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Limerick Soviet on show in St Patrick’s Day parade

A SMALL bit of history will be made at this year’s city St Patrick’s Day parade, with trade union Siptu entering for the first time. They are in 48th position and will mark the 100th anniversary of the Limerick Soviet which will be marked next month....

15 Mar 2019 at 14:00

Home

Limerick is home to more castles and towers than any other county in Ireland

AN EXHIBITION of photographs and other material about Limerick’s medieval castles and tower houses has revealed that the city and county has more of these structures than any other county. The exhibit in the Limerick Museum, which was curated by ...

30 Jun 2018 at 15:00

Nostalgia

Watsons' colourful history at centre of Limerick life

THE second owner of the Chronicle, Andrew Watson, was a prominent member of Limerick society. According to his obituary, he was born and reared in Limerick. He was an Alderman for many years becoming Mayor in 1812. He was the senior magistrate ...

13 Mar 2018 at 20:30

Nostalgia

River lives: Stories from the Shannon documented in new Limerick oral archive

FIRST-HAND accounts of life on the River Shannon as told by Limerick’s fishermen are to be heard for the first time in a new online oral history archive. Almost forty interviews have been recorded with fishermen and women, reed cutters and ...

15 May 2018 at 14:00

Adare/Askeaton

Adare village remembers 21 local soldiers killed in WWI

TWENTY-one young men from Adare in County Limerick lost their lives in the ‘carnage’ of the First World War. And almost a hundred years on from the war’s end, these locals are set to be commemorated in stone. Adare Community Council is ...

04 Nov 2017 at 11:00

Education

Limerick's Hunt Museum using '3D digitisation' to explore collection

A NEW digital project is allowing “everyone to virtually get inside” the original objects that make up the unique collection at Limerick’s Hunt Museum. The Hunt Museum is currently undertaking the Limerick 3D Project together with ...

17 Aug 2018 at 17:33

Books Literature

New book to look at Limerick’s Protestant community during the country's revolution

A NEW book will take a deeper look at the experiences of Limerick’s Protestant community during the nation's revolutionary period. It will feature a new collection of essays edited by Dr Seán William Gannon, Limerick City and ...

03 Dec 2023 at 08:49

Nostalgia

Limerick Chronicle files: Brothers’ stirring account of emigrants’ terrible sea journey

In August 1963, the Chronicle ran a four part series with extracts from the journal of two Limerick brothers who had travelled from Ireland to Australia 100 years before. The brothers were Hamilton George and Mark ...

17 Jul 2018 at 18:30

What's On

Limerick rebel's silver cup returns to Spike Island after auction

“TO Sean From Seven Irish Rebels 1931-1932, Spike” is the message carefully and painstakingly engraved on an intriguing silver beaker which was brought before auction earlier this week. The four-inch (10.5cm) ...

07 Dec 2019 at 13:45

Local News

Limerick councillor’s studies are brought to book

SINN Fein Limerick City East councillor Séighin Ó Ceallaigh is in the final stages of completing his first book on trade unionist Robert Byrne. Cllr Ó Ceallaigh has put together a self-published tome on ...

15 Mar 2019 at 06:00

Community

Limerick community does centenary of Seán Hogan rescue proud with daily events

A SEMINAL moment in the War of Independence exactly 100 years ago is being respectfully marked all this week in Knocklong. At 2.30pm this Saturday, May 18, the national commemoration of The Rescue of ...

16 May 2019 at 16:25

Nostalgia

Sean Curtin's Stroll Down Memory Lane: Limerick stories told in nostalgic publication

It’s November 20, 1956, and Marilyn Monroe is having her first sip of a recently – and locally – invented cocktail. Dining during a stopover at Shannon Airport, the mid-century screen queen and her ...

04 Nov 2017 at 09:00

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