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A selection of publications by Sharon Slater

Posted on January 1, 2017November 24, 2024 by Sharon Slater

The following are publications by Sharon Slater, historian and owner of Limerick’s Life. There are links to where they can be purchased online (where available).

Books:

  • 2024 – River Notes – Limerick Opera Festival
  • 2022 – 100 Women of Limerick – Ormston House
  • 2021 – The A to Z of Curious County Limerick – The History Press.
  • 2020 – The Working Women of Patrick Street (1810—1976) – Ormston House
  • 2018 – An Illustrated Guide to Limerick City – illustrated by Nesta FitzGerald – Irish Georgian Society.
  • 2017 – A Stitch in Time, a history of Limerick Clothing Factory – Limerick Archives.
  • 2017 – Terry Wogan booklet – Limerick City and County Council.
  • 2016 – Limerick – Ireland in Old Photographs – The History Press.
  • 2015 – Limerick Merchants, Traders and Shakers,  Co-author with Dr. Matthew Potter – Limerick Chamber.
  • 2015 – Poem and Place, Limerick and the limericks, Co-author with Dr Matthew Potter and Jacqui Hayes – Limerick Archives.
  • 2013 – The Little Book of Limerick – The History Press.
  • 2006 – The Abbey Fishermen: History and Culture of a Fishing Community – Trafford Publishing.

Articles in Books:

  • 2022 – “A Tale of Two Cities: Mother Elizabeth Moore”, Of Limerick Saints and Seekers, Ed. David Bracken – Veritas Publications
  • 2022 – “Limerick amusements in a time of war”, The Inevitable Conflict: Essays on the Civil War in County Limerick, Ed. Seán William Gannon – Limerick City and County Council
  • 2022 – “Limerick Clothing Factory from 1850”, Bread Not Profits : Provincial working class politics during the Irish Revolution, Ed. Francis Devine & Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh – Umiskin Press.
  • 2017 – Limerick A Stroll Down Memory Lane Volume 17, Sean Curtin
  • 2016 – Who was John Francis O’Donnell? – CBS 200 1816-2016, The C.B.S 200 Committee
  • 2016 – History of St Patrick’s School
  • 2013 – The Abbey Fishermen – The Gathering, Reflections on Ireland, Irish Hospice Foundation
  • 2013 – The People’s Park – Limerick A Stroll Down Memory Lane Volume 13, Sean Curtin

Articles in Journals:

  • 2022 – On This Day (part 1) – The Old Limerick Journal
  • 2022 – Following Michael Egan’s Footsteps – Murroe/Boher Parish Annual
  • 2021 – On This Day (part 1) – The Old Limerick Journal
  • 2019 – Murroe Temperance Meeting – Murroe/Boher Parish Annual
  • 2019 – Spillane Tobacco – UL Supplement, Limerick Leader
  • 2018 – The Bacon Women – Murroe/Boher Parish Annual
  • 2017 – J. Carrol Naish – West Limerick Heritage Journal, Second Edition
  • 2015 – Margaret Eager; the Tsar’s Nanny – The Old Limerick Journal Vol. 49
  • 2014 – Limerick’s Life – Irish Lives Remembered – March
  • 2007 – The Demise of George Heffernan  – Newport News
  • 2006 – The Eradication of Rabies – History Ireland, Vol. 14, No. 1
  • 2006 – Eleanor McGhie – The Old Limerick Journal, No. 42
  • 2004 – The Death of a Doctor – Murroe/Boher Parish Newsletter
  • 2004 – Tragedy at Laurel Hill, 1895 – The Old Limerick Journal, No. 40

Articles in Newspapers:

  • Limerick Post – Monthly articles on Limerick History – August 2022 to Present
  • Limerick Leader – Weekly articles on Limerick History – February 2018 to September 2018
  • Limerick Life – Fortnightly Article on Limerick History – April 2016 to December 2017
  • Limerick Magazine – Monthly Article on Limerick History – September 2015 to August 2016
  • 2016 – Life in Limerick in 1916 – Limerick Leader
  • May 2013 – Constance Smith – Sunday Independent
  • 20 Dec 2008 – Life of renowned surgeon, Sylvester O’Halloran, recalled – Limerick Post

You can more of Sharon’s work here

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This website is a personal project of Sharon Slater, born from a passion for Limerick and its history. It has been maintained, updated and contributed to it independently and voluntarily. If you'd like to buy me a coffee to keep Limerick's history online, please know that all donations will go directly into the costs of hosting the website and the time and travel to research and write the articles found on the site.

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