On Sunday 4th May, the choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick travelled to St Fin Barre’s Cathedral and joined forces with the resident choir to sing for both services that day. St Fin Barre’s Cathedral Choir had travelled to Limerick in November 2024, and so this was a return visit, cementing the collaboration firmly. It was also the weekend of Cork International Choral Festival and so an appropriate time to join together and the number of visitors at the services was higher than usual. 

The choirs sang Mozart’s Missa brevis in D and the verse anthem ‘See, see the word is incarnate’ by Orlando Gibbons. The two choirs had lunch together in The Flying Enterprise and the convivial atmosphere continued there over a burger! At Evensong they sang the Canticles in A by C. V. Stanford with Mr Peter Barley from Limerick conducting and Mr Matthew Breen, Assistant Director of Music at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, at the organ. The anthem was the festive Easter classic, also by Stanford, ‘Ye choirs of new Jerusalem’.