Qualla: Limerick https://qualla.com/limerick en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Limerick https://qualla.com/limerick Limerick: Introduction https://qualla.com/limerick/ The Treaty Stone sits on a pedestal at Clancy Strand, a lump of irregular limestone that once served as a mounting block for horses. In 1691, it became something more - the surface on which the articles ending the Williamite War in Ireland were signed, terms that promised Catholic toleration and were promptly broken by the Protestant Irish Parliament. Limerick still calls itself the Treaty City. Whether the name commemorates the document signed or the betrayal that followed depends on who you ask.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-wp/gc3g-limerick-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Limerick: Hlymrekr on the Shannon https://qualla.com/limerick/ Long before Vikings arrived, the maps showed something here. Ptolemy, drawing Ireland from secondhand reports in 150 AD, marked a place called Regia at the bend of the great river - the same spot now called King's Island. Saint Patrick is recorded to have visited in 434, baptisin...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-wp/gc3g-limerick-hlymrekr-on-the-shannon.mp3 0:06 2 full Limerick: Newtown Pery's Grid https://qualla.com/limerick/ Most Irish cities grew the way medieval cities grow - cramped, crooked, accreted around an original fort or abbey. Limerick has that older heart on King's Island. But south of the river the streets snap to a grid, laid out in the late eighteenth century by an engineer named Davis...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-wp/gc3g-limerick-newtown-perys-grid.mp3 0:06 3 full Limerick: The Soviet of 1919 https://qualla.com/limerick/ For two weeks in April 1919, a piece of Limerick declared itself a soviet. The British Army had drawn a Special Military Area around the city under the Defence of the Realm Act. The Limerick Trades and Labour Council answered with a general strike. A committee printed its own mon...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-wp/gc3g-limerick-the-soviet-of-1919.mp3 0:06 4 full Limerick: Angela's Ashes and After https://qualla.com/limerick/ Frank McCourt grew up in the lanes off Roden Lane in the 1930s and 1940s, and forty years later wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir that defined Limerick for millions of readers who would never visit it. Angela's Ashes is rain and tuberculosis and a father who drinks the wage...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/limerick-wp/gc3g-limerick-angelas-ashes-and-after.mp3 0:06 5 full Limerick: Munster, the Cranberries, and a Famous Tie https://qualla.com/limerick/ Limerick is sometimes called the spiritual home of Irish rugby. Thomond Park, on the north side of the city, hosts Munster - two-time European champions, and the only Irish side to have beaten the All Blacks (12 to 0, in 1978, a result that still gets retold). The county hurling ...

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