twitter

Instagram user joanna.cran.pic posted a very rare clipping of the Limerick Leader published on 24 April 1989. Dolores and her classmates won “Slógadh ’89” (an Irish nation wide arts festival for young people) and received a special award, “An Gradam”. It was 30 years ago!!!

More about Slógadh
In 1969, Gael Linn established a competition based youth arts festival, Slógadh, involving several local events and culminating in a national final. This event was to prove one of the great successes of the Gael Linn calendar for many years. Activities included singing, storytelling and the visual arts.

The Slógadh music competitions catered for all kinds of music – traditional, pop, country ‘n’ western, classical, solo singing, choirs, musicals and solo instrumental. There were competitions for one act plays, miming and the traditional art form – the agallamh beirte. The festival was not limited to stage competitions. There were important art and literary sections also. The side events were often as important as the competitions themselves. Impromptu music sessions, discos, céilithe and poetry readings formed an integral and important part of the festival.

Above all else, Slógadh gave Irish a new relevance for the young generation. It became a living medium of modern artistic expression. At its zenith in the early eighties, over 50,000 young people were involved annually one way or another. It was through Slógadh that artists such as Clannad, the Hothouse Flowers, Altan and Dolores O’Riordan first gained recognition. It was in Slógadh that Cathal Ó Searcaigh, one of the most promising and prolific of our contemporary poets, came to the attention of the literary public. No other youth festival of its kind in Europe, with the exception of the Urdd Eistedfodd in Wales, could compare to it in scale or in the scope of its activities. Young people from the four corners of Europe – from Wales, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, Occitania and Slovenia, to mention but some-traveled to Ireland to experience it.

Source: gael-linn.ie

A very rare pic was posted on Instagram by user joanna.cran.pic
This is the class photo of Dolores in Laurel Hill Secondary School in Limerick. Our friends from Cranberries Italia saw the pic in the school when they visited Limerick last year and said it was taken in 1990.
If so, do the math, Dolores was 18 (maybe 19).

Today is Fergal’s birthday!
Sending love and our best wishes to you, Ferg.
xx

December 25, 2018
Our thoughts go out to our favorite guitar player on this special day.
Noel Hogan, 47 years old today!

…and a Merry Christmas to everyone… as much as possible on this terrible year.

The cartoonist The Hand just released a Rockalendar 2019… and January is for Dolores.
You can order it now on lulu.com by clicking this link.

Price: €12.36 (plus taxes and shipping)
Format: 43×28 (cm)

Previews on the following link: http://www.thehand.it/rockalendar/

Limerick musicians have combined to record a tribute to Dolores O’Riordan. The video of their rendition of The Cranberries classic song “When You’re Gone” has been posted earlier today on the internet. Some of the artists already appeared at the “I Heart Cranberries” tribute at Dolan’s pub on 5 July 2018. You might even recognize a few more…

Artists featured are:
Anna’s Anchor, Ben Oit, Bleeding Heart Pigeons, Brad Pitt Light Orchestra, Carolyn Bourke, Casavettes, Changing Trains, Cruiser, Damien Moore, Delorean Suite, Emma Langford, Fox Jaw, Hedfuzy, Jane Fraser, John Daly, Laura Duff, Limerick Gospel Choir, Mizdrea, My Empire, New Age Messiah, Nova Quartet, Paddy Dennehy, Parliament Square, Peter Hanagan, Point Taken, Post Punk Podge & The Techno Hippies, PowPig, Protobaby, Raging Sons, Randolf & The Crokers, Sarah Dolan, Shane Wixted, Shardborne, The Flag Listeners, The Hitchers, Third Island, Tombz, We Come In Pieces, Windings, Zephire and Zombie Picnic.

From Limerick, a tribute to Dolores

…and featuring a former Cranberries member:

Niall Quinn (center) – The Hitchers

…and Ger O’Riordan, a member of Dolores’ family:

Ger O’Riordan (skull t-shirt) – Zephire

The video is directed and edited by Limerick filmmaker Shane Serrano. All proceeds will go to the MidWest Simon Community.

Sources: Limerick Leader, I Love Limerick

Paddy Brennan, a Limerick Historian and rock ‘n’ roll fanatic, just published a 556-page book regarding the History of Limerick Music from 1800 to 2018 including memorabilia and rare photographs.

The book has an extensive section on The Cranberries.
Author said, “Other bands were writing about love and songs that wouldn’t stand out whereas the Cranberries were writing songs where you would actually start listening to the words.”

The book titled Limerick Music Throughout The Decades will be available for purchase on 30 October.

Read the full articles published earlier today on limerickleader.ie and limerickpost.ie

At the launch, Lorcan Murray, Geraldine Brennan, Ken McLoughlin, Mayor James Collins, Paddy Brennan, Fergal Lawler, and John Dundon Picture: Michael Cowhey

Limerick Music Throughout The Decades

Artist Sibéal performed her version of The Cranberries’ “Linger” as Gaeilge yesterday at ‘The Late Late Show’ on Irish TV RTÉ One. Watch below:

Last week, just ahead of what would have marked Dolores O’Riordan’s birthday – and sadly, the date that was also chosen by the coroner to make the inquest public – we encouraged everyone to remember and celebrate the beautiful talent that she was by focusing on the music, sharing memories and spreading love.

Alan Martin, who we can fairly describe as the first ever Cranberries fan, took us at our words!
While some members of our team were in Limerick city to pay tribute to Dolores, Alan offered to treat us to a “Cranberries Mystery Tour” that would lead us to different venues where the band performed in their early days, schools they had attended as pupils, and Churches where they got married.

Most of the photos we took during this special tour will enable us to illustrate the concerts pages that represent the shows that they played during the 1990s. However, only a very few of these places are still standing today as they did back then.

During this tour, we were escorted to:

– The Flag Café (first ever show, 18 November 1989, TCSU with Niall Quinn – now closed and walled)

– The Crescent Hall

– The Glentworth (today’s Pery’s hotel)

– The Theatre Royal (closed)

– The Jetland Center (now a shopping center)

– People’s Park (where ‘Lark in the Park’ took place)

– The Parkway

– The Two Mile Inn

– The Speakeasy (today’s Texas Steak Out)

– The Empire Records shop where the band launched their debut album (today’s Centra shop)

– The Savoy, Top Floor (now entirely rebuilt)

– The Cruise’s Royal Hotel (first ever show with Dolores on 14 July 1990, the building is now gone)

But that wasn’t all!
We were honored to be welcomed at the Moyross ‘Corpus Christi Primary School’ where the very talented choir (who had sung earlier this year at Thomond Park for the Munster game, as well as on RTÉ One ahead of the All Ireland final) performed “Dreams” for us!!!

What a beautiful reminder of the impact of the band’s music on the upcoming generations, proving that music will, without a doubt, be the legacy that Dolores has left for all time.

Here’s our video to share this incredible and very emotional experience with Cranberries fans from all over the world :

Corpus Christi Choir Moyross – “Dreams”

Last, we were privileged to be joined by Professor Eoin Devereux at Limerick University, where he teaches, to learn more on the History of the band and visit some more places that are still full of memories:

– The Stables Club

– The University of Limerick room where ‘Treaty 300’ took place

– The Irish Chamber Orchestra

We’ve truly been touched by the hospitality we received in Limerick, and we treasure those lovely moments that we were privileged to share with everyone there. It is our sincere hope that by sharing this small review of our trip, fans throughout the world will feel the love the Limerick people have for the beautiful soul that Dolores undeniably was.

We would like to extend a very warm THANK YOU to Alan Martin, the Moyross Corpus Christi Choir, and Professor Eoin Devereux for filling our hearts with so much history and beautiful memories at a most needed time.

Interesting article posted on limerickleader.ie

Seoirse Laffan’s ‘Dreams’ flag hung proudly at the Na Piarsaigh homecoming

A  nice video featuring some members of Dolores’ family was posted today on limerickleader.ie in the article called “WATCH: Emotional scenes as Liam MacCarthy cup pays visit to Dolores O’Riordan’s family home”

No way to embed the video here so you have to click the link above to watch it directly on the Limerick Leader’s website.

A Cranmeeting was held in São Paulo, Brazil on 14 July 2018 in a bar called Cervejaria Artesanal São Paulo. The event was a tribute to Dolores O’Riordan and was arranged by brazilian fanclub “The Cranberries Brasil”. Admission was free.

First, there was an acoustic performance by a trio of fans, “Threeberries” (Jorge Vinicius, Erik Rizzatto and Matheus). Afterwards, “Mary Jane”, a cover band, performed.

Threeberries
1) God Be With You
2) Pure Love (Puro Amore)
3) Disappointment
4) 7 Years
5) Ecstasy
6) Raining In My Heart
7) Sunday
8) Tomorrow
9) The Journey
10) Astral Projections
11) Fee Fi Fo
12) So Cold In Ireland
13) Daffodil Lament

Mary Jane (https://www.instagram.com/alanisecranberriescover)
1) Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
2) Analyse
3) Free To Decide
4) Hollywood
5) Animal Instinct
6) Linger
7) Ode To My Family
8) Loud And Clear
9) How
10) Just My Imagination
11) When You’re Gone
12) Twenty One
13) Wanted
14) Stars
15) I Can’t Be With You
16) Waltzing Back
17) The Icicle Melts
18) Why
19) Ridiculous Thoughts
20) Dreams
21) Salvation
22) Zombie
23) Promises

You can watch almost the complete performances on YouTube by clicking this link.

Thanks to Eduardo for sending us the photos below:

The Hogan brothers spotted last Friday (13 July) at “Live at the Marquee” in Cork with The Coronas frontman Danny O’Reilly. This was shared today by the 4th man on the photo and Instagram user banogueman, Willie Ryan as known as The Owl.
Photo by Nicholas O’Donnell.

It’s now midnight in Ireland, April 29th, Mike Hogan turns 45 today.
Our thoughts go out to our favorite bass player on this special day!

Photo off “Uncertain” video

Video available on YouTube

It’s now midnight in Ireland, 25 December 2017
Happy Birthday to Noel Hogan who turns 46 today!

And a Happy Christmas to you all.

Rockhal – May 7, 2017 – Photo: Claude Piscitelli

The very inspired The Hand published on Instagram another nice drawing today, this time the whole band:

Last night I dreamt this…
#cranberries

 

A recent photo of Noel Hogan was published on Instagram today by user dine_officiel
Noel is supporting dinewear, a streetwear shop located in Toulouse France, and this is possibly the first time you can see publicly all Noel’s brand new tattoos with a wide view of his arms.

This is Noel Hogan of the Cranberries ladies and gents.
Thanks for your support @noelhogan
One of my fave artist on this planet…
feel special & proud today.
DINE

Another great drawing of Dolores published today by the cartoonist The Hand on his socials.

#Leonardolores

Uomo Vitruviano – Leonardo da Vinci

Sad news, “The Sage Café” (Mike Hogan’s Café) is closing today!
Below the photo posted a few hours ago on their Facebook page.

To all of our loyal customers and friends over the many enjoyable years on Catherine Street we would like to thank you for your continued custom and support however it is with heavy hearts that we are announcing our closure of the cafe as of today!

We will miss you all!

From all of us here at The Sage Cafe!

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:

Another rare and great old pic posted by zac_gallery on Instagram to celebrate Dolores’ Birthday.

Dolores and a fan – Italian radio – 2007

It’s midnight in Ireland, Happy Birthday to Dolores O’ Riordan who turns 46 today!!

Rockhal 2017 – Photo: Claude Piscitelli