A list of registry (householder rate, freeman) applications of April 1841
The following is a list of registry applications at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in April 1841. The records detail the applicants names, address, occupation, property type, property annual...
View ArticleA list of registry (householder rate, freeman) applications of June 1842
The following is a list of registry applications at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in June 1842. The records detail the applicants names, address, occupation, property type, property annual...
View ArticleAccosting the Police in Nineteenth Century Limerick.
In 1875, a woman called O’Brien, ended up beating an officer after accosting another police officer on the street. All but one of the jury was convinced of her guilt. This juror queried the fact that...
View ArticleWealthy Spinster women of Limerick
Spinster daughters of wealthy families often became independent following the deaths of their male relatives. Some of these women in Limerick survived their parents and siblings by decades. However,...
View ArticleNational Heritage Hero Winner 2017 – Sharon Slater
On Thursday 12 April 2018, Sharon Slater was became the The Heritage Council’s National Heritage Hero Award for 2017 in the Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny. She was nominated by several members of the...
View ArticleAn Illustrated Guide to Limerick City publication
An Illustrated Guide to Limerick City is the third in Nesta FitzGerald’s illustrated tour series. Her previous guides cover County Limerick as well as North and West Kerry. For this guide Nesta teamed...
View ArticleThe great gunpowder explosion of 1837
On January 3, 1837, a gunpowder rocked the city centre to its core. In total twenty people lost their lives, one of whom the Chronicle recorded as “died of the absolute effects of fright”. The city was...
View ArticleRichard Crosbie and his 1786 Hot Air Balloon Flight
The first aircraft to land in Shannon was not an airplane nor was it in the twentieth century. On April 27, 1786, Richard Crosbie ascended in a balloon from Clancy Strand and travelled to the area that...
View ArticleLimerick against the Fake News of 1887
The following article was posted in the Nation on 19 March 1887. It tells of the news agents of Limerick city’s attempt to stop Fake News from England spreading in the city. The news agents of Limerick...
View ArticleOn this Day – October – In Limerick History
The following are a collection of events that are connected to the history of Limerick or people from Limerick during the month of October. 1 October – Richard Harris the award winning actor was born...
View ArticleOn this day – November – In Limerick History
The following are a collection of events that are connected to the history of Limerick or people from Limerick during the month of November. 1 November – It is believed that Michael Hogan, the Bard of...
View ArticleOn this day – December – In Limerick History
The following are a collection of events that are connected to the history of Limerick or people from Limerick during the month of December. 1 December – On this day 1 Dec 1868, Sir Peter Tait left the...
View ArticleTHE FUTURE YEARS: A STORY OF ANALOG DEVICES’ START-UP IN LIMERICK by Pat Cunneen
Pat Cunneen tells the story of Analog Devices in Limerick in his new publication The Future Years. Analog Devices, began operations in Limerick in 1976as a small SFADCO advance factory unit. There were...
View ArticleWilliam Nelson, Family Grocer, 61 William Street
William Nelson, a native of County Down, born c.1830, the son of Robert Nelson, a merchant. He arrived in Limerick around 1850, to work in the Limerick Warehouse Drapery Company. He branched out on his...
View ArticleThe Battle For Limerick City and The Battle For Kilmallock, Re-released
As the Decade of Centenaries draws to a close, Mercier Press have re-released two of its popular book on this period in Irish History. The Battle for Limerick City, by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc tells of the...
View ArticleFlavin & Company, Italian warehousemen
Flavin & Company were based at 133 George Street from 1880 until at least 1892 when review was made of their business in Straten
View ArticleA Day in Limerick (1862) by Henry Robert Addison
The following extract shows one man’s view of Limerick in 1862. This section of text was included in the publication “Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate” by Henry Robert Addison, formerly of...
View ArticleAn Unusual Execution in Limerick in 1799
The following is an extract from The Lady’s Magazine, London, April 1799 Limerick, April 8. A permanent court-martial has been sitting here since the 19th ult. On Friday, James and Patrick Mangane,...
View ArticleJames Quin on trial for murder, 1833
The Limerick Chronicle, dated August 3, 1833, contains an account of the trial of James Quin for the murder of Mary Knight. The incident occurred during a disturbance at the residence of a sex worker,...
View ArticleArthur Young’s 1770s view of Limerick
Arthur Young was born in 1741, the son of a clergy man in Suffolk, England. When he was thirty-five years old, he took a journey around Ireland which culminated in the publication of “A Tour in Ireland...
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