[streetview width=”100%” height=”250px” lat=”52.665529″ lng=”-8.619838999999956″ heading=”0″ pitch=”0″ zoom=”1″][/streetview] Broad Street. This name goes back to at least the middle of the 18th Century and the street was probably so named because it was a wide thoroughfare through the old city.
Recollections of a Limerick Musicman
My name is Ger Cusack. I come from Prospect in Limerick City and I’ve been involved in music for most of my life. I went to the Model School and sang in Mr. Silbourne’s class and due to him I sang solo on Radio Eireann. The programme was recorded at the Good Sheperd Convent and […]
If Walls Could Talk
This is the story of how a small Theatre transformed the cultural life of an Irish city. Theatres possess a special atmosphere that actors and performers recognised instantly. At rehersals, they clued into the spirits of the Hall, picking up on vibes and whispers of the past. Theatre deals with imagination; calling for what S.T. […]
“Me Fahdur And Me Muddur”
(Spoken in the Limerick dialect of the 1930s and 1940s) 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 was a fella […]
History of Irish Coffee
In 1942 Joe Sheridan was a chef at the flying-boat seaport of Foynes. At this time all transatlantic passenger flights were undertaken by flying boat – a craft that enabled sea landings in the case of emergencies, such as poor weather or lack of fuel. The flying boats carried some thirty people in an unpressurised […]
Now my feet are planted in a far off land
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 […]
Belltable
Weekending Mon 4th Oct – Sun 10th Oct Film: Tues 5th Oct @ 8pm. Ireland / 2009 / 80mins. AWARD WINNING FILM HIS & HERS Directed by Ken Wardrop. Rarely have the odd and the ordinary combined to such beguiling effect. Winner of a small hatfull of prizes over the last year, Ken Wardrop’s debut […]
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The first and last King of Ireland
BRIAN BORU (c. 940-1014) Brian Boru was born around 940, the youngest of two sons of Cennedig, head of Dal Cais, one of the royal free tribes of Munster. Brian grew up during the worst days of tyranny when the Dalcassians had been driven in to the present county of Clare. Brian’s brother, Mahon, being […]