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General

• Festival highlight recalls great contest of the 1880s, Limerick Chronicle 30/1/1965, p2

• Photograph – unidentified youth band [members include 2 Stembridge brothers & 2 Hockedy brothers], L. Chron. 30/3/1993

• Salute to Limerick’s bands [profiles of bands in Limerick], Limerick Leader 11/3/1978

• Garda, RUC bands liven a Limerick winter’s eve, Limerick Leader 9/12/2000, p11 (Third Section)

• Over 40,000 are expected to follow the Leader for International Band Parade, L. Leader, no date (possibly March 2001)

• Music and Politics - Marching Bands in Late Nineteenth-Century Limerick by John McGrath, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 46 (2006) 

Adare Brass & Reed Band

• Photograph of band taken in mid-1920s, Limerick Chronicle 7/8/2007, p18

Ahane Fife & Drum Band

• And the band played on..., Limerick Leader 04/08/2018, p47

Boherbuoy Band

• Postcard of Boherbuoy Band, 1925 

• Advertising flyer, undated [original & photocopy]

• 1947 – 1^st prize in Shield Competition, Limerick Chronicle 27/10/1992 [45 years ago column]

• Band winners at Féile [photograph & caption], Limerick Leader 31/3/1951, p3

• 1953 -  Boherbuoy selection, Limerick Chronicle 8/6/1993 [40 years ago column]

• 1950s - Photograph from Stroll Down Memory Lane, vol. 6, Limerick Leader 1/11/2006, p22

• Boherbuoy Band are national champions, Limerick Leader 20/5/1959, p1

• Glowing tributes to a famous Limerick band, Limerick Leader 28/11/1959, p7

• A great band needs your help, Limerick Leader 16/3/1963, p21

• The Boherbuoy Brass and Reed Band, Limerick Leader 30/3/1963, p7

• Boherbuoy Band has proud traditions, Limerick Leader 21/12/1963, p4

• Boherbuoy Band is 125 years old, Limerick Leader 22/1/1975, p1

• Farewell to the bandroom, Limerick Leader 25/9/1976, p8

• Boherbuoy Band on stereo tape, Limerick Leader 30/9/1989, p3

• Copy of inlay card from music cassette, The Music of The Boherbuoy Band, 1989

• Boherbuoy tradition maintained, Limerick Leader 3/4/1993

• Chemist Declan [Hickey] takes chair at Boherbuoy, Limerick Chronicle 12/4/1994

• Boherbuoy Band still tops after 150 years, Limerick Leader 13/11/2000, p9

• And the Boherbuoy Band plays on…, Limerick Leader 24/3/2001, p15

• And the band played on, Limerick Leader 17/5/2008, p1&2 (Leader 2)

C.B.S. Pipe Band

• New boys’ band will make debut, Limerick Leader 16/3/1963, p5

• 1963 – Sexton Street pipers formed [names of members at founding of band], L. Chron. 8/6/1993 [30 years ago col.]

• 1963 – Photograph of CBS Pipe Band on 1^st public appearance, Limerick Chronicle 10/5/1994

• 1963 – New band makes a 1963 debut [photo-feature], Limerick Leader 4/3/2006, p14

• Limerick CBS band, biggest and best, Limerick Leader 27/3/1982, p7

• CBS band comes of age…in style, Limerick Leader 24/12/1983, p7

• CBS pipers charm American crowds, Limerick Chronicle 26/5/1992, p6&7

• Pipe band still calling the tune, Limerick Leader 20/3/1993

• CBS tartan to be replaced…, Limerick Leader 5/2/2000

• March celebration for CBS pipe band's golden jubilee, Limerick Leader 16/3/2013, p4

• Photograph of the Limerick Pipe Band performing at the branch of licensed Vintners, Limerick Leader  06/06/2015, p4 

Curragour Pipe Band

• Curragour Band piping in new era, Limerick Leader 13/10/1984, p8

• City band goes marching to glory, Limerick Leader 13/7/1985, p6

• City band going for unique grading, Limerick Leader 26/10/1985, p7

• Curragour Pipe Band, a famous Limerick Institution whose music has been enjoyed by generations, Limerick Leader 24/11/2014, p27

• Photograph dated 1980, Limerick Leader 21/05/2018, p14

Fianna Éireann Band

• Larry Hogan remembers, Limerick Chronicle 1/7/1967, p5

Irish Volunteer Band

• Some memories of Limerick’s Irish Volunteer Band [Richard “Dixie” McNamara], L. Chronicle 6/8/1966, p3

Limerick City Brass & Reed Youth Band

• Sam [Sammy Benson] has great hopes for teenage band, Limerick Leader 25/5/1974, p17

• Photograph of band, Limerick Leader 30/8/1975, p24

• Boherbuoy Youth Band changing their name, Limerick Leader 17/1/1976, p10

• Full-page profile of band, Limerick Leader 14/3/1981, p28

• Limerickman of the year [Sammy Benson] won’t blow his own trumpet, L. Leader 27/2/88, p3

• Sammy's 40 year musical march, Limerick Post 15/3/2014, p48 & 49

• photograph of band at Treaty Stone, February 1976, Limerick Leader 07/03/2016, p24 

Limerick Girls’ Pipe Band

• Limerick’s first girls’ pipe band takes shape in Ballynanty, Limerick Chronicle 21/6/1969, p3

• Many happy returns, Limerick Chronicle 13/6/1970, p3

Limerick Pipe Band

• Limerick Pipe Band will play in its 20^th year, Limerick Chronicle 8/3/1969

• Mayor’s tribute to Limerick pipers [retirement of Seán Kiely as Pipe Major], Limerick Leader 23/3/1970, p1

• 1970 – Champion piper on parade [Michael Kenny], Limerick Chronicle 30/3/2010, p18 [40 Years Ago column]

McNamara’s Band

• He played in the celebrated “McNamara’s Band” [Thomas McNamara], Limerick Chronicle 21/8/1965, p3

• McNamara's Band by W. W. Gleeson, Old Limerick Journal, vol. 9, Winter 1981

• Our name is McNamara…we’re daughters of the band, Limerick Leader 13/7/1985, p4

• McNamara’s Band struck chords, Limerick Post 23/6/2007, p26

Mikey Raleigh's Band

• Mikey Raleigh's Band by Bob Hamilton, Old Limerick Journal, vol. 12, Autumn 1982

Moyross Pipe Band

• Moyross Pipe Band celebrates fifth year, Limerick Leader, no date, c. November 2000

O'Connell Prize Drum & Flute Band

• Photograph, c.1910 

Rathkeale Brass and Reed Band

• Rathkeale band that was established over 70 years ago, Limerick Leader 14/2/1953, p11

Southside Marching Band

• Marching band is dream come true, Limerick Leader 5/6/1993

St. Dominic’s Band

• Memories of St. Dominic’s Band [photograph from 1913], Limerick Chronicle 6/5/1972, p3

St. John’s Brass and Reed Band

• He played Limerick’s first saxaphone [John Clarke], Limerick Chronicle 13/5/1967, p5

• Photograph of the old Victuallers’ Band, precursor of St. John’s Band, Limk. Chronicle 13/5/1967, p5

• Forty years on the trumpet and euphonium [Christopher O’Byrne], Limerick Chronicle 20/5/1967, p5

• Men with music in their souls, Limerick Chronicle 27/5/1967, p5

• St. John’s Brass and Reed Band could be on the march, Limerick Post 27/6/2009, p19

• Striking up the band on Garryowen Road, Limerick Post 1/10/2011, p34

• Band wants to bring music back into the heart of Limerick, Limerick Leader 01/08/2020, p12

St. Mary’s Boys’ Band, Rathkeale

• Story of Ireland’s youngest band, Limerick Leader 19/12/1959, p11

St. Mary’s Fife and Drum Prize Band

• St. Mary's All-Ireland Fife and Drum Band, Limerick by Patrick J. McNamara, Old Limerick Journal vol. 42, Winter 2006

• 1894 – Photograph of band with All-Ireland trophy, Limerick Christmas Gazette 1993

• 1963 – Photograph of band, Limerick Chronicle 9/2/1993

• All-Ireland triumph for St. Mary’s Band, Limerick Leader 27/1/1964, p1

• 1964 - St. Mary’s Band [names band members], Limerick Chronicle 11/1/1964 [30 Years Ago]

• St. Mary’s Band win top trophy: third year running, Limerick Leader 3/5/1965, p1

• Photograph of the ‘prizewinning St. Mary’s Fife and Drum Band’, Limerickk Chronicle 21/8/1971, p1

• McNamara’s (Victorian) Band, Limerick Leader 1/5/1976, p1&8

• Band celebrates 100 years of music, Limerick Leader 16/2/1985, p13

• Centenary of famous Limerick fife and drum band, Limerick Leader 18/5/1985, p6

• History of prize band preserved in new museum, Limerick Leader 24/4/1993, p10

• Band is playing on in Mary Street hall, Limerick Leader 11/11/2006, p17

• St. Mary’s Band take the prize at City Hall, Limerick Chronicle 29/6/2010, p11

• 125 years on and still striking up the band, Limerick Post 18/9/2010, p28

• Marvellous night marks St. Mary’s 125^th anniversary, Limerick Leader 30/10/2010, p11

• Ceremony marks band's famous all-ireland win 50 years ago, Limerick Leader 11/5/2013, [leader 2] p2

• Image of the St. Mary's Fife and Drum band, pictured at the opening of the Griffin Memorial School at Bridge Street, 1974, Limerick Leader 20/01/2016, p13

St. Mary's Pipe Band

• Pictures of members of St. Mary's Band from 1989, Limerick Leader 19/11/2012, p14 & 15

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