Limestone and River

Essays on Limerick history in honour of Liam Irwin

Catherine Swift, Brian Hodkinson

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781801511841
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick's long history as Ireland's oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of limestone and river. The stone circles of Lough Gur, the Norman strongholds of Askeaton and Adare as well as King John's Castle, the Treaty stone, the Georgian quarter of Newtown Pery, Cleeves Factory, and Thomond Park all stand proudly within this landscape today as monumental testimony to the region's character, a place where the peoples of Ireland and Britain have clashed, meshed, and evolved into a distinctive whole. With such a vibrant cultural inheritance, it is hardly surprising that Limerick is also the home of one of the oldest and biggest of Ireland's local history societies, first founded as the Limerick Naturalists Field Club in 1892 and now the Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society (TAHS). This volume of essays on Limerick city and county has been put together in honour of Liam Irwin, retired Head of History in Mary Immaculate College and leading member of the society for forty years, by his many admirers and friends.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Author photograph
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Liam Irwin: Appreciations
• Publications by Liam Irwin
• 1. Clerical lawyers in thirteenth-century Limerick
• 2. Gabriel Hayes: a talented icon in mid-twentieth-century Ireland
• 3. Gearóid Mac Spealáin, 1904-75: a note on a historian of Limerick
• 4. Relief and state-building: Herbert Hoover and Ireland, 1921-33
• 5. John Company's Limerick soldiers
• 6. Home schooling: the Le Fanu family at the Military School and Abington Rectory, 1814-32
• 7. 'A great amount of energy, activity and practical business habits': Robert Potter MP c.1803-54
• 8. A unique pre-Famine record of women workers in the Limerick linen industry
• 9. O curas hominum! The life and writings of Thomas Carve alias Carew, 1590-c.1672
• 10. Tithes and tensions in Mahoonagh in 1834
• 11. Marking the equinox on the cliffs
• 12. Catholics and Protestants in an eighteenth-century Limerick parish: Ardcanny, 1659-1798
• 13. Strong farmers in west Limerick in the mid-nineteenth century
• 14. Editorial fillers in eighteenth-century Limerick newspapers
• 15. The Richard Russell Memorial Park
• 16. Dating Bóraimhe Baile na Ríogh
• 17. The Irish provincial print trade: a history of the Clare printing presses, 1778-1870
• LIMERICK IS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INDEX