Bacon Industry
Local Studies Files, main page
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File of research notes & newspaper cuttings related to the bacon industry in Limerick [no image available, see Local Studies Files at Granary Library]
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Limerick Porkbutchers' Society by Gerry Ryan, Féile Pádraig Annual 1957, p77-83
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Limerick’s bacon factories by Paddy Lysaght, Old Limerick Journal no. 15, Spring 1984, pp10-12
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Limerick bacon [comment], Old Limerick Journal, vol. 19, Summer 1986
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The electrification of Shaw's 1894-96 by Joseph Quaney, Old Limerick Journal, vol. 20, Winter 1986
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Buyers’ market in article about St. John’s Gate, Limerick Christmas Gazette 1989, p39
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City of pigs by Frank Corr, Limerick Association Yearbook, 1991, p23 & 25
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Fears expressed that bacon industry will collapse, Limerick Leader 20/6/1955, p1
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New moves to save bacon industry in Limerick, Limerick Chronicle 9/3/1967, p1
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Bringing home the bacon to Limerick, Limerick Leader 8/3/1986, p8
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Limerick’s boar war [Martin Byrnes’s column], Limerick Leader 24/3/2007, p15
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Limerick’s great calamity : Clover Meats closes down, Limerick Chronicle 31/10/1972, p1
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Clover Meats to close, Limerick Chronicle 8/8/2006 [30 Years Ago column]
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Clover Meats to close, Limerick Leader 16/8/1976, p1
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Clover Meats closure threat latest, Limerick Leader 21/8/1976, p1
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Limerick meat plant in peril : Clover to declare £1.3m loss on year’s trading, Limerick Leader 20/11/1976, p3
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City meat plant is given the thumbs up, Limerick Leader 25/12/1976, p1
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Employees say ‘no’ to Clover, Limerick Leader 22/1/1977, p1
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Clover workers decide to return to work, Limerick Chronicle 23/1/2007, p17 [30 Years Ago column]
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Limerick plant to lay off 100 [Clover Meats], Limerick Leader 29/1/1977, p1
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Photograph, interior of Matterson & Sons factory, from Ireland, Industrial & Agricultural, 1902
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Advertisement for J. Matterson & Sons from Limerick Souvenir, c.1956
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Photograph of staff working in Matterson’s, 1961, Limerick Chronicle 9/3/2010, p17
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Photograph of Matterson’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade float, 1965, Limerick Leader 20/3/2010, p18
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Photograph of Matterson’s staff, 1970s, Limerick Chronicle 17/10/1995
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Sale of Mattersons to Dublin firm under discussion, Limerick Leader 10/8/1957, p1
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Troubled Limerick industry for sale [Mattersons], Limerick Leader 23/10/1982, p1
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Limerick canning factory to close [Mattersons], Limerick Leader 19/2/1983, Co. ed., p1
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Mattersons: Louis Byrne calls for united front, Limerick Leader 19/2/1983, City ed., p1
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Old city firms on brink of closure [Mattersons & James McMahon Ltd.], Limerick Leader 7/6/1986, p1
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Illustration showing exterior and interior of Mattersons, Limerick Leader 30/9/1989 (Centenary ed.)
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A true stalwart of old pig town [Mattersons] [photo feature], Limerick Leader 30/10/2010, p23
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O’Mara’s Limerick plant to stay shut, Limerick Leader 8/3/1986, p1
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O'Maras of Limerick and their overseas businesses by Morgan McCloskey, Old Limerick Journal vol. 37, Summer 2001
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Industry which failed to save its own bacon, Limerick Leader 21/3/2006 [20 Years Ago column]
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It's time Limerick brings home the bacon - once again, Limerick Leader 5/11/2011, p3
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Clover Meats to close at end of month, Limerick Leader 08/10/2012, p9 [40 Years Ago column]
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D-Day for Clover Factory: talks resume in Dublin, Limerick Leader 13/08/2012, p19 [40 Years Ago column]
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Clover Meats Factory expected to reopen next week, Limerick Leader 12/10/2012, p21
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Possible saving of 340 jobs in Clover Meats factory, again, Limerick Leader 22/10/2012, p21
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Mattersons: off to work we go [photograph], Limerick Leader 25/2/2013, p21
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Butchers revive memories of Pigtown, Limerick Post 22/08/2015, p27
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Limerick heritage project to bring home the bacon, Limerick Post 28/11/2015, p16
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Pigtown to be focus of new archival research project, Limerick Leader 25/11/2015, p3
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Invitation to launch of the book Pigtown: A History of Limerick's Bacon Industry, bac045 (165 Kb)
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Pigtown book brings home bacon, Limerick Life 08/02/2017, p4
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Pigtown book is set to bring home the bacon, Limerick Post 11/02/2017, p22
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Photographs of Matterson's factory & staff, Limerick Leader 15/04/2019, p12 & 14
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Photographs of Matterson's Bacon Factory staff, 1960s, Limerick Leader 27/04/2019, p48 & 49 (Leader 2)
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