As we near the deadline for the Graduate Artist Affiliate Scheme we are looking back at the various forms our artist residencies have taken over the years. #OrmstonHouseAt15

Got to represented EuroPride2028 in Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday. Bring out the gays!

#DIBLives To celebrate #Pride 2026, this week we are featuring members of Ireland's LBGTQ+ community. In the 18th century Lady Eleanor Butler & diarist Sarah Ponsonby, better known as the 'Ladies of Llangollen' lived together as 'romantic friends' or 'damned Saphists'. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy

It makes me giggle when people think I'm earning money from the podcast (or any social media stuff), when in reality it costs me €160 a year to host it 😆 Anyway, if you like it, share an listen so all the time, effort and money we put into it isn't a complete waste 😅 shows.acast.com/limericks-li...

In 1852, part of the Gort Estate at Oatlands in Roxborough, Limerick was bought by a local wine merchant & grocer, James Rowand of William Street, Limerick. A potent sign of the decline of the Ascendancy class and growth of the middle class in Ireland. The Gort estate in Galway was also sold. /2

Robbed from Insta, so very very true!

Season 2 Episode 4 of the podcast is out now for your listening pleasure shows.acast.com/67d2b2474e9d...

Whatever about the impact on my own career, I am so sad and frustrated to see more and more artists I love struggling or considering leaving the field because of decreased sales, increased costs, and the impact of genAI. I don't want to lose the joy of seeing my favourite artists' beautiful work.

“Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick” Aidan O’Sullivan UCD School of Archaeology, & Cathy Moore, describe a carved wooden object from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick dated to 7th century

How is your day going? Me... I sat in gum on the train while wearing black trousers. Then realised I had buttoned up my shirt wrong. Almost couldn't get out of the train station. Lost my water bottle. 😁 Time for lunch, hopefully the afternoon is better!

*cough* Limerick Castle *cough* ... curses John Ferrar!

The guy who wanted me to explain racism to him emailed me after I blocked him on Facebook.

Interesting to see the majority of the Dáil still consider women to be hysterical creatures who can't be trusted to know their own minds.

This, after "very fine people on both sides"-ing the worst elements of the fuel protests last month, is just a very disappointing pattern to see form.

Love isn't overrated... who knew!

Posted this picture with the caption "The quays and Sarsfield Bridge c.1910" on Facebook and somehow a random dude managed to put a racist comment under it 🤷‍♀️

Lady Mary Heath's life story is so intense that people would call it too far fetched if it was fiction.

Plaque of the day.

The bells of St Mary's Cathedral plaque inside the building. As with everything in Limerick, the bells come with a legend limerickslife.com/bells-of-st-... #speirgorm #treatycity

"Art is food. You can't eat it but it feeds you." The wonderful Rat Project is in the Test Space at Limerick City Gallery for another couple of weeks. Go add some tape art or thoughts to the wall. A lovely bit of community building and sharing. www.instagram.com/theratprojec...

Storm in Limerick, painting by Norah McGuinness, Irish artist (1901-80).

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?

King Johns Castle, or should it be Limerick Castle, Limerick

If I was Mayor of Limerick I'd have the castle called Limerick Castle on every official sign. I'd have the story of the Vikings in Limerick demoted too. They were only here 50 years and destroyed the place not built it.

If you like people's work let them know. Things like this can make an entire day 😊

Today's plaque in Limerick to Tomás de Bhaldraithe author of an English Irish dictionary in 1959 #speirgorm

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic here are the stories of the Limerick victims limerickslife.com/limerick-tit...

Created an exhibition on Limerick City and the Great Famine limerickslife.com/limerick-and...

So looking forward to the release of the digitised 1926 census next Saturday - I’ve a long list of people (family for my mother, and for me, Cumann na mBan women) to look for! Might go out Friday but Sat/Sun I’ll be glued to 1926. Yes, I am that history nerd. #hopethesitedoesntcrash #1926census

The Máire Ní Chrualaoich Lecture, organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social, takes place at The People's Museum, Limerick. 6 pm, Tues 14 April. Prof Emma Nic Cárthaigh (UCC) will speak on ‘Prudentia versus politia: bardic encouragement in a poem by Tadhg Mac Bruaideadha for the fourth earl of Thomond'

I need to know what's going on here. #Limerick (Found in my Dad's stuff, he loved to photograph a well-placed sign or billboard) #TheDinosaursAreNowExtinct

Early train to Dublin, surprisingly not much busier than usual, at least in this carriage.

The humped back bridges on the walk from Limerick city via the canal to @unioflimerick.bsky.social One wall shorter than the other so the ropes attached to barges wouldn't get stuck when the horses pulling them would pass these points.

"Queer things that will happen..." (1899) 
Image: Chicago Tribune / Chicagology

I've forgotten how to social media. Used to put in so much effort putting content out on the daily but now I can't be bothered as it mostly goes unseen on all platforms or I watch as Ai posts getting the attention. It's a pity as I once enjoyed sharing stories of Limerick so much.

Born #OnThisDay 1878 in #Limerick Kathleen Clarke 1st female @LordMayorDublin wife of Tom & sister of Ned Daly executed #EasterRising On her election 1939 she refused to wear the Lord Mayor’s Chain as it had a bust of King William III on the medal B&W📸NLI www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

I'm done being sick now, it's getting ridiculous at this stage to be honest!

On Sat 11 April we will be hosting, in association with @irishhistorians.bsky.social, a day symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland'. This is a free event, open to all in-person or online via Teams. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishStudies

In Pisa, 😲 #speirgorm

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

Plaque of the day in Limerick city.

Plaque of the day on the Aran Islands.

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)

Got a weird spam email from what I presume was this post. Poor scammer didn't check to see if it was Amazon first... it is not 😆

That book sold out in 3 weeks and there are no reprints coming. If you fancy reading it check out your local library 😊 It can go to any library in Ireland with their inter library loan system

A copy of "Letters on Animal Magnetism" by Limerick born Mary Crumpe (1793-1861) from Harry Houdini's personal library and now the US Library of Congress. The publication held original 1845 letters from the poet Thomas Moore to Mary Crumpe about her work. Read more theseaofbooks.com/2020/02/02/f...

On the 16 September 1907, a bust of writer Gerald Griffin was unveiled at the former Creagh Lane, Christian Brothers School. Previously a courthouse for the trial of the murder of the "Colleen Bawn" (Ellen Hanley). This article was published in Sydney's The Freeman's Journal on 31 October 1907.

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...

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.