Ireland has a strong tradition of families who entered military service abroad, whether in France, Austria, Spain or elsewhere.[1] Of particular interest in Austria were families such as Taaffe of Sligo, Wallis of Dublin, O’Dwyer of Tipperary, Laval Nugent of Westmeath and O’Kelly of Galway.Read More

All at the Limerick City & County Library are very saddened to hear of the recent passing of Tom Toomey. Tom was an extraordinary historian, and his name will forever be associated with his monumental and definitive History of the War of Independence in Limerick. He was also author of several further history, biography and...Read More

Digitised books not previously available. As part of the development of the new local studies website, we have added a number of books and journals previously unavailable online. Among the added books you can now read on our site are Margaret Franklin’s monumental Bibliography of Limerick, Tom Toomey’s definitive account of the history of The...Read More

Our local studies librarian, Mike, has a great interest in the Limerick music scene. His first ever experience of live music was at Limerick’s Savoy Theatre in 1978 and he was there for many further events through the following ten years to its closure. Mike wrote an article for the Old Limerick Journal (Rock and...Read More

Among the journals and magazines added to our digitised collection are three events guide publications from the 1990s through to the end of the first decade of this century. These guides included reviews and articles about the music and arts scenes in Limerick. Also in most of these publications were shopping and fashion guides. They...Read More

Limerick Newspapers of 1921 Among the many events and projects for Decade of Centenaries is the Limerick Newspapers of 1921 project. At the foot of the page you will find links to all the local newspapers of that year which we have in our collection. These newspapers make for fascinating reading, and not just for...Read More