Charlie Chaplin, visited the picturesque village of Adare a few months after Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier III of Monaco stopped there on their way to Kerry. The Limerick Chronicle of April 14, 1962, reported, “well-known former film comedian, Charlie Chaplin, and his wife Oona, overnighted in the Dunraven Arms Hotel, Adare”. The couple were…
Arthur Young was born in 1741, the son of a clergy man in Suffolk, England. When he was thirty-five years old, he took a journey around Ireland which culminated in the publication of “A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779”, which to highlight his journey throughout the country during this three-year period. Arthur Young was an avid…
The following extract shows one man’s view of Limerick in 1862. This section of text was included in the publication “Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate” by Henry Robert Addison, formerly of the 2nd Dragoon Guards. The publication tells of the heroic and bizarre stories involving Major Thomas Phillips Vokes, a police magistrate in Limerick….
The following extract comes from Ireland as “It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule. Sixty-two letters written by the special commissioner of the Birmingham Daily Gazette, between March and August 1893.” by Robert John Buckley after he visited Limerick, on 22 April 1893. Robert John Buckley was born in Monaghan but moved…
Samuel Carter Hall in 1882 published Ireland, The South. The following is his description of Limerick
The following is an extract from the 1852 publication Three days on the Shannon: from Limerick to Lough Key By William Frederick Wakeman. THE START. We shall suppose our reader to have arrived in Limerick en route to the capital, after having visited some of the romantic and charming scenery which has rendered Clare, and…
In a tale reminiscent of the golden age of railway travel, a memorable excursion took place on Sunday, August 11, 1850, as the Great Southern and Western Railway connected the cities of Limerick and Cork. The journey, despite the typically unpredictable Irish weather, was filled with excitement and eager anticipation. The journey was recorded in…
The following description of Limerick by Thomas W. Silloway and Lee L. Powers was first published in 1883. The pair travelled through Ireland to create a tour guide called “The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland, and Scotland: A Description of cities cathedrals, lakes, mountains, ruins and watering-places.” for potential visitors to the…
The following extract was published first in the Ulster Times in 1836 and a year later in a bound volume of a tour around Ireland. It was written under the pen name J. K. The Limerick report was written in Killaloe, October 3, 1836 and read as follows: On the whole, we have been rather…
The following letter appeared in the New York Mirror, volume 16, June 30, 1838. The New York Mirror was a weekly journal dedicated to literature and the fine arts. Dublin June 13th, 1838 We left Killarney at an early hour in the mail-car for Limerick, a distance of fifty Irish miles. The mail-car was similar…
In 1879, a reporter from Melbourne Australia visited Limerick and wrote about it in The Argus newspaper.
On the 6 May 2016 a plaque was unveiled to commemorate the visit of Charles Dickens to Limerick in 1858. The plaque was erected by the Limerick Writers Centre. We were asked to say a few words about Limerick in 1858 to set the scene for the visit of Mr Dickens. Limerick in 1858 was…
Each year, Christmas creeps up earlier and becomes more elaborate, with decorations both inside and outside houses, and multiple gifts to everyone and their dog. It has not always been this way, even fifty years ago Christmas was a much more subdued affair, with only a single gift and a family dinner being the norm….