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• The Flora of the Limerick District by W. A. Fogerty, Journal of The Limerick Field Club vol. 1 no. 2, 1898

• Notes on the Flora of West Limerick by R. D. O'Brien, Journal of The Limerick Field Club vol 2. no. 5, 1901

• Notes on Some Plants of the County Limerick by Eleonora Armitage, Journal of The Limerick Field Club vol 2. no. 6, 1902

• Some Notes on the Flora of Limerick by R. A. Phillips, Journal of The Limerick Field Club vol 3. no. 9, 1905

• A Short Description of the Geological Features of the County of Limerick by J. Fitzgerald Windle, Journal of The Limerick Field Club vol. 1 no. 3, 1899

• Faction fighting in County Limerick by Caoimhin Ó Danachair , North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1966)

• Fenian days in Limerick: discovery of rebel’s rifle recalls some stirring memories, Limerick Chronicle 29/1/1966, p7

• The Royal Visit – we, the undersigned…encourage…a loyal and cordial address of welcome to the Prince and Princess of Wales on their visit…, Limerick Chronicle 7/4/1885

• The Limerick Philosophical Society - notes contributed by J. G. Barry, Journal of The Limerick Field Club vol. 1 no. 4, 1900

• The "Liberties" of Limerick by James Grene Barry, Journal of the North Munster Archaeological Society, Vol. 2, No. 4 (January 1913)

• A History and Archaeology of the Liberties of Limerick to c. 1650 by Brian Hodkinson, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 47 (2007)

• Two newspaper items related to Annie Walsh of Carnane, Co. Limerick, last woman hanged in Ireland, Limerick Leader 8/8/1925 & Limerick Chronicle 25/10/1925

• Fedamore murder makes the cut in deadly book [Annie Walsh], Limerick Leader 10/11/2018, p3 (Leader 2)

• The quack who codded the Limerick Corporation: they gave medicine man Sequah a civic banquet, Limerick Chronicle 9/11/1968, p5

• Limerick quads fine: healthy and bright in four incubators [Peppard quads], Limerick Leader 22/9/1962, p1

• Warning about Communism: ‘Red’ sympathisers in Limerick, Limerick Leader 21/11/1962, p1

• Photograph of Greenpark (poor quality) – Limerick Horse Show, Limerick Leader 24/8/1963, p19

• Showband members [Jim Connolly & Ray Heraty of The Monarchs]make film of Limerick, Limerick Chronicle 23/1/1965, p3

• Late Late Show condemned by council, Limerick Chronicle 29/3/1966, p1

• Shock and horror over Derry [Bloody Sunday], Limerick Leader 31/1/1972, p1 

• Last shift at William Street Barracks [photo] [May 1977], Limerick Leader 17/1/2009, p18

• City has a third pirate station [Big L] [1978], Limerick Chronicle 22/7/2008, p16-17 [30 Years Ago column]

• Do you remember Limerick’s air crash?, Limerick Leader 27/3/1982, p28

• The sad face of historic Limerick this Friday evening, Limerick Leader 15/1/1983, p1

• Limerick Social Service Centre gives hope to those in need, Limerick Leader 30/9/1987, p2

• Potatoes, Turf and Fireside Chats: Muintir na Tire and the 'Emergency' in Limerick by Eoin Devereux, Old Limerick Journal, vol. 26, Winter 1989

• Limerick’s rich poetic tradition, Limerick Leader 25/11/1999, p17

• Top poets to make a major impact in city, Limerick Leader 10/5/2000, p9

• St John’s Brigade is here for 70 years, Limerick Leader 22/11/2006, p7

• The Ryan line: what’s in a family nickname, Limerick Leader 14/2/2009, p16

• The last of the poitin makers reveals his life in a ‘hard trade’, Limerick Leader 14/2/2009, p11

• A petition signed by many of the Burgesses and Ratepayers of Limerick, Limerick Reporter 3/1/1868

• Birth of banking in Limerick – Limerick Leader 7/3/2009, p27 [reprint from Limerick Leader 21/9/1944]

• Lands, property, tenants of John Bateman, Altavilla, Limerick Chronicle 20/10/1785

• The mass rocks of West Limerick: story of Poll na Rioghtha – the Hollow of the King, Limerick Leader 7/1/1950, p2

• All screamed! But the band played – ‘The Great Sequah’, Limerick Leader 3/7/1950, p3

• Howls and harmony! Memories of Sequah – how he treated his patients, Limerick Leader 12/8/1950, p2

• Cost of living – Isn’t football at £1 a seat just sheer lunacy? [for Ireland v Argentina at Dalymount], Limerick Leader 14/4/1951, p12

• Entertainment – ad for ‘Crash’ Kavanagh (Hollywood Stuntman) and his famous Hell Drivers at Limerick Racecourse, Limerick Leader 23/7/1951, p1

• Irish hierarchy and recently proposed Mother and Child Scheme by Dr. James McPolin, Limerick Leader 23/7/1951, p3

• Entertainment – ad for John Duffy and Sons Circus [Duffy’s Circus], Limerick Leader 19/4/1952, p2

• Mountain search for poteen (poitín) near Limerick by Garda force, Limerick Leader 18/6/1952, p1

• How valuations on the land of Ireland were fixed, Limerick Leader 7/1/1953, p3

• Full details of city’s An Tostal programme, Limerick Leader 1/4/1953, p1

• Limerick child missing in English city [Mary Hackett], Limerick Leader 15/8/1953, p1

• Musical Marie is confident of success, Limerick Leader 4/11/1953, p1

• Musical Marie is completely exhausted, Limerick Leader 7/11/1953, p1

• Musical Marie triumphs, Limerick Leader 9/11/1953, p1

• Sequel to Musical Marie’s visit: compensation claims, Limerick Leader 9/1/1954, p7

• Television – Regular T.V. in Limerick within next twelve months?, Limerick Leader 6/8/1955, p1

• The last of the Lahloo [sailing boat], Limerick Leader 27/8/1955, p1

• Protests at Ireland hosting Yugoslavia for football match – Man parades with flag at Dublin soccer ground, Limerick Leader 19/10/1955, p1

• Rural electrification: official switch-on at Galbally, Limerick Leader 1/10/1956, p3

• A five guinea book that took twelve years to complete [Irish Families by William McLysaght], Limerick Leader 28/9/1957, p9

• The rise of the ‘teenager’ – ads for movies in Limerick, 4 of which are ‘teen movies’, Limerick Leader 6/5/1957, p2

• Photograph [poor quality] – Limerick Show Grounds from the air [Greenpark], Limerick Leader 24/8/1957, p12

• Satellite seen early this morning over Limerick, Limerick Leader 12/10/1957, p1

• Munich air crash – GAA leader expresses sympathy on soccer ‘plane disaster, Limerick Leader 8/2/1958, p1

• Mrs Bennis and the sex shop [controversy at time of opening of first adult shop in Limerick, 1995], Limerick Leader Millennium Supplement 1/1/2000

• Angela really dressed to im-press [article about Limerick in 1929], Limerick Leader 19/9/2009, p1 & 2 (Leader 2)

• London’s Limerick folk welcome mayoral visit [Limerick Association London], Limerick Post 24/10/2009, p16

• Author Des Long looks back on Fianna Éireann’s role in history, Limerick Post 9/1/2010, p30

• Local knowledge helps track down US satirist Colbert’s Limerick roots, Limerick Leader 6/2/2010, p3

• Historical atlas of city launched by mayor, Limerick Leader 15/2/2010, p11

• Story about a bizarre hanging in Limerick, The Lady’s Magazine, London, April 1799

• The Fenian movement in Limerick, Limerick Leader 17/4/2010, p18 [reprint from Limerick Leader, 26/6/1949]

• Who carried a Fenian Gun: the story of Kilmallock and Kilclooney in 1867 by Mannix Joyce, Capuchin Annual 1968, p.182-211

• Limerick Horse Show back on track, Limerick Leader 3/7/2010, p18 [reprint from LL 27/8/1928]

• New York City records shed light on a passage to America, Limerick Leader 31/7/2010, p4 (Leader 2)

• Random gossip on matters of interest [dances, Gaelic League, slums/housing], Limerick Leader 8/5/2010, p18 [reprint from LL 14/1/1928]

• One brave Limerick woman’s wartime experience [Eileen Hourigan MBE], Limerick Leader 3/7/2010, p26

• Photograph of cub pack, St. John’s Boy Scouts, 1952, Limerick Chronicle 30/3/1993, p15

• Hundreds view St. Therése’s relics – at petrol station, Limerick Leader 18/6/2001, p1

• Limerick pays a warm tribute to St Therése relics, Limerick Leader 23/6/2001, p7

• 195 years on and history repeats itself [bank closures in 1815], Limerick Post 30/10/2010, p10

• Rare Limerick Fenian Rising flag to go under the hammer, Limerick Leader 13/11/2010, p1&2 [Co. ed.]

• County and City dispute rages [various political controversies, 1929], Limerick Leader 27/11/2010, p18

• Historic seaplane landing at Steamboat Quay, Limerick Post 27/11/2010, p38

• Splendid TV reception in Limerick – hundreds watch inauguration, Limerick Leader 1/1/1962, p1

• When flying machines first came to Limerick [1913], Limerick Leader 21/3/1963, p4

• Sunny side of the street [does it rain as much in Limerick as ‘Angela’s Ashes’ suggests?], Limerick Leader, no date (c.2000)

• Victoria Terrace loses its Edward VII vintage mailbox, Limerick Post 26/3/2011, p16

• Famous medal received by mayor for city [Mountbatten Medal], Limerick Chronicle 9/8/2011, p24

• Poem,On the ancient city of Limerick by Isabella Jackson, Limerick Chronicle 20/5/1840

• Limerick women scorned [feature on book Matters of Deceit by Maria Luddy], Limerick Leader 19/11/2011, p1 & 2 (Leader 2)

• 1976: the year that Haughey ended up in the Regional [Hospital], Limerick Leader 19/11/2011, p12

• Giddy-up! Donkey derby made famous by YouTube returns, Limerick Leader 13/8/2011, p8

• Vanishing characters in Limerick documented, Limerick Leader 24/9/2011, p2, (Leader 2)

• Looking back at local milestones in 2012, Limerick Leader 31/12/2011. p11

• Susan follows Angela (Collins) as Ireland's number one female steeplejack, Limerick Leader 11/2/2012

• JCI [Junior Chamber Ireland] Limerick reaches its 50th anniversary, Limerick Leader 1/10/2011, p22

• Limerick Flower and Garden Club celebrates half century, Limerick Leader 15/10/2011

• City's Jostle Stones stand testament to passage of time- Dan, Limerick Post 19/5/2012, p24

• A memorable day of devotion [pilgramage to Knock, 1952], Limerick Leader 11/6/2012, p 6 & 7

• The bygone days of matchmaking fairs recalled in Knockainey history book, Limerick Leader 21/7/2012, p11

• The Closures [Garda Station Closures], Limerick Post 9/2/2013, p49

• Open sale of horse meat no big deal in Limerick - 30 years ago, Limerick Leader 9/2/2013, p18
  

• 1968 Civil Defence [Photograph], Limerick Leader 15/7/2013, p13

• I'll sing 'Limerick You're a Lady' from space, pledges Cyril, Limerick Leader 18/1/2014, p3

• Second 'new' edition of the Bottom Dog launched, Limerick Leader 15/2/2014, p19

• Historic lighthouse is swept away by storm, Limerick Post 22/2/2014, p6

• Storm brings historic discovery, Limerick Leader 22/2/2014, p5

• Gandelows help put focus back on river, Limerick Leader 16/4/2014, p10

• Limerick goes in search of its past, Limerick Post 19/4/2014, p31

• Limerick victim of Jack the Ripper, Limerick Leader 17/05/2014, p16

• Veterans' Day proves a huge success in Limerick, Limerick Chronicle 27/05/2014, p12

• Centenary of Cumann na mBar, Limerick Leader 31/05/2014, p18

• Real Hallucinations [Shannon Foynes], Limerick Post 07/06/2014, p18

• Going with the flow in the heart of the city, Limerick Leader 19/07/2014, p40 & 41

• Guiness barge is back in Limerick after 50 years, Limerick Leader 28/08/2014, p3 

• Ever popular ICA celebrates 70 years, Limerick Leader 13/09/2014, p19

• ICA's contribution to society: A rich one, Limerick Leader 20/09/2014, p17

• Loughill honour for Limerick gun runners, Limerick Post 20/09/2014, p5
  

• A look behind the hall doors [photographs], Limerick Post 27/09/2014, p42 & 43

• Priceless pictures of our show. Proud tradition of Limerick Show lives on, Limerick Leader 23/08/2014, p1 & 2 (Leader 2)

• Flanery's 50 years raising our spirits, Limerick Leader 25/02/2015, p10

• Council seeks expressions of interest for €100m city land, Limerick Leader 04/04/2015, p.28

• Curtain rises on Opera Centre. Ones again set to become part of the vibrant economic and social activity of the city, Limerick Post 04/04/2015, p40 & 41

• Stop - Gap halt site looming by order, Limerick Leader 21/03/2015, p18 

• In the isolation of Connemara, Dan Doyle finds life absolutely full, Limerick Leader 17/02/1975 

• Council travels to New York for tribute to William Geary, Limerick Leader 24/03/2001, p17 

• Director David makes the cut, Limerick Leader 07/08/2004 

• Sculptor Cliodhna carves her mark, Limerick Leader 09/10/2004 

• The Shamrock League by Des Ryan, Old Limerick Journal vol. 42, Winter 2006

• A triving hub for tourism and transport, Limerick Leader 25/04/2015, p20 - 22 

• Staff of Lawless brothers, a furniture business based on Dock Road, Limerick Leader 28/02/2015, p18 

• Picture of the Fitt's Paddocks Bull Sale in November 1992, Limerick Leader 09/05/2015, p18 

• They departed at sundown: Flying boats' golden age remembered, Limerick Leader [Leader 2] 09/05/2015, p2 

• "History of Limerick Lace", by Pat Francis [source unknown], 1963, p1 - 4 

• Cromwellian Account Books, Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1906, p202 - 205   

• Extract from "Travel and Transport in Ireland - Bianconi and his cars" , by K. Nowlan, 1973, p82 - 93 

• The vital importance of an independant National Currency, Limerick Leader 18/04/1956 

• Limerick trails in the fight against grime, Limerick Leader 21/05/2005, p24

• Limerick hits the high note for liric FM, Limerick Leader 05/11/2005, p2   

• Some old Limerick Wills, by Richard Hayes, NMAJ 1936-1939, Vol: I, p163 - 167

• 40,000 expected to mark historic air spectacular at Shannon Airport, Limerick Leader 06/06/2015, p8 & 9 

• Bridge Congress For City, Limerick Leader 27/09/1969

• Ireland's Flag: Case for Green and Gold, 06/02/1922

• Chamber brought to book [Limerick Chamber of Commerce], Limerick Post 11/07/2015, p40-41

• Thumbs up from Citizen Bill [Bill Clinton Presidential visit to Limerick], Limerick Leader [Supplement] 12/09/1998, p1-8

• Assorted information President Clinton's Visit to Limerick, 1998

• The County Club by Kevin Hannan, Limerick Chronicle 05/11/1991, p46 (see also Old Limerick Journal vol. 30, Winter 1993)

• A list of persons to whom premiums for sowing flax-seed in the year 1796 have been ajudged by the trustees of the linen manufacture [Limerick] 

• Drawings and short description of wrought and cast iron work found in Limerick, Irish Art Heritage, p80-82 

• The Lamplighter, Limerick Christmas Gazette 06/11/1991, p31 

• Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in several counties, counties of cities and counties of towns, In Ireland, Land Owners in Ireland 1876

• Bidding farewell to a friend of Limerick [Maureen O'Hara], Limerick Leader 31/10/2015, p3

• The first draft of local history [A number of upcoming local anniversaries], Limerick Leader 02/01/2016, p16 

• Limerick silver to shine at UK auction, Limerick Post 23/01/2016, p14 

• Several newspaper reports on Limerick Sale, Limerick Leader & Limerick Chronicle, June 1907 

• Comic book is ‘pure daycent’ [book about Limerick slang by Hugh McMahon], Limerick Leader 16/04/2016, p.1 & 2 (Leader 2)

• Buenos Aires or bust – Limerick’s false Eldorado by Sharon Slater [Limerick & Argentina], Limerick Life 29/06/2016, p24 & 25

• When a pair of Limerick rogues came up against Capone’s men, Limerick Post 16/07/2016, p38

• St. John's Pavilion - New hall will be a place for good wholesome fun [from Limerick Chronicle 28/04/1931], Limerick Leader 13/08/2016, p16

• Memorial stone to local heroes unveiling in Askeaton, Limerick Leader 15/10/2016, p20

• Memorial honours three Askeaton freedom fighters, Limerick Post 15/10/2016, p20

• The one-armed mayor of Limerick... , Limerick Life 21/9/2016, p28 & 29

• A Limerick portrait of Robert Emmet, Limerick Chronicle 05/11/1991, p13

• Photograph of a 'Stampy party', Ireland in Old Photographs by Maurice Gorham 

• List of flax growers, Limerick City & County, 1796 

• Limerick Skating Rink - description of the building, Limerick Chronicle 13/11/1909 

• Advertisement for Roller Skating Rink, Wellesley Place, Limerick Leader, January (?) 1911 

• The hidden history of Limerick Skating Rink by Martin Walsh, Old Limerick Journal vol. 45, Winter 2011

• Some Parkmen I knew by Kevin Hannan, Limerick Christmas Gazette 1993, p38 

• Martin Byrnes column on Limerick accents, Limerick Chronicle 25/08/1992, p8

• The first report of a St Patrick's day parade did not take place in Ireland until 1931, while the first parade in the world took place in 1737 in Boston, Limerick Life 15/03/2017, p28&29

• Calls to mark anti-slavery lectures at Bedford Row [Frederick Douglass lectures], Limerick Leader 18/3/2017, p8

• Plan to honour black abolitionists in Limerick [Frederick Douglass], Limerick Leader 15/06/2020, p12

• Limerick's forgotten Orange heritage, Limerick Post 12/08/2017, p35

• Article on celebration of mass at Clash-an-Aifrinn mass rock, Limerick Leader 19/08/1950, p4

• The Mass Rocks of West Limerick - Carraig An Easpuig / The Bishop's Rock by Patrick T. Aherne, West Limerick Journal 1988, p53-55

• Mass rocks at Killeedy (West Limerick parish) & Gortnaclohy Hill from article Broadford and Killeedy - Past Reflections by Eileen Walsh, West Limerick Journal 1988, p85-89

• Farming pictures from the archive (photo feature), Limerick Leader 02/09/2017, p8 & 9

• Marriages by Abduction in 19th century Limerick by Sharon Slater, Limerick Life 09/09/2017, p26 & 27

• Boys' own adventures in Limerick with much loved boat club (Dominic Savio Boys Club), Limerick Leader 09/09/2017, p17

• The Munster banking crisis by Rachael Kealy, Limerick Life 27/09/2017, p23-25

• The origins of policing in Limerick by Rachael Kealy, Limerick Life 08/11/2017, p23-25 
  

• Early drivers had a need for speed, Limerick Leader 10/03/2018, p1 & 2 (Chronicle) [Road Safety]

• Performance art: Local circus history exhibition, Limerick Leader 17/03/2018, p4 [Circus Listing]

• Limerick's Orange Order, Limerick Leader 24/03/2018, p4 (L2) [Orange Order]

• Sing for your supper, Limerick Leader 16/06/2018, p2 (Chronicle)

• Women's fight for the right to vote, 19/05/2018, p27 (L2) [Suffragettes]

• The cat with two tails in Roche's Street, Limerick by Kevin Hannan, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 34 (1992)

• Irish idiom in Limerick City's vernacular English by Frank Prendergast, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 40 (2000) 

• The Principality of Thomond and His Royal Highness Raymond Moulton Seághan O Brien, 1936-63 by Jérôme aan de Wiel, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 47 (2007)

• Weird and wonderful Limerick inventions, Limerick Leader 21/07/2018, p43 & 44 (Leader 2)

• All set for Limerick's largest family and agricultural festival [Limerick Show], Limerick Leader 18/08/2018, p6 & 7 (Leader 2)

• Cataloging the oral history of Ireland, Limerick Leader 08/09/2018, p10 (Leader 2)

• Our oral history brought to record, Limerick Leader 15/09/2018, p10 (Leader 2)

• How hunting the wren really took flight, Limerick Leader 22/12/2018, p63 & 64 (Leader 2)

• Putting 'The Hill of Truth' on the map [Knockfierna Hill] by Tom Aherne, Limerick Leader 12/01/2019, p10 (Leader 2)

• Ilen's ten-year voyage home, Limerick Post 06/10/2018, p1

• Ship returns to Limerick Docks after 92 years [Ilen], Limerick Leader 08/10/2018, p10

• Ilen boat project's Atlantic voyage, The Leader 03/06/2019, p8

• Following the salmon trail from Limerick to Western Greenland [the Ilen], Limerick Post 06/07/2019, p12

• Limerick man sails across the centuries [the Ilen], Limerick Post 29/08/2020, p6

• Revival of old city troop [Catholic Boy Scouts], Limerick Leader 20/04/2019, p16 (re-print from LL 14/10/1946)

• How Sixmilebridge got its name [and other miscellaneous items], Limerick Chronicle 30/04/1996 [reprint in Limerick Leader 06/07/2019, p45]

• The great Barnagh robbery by Tom Aherne, Limerick Leader 20/07/2019, p46

• Title: Limerick - a lady or a tramp by Mrs. G. Cantillon

• The cat with two tails, Limerick Leader 18/01/2020, p37

• Remembering the sandmen, Limerick Leader 29/02/2020, p41 (Leader 2)

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