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Limerick Archives (formerly Limerick Regional Archives/Limerick City Archives) is part of Limerick City and County Council. Its purpose is to collect and preserve archival material relating to Limerick city, and to make these archives freely available to the public. The physical archives are held in the County Library, Dooradoyle.
The Limerick Museum was founded in 1907 and originally accommodated in the Carnegie Free Library and Museum building (established by Andrew Carnegie on Pery Square). Limerick Museum opened to the public in 1916 and remained in Pery Square until 1975. In 1979, the museum relocated to two restored houses in John Square.
Limerick's literature scene is supported by projects like the Limerick Writers' Centre, which was established in 2008 and runs a range of writing activities in the city. Limerick natives include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, and novelists Kate O'Brien, Michael Curtin, Kevin Barry and Donal Ryan.
In retrospect, however, he is chiefly remembered as a prodigious book collector who bequeathed enough volumes to his native city of Limerick to form the basis of a library "for the free use of the citizens", although it would only be in 1893 that the first public library in Limerick was actually opened. [2]
The post 7 Famous Limerick Examples That Will Inspire You to Write Your Own appeared first on Reader's Digest. Read on for more famous verse to explore, and we'll do our best not to ramble.
The People's Museum hosts an extensive collection of items relating to the people of Limerick (city and county) and the culture of the region. It also covers military history and Limerick lace. Notable individuals profiled include Richard Bourke, Catherine Hayes, Frank McCourt and Seán Wall. [5] In August 2020 an exhibit of local taxidermy was ...
Limerick Leader offices, O'Connell Street. The Limerick Leader is a weekly local newspaper in Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 1889. [1] The newspaper is headquartered on Glentworth Street in the City. The broadsheet paper currently is distributed in three editions, City, County and West , with a small selection of content differing between ...
Local Studies at Limerick City Library Archived 10 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine; John Begley, The Diocese of Limerick, Ancient and Medieval; Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1849) – contains the essay The Northmen of Limerick by Timothy Lee; The Limerick Soviet, 1919 Online edition of Liam Cahill's excellent book