Limerick as viewed by Robert John Buckley in 1893
The following extract comes from Ireland as “It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule....
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Category: Letters
A letter to the Ulster Times from Limerick in 1836
The following extract was published first in the Ulster Times in 1836 and a year later in a bound...
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Thomas Hogan and the Murder of Michael Dennessy in 1787
In September 1787, Michael Dennessy, also known as Michael Donoghoe a weaver from Limerick city...
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A letter home from the Papal War of 1860
In 1860 more than a thousand Irishmen took part in an extraordinary adventure travelling to Italy...
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Limerick City in a report in a Melbourne Newspaper 1879
In 1879, a reporter from Melbourne Australia visited Limerick and wrote about it in The Argus newspaper.
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An 1892 Tourist View of the City
The following article by Peter M’Cluskey, an Australian travel writer with the The Bacchus...
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Travels in Ireland by Johann Georg Kohl, 1841
Johann George Kohl (1808 – 1878) was a German travel writer in the mid-nineteenth century....
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Stephen Gwynn describes Limerick in 1914
Stephen Gwynn was born Dublin on the 13 February 1864 the eldest child of John Gwynn, warden of St...
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Two Mayors and a Wager
The following strife between the Mayors of Limerick and Cork in occurred probably in 1876. The...
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The Astrea Shipwreck Letter
The following letter is from one of the three survivors of the Astrea shipwreck, who lost over 200...
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A Letter from a Limerick exile in Wisconsin 1850
Wisconsin became the 30th State in the Union of the United States of America on May 29, 1848. At...
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Samuel Reynolds Hole, Journey to Limerick, 1859
Samuel Reynolds Hole was an Anglican priest, author and horticulturalist in the late 19th century...
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