The audiovisual Writers' Exhibition in this Georgian building gives due prominence to Listowel's heritage of literary observers of Irish life. Rooms are devoted to local greats such as John B Keane and Bryan MacMahon, with simple, haunting tableaux narrating their lives and recordings of them reading their work. There's a cafe and a performance space where events are sometimes staged.
Keane is remembered with a statue on the opposite side of the square, in which he seems to be hailing a cab. He wrote with wry humour about subjects ranging from Limerick's beggars to the perils of giving up porter as a New Year's resolution.
On Church St, opposite the police station, a literary mural depicts the local writers and their pronouncements.
