Famous QUOTES from Ireland’s county LIMERICK

Limerick You’re My Lady/ your Shannon waters tears of joy that flows/ the beauty that surrounds you/ I think about you love where e’re I go/ While waking in the arms of distant waters/ a new day finds me far away from home/ and Limerick You’re My Lady/ the one true love that I have ever known.
“Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.” — Frank McCourt (1930–2009)
County Limerick is long, low, fertile and estuarine. With its comrade-counties Clare and Tipperary, it has as its hub historydrenched Limerick City, an old Danish town sited strategically at the point of the Shannon where the river ceases to be navigable. – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
Daithi Ó Bruadair, is known to many in its James Stephens’ translation. I recall the passionate lines beginning: I will sing no more songs, the pride of my country I sang, Through forty long years of good verse without any avail, And no one cared even as much as the half of a hang For the song or the singer, so here is an end to my tale – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
Unannalled in tourist literature, I continue to find delights in the green deeps of county Limerick; in a recessed cobbled kitchen of a c01mtry house, I recall finding an old doctor playing age-old laments on the Uileann, or Elbow, pipes; lying by a shallow weedy stream on a somnolent summer day I woke from reverie to see five enormous trout causing minor tidal waves a few feet from my shoes, and once, loitering by the waterfall of Carass, I listened to an old man reciting the poetry of Sean Ó Tuama, an Irish poet and owner of a publichouse near Croom, who is credited having made the first lampoon in verse, known latterly as the ‘limerick’. (And oh! how we celebrate each year the Festival of Ó Tuama and his brother poets! – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
It is unnecessary for the English to bring cannon to such a place as this. What you call ramparts might be battered down with roasted apples. Antonin, Due de Lauzon (1633-1723) before Limerick, 20 July 1690
A noble thoroughfare, but perhaps too noble by half; it is as if someone of over-vaulting ambition had erred by providing Limerick With a main artery that could ill brook the presence of closes, bowways, alley-ways and cul-de-sacs, all of which vouch for the erratic natural growth of a city. – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
One may travel from Limerick through Rear Cross and Upperchurch to reach Thurles, the county town of Tipperary. On the flanks of this mountainous stretch of road, if court prosecutions are a criterion, the illicit distillation of poteen has not been unknown. In this locality prospecting firms are already opening up the old shafts in the hope of striking lodes Nevada-rich – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
“In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn’t.” — Malachy McCourt (1931–2024).
“Being from Limerick means you’re tough – the rain hardens you before the world gets a chance.” — Social media..
“In Limerick, piety is measured in inches of rain – more rain, more saints.” — Frank McCourt (1930–2009)
Oh, Limerick is beautiful, as everyone knows,/ The river Shannon’s full of fish, i;>esideth at city flows; / But it is not the river, nor the fish that preys upon my mind, / Nor with the town of Limerick have I any fault to find. / The girl I love is beautiful, she’s fairer than the dawn: / She lives in Garryowen, and she’s called the Colleen Bawn –Dion Boucicault, (1820-1890)
With flying colours we marched on to Limerick/ And to Kilcavan we did repair/ ‘Twas on Mountpleasant we called the county/ And pointed cannons at the army there. – Come All You Warriors
We are the boys that take delight in/ Smashing the Limerick lamps when lighting/ Through the streets like sporters fighting/ And tearing all before us. – Garryowen, This was the official marching tune of Custer’s Seventh Cavalry.
Oh, Limerick is beautiful as everybody knows,/ And by that city of my heart how proud old Shannon flows/ Is sweeps down by the brave old town as pure in depth and tone/ As when Sarsfield swept the Saxons from the walls of Garryowen. – Limerick is beautiful.
I am a young fellow that’s easy and bold,/ In Castletown Conners I’m very well known;/ In Newcastle West I spent many a note/ With Kitty and Molly and Mary./ My parents rebuked me for being such a rake/ And spending my time in such frolicsome ways,/ But I ne’ve could forget the good nature of Jane,/ Agus fagaimid siúd mar atá sé. – Limerick Rake.
But there’s not – I say it with joy and pride -/ Better man than mine in Munster wide/ And Limerick town has no happier hearth/ Than mine has been with my man from the north – Thomas Darcy McGee (1825-1868), The man from the north country.
There were men from Dublin and from Cork/ Fermanagh and Tyrone/ And their leader was a Limerick man/ Sean South from Garryowen. – written by Seán Costello, Sean South from Garryowen
She was bred in Connamara,/ And brought up at Castlemaine./ She won cups at the Curragh,/ And a charger was in Spain./ All countries and conveyances/ She has been buckled to;/ She lost an eye at Limerick/ And at Aughrim lost a shoe. – Pat of Mullingar.
Here’s to Limerick famed to all/ For its well-defended wall/ And still more for the beauty of its lasses. – Traditional
In the sweet County Limerick one cold winter’s night/ Oh the turf fires were burning when I first saw the light/ And a crazy old midwife went tipsy with joy/ As she danced round the floor with her slip of a boy/ Singing bainne an bo is na gamhna, / And the juice of the barley for me. – Traditional.

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Ireland’s county Limerick combines historic landmarks with riverside charm, with Limerick City’s King John’s Castle offering insights into medieval history along the Shannon. The Hunt Museum showcases an eclectic art collection, while Adare’s thatched cottages and historic manor add picturesque appeal. Other attractions include the nearby Ballyhoura Mountains’ cycling trails. Limerick is Ireland’s tenth largest county by size (2,686 sq km), and ninth largest by population (209,536). Population peaked at 330,029 in 1841 and reached its lowest point, 133,339 in 1971. In terms of hospitality, Limerick is Ireland’s seventh most visited tourist county with around 420,000 international visitors per year.

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