These are images commissioned by the Limerick Corporation from photographer Michael Cowhey to record the last vestiges of old Limerick before it was transformed into the modern city of today. Click on an image to see an enlargement.
The Fourth Siege of Limerick
A HIGHLY interesting and original account of the Civil War in Limerick is published in an edition of the Old Limerick Journal (No 38). For many years, one of the participants in that bloody conflict, city man PJ Ryan, tried to get his account of what was to become known as the Fourth Siege of […]
Remembering the Hiring Fairs of County Limerick
The hiring fairs was part of the Irish scene for at least two hundred years up to about the late 1940s. Hiring fairs were held in two centres in County Limerick in the grounds of the railway station at Kilmallock, and in the Square at Newcastle West. The hiring fairs in Kilmallock commenced on the […]
Memories of the Island Field
I was the first child born in the Island Field on August 29th 1935 at 76 St. Ita Street. I now reside in Canada. I went to Gerald Griffin, and Leamys before being incaserated in St. Josephs Industrial School, Glin. Frank McCourt and Malachy also went to Leamys and on top of that he has […]
Where Are All The Characters Gone?
Any of you who grew up in Limerick in the 40’s and 50’s will remember, like me, some of the “characters” that were to be found on our streets. These were people that maybe had fallen on hard times or as they say today ” were socially deprived” or had experienced physical or mental abuse […]
My Grandad…Plastered
My grandad, plastered all his life, though he never drank alcohol. He plastered walls and ceilings. And a master plasterer he was too. Bill Magner was his name, a tall thin bald man, and to my childhood eyes, always seemed to be stooped, as he rummaged his pipe bowl – which always seemed to be […]
O Happy Days…
One of the most abiding memories of childhood is that of Saturday afternoon cinema. The staple diet of the cinemas in times past was,of course, the “cowboy and indian” films along with the “follow uppers” (an episode every Saturday) like flash gordon and superman. The local cinema, the “City theatre” is, sadly, no longer; but […]
The Simon
A semi derlict 3 story house on the corner of Charlotte Quay ajoining a river in the old Irishtown was selected to be a “Simon Community”. In the early 70s this was a movement with the aim of providing night shelter and food for homeless men. The house had about 10 rooms with bare timber […]
Packet and Tripe – Limerick’s Cavier
France has snails, London has bubble and squeak, Scotland has haggis, Holland has cheese, Germany has frankfurters, Itialy has pasta, Dublin has coddle but Limerick has packet and tripe. Or had. It is a dish little eaten in these affulent days, McDonalds and Burger King have triumphed over a dish that was a staple food […]
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