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This work tells of the genesis and growth of the city of Limerick. It outlines the transformations which the city has undergone in its development. The focus is on the buildings, street patterns and civic structures, setting them against historical events.
Limerick, Ireland's third most populous city, has a rich and vibrant history thatis uniquely captured in this collection of archive images. Historian Sharon Slater explores the development of the city, showing how it has changed and grown over the years, recalling old shops and streets, buildings and institutions, industries and a lost way of life.
For much of the 20th century, Catholics in Ireland spent significant amounts of time engaged in religious activities. This book documents their experience in Limerick city between the 1920s and 1960s, exploring the connections between that experience and the wider culture of an expanding and modernising urban environment. Síle de Cléir discusses topics including ritual activities in many contexts: the church, the home, the school, the neighbourhood and the workplace. The supernatural belief underpinning these activities is also important, along with creative forms of resistance to the high levels of social control exercised by the clergy in this environment. De Cléir uses a combination of...