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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 boat ...

15 May 2018 at 14:00

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 O’Shaughnessy, sons of Mark T ...

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) high presentation beaker worked ...

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 Robert Byrne and the Limerick Soviet,...

15 Mar 2019 at 06:00

What's On

Thousand years of history at Limerick church waiting to be told

KILMURRY Arts and Heritage Centre is set to launch of a book which documents the long history of Kilmurry Church in Castletroy later this month. The book was collated by local man Martin O’Brien, and will be sold for €10 on the day with ...

20 Oct 2019 at 10:00

Nostalgia

Limerick Chronicle files: Timothy Collopy had a true talent that was a gift from God

LIMERICK has always had strong ties to art, with locally born artists becoming household names, such as Sean Keating. This legacy of art stretches back generations to artists who were famous in their lifetimes but are less known today. ...

11 Apr 2018 at 14:30

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

Community

Knocklong to bring County Limerick history to life

KNOCKLONG in County Limerick has a long and proud history and it certainly hasn’t been forgotten by locals living there today. Pat Walsh, one of the hard-working committee behind the Knocklong History Weekend, said they have a ...

18 May 2018 at 12:00

Nostalgia

Limerick Leader files: Roots of Olympians run deep in Limerick

JOHNNY Hayes was one of only three male American athletes to win the Olympic Marathon, taking gold in 1908 (the other two being Thomas Hicks in 1904 and Frank Shorter in 1972). He was also the first man to win at the now ...

26 Jul 2018 at 12:47

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 ...

30 Jun 2018 at 15:00

Nostalgia

Limerick Chronicle files: Zambian president given freedom of Limerick

DR Kenneth Kaunda first visited Limerick on May 18, 1963 where he spent time with his friend Rev. Fr Robert Thompson, S. J. Crescent College, during a three-day visit to Ireland. Thompson, a native of Mallow, had ...

16 Jul 2018 at 13:30

Local News

If Walls Could Talk: Pomp and circumstance of Limerick’s early elites

IN January 1826, a magnificent fancy-dress ball and supper took place at a private residence on O’Connell Street. An extensive report of the event was carried in several local and national newspapers including ...

26 Apr 2024 at 09:00

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