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The saga of John The Man & Walter Stanley

Back in the golden days of pirate radio in the 70s & 80s, the people of limerick were truly blessed. By switching on to Radio Lumni, you heard the best local radio programme, in some folk’s opinion, that there ever has been. Around 7.30 am, you would hear the soft tones of John The Man […]

Catherine Hayes – the Limerick Nightingale

(1818-1861) Catherine Hayes was a legend in her own lifetime and afterwards. She was born at 4 Patrick Street, Limerick, the third daughter of Arthur and Mary Hayes. Her father who was Bandmaster of the Limerick City Militia deserted his family causing great financial distress. The young Catherine Hayes helped her cousin, Mrs Carroll who […]

What is a Limerick?

To be a Limerick, a verse MUST have: Five lines Lines one, two, and five MUST each have exactly three metric feet Lines three and four MUST each have exactly two metric feet The metric feet MUST be anapests ( da da DUM ) although the leading foot of each line may be an iamb […]

The Lure of the Limerick

limericks, limerick poem, funny limericks, naughty limericks, writing limericks No-one knows for certain how the name of an Irish Mid-Western city came to be associated with the short, irreverent, often bawdy verses of the limerick. Some people believe that it came from the school of poets who lived in Croom, Co. Limerick in the nineteenth […]

Some Day My Time Will Come

In a full and forthright EXCLUSIVE interview with Limerick.com controversial author, journalist and broadcaster Gerard Hannan talks about his Limerick childhood, his brush with the Dateline: June 8th. 2002 LIMERICK.COM: Thank you for agreeing to do this interview. HANNAN: You’re very welcome. Why should I turn down such an opportunity to communicate my thoughts and […]

Limerick Musings…Recovery

The annual summer visit to Limerick this year was marked by the turn of the key in the door of the house that is now the family home without my mother. I wrote about that feeling of absence many years ago, in a poem called Emptynest, on the death of my father, when we children […]

Defining Limerickman

There is no more a monolithic Limerickman than there is a Dubliner who hasn’t read Ulysses yet who is supposed to be more Joycean than Joyce himself.But imagine that such a superman of the Shannon once existed and became victim of a Big Bang and is now diffused throughout the city, his gemlike qualities coated […]