The Honey Fitz Theatre gets its name from John Francis Fitzgerald who was Mayor of Boston and grandfather to President John F. Kennedy who was known as “Honey Fitz” because of his beautiful singing voice.
Located beside Patrickswell church, The Honey Fitz theatre was originally Lough Gur National School and was used as a school from 1854 to 1966.
The theatre was refurbished in 1994 by Jean Kennedy-Smith, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, performed the official re-opening, re-naming it in honour of her grandfather, “The Honey Fitz Theatre”.
The Honey Fitz is now used as a theatre and community hall and is used weekly for set dancing, computer classes and art classes and so much more. It is widely used by the Lough Gur Dramatic Society to stage drama and also hosts the Lough Gur storytelling festival at Halloween for one week.
The Honey Fitz Theatre, Patrickswell, Bruff, Co. Limerick
