Suggestions please. I've been contacted by someone with a collection of 1920s/1930s academic books, maths, woodwork, Irish, poetry. Looking for a new home for them.

Why do we still need Pride they ask. www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...

One dead, 16 injured at Berlin Pride event, police say, after vehicle driven into crowd

Police launch an intensive manhunt in the German capital and tell people to avoid the area.

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What period of history do you find most interesting? For me it is the Victorians who have somehow laundered their reputation into being the pinnacle of prim and proper but the records beg to differ!

News today that the National Archives has taken their genealogy site offline indefinitely. Find where to get the collections elsewhere here: cbgenealogy.ie/nai-collecti... #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Headstone in Quin Abbey, Co. Clare to two sisters who died during the sinking of RMS Leinster in 1918.

The other day I accidentally said "Love You" instead of thank you the person who dropped down my coffee in a cafe. That's it, I've done life now.

Got my Pride on in Limerick today. Yesterday a stranger sat beside me on a bench and told me about the hate crime he committed against a Trans Woman, and people wonder why we still need Pride!

Apparently this is going to be way more popular than anticipated. Also, there will be people dressed as clowns at it 😆

Sharon Slater@limerickslife.com · last mo.

Giving a tour for Limerick Pride next Friday. Made the poster, it may be rubbish but no Ai was used in its production.

Giving a tour for Limerick Pride next Friday. Made the poster, it may be rubbish but no Ai was used in its production.

Go team go! Beat the other team! Sports!

Hinge snapped on the front gate this evening. Going to be fun trying to figure out how to fix that tomorrow. Wish me luck!

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

Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick

Apply for the Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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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...

Limerick's Life Podcast

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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...

The Union is Forever - Part 1 | Limerick's Life Podcast

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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

Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick

Prof Aidan O’Sullivan UCD School of Archaeology, and Cathy Moore, MA and Archaeological Wood Expert, describe a carved wooden object from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick. A stick dated to…

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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!

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

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.

Social Democrats@social-democrats.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We fight on. Because the women of Ireland deserve better.  Tonight, Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael chose not to support women, not to trust women, not to show compassion to those so cruelly forced to travel abroad for care.

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.

The Wild Gees@thewildgees.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lady Heath was born Sophie Mary Peirce in Knockaderry, Co Limerick. Among her many achievements, she trained the first generation of Aer Lingus pilots. 📷 An Irish Airwoman by John Lavery

Plaque of the day.