Read the review directly on independent.ie or click image below to access pdf file.

Read the interview directly on nme.com or click image below to access pdf file.

Click image below to access PDF file (59.7 MB)
Full program – 16 pages – HQ

University of Limerick
Honorary Doctoral
Conferring Ceremony
18 January 2019

As you know the ceremony was live streamed on the UL’s website yesterday, the University also shared great photos live on their socials, as seen on Instagram

And they posted a video on YouTube

Media covered the event early in the evening, below just some of them:

• • limerickleader.ie

• rte.ie

• limerickpost.ie

• independent.ie

• hotpress.com

• irishexaminer.com

• breakingnews.ie

• extra.ie

• thejournal.ie

The Cranberries of course appeared on yesterday evening’s Irish TV news:

• Virgin Media News

• RTÉ News

…and this morning in the Irish papers, even on the front page for a few:

Yesterday The Cranberries were presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Letters. Fergal was unable to attend and his doctorate was accepted on his behalf by Mike. The mother of Dolores, Eileen O’Riordan, was presented with a posthumous Honorary Doctorate of Letters for Dolores O’Riordan.

Congratulations to the new Doctors!

The robes

Press conference

Photo shoot #1 – Plassey House

Photo shoot #2 – Plassey House

The ceremony – Kemmy Business School

After the ceremony

Invitation
(photo by Alan Ward on Twitter)

Program
(front page + Eoin Devereux’s speech)

Special thanks to Professor Devereux, The Cranberries and the O’Riordan family

A “Rust Red” limited edition vinyl is available for pre-order on different websites such as The Vinyl Store (Spain), Norman Records (UK), What Records (UK), Lost In Vinyl (UK), Down In The Valley (USA), Amazon (France), Fnac (France) and probably many more…

The vinyl is not available in The Cranberries online store (yet?) but is 100% genuine as released via BMG.
Price varies from €18 to €25.
LP will be released on Friday 26 April.

SIDE A
1. All Over Now
2. Lost
3. Wake Me When It’s Over
4. A Place I Know
5. Catch Me If You Can

SIDE B
1. Got It
2. Illusion
3. Crazy Heart
4. Summer Song
5. The Pressure
6. In The End

Thanks to Julien @jttlse on Instagram for the info!

It seems that the Conferring Ceremony taking place tomorrow at University of Limerick will be live streamed on this link according to the small text featured on this page:

Page published on the UL’s website (ul.ie/ceremonies)

Read the article directly on hotpress.com

Read the article directly on hotpress.com

Watch below the 5 min. report broadcast on BBC One earlier today on “The One Show”. Featuring a short interview with The Cranberries and people close to Dolores.

Thanks to irishsoul for sharing

Read the article directly on limerickleader.ie

Click here to listen to the full interview broadcast on BBC Radio 2 earlier today on the “Jeremy Vine” show.

Here’s below the video broadcast earlier today on ITV in “News at 10” that includes a preview of the “All Over Now” videoclip that is unfinished to this date.
Thanks to irishsoul for sharing.

The Cranberries official store was just updated with some new “In The End” items that are available for preorder:

“In The End” just appeared on iTunes revealing tracklist order as well as duration of “All Over Now” (4:16)

10 tracks!!
Let’s note that the track “Crazy Heart” does not feature on the album unlike what we initially thought.

iTunes (France)

[UPDATE]

It seems iTunes (France and Italy) got the tracklist wrong as all other platforms (including The Cranberries official webstore) announced “Crazy Heart” as track #8 as well as a different tracklist order.

Amazon.com

Here’s a long version of the Cranberries interview for ITV recorded at the Underworld in London this afternoon.

Watch it directly on itv.com

The band announced “All Over Now” is to premiere tomorrow at 1:30pm on BBC Radio 2.
The track should thus not be available on any streaming platform before January 15h, 2pm!

https://www.facebook.com/TheCranberries/photos/a.10150493459072106/10156237883777106/?type=3&theater

According to French Newspaper “Le Parisien” the new album “In The End” will be released on 26 April 2019.

Read the article (in French) directly on leparisien.fr

Read the article directly on hotpress.com

Read the article directly on hotpress.com

The Cranberries will be giving some interviews in the upcoming days, here below the programs where they should be making an appearance (UK & Ireland time):

• Monday 14 January: ITV – News at 10 – 10.00 PM
• Tuesday 15 January: BBC Radio 2 – 1.00 PM
• Tuesday 15 January: BBC One (TV) – The One Show – 7.00 PM

For those living outside of UK/Ireland you can watch those TV channels on First One TV and listen to BBC Radio 2 here then click ‘Listen live’.

Big day today in the Cranberries world, the band just updated their official website cranberries.com as well as all their socials with the cover of their new – and last – studio album “In The End”, along with a long statement to explain the process of the album. No release date has been announced yet, hopefully soon… (possibly Spring 2019)

Also, to mark the first anniversary of Dolores’s passing, they will be releasing the first single “All Over Now” on the 15th of January.

In The End – album cover

You might recognize Noel’s son, Dylan, holding a guitar on the left, where his father is used to standing on stage. Although the other 3 kids are not yet known, we can imagine they are kids from Fergal, Mike and Dolores’ family.

EDIT: The little Emma is indeed the daughter of one of Dolores’ nieces and the name of little boy on the bass is William, son of Tommy O’Carroll and Kay O’Carroll. No more details about his link with Mike yet; family? or friend? or else?

cranberries.com new homepage

UPDATE – MARCH 11th

More about the kids on the cover…

Emma, alias Dolores O’Riordan, is the daughter of Elaine O’Riordan. Elaine is one of Dolores’ nieces and is the little girl with Dolores in the majestic horse and cart on Dolores’ wedding day.

18 July 1994 – Dolores and Elaine, the mother of Emma

Dylan Hogan, alias Noel Hogan, is Noel’s son. To illustrate, a photo from Noel’s private Instagram account (the one and only time).

24 November 2018 – Father and son, Noel and Dylan Hogan

William O’Carroll, alias Mike Hogan, is Mike’s nephew. Remember the name of Mike’s wife, Siobhan O’Carroll (Thanks to Mat in the comments below). On 18 January 2019, the Meelick National School posted a great photo on Facebook.

18 January 2019 at school – William O’Carroll

In the role of Fergal Lawler, the name of the little boy is still unknown and the only detail that surfaced yet is that he is Fergal’s nephew.

The Cranberries shared on Instagram a photo of the test pressing of the new album “In The End”. A vinyl version will definitely be available! The album is to be released probably in Spring 2019. The exact date is not known yet. Hopefully soon…

Yesterday The Cranberries posted on Instagram a photo of their invitation to the “Conferring of an Honorary Degree of The University of Limerick on The Cranberries”. The band didn’t give any other info at the time, such as the date of the ceremony nor if this was going be a public event or not…etc.
Some fans then commented it could be an Honorary Doctorate.

The Cranberries’ invitation posted on Instagram

Today more details were given in three articles published online on limerickleader.ie, hotpress.com and irishexaminer.com  [edit: and even more articles were published during the day]

The ceremony will take place on Friday 18 January to honor all band members. Noel Hogan, Fergal Lawler and Mike Hogan will receive honorary doctorates while a posthumous award will be made to the family of the late Dolores O’Riordan.

The University of Limerick awards honorary doctorates to “individuals who have shown outstanding achievement, nationally or internationally, in the arts, sciences, business, industry, the professions, sport, social service or public service.”

It looks like ceremonies at the Limerick University are reserved to invited guests only, and that dress code applies. All details can be found on the “general information for invited guests” page of the UL’s website.

For those who are not invited to attend, the UL ceremonies seem to be live streamed on this link. For now, there’s no information whether the ceremony in which The Cranberries are part will be available for watching or not.

Our team just had a look at the French SACEM website (French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers, and music publishers) where the song titles unveiled yesterday by Itzik are indeed all listed, which confirms that these songs will indeed feature on the band’s upcoming album In The End!
See screenshots below:

Interestingly, when browsing the To The Faithful Departed era on the SACEM website, we also noticed a song we had never heard of before: “Angel” !!!

A fan called Itzik just posted the below message on our website, revealing the possible “In The End” album tracklist in no particular order (as we already know from a recent Noel Hogan interview that In The End is to be the last song of the album)

The following is a list (in no particular order) of 11 newly registered song titles for the new album.
Please keep in mind that not all might end up on the album and some could be just working titles.

 

All Over Now (O’Riordan/Hogan)
A Place I Know (O’Riordan/Hogan)
Illusion (O’Riordan/Hogan)
Crazy Heart (O’Riordan/Hogan)
The Pressure (O’Riordan/Hogan)
In The End (O’Riordan/Hogan)
Summer Song (O’Riordan/Brodbeck)
Lost (O’Riordan)
Wake Me When It’s Over (O’Riordan)
Catch Me If You Can (O’Riordan)
Got It (O’Riordan)

 

BMG are still planning an “early 2019” release.

Happy new year everyone!!
Itzik

IMPORTANT: We do not yet know what his source is, nor if this is official or not, although it is very likely these information may have leaked on the Internet in the past hours.

More soon as we’re investigating, and a major thank you to Itzik for his comment.

UPDATE – JANUARY 3

Although the source hasn’t yet been revealed, we are inclined to think this tracklist is definitely real as Dan Brodbeck was indeed writing a song with Dolores shortly before she passed as confirmed in his January 2018 CBC interview.
Moreover, the track Illusion does ring a bell as a demo song sharing the same name was accidentally uploaded onto JETLAG.NYC’s Soundcloud account in November 2017…

As Ireland just entered 2019 a few minutes ago, The Cranberries official website updated their home page to reveal what should be an artwork linked to the release of their upcoming – and last – album “In The End”, due in 2019.

If the exact release date isn’t known to this date, BMG is likely to release the album in Spring as September/October might be devoted to the 25th anniversary of the No Need To Argue album.

cranberries.com home page new artwork

The CW Team would like to use the occasion to send our fellow grieving fans our best wishes, hoping that this new year will bring everyone peace and closure.

x

“Rapturous Reception For The Cranberries 1993″
Following a hugely successful American tour supporting Duran Duran, The Cranberries return to Limerick and receive a Mayoral reception.

Watch the RTÉ News report broadcast on 17 December 1993 now available on the RTÉ Archives website by clicking this link.

On the Cranberries Italia Facebook group, Niall Quinn wrote, “That’s my dad Dolores is talking to at 0.37”
(Actually… the guy receiving an autograph, how cool!)

Great rare photos taken by Anne O’Connor during the recording of Everybody Else and posted by The Cranberries on Instagram yesterday.
[EDIT] Also shared 2 days after on The Cranberries’ Facebook in better quality:

Dolores, Mike, Rob Kirwan

Noel and Stephen Street

Rob Kirwan (on the left with striped tshirt) – Stephen Street (on the right)

This last photo was already posted by Anne O’Connor on Twitter on 15 March 2014 and in color:

On Thursday 22 November 2018, John Hennessy, Ber Angley, Máire Keary-Scanlon and Shane Curtin were honored by the city of Limerick for their contribution to the musical landscape of the city. People from the music community came out in support at the mayoral reception at City Hall and Noel Hogan was one of them.

Full details in the article “Limerick recognises its unsung heroes in music” published on limerickpost.ie

John Hennessy, Ber Angley, Mayor Daniel Butler, Máire Keary Scanlon, Shane Curtin
Photo: Keith Wiseman

The Cranberries are mentioned in the part concerning Ber Angley, who is synonymous with events at University of Limerick since the 1980s:

Professor Eoin Devereux spoke about Ber’s achievements.
“He had the capacity to imagine and dream and say ‘why can’t we do things like this?’.”
Ber also played a part in getting Limerick’s most successful music export signed to a major label. He played a very significant role in the history of the band, booking them for The Stables Bar and rostered them on national tours of the colleges in their early days.
Ber booked The Cranberries for a Rag Week gig at The Jetland on Ennis Road. (where Dunnes Stores / Woodies is now).
Prof Devereux told the audience, “There were 32 A&R men from the record industry hoping to sign The Cranberries.
At that gig a man called Denny Cordell of Island Records made a deal with The Cranberries. It was a historic night in the history of the band that went to global success.”

Mayor Daniel Butler, Ber Angley, Noel Hogan – Photo: Keith Wiseman

The day after, Ber Angley published on Twitter a photo of his award and a ‘thanks everyone’ message:

Posted earlier today by The Cranberries on Instagram and Facebook: