Clothing the Confederacy: Taits of Limerick
Sir Perer Tait
Sir Peter Tait was born in Scotland in 1828, but moved to Limerick at a young age. In 1844 he obtained a job working as a shop assistant in the Cumine and Mitchell department store. However, when trade grew slow Tait lost his position, …
Publish Date: 05/11/2010 19:16
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Even the promise of a bed to myself would not entice me from my hiding- place in the loft of McNamara’s house. Jim Mack, or Black Jim as he was known to his fellow fishermen, stood at the bottom of the ladder which led to the loft. ”Come down”, he said, ”they are gone”. I knew they had gone. I had kept watch out through the read more...
I have read many little stories from the beautiful writers of Limerick, sure enough, some are maybe my school mates whom I have little recollection of now since 60 odd years have been like a slow drawn blotter on the blackboard of my life, erasing,erasing with that terrible screech every now and again as the chalk falls like snow onto the well worn wooden floor at Creagh Lane.
It started in the island field in 1935 read more...
A record of the Limerick – city and county men – who died in the Great War
The Widow's Penny
When I started to compile the record of Limerick Men who died in the Great War, I had fewer than ten names. This would turn out to be a gigantic task, but I felt it had to be read more...
Growing up in Ahane in the late ’60′s and 70′s was quite similar to growing up in any rural community in Ireland. Many of the old ways were on the wane, as mechanisation was taking over. The pony and car were making way for the tractor, empty fields were being developed as industrialisation was coming to our area, and with it, an increasing number of new people were moving in and taking up residence in read more...
Mindful of our great instructors,
Sarsfield, Emmet, Davis, Tone,
On our own right read more...
PW Joyce famous work The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places
Wasn’t it Shakespeare who asked: “What’s in a name?”
Despite Shakespeare’s obvious doubts, there can be a lot in a name, especially a place name. I don’t know if people in other countries are as interested in place names as are the people of Ireland. Perhaps some of read more...
(Spoken in the Limerick dialect of the 1930s and 1940s)
Ryan Family, Island Field, Limerick
Me fahdur packed up and left us whin I was only eight years old, just whin I was gettin’ to know and really love him.
For some reason or other, I don’t know what, a fella called Jeezez ‘called him away’.
Jeezez read more...
Burton's Billard Saloon c. 1946
Burton’s Billiard Saloon was for many a Limerick man a house of refuge in the ‘forties and early ‘fifties.
Every morning of the week men stood in wait for ”Baw” Sullivan, the caretaker, to arrive. The long, mirrored, mosaic corridor, where men would have a final glance at their quiffs before going up to read more...
Frank with the two casks containing the ashes of the aunt of Gina LLollabrigida and the Co. Limerick colonel
Frank Thompson, one of Limericks oldest established Funeral Undertakers, was born at 43 Roches Street on the 30th. of November 1919. He had an unusual birth because he was born with a broken leg which resulted from a beating his mother received from the read more...
