(1) The #Limerick 1936 Grand Prix race was marred by the death of 22 year old Duke of Grafton, John Charles William FitzRoy who had celebrated his birthday only days earlier. He was driving a Bugatti T59 that crashed into the gate pier of the CBS at Sexton Street while turning...

Great to see the local authority install traditional street lighting on the Ranelagh Road. Can you imagine these all down O’Connell Street in #Limerick

A valuable archive of land and estate maps, wills, leases and tenancies has been uncovered in the attic of a house in Limerick. It provides valuable information not seen before about life in Limerick and Clare dating back to the 1700s | More: bit.ly/3XEY012

🚨Fundraising table quiz in aid of Limerick Wild Geese Festival takes place on Tuesday 7th March at 8pm fennessyspub. The festival is going from strength to strength and we’d like to increase our offering. The table quiz promises to be a great night out. Please share/retweet widely. #Limerick

An excerpt from a hand drawn and painted map of Rathkeale, Co. #Limerick (1790). The castle referred to was replaced by courthouse/prison ca.1820. Abbey House was home to the Leake family. In all, the town had 341 houses. The land surveyor was Paul Rahilly. He died 22 April 1809.

Conserving your Dublin Period House starts next Tue 7th March. Conservation experts will provide talks on everything from damp & insurance to making energy efficiency upgrades. A must for anyone renovating, retrofitting, or extending their historic house. bit.ly/3IZQGsH

Hot off the press! Dr Derek Mulcahy (Derek Mulcahy) poses beside the boxes containing his new book ‘By the left, quick march’ #Limerick’s Marching Band Tradition’. Available from Monday OMahonys Booksellers. Packed with unpublished photographs, images & maps. Be sure to pick up a copy

"Henry 8th and last Earl of Thomond sold Bunratty Castle & Folk Park and 472 acres to Thomas Amory in 1712 for £225 and an annual rent of £120. Amory sold the Castle to Thomas Studdert who took up residence ca.1720." It's very exciting to be holding Thomas Amory's will dated 8 August 1726.

J.HODKINSON & SONS Hi Randel, I came across this in the Building News, 31 December 1886 & thought it might be of interest to you.

What a great turnout on Merchants Quay today for the launch of this wonderful book on the history of Limericks Marching Bands by Derek Mulcahy . All our local bands have come together in the foreground of Limerick's most historic building Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick

Can you imagine this vision for the Opera site/ Cleeves site and the city centre in general.

Great prizes to win at tonight’s Table Quiz & Raffle fennessyspub, including 2 x €50 vouchers for dinner at The French Table Restaurant, a €30 voucher for delicous patisseries at Angel Dust & a surprise gift from Re_Story_Limerick! Thanks to all 3 local businesses for their support!

In 5 days time the International band parade and thousands of visitors will pass the O Connell monument , can someone from Limerick Council - Comhairle Luimnigh or Limerick Civic Trust please organise to clean it up.

Thanks to @BrianLeddin & Councilor James Collins for reaching out and acting on this. Hopefully it will be gleaming by Friday. One of Limerick Civic Trust 's flagship projects, it has been in a sorry state for some time now and needs more regular maintenance. @DavidThomond

Great to see the maintenance dept. out cleaning the O'Connell Monument before the weekend . Thank you to Limerick Council - Comhairle Luimnigh @BrianLeddin James Collins for dealing swiftly with this issue, & all the good people who reached out & were willing to help clean the fountain,#community

It's great to know that #StPatricksDay was invented by #Limerick people. Limerick Leader, 25 March 1939. #PigTown Photos of group and memorial sourced from helenhanley

The O'Connell Monument , Limerick getting spruced up for St.Patricks Day.👏 Let's hope a regular maintenance programme can now be put in place. Limerick Council - Comhairle Luimnigh @BrianLeddin James Collins Dr Paul O'Brien Anne

St Patrick's Day parade, Limerick , early 1950s.

This fortnightly article in Limerick Leader / Limerick Live is one of the best additions to the local paper in years. Paul's indepth research for these articles brings to life a lot of the most interesting & forgotten People & Places from #Limerick City's history. #localnewspapers

Today in 1978.. The band U2 performed, for the first time using that name, at a "Pop" Competition in the Stella Ballroom, Limerick. They won the Competition and... #Limerick #otd #U2