Limerick History Quiz 1

During the 1651 Cromwellian Siege of Limerick the invading forces used St. Mary’s Cathedral as a stables for their horses.

In the tale told by Michael Hogan “the Bard of Thomond” the Bishop’s Lady who had previously lived in the Bishop’s Palace would throw passers-by over the Thomond Bridge, when the story was set this was the old Thomond Bridge and not the one we see today.

Peter Tait ran the Limerick Clothing Factory which revolutionised clothing manufacturing around the world. During the American Civil War his ships were one of the few which were able to reach the Southern Confederate forces.

In 1903 the Carnegie Free Library was built on the edge of People’s Park, where it now house the Art Gallery

Quinlan Street is only 100 meters wide, erected by Thomas Quinlan C.1890

Limerick was under attack four times in the 1600s, in 1642, 1650-51, 1690 and 1691.

It has been moved twice it was originally next to Jack Mondays, then on the pedestal, and finally the new location on Clancy Strand

Erected in 1829 by the Barrington family topped with a statue of Thomas Spring Rice (1791-1866) who was the MP for Limerick at the time.

George Clancy & Michael O’Callaghan were murdered in their homes on the 7th March 1921. Clancy Strand and O’Callaghan Strand are named after these two men.

The memorial to Viscount John Charles Henry FitzGibbon stood on Sarsfield Bridge from 1857 until it was blown up by the IRA on 9th June 1930. The 1916 memorial was erected in its place.