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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]

• Limerick Porkbutchers' Society by Gerry Ryan, Féile Pádraig Annual 1957, p77-83

• Limerick’s bacon factories by Paddy Lysaght, Old Limerick Journal no. 15, Spring 1984, pp10-12

• Limerick bacon [comment], Old Limerick Journal, vol. 19, Summer 1986

• The electrification of Shaw's 1894-96 by Joseph Quaney, Old Limerick Journal, vol. 20, Winter 1986

• Buyers’ market in article about St. John’s Gate, Limerick Christmas Gazette 1989, p39

• City of pigs by Frank Corr, Limerick Association Yearbook, 1991, p23 & 25

• Fears expressed that bacon industry will collapse, Limerick Leader 20/6/1955, p1

• New moves to save bacon industry in Limerick, Limerick Chronicle 9/3/1967, p1

• Bringing home the bacon to Limerick, Limerick Leader 8/3/1986, p8

• Limerick’s boar war [Martin Byrnes’s column], Limerick Leader 24/3/2007, p15

• Limerick’s great calamity : Clover Meats closes down, Limerick Chronicle 31/10/1972, p1

• Clover Meats to close, Limerick Chronicle 8/8/2006 [30 Years Ago column]

• Clover Meats to close, Limerick Leader 16/8/1976, p1

• Clover Meats closure threat latest, Limerick Leader 21/8/1976, p1

• Limerick meat plant in peril : Clover to declare £1.3m loss on year’s trading, Limerick Leader 20/11/1976, p3

• City meat plant is given the thumbs up, Limerick Leader 25/12/1976, p1

• Employees say ‘no’ to Clover, Limerick Leader 22/1/1977, p1

• Clover workers decide to return to work, Limerick Chronicle 23/1/2007, p17 [30 Years Ago column]

• Limerick plant to lay off 100 [Clover Meats], Limerick Leader 29/1/1977, p1

• 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

• Photograph of staff working in Matterson’s, 1961, Limerick Chronicle 9/3/2010, p17

• Photograph of Matterson’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade float, 1965, Limerick Leader 20/3/2010, p18

• Photograph of Matterson’s staff, 1970s, Limerick Chronicle 17/10/1995

• Sale of Mattersons to Dublin firm under discussion, Limerick Leader 10/8/1957, p1

• Troubled Limerick industry for sale [Mattersons], Limerick Leader 23/10/1982, p1

• Limerick canning factory to close [Mattersons], Limerick Leader 19/2/1983, Co. ed., p1

• Mattersons: Louis Byrne calls for united front, Limerick Leader 19/2/1983, City ed., p1

• Old city firms on brink of closure [Mattersons & James McMahon Ltd.], Limerick Leader 7/6/1986, p1

• Illustration showing exterior and interior of Mattersons, Limerick Leader 30/9/1989 (Centenary ed.)

• A true stalwart of old pig town [Mattersons] [photo feature], Limerick Leader 30/10/2010, p23

• O’Mara’s Limerick plant to stay shut, Limerick Leader 8/3/1986, p1

• O'Maras of Limerick and their overseas businesses by Morgan McCloskey, Old Limerick Journal vol. 37, Summer 2001

• Industry which failed to save its own bacon, Limerick Leader 21/3/2006 [20 Years Ago column]

• It's time Limerick brings home the bacon - once again, Limerick Leader 5/11/2011, p3

• Clover Meats to close at end of month, Limerick Leader 08/10/2012, p9 [40 Years Ago column]

• D-Day for Clover Factory: talks resume in Dublin, Limerick Leader 13/08/2012, p19 [40 Years Ago column]

• Clover Meats Factory expected to reopen next week, Limerick Leader 12/10/2012, p21

• Possible saving of 340 jobs in Clover Meats factory, again, Limerick Leader 22/10/2012, p21

• Mattersons: off to work we go [photograph], Limerick Leader 25/2/2013, p21

• Butchers revive memories of Pigtown, Limerick Post 22/08/2015, p27

• Limerick heritage project to bring home the bacon, Limerick Post 28/11/2015, p16

• Pigtown to be focus of new archival research project, Limerick Leader 25/11/2015, p3

• Invitation to launch of the book Pigtown: A History of Limerick's Bacon Industry, bac045 (165 Kb)

• Pigtown book brings home bacon, Limerick Life 08/02/2017, p4 

• Pigtown book is set to bring home the bacon, Limerick Post 11/02/2017, p22

• Photographs of Matterson's factory & staff, Limerick Leader 15/04/2019, p12 & 14

• Photographs of Matterson's Bacon Factory staff, 1960s, Limerick Leader 27/04/2019, p48 & 49 (Leader 2)

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