Yesterday I got to see Connie's star in the People's Park. It brings me so much joy that people will pass by and read her name every single day! @ormstonhouse.com

The last time the swivel section on Sarsfield Bridge, Limerick was open to traffic was in 1928. It was officially closed in 1963. (Image Lawrence Collection)

Getting a bonus post this month for #iwd2026 Only 2 women have ever been elected to the Dáil for Limerick City. 0 have ever been elected for Limerick County.

St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick before 1890. The back wall of the Exchange building is still in place. Today the graveyard has extended into this space. Image probably taken by Robert French.

Gave a talk on stories of Limerick women this evening. There was only one man in the audience. Whenever I give a talk about women in history men seem to be absent as opposed to when I giving a talk about any other history topic and they are the majority. Why is that?

Plaque of the day on the Aran Islands.

In memory of Limerick's merchant seamen limerickslife.com/merchant-sea...

Our latest podcast, meet Alice Moran. shows.acast.com/limericks-li...

New podcast episode out in the morning. You can catch up on the last month's episode here.

It is the 1st of the month.... you know what that means!! Only 2 women have ever been elected to the Dáil for Limerick City in the history of the State (1 before we were a Republic). And in County Limerick? Zero, Ziltch, Nada, Not a one... ever!

As we prepare to announce our programme for International Women's Day, we look back on events hosted in previous years. One of our highlights has been our partnership with Women's Collective Ireland - Limerick, who we've been working with consistently for the last decade. #OrmstonHouseAt15

All this is so funny cos there's not a *scrap* of evidence for this whole "AI will take everyone's job!" hysteria. Sure, some idiots who'll believe anything any snake oil salesman tells them will fire some people before everyone cops the fuck on, but then everyone will cop the fuck on

I have panel text for an exhibition to complete today and I would rather be doing absolutely anything else!

My brother Con is dead 10 years today. Still talk to him daily but he doesn't answer back. Wonder what he would have made of the last decade, though I know he'd have thought it was all ridiculous.

Lovely news to read first thing!! "Minister O’Donovan is expected to propose that the site be repurposed as a permanent cultural institution under the remit of the National Museum, with plans moving forward to establish a dedicated women’s museum in the heart of the city." #Limerick #Women

I need home remedies for a sore throat... stat!

The third meeting of the Limerick Feminist Book Club is taking place on Monday the 16th of March at the WCI Limerick offices on 28 John Street. The group is going to read We Made It, Kid by Jackie McCarthy O'Brien. — To register your participation write to [email protected]

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

There's also a plaque in Limerick City - on Bedford Row - to commemorate a public lecture he gave there to an enthusiastic audience on the anti-slavery movement in November 1845.

12 Feb 1207: King John writes #otd to Meiler FitzHenry about complaints of William de Briouze regarding Meiler and his son's custody of #Limerick City (Eric The Fish - Flickr)

If you are in Tipperary or environs on Tuesday and would like to hear about Catholic architecture before and after Emancipation, I have just the event for you! #speirgorm

One episode in to season 2 of the Limerick's Life Podcast and Peter now knows a little bit about history. Hard to believe we are almost 1 year down already. #speirgorm

I think that the people who made this list do not understand what historians actually *do*. We don’t just remember facts and dates and spit them out when asked!

Sure Jan 😆 Let's see Ai do my current job as a historian and go through material not on the internet (yes, that exists).

My latest article in the Limerick Post tells of how two American visitors in the 1880s viewed the city. www.limerickpost.ie/2026/02/10/c...

Join us on Tuesday, March 10th as we celebrate International Women's Day. Our event this year is Women's Wisdom, then & now. This will be a space to honour the women who have come before us, learn from their wisdom and for the women in the room to connect and share their wisdom and life experience.

Monday morning means train to Dublin. The things we do for money 😴

Jim Lovell has died. He and the other Apollo 13 Crew visited Limerick in 1970. You can read about that visit here limerickslife.com/apollo-13/

Let's ignore how dirty the ground is but I love the availability of seats in the city.

Anyone want to finish editing the panel text for this exhibition for me? I'm at the burn it all down stage 😁

Today's plaque dedicated to the memory of Sister Joan Bowles founder of the Limerick Youth Service. (The bubbling is on the plaque)

New month, so the reminder. Limerick County has never elected a woman to the Dáil and Limerick City elected 2, about 70 years apart. #seeherelected

Susan MacWilliam has held a fascination with how humans have sought to document and quantify the spirit realm. Historical texts from her research are presented alongside other objects in her vitrine sculpture 'From the Artist's Library' (2025).

Back to history stuff. "Death's doings" Report of the death of a 104-year-old Limerick woman in 1886 in Detroit. From The Bay City Times, Monday, 15 March 1886.

Lecture on Kathleen Lynn #spéirghorm #history #skystorians

Plaque of the day on Barrington Street to John Daly, who became Mayor of Limerick three years after his release from over a decade in prison.

We missed yesterday due to ill health but it's a fav so here it is today. On 25 Jan 1890, Nellie Bly arrives back in New York to huge crowds, becoming the first *person* to circumnavigate the world in less than 80 days (she took 72). #WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

This building looks like all the other Georgian buildings on O'Connell Street, but it was actually constructed in the Victorian Era, find out why in the first episode of season two of the Limerick's Life Podcast. shows.acast.com/limericks-li...

Today's plaque is a small but beautiful one on a seat in Baggot Estate

Still one of my favourite pieces of street art in Limerick.

On this day in 1779, Samuel Cooper died aged 62. The Journals show his gravestone inscription at Kilkeedy, Co. Limerick: tinyurl.com/coop1779 Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com #OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Limerick

On this day in 1638, Mary Hogan Fanynge died. Her funeral entry details her father and husband. See more 17th-century funeral entries in the Journals: tinyurl.com/fanynge Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com #OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Clare #Limerick

Memento Mori, 17th century (Hunt Museum, Limerick) EW is inscribed twice around the edge. The inscription on the sides of the coffin: Disce Mori, Lern To Dye. An invitation to the ’bona mors’. H 1.5cm x W 2.5cm x D 1.5cm

It has been awhile but the plaque for today is on Merchants Quay and to Limerick surgeon Sylvester O'Halloran who pioneered cataract surgeries. #medicalhistory #speirgorm

A Victorian photograph of Arthur's Quay in Limerick. What I love about images like this are the details, here we have a woman selling fruit, some chickens, a foal being held while horse is on the slip. Woman pushing a pram and the houses across the water. (Image LYMPA)

This section of O'Connell Street, Limerick is where the old Debenhams, Penney's and Arthur's Quay are today. Taken well over a century ago, all but one of these buildings has been fully replaced. Only the small shop tucked between the two larger ones remains (with the facade augmented).

On this day in 1873, Septimus Parker Hewson died two months shy of his 100th birthday. The Journals show his gravestone inscription at Kilkeedy, Co. Limerick: tinyurl.com/hews1873 Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com #OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Limerick

St Munchin was said to have cursed us too, best patron saint ever!

Token, #Limerick 1658 "Citty of Limerick" "Chang[e?] & charity" (British Museum)

8 Jan 1565: Richard Creagh native of #Limerick & #Catholic Archbishop of #Armagh, is committed to the Tower of #London #otd He died there c.1586/8 (BM)