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See separate files for James Dowd, John Ferrar, Kevin Hannan, Maurice Lenihan

 

General

• Limerick’s story and the men who wrote it [article about Ferrar, Fitzgerald & McGregor, Lenihan, et. al.], Limerick Leader 12/2/2011, p19, re-print from Limerick Leader 21/7/1928)

• New book reveals forgotten history of Kilcornan, Limerick Leader 13/12/2014, p16 

• The case to save Georgian Limerick, Limerick Leader 22/10/2005 

• New book brings an old cemetery to life, Limerick Post 02/05/2015, p36   

James Grene Barry

• link to 'The Cromwellian Settlement of Limerick' by James Grene Barry, 1900

• obituary from the Journal of the RSAI, 1930, p.102/3

John F. Begley, Archdeacon

• Career summary 

• Biographical note from Good Seed, Fertile Soil : Religious Vocations in Limerick, biographical dictionary

• Note re publication of third volume of The Diocese of Limerick, Limerick Chronicle 15/12/1938

• Review of The Diocese of Limerick from 1691 to the Present Time by Begley, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4 (September 1939)

• Review article on Begley's Diocese of Limerick by Liam Irwin, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 35 (1993-94)

• Obituary of John Begley, V.G., North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Autumn 1942)

• Obituary from Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol 72, 1942, p124

• Memories of Archdeacon John Begley revived, Limerick Leader 11/12/1993, p16 

Ernest H. Bennis

• Death of Mr. E. H. Bennis, Limerick Leader 5/5/1956, p1

• Regretted death of EHB, L. Chron 5/5/56, p1

Joe Carroll

• Obituary – Writer and local historian from Castleconnell, Limerick Leader 17/1/2009, p18

• Author Joe unlocks his memories of C'connell, Limerick Leader 02/10/2004, p10 (Third Section)

Joe Coleman

• Joe breaks the rapids with a remarkable new book, Limerick Post 20/10/2018, p10

Gerard Curtin

• Tracing the lost names of local history, Limerick Leader, 3/11/2012, p2

Seán Curtin

• Limerick in the rare auld times, Limerick Leader 8/12/2001

• S.C.’s sixth Stroll Down Memory Lane, Limerick Leader 4/11/2006, p22

• Seán’s pictures tell many thousand words, Limerick Leader 3/11/2007, p4

• Sixth memories stroll, a milestone for Seán, Limerick Chronicle 7/11/2006, p16

• Seán’s latest stroll down memory lane, Limerick Leader 29/10/2008, p11

• Strolling down memory lane – Seán launches vol 8…, Limerick Leader 1/11/2008, p17

• Seán on ninth Stroll Down Memory Lane, Limerick Leader 19/8/2009, p11

• TV curtin rises on Sean’s valuable photographic history of Limerick, Limerick Leader 5/9/2009, p6

• Seán takes us on another stroll down memory lane, Limerick Chronicle 27/10/2009, p7

• Seán takes us on another stroll down memory lane, Limerick Leader 31/10/2009, p8

• A treasured stroll down memory lane, Limerick Chronicle, 2/11/2010, p6

• Sean takes another trip down memory lane, Limerick Post 11/12/2010, p24

• Treasured look back at Limerick's photo history, Limerick Leader 5/11/2011, p15

• Treasured look back at Limerick in the old days, Limerick Leader 3/11/2012, p9

• Sean,s latest stroll down memory lane, Limerick Post 9/11/2013, p32

• Down memory lane for the Christmas season, Limerick Post 12/12/2015, p54-55 

• Sean releases 16th Memory Lane book, Limerick Leader 19/10/2016, p8

• Sean's stroll in history, Limerick Leader 22/10/2016, p1 & 2 (Leader 2)

• Limerick stories told in nostalgic archive publication, Limerick Leader 28/10/2017, p1 & 2 (Leader 2)

• Another trip down memory lane, Limerick Leader20/10/2018, p2 & 3 (Leader 2)

• Sean is back in memory lane for latest Christmas offering, Limerick Post 30/11/2019, p46 & 47

Pat Dargan

• Limerick's 50 historic buildings, Limerick Leader 05/06/2019, p16

Seán de Bhulbh / John Woulfe

• biographical sketch and photograph [source unknown]
  

Roisin de Nais

• Great historical work by Limerick writer, Limerick Leader 1/12/1962, p20

• Roisin: the communicator, Limerick Leader 24/02/1973, p16

Tom Donovan

• A knight’s tale: new Fitzgerald family history recounts 700 years of surviving, Limerick Leader 21/11/2009, p21

James Dowd

John Ferrar

Patrick Fitzgerald

• Rev. P. Fitzgerald, joint author of A History of Limerick, Journal of the North Munster Archaeological Society, Vol. 3, No. 4 (January 1915), p.378

• Patrick Fitzgerald, Historian, from Worthies of Thomond by Robert Herbert

Gerard Fitzgibbon

• A great and furious moment, Limerick Leader [Leader2] 05/12/2015, p1&2

• Storyteller Ger brings Williamite war to life, Limerick Leader 28/11/2015, p11

Margaret Franklin

• New edition of Margaret's definitive guide to tracing Limerick ancestors, Limerick Leader 12/4/2014, p4

Marianne Manahan Gallagher

• Marianne builds rebel tale on father’s work, Limerick Leader 20/2/2010, p4 (Leader 2)

Kevin Hannan

Robert Herbert

• link to 'Worthies of Thomond' by Robert Herbert

• RH Limerick City Librarian as remembered by…Desmond O'Grady, An Leabharlann 2004 p10-15

Hewson, George James

• Obituary, George James Hewson, Journal of The Limerick Field Club vol 3. no. 9, 1905

Judith Hill

• New book first to tell how Limerick was built, Limerick Chronicle 5/11/1991, p34

• City architecture book ‘should strengthen conservation lobby’, Limerick Leader 2/8/1997

• The case to save Georgian Limerick [Judith Hill interview], Limerick Leader 22/10/2005 

Liam Irwin

• 'Wonderful insights' in diocese history, Limerick Leader 21/12/2013, p22

• A book worthy of the Diocese of Limerick, Limerick Post 21/12/2013, p36

Gerry Joyce

• Why Limerick will always remember Gerry Joyce, Limerick Leader 8/7/1995

Patrick Kelleher

• Shots ring down the decades, Limerick Leader 6/11/2010, p.1 & 2 (Leader 2)

David Lee & Debbie Jacobs

• review of Made in Limerick vol 1, Irish Times, no date (c. 2003)

• Wicked men, Limerick Chronicle 28/06/2005, p10

Maurice Lenihan

Michael MacDonagh

• Michael McDonagh 1860 - 1946 : journalist and historian, unknown source

• Reminiscences : brilliant Limerick man - Mr. Michael MacDonagh, Limerick Leader 21/07/1945

• Michael MacDonagh (letter by James Gleeson), Limerick Leader 28/07/1945

• Member of noted 'Parish' newspaper family visits Limerick City, Limerick Leader 31/03/1973 , p6

John James McGregor

• John James MacGregor, Historian, 1775-1834, from Worthies of Thomond by Robert Herbert

James McMahon

• Book reveals how Denis Hayes fell at Agincourt, Limerick Chronicle 10/6/1997

• If walls could talk...a story of Limerick theatre, Limerick Post 19/12/2016, p89

Patrick J. McNamara

• City Library to host lecture on war dead, Limerick Chronicle 27/1/2004, p7

• McNamara’s book on World War Two, Limerick Leader 11/11/2006, p14

• Peacekeeper’s tribute to Patrick, Limerick Leader 25/11/2006, p14

• City historian who honoured our World War dead passes on, Limerick Leader 23/8/2008, p11

Mary Moloney

• There’s something about Mary, Limerick Post 6/11/2010, p27

Tadhg Moloney

• Chapter opened on nationalist politics in Limerick pre-1918 [feature on book 'Constitutional Nationalism 1898-1918' by TM], Limerick Leader 30/7/2011, p17

• From the 'nitty gritty' to 'unashamed ambition'... [preview of book 'Constitutional Nationalism 1898-1918' by TM], Limerick Post 6/8/2011, p24

• New book explores Limerick's Great War on the home front, Limerick Leader 02/08/2014, p2 [Leader 2]

Brian P. Murphy

• ‘Myths’ of history, by a Glenstal scholar, Limerick Leader 22/06/1991

John O'Callaghan

• Famous Civil War battle in county examined in new book, Limerick Leader 24/9/2011, p20

• Writings on a revolution in Limerick [1912-23], Limerick Leader 27/10/2018, p.2 & 3 (Leader 2)

Cian O’Carroll

• Feature in Profile series, Limerick Leader 17/9/1986, p12

Séamus Ó Cinnéide

• New book by a Limerick writer, Limerick Chronicle 20/2/1965, p3

• A tribute to Séamus Ó Cinnéide, letter by Dick Lynch, Limerick Leader 30/10/1965, p12

• Séamus to look over Plassey by Jim Kemmy, Limerick Leader 8/8/1992, p5

• A true Limerickman, Limerick Leader 2/1/1993, p2

• The contribution of Séamus Ó Cinnéide, Old Limerick Journal vol. 30, Winter 1993

• Photo of Eoin Devereux and Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh at launch of Last Word by the Listener, L. Post 6/3/1999

• review of Last Word by the Listener, Limerick Post 10/4/1999

• Remembering Séamus by Eoin Devereux, Limerick Leader 9/6/2007, p24A

• Article by S. Ó C. – The old Limerick – Killaloe canal: a lost and forgotten waterway 

• Tá Seamus ar ais ag Halla Íde ar feadh tamall, Limerick Post 18/7/2009, p18

• Photograph from 1971, Limerick Leader 23/05/2016, p24 

Frank O'Connor

• Post Office story gets the stamp of approval, Limerick Chronicle 31/7/2007, p10

• dust jacket of book Limerick Post Office: Memories of forgotten times 

Patrick J. O'Connor

• [launch of] Exploring Limerick’s Past: Pat O'Connor, Limerick Leader 18/4/1987, p8

• Thomond honours Limerick historian, Limerick Leader 5/3/1988, p14

• Dr Pat paints a monochrome picture of Irish landscape, no source – probably Limerick Leader, 1992

• Booklets that are the changing landscape, Limerick Leader 8/8/1992

• The Millers of Coolybrown, Limerick Leader 5/3/1993 (should be 1994?)

• The Millers: tale of a Palatine family, Limerick Leader 11/12/1993

• Limerick don launches atlas of place-names, Limerick Leader 23/6/2001

• Pat’s new book draws a map of allegiances that bind roots, Limerick Leader 9/9/2006, p15

• New book sheds light on the hopes and lives of estate’s first tenants, Limerick Leader 21/11/2009, p21

• biographical note from dust-jacket of Exploring Limerick’s Past

• Dr Pat's new memoir is a book full of stories and characters, Limerick Leader 19/11/2011, p17

• Dr Pat reaches home in his final memoir, Limerick Leader 07/11/2017, p2 (Leader 2)

Grace O'Malley

• Tribute to 'tsunami in the gene pool' of famous Limerick clan, Limerick Leader 12/07/2014, p18
  

• The fascinating story of the Round House O'Malley clan, Limerick Post 08/11/2014, p38

Donal Ó Riain

• Donal captures Parteen in print, Limerick Leader 24/6/2006, p18

• Donal puts his pics and memories into print, Limerick Leader 30/6/2007, p16

• Pictures and poets capture spirit of Parteen & Meelick, Limerick Leader 30/8/2008, p25

Denis O'Shaughnessy

• Tale of the century, Limerick Leader 16/12/2000

• Writer Denis O'Shaughnessy re-launches book by public demand, Limerick Leader 3/11/2001, p10

• Promotional poster for The Bus Excursion, 2004

• Denis recalls the plight of the Francis Spaight in latest book, Limerick Post 21/10/2006, p18

• Todd’s inferno is brilliantly recalled in Denis’s book on Limerick, Limerick Leader 4/11/2006, p10

• Denis has lots of stories to recount, Limerick Leader 8/11/2006, p16

• Limerick Post interview – Denis O'Shaughnessy, author and historian, Limerick Post 11/8/2007, p7

• Denis has many more tales to tell, Limerick Chronicle 11/11/2008, p21

• Limerick writing brought to book, Limerick Leader 19/09/2009, p6

• Impressions of Limerick captured in new book, Limerick Post 3/10/2009, p25

• Kemmy’s Limerick Miscellany launch, Limerick Leader 28/10/2009, p3

• Local writers and Denis the stars of Kemmy’s Limerick Miscellany, Limerick Leader 31/10/2009, p8

• Jim Kemmy would have loved it, Limerick Post 31/10/2009, p16

• Denis tells some rare tales in his latest "Reflections on Limerick", Limerick Post 26/10/2013, p16

• Fond memories of those 'Bygone Days', Limerick Leader 27/10/2018, p9 (Leader 2)

Matthew Potter

• Book of Matthew no potted history of mayoralty, Limerick Leader 1/12/2007, p13

• Chronicle of Limerick mayors from 1197-2006 launched, Limerick Post 1/12/2007, p28

• review of Government & People of Limerick, Irish Times, no date

• Book of limericks re-launched, Limerick Chronicle 19/11/2013, p10

• Book sheds light on the Limerick, Limerick Leader [Leader 2] 28/03/2015, p2 

• The past and its people brought to life, Limerick Leader 02/05/2015, p14 &15 

Potter, Matthew, Liam Irwin and Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

• Definitive history of Limerick…, Limerick Post 12/12/2009, p24

• History work is Limk’s Domesday Book, L. Leader 19/12/2009, p4 (L. 2)

Potter, Matthew and Sharon Slater

• New book celebrates our enterprising history, Limerick Leader 07/10/2015, p6 

• Chamber brought to book, Limerick Leader [Leader 2] 10/10/2015, p1

P. J. ('Cushy') Ryan

• P. J. ('Cushy') Ryan by Jim Kemmy, Old Limerick Journal, vol. 9, Winter 1981
  

Sharon Slater

• Quirky book on city launched tomorrow, Limerick Leader 18/11/13, p8

• 'Little' book illuminates lesser known Limerick, Limerick Leader 23/11/2013, p11

Thomas Toomey

• Postcard invite to launch of book The War of Independence in Limerick by Thomas Toomey

Thomas Johnson Westropp

• photo of TJW in Journal Of RSAI, 1920

 

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