Limerick Photos
Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007I thought it might be nice to bring you a few pictures of this old town.
I know that not everybody has broadband, and this post is probably quite unfriendly to dial-up people, so if that means you, I’m sorry.
Most of the pics are below the fold, to save your patience if you’re on a slow connection, and also to make sure you don’t hunt me down and kill me like the dog I am.
Anyway, here’s a flavour of Limerick for you.
King John’s Castle and Thomond Bridge
Riverfest BBQ cook-off
The Blackwater River at Gillogue
Some musicians
BBQ cook-off
A pub
More musicians
The River Shannon from the north bank
University grounds at Plassey
Moira’s shop at the Market
A goat
Nicky
Market trader
Another pub
Another market trader
Sarsfield Bridge
Nancy Blake’s
Yet another market stall
River Shannon south bank
University of Limerick
Still another market trader
Thomas Street
Footbridge at Plassey
Typical Limerick people
A band
Lock at Shannon rowing club
Pery Square
Looking east
The market
The People’s Park
Glentworth Street and the White House pub
The Park again
Recent developments replacing the ugliest building ever
View from Arthur’s Quay
Old canal
To Murph, built by Anon
The Shannon at Plassey
The monument
Two friends having a chat. Some other guy having a pint.
Gillogue
Little Catherine Street
Baker Place
The Park again
White House pub with Jock’s Block to the right
White House inside
Locke Quay
The City Art Gallery
Henry Street
O Connell Street
Thomas Street again
Limerick Butchers
St Mary’s cathedral
And again
The Abbey River
The Crescent
Yet again the White House
Riverfest BBQ cook-off people
Shane
Self-explanatory
Stumble it!
June 11th, 2007
Superb! Thanks for the taste of home.I only wish I was in some of those photos.
June 11th, 2007
They’re great shots Bock! Love the one with the trees and the river!
June 11th, 2007
Insanely jealous.
Just insanely jealous. What a great part of the world you live in.
June 11th, 2007
Nice one Bock of the huts up in Plassey with the mill in the background, it has a very laid back feel to it and you would never think that a whole campus is build up around it?
Good god Joe Malone is nodding off after his mug of irish coffee. Ach ja, Joe’s was the place to be in the late seventies, where musicians like Frank Quinlivan, Paddy P, Ger Costello entertained us.
Good to see that nothing has changed at Tom Collins, man we had peculiar drinking habits back then. You wouldn’t go out for a pint until half ten, then in the space of an hour your trying to skull down five pints before closing time at half eleven, then get abused by staff to be off the premises before quarter to twelve. Sheer madness!
June 11th, 2007
Wonderful stuff Bock, your Canon S80 takes great shots. The two blokes having a coffee in Namcy’s, could they be the two wrinklies, Joe & Paddy?
I’ll will be back in my fave city in a couple of weeks time for a few Beamishes & to check that all my Polish friends are behaving themselves.
Here’s a few pics of my own I took a few years back.
http://www.clearwell.freeserve.co.uk/Limerick01.html
June 11th, 2007
Devin: You will be, shortly now.
Aisling: Yeah. It can come as a surprise to those in the Capital but hey! What the hell?
Sassy: Well, we have our social problems too you know. It isn’t heaven, but it isn’t hell either, and I think it’s about time we started to combat the idiot stereotypes perpetuated by our lazy, incompetent media. (And some bloggers).
Mike: Well spotted. Doesn’t Joe look well for his years?
Julie: I would be fascinated to find out how you know what camera I was using. Please share.
As regards the two old fellas in Nancy’s, they would not be the Wrinklies, who are in fact both debonaire and highly attractive.
June 11th, 2007
Nice one Bock. You’re making me feel homesick.
June 12th, 2007
I saw you taking the shot outside Nancy Blake’s a week last Sunday around twenty to three in the afternoon if I remember right! Now I’m getting ya worried!
Nah, you haven’t got a stalker, I got your camera model from what’s called the EXIF info that digital cameras embed in the header of their JPEG and TIFF files. Useful if you edit your photos & save to another name, info such as date & time, camera settings etc will remain intact for future reference. Your photo editor should allow you to read all the EXIF info, if not there’s a free exif reader here: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/exifreader.html
Some of the stuff will also show up if you hover over the file name in Windows explorer.
By the way, unless you have a time machine (and that wouldn’t surprise me) your camera’s date is wrongly set to 2008.
Can’t say I’m not disappointed that the old fellas weren’t the Wrinklies, oh well, my search for them continues! Mind ya I think the old fellas in the pic are indeed fine specimens of manhood, I have to add at my age I’m not too fussy these days.
June 12th, 2007
“and my heart was filled with sucth delight”beautiful!
June 12th, 2007
Fuckin hell
June 12th, 2007
Great range of shots, where is the memory of fellow hiker from?
June 12th, 2007
Just discovered the viewer can disable those snap thingies. There is a disable command at the top right hand corner of the snap. You then reload the page.
Don’t know how long it lasts for, though.
Spes aeterna dona nobis Domine.
June 12th, 2007
well thats all my doubts shattered….
June 12th, 2007
Was that Pat O’Brien in the market?
June 12th, 2007
Nice one on the Pics there, Bock.
June 12th, 2007
great pics! some of your shots could have been taken here in savaqnnah…i’ll have to attempt a travelogue of my river town, too… :)
June 12th, 2007
savannah, i meant…*i think i need to go to bed*
June 12th, 2007
I enjoyed that, amazing what one takes for granted.
June 12th, 2007
GREAT photos Bock. People are always so negative about Limerick, Stab City and all that but I think it’s beautiful. My sis lives there and loves living in the place. She’s been there about 10 years and even has a Limerick accent!!
June 12th, 2007
Great stuff Bock. Lovely selection.
And tell me, does the sun always shine in Limerick?
June 12th, 2007
And to think I was going to waste my next vacation on Killamory.
June 12th, 2007
Beautiful shots. I especially like the interior shot in the pub with deep shadows. The natural lighting made me think of TWTSTB.
June 12th, 2007
John Mac: Ah Jesus, I wasn’t trying to make anyone homesick. Just a few pix out of interest considering we get so much ill-informed negative stuff printed about us.
Shane: It’s on the old canal at the Clare side, near the Lame Duck pub.
Benny: I’m trying to get rid of the bastard things but they won’t go away.
Manuel: Your doubts? Shattered? That probably means you’ll have to get new ones.
HZC: I didn’t put in any shots of the Market, but now that you mention it . . .
Derfen: Thanks
Savannah:
Kit Bán : True indeed.
Ellen: Like I said, some fool came up with a stupid nickname years ago, and every lazy incompetent hack in the country latched onto it, because it was easier than having to think.
Eolaí: No. It rained once, around the time some crowd were making a movie here.
MJ: Why indeed, when you could waste your time here in Limerick instead.
Medbh: It’s probably blindingly obvious what TWTSTB is, but please take pity and tell me anyway.
June 12th, 2007
You bastard, I’m on dialup! The shot of the river and King John’s reminds me of the drama/documentary Angela’s Ashes… hold on, did you digitally vanish the rain?
Btw, is the ’social’ housing still in the castle? What a great idea that was.
June 12th, 2007
Hi Bock great pics, any chance of captions or locations please? I have friends visiting from the States soon and want to give them a taste of some of the place’s they’ll see.
June 12th, 2007
abso fab pics bock, only that i live here could have been any where else in the world, well done x
June 12th, 2007
Limerick bashers, hang your heads in shame!!
June 12th, 2007
yes? was there a response? or were you speechless at my presumption, sugar? ;)
June 12th, 2007
Conan: They knocked deValera’s houses and built an appalling steel-and-glass interpretative centre instead. Classy.
Guy Incognito: No sooner said than done.
Mairéad: Oooh! Sore one!
Savannah: I prostrate myself before you and beg forgiveness. You somehow got overlooked. But yes indeed, it would be very interesting to see some pics of Savannah, Georgia, because we all probably have fixed ideas in our minds of what a city like that would be like.
I think your mainstream media over there have managed to create a certain stereotype about the South much like our idiot Dublin-based media have done with Limerick.
June 12th, 2007
Top stuff Bock! Auld Luimneach does indeed have it moments and sights to be celebrated. Then again, just about anywhere on this fair isle does. Tisn’t a bad aul spot we have on the planet.
June 13th, 2007
So we have a camera anorak looking through embedded shit in photos.
The trick is to change the time every time you go out to take photos, that confuses them. :D
Good stuff, god help those on Dialup though
June 13th, 2007
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June 13th, 2007
Terrific photees Bock. Limerick seen through the eyes of an informed native.
June 13th, 2007
ps ‘Below the fold’, eh?
I sorta figured you for a member of the fourth estate!
June 13th, 2007
Tasty shots. They give a real impression of the city
June 13th, 2007
Been thinking about doing something like this myself, of Ludlow. I think you may have inspired me to get off my arse and do it. Only thing is, I’m not back there until Tuesday, so inspire me again next week, would ya? Ta.
June 13th, 2007
The second one from the top is my wife and I (behind) talking to Jimmy (cooking). It really is a small city when you see yourself on other people’s blogs.
June 13th, 2007
Bock, you’re making me homesick now! :(
June 13th, 2007
Wrinkly Jr: No indeed. It’s alright.
Squid: It’s a bit scary, but I’ve learned something I didn’t know before, which is good.
Fústar: Well, It’s Limerick, but not through the eyes of some idiot reporter.
Conan: Hmmm. Like the Mainstream Media, you mean? Hmmm.
DS: Yeah. Everybody should do it. A media blitz, so to speak. We’ve put up with ill-informed shit long enough.
Badgerdaddy: You should do that. I’ll remind you next week.
Seabhcan: In that case, the guy with the camera behind you must be me!
Limerick Gal: Nothing wrong with a little homesickness every now and then.
June 13th, 2007
Just got a chance to look at those now, they’re really fantastic. Thanks for putting them up for people to enjoy!!!
June 13th, 2007
Snap is still gone away. I’m afraid to delete my cookies in case it comes back.
June 14th, 2007
Nice Bock, these are great, bout time someone made this place look half way good, with all the crap in the papers lately!! great job, and I WANNA SEEE MORE!! your shots are kick ass :)
June 15th, 2007
Great pictures, Bock. I can’t wait to visit Ireland.
June 16th, 2007
Great photos! For the foreigner, Limerick seems to be ugly at the first glimpse, but later it shows its hidden beauty. It is nice town and like others has good and bad sides.
Regards!
June 19th, 2007
The boot for Murph was for Dermot Morrissey Murphy who was a member of the Limerick Walking Club. He passed away a few years ago. This boot and plaque was placed in his memory on a pathway often used by the club.
June 24th, 2007
A decent man.
July 5th, 2007
You’ve made me very homesick.im down here in new zealand,and not a decent pub in the place,nor a decent pint.i havent been home in years
July 5th, 2007
Ah, but Gary, you have other advantages to compensate for it.
October 28th, 2007
ILL BE BACK
November 2nd, 2007
Great pics of Limerick, Bock. Shows the city in it’s true light.. and demonstrates that it’s not a place ruled by crazy knife-wielding nuts.
The pics make me homesick too.. btw
November 2nd, 2007
It is ruled by crazy knife-wielding nuts. They’re called the Government.
November 3rd, 2007
lol @ Bock… Stop, else the Moustache will jump into his heli and hunt you down like a dog :)
December 4th, 2007
These are fab. Should be used to promote this beautiful city. Great work.
January 15th, 2008
Excuse a late comer but many thanks for the pics of the town. I always knew that Ireland would be a beautiful place and it amazes me that for as many places I visited in and around the UK when I was in the Submarine Force during the Cold War, that I never had a chance to set foot in Ireland. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to now.
June 16th, 2008
Hi, I was just passing by and I was amazed by your pictures… good work! They’re great shots!
I miss living in Limerick, I hope I could go back soon!
June 17th, 2008
Thanks Manu. Glad you liked them.