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The project will be led by Listowel Business &amp; Community Alliance in conjunction with the Listowel Writers&#8217; Week committee to source relevant quotes and excerpts, as well as a number of local sign-writers to facilitate the work.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>This project acknowledges existing documents and research which have helped in developing the concept. This project would also compliment and bring together the Listowel Heritage and Community Led Regeneration Strategy 2017, Listowel Town Centre Health check 2018, Listowel Economic Strategy 2019-2021 and the key attributes and stakeholders who work together to achieve a successful town centre, under the framework for town centre renewal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14196,"template":"","class_list":["post-14195","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Listowel Characters - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This project will take quotes, conversations and excerpts from the work of Listowel and North Kerry poets, songwriters and writers and turn them into bold, colourful and thought-provoking typographic murals around the town.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Listowel Characters - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This project will take quotes, conversations and excerpts from the work of Listowel and North Kerry poets, songwriters and writers and turn them into bold, colourful and thought-provoking typographic murals around the town.\u00a0This project will provide a collaborative platform for local groups and the local community\u00a0to work on a beneficial and worthwhile project, to reinvigorate [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CreativeIrl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2021\/05\/listowel-characters-image-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@creativeirl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/\",\"name\":\"Listowel Characters - Creative Ireland Programme\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2021\/05\/listowel-characters-image-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-25T03:01:51+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2021\/05\/listowel-characters-image-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2021\/05\/listowel-characters-image-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1920},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/listowel-characters\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Listowel Characters\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Creative Ireland Programme\",\"description\":\"The Creative Ireland Programme is guided by a vision that every person in Ireland will have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential. 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