De Quincey describes the intense “pleasures” and harrowing “pains” of his opium use in lyrical and dramatic prose.
104 months ago

On Tuesday March 25th, 1845, the poet Thomas Moore sat down in his study at Sloperton, in Wiltshire, to write a short – and somewhat...
58 months ago

Dr Samuel Crumpe born in Rathkeale in 1766. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland. Returning to Limerick in 1788, he worked in St. John's Hospital...
54 months ago

Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Limerick, Ireland, which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
100 months ago

Hoy se cumple un nuevo aniversario de la muerte de uno de los menos estudiados próceres de Mayo.
51 months ago

Daphne Dumaurier - published by the Folio Society 2007. Goatskin, Backpared onlay, blind & gold tooling, handsewn endbands, leather doublures.
83 months ago

This page centers around depictions of the social views of drugs in artwork produced throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Sylvester O'Halloran – (1728 – 1807) was an Irish surgeon with an abiding interest in Gaelic poetry and history. For most of his life he lived and practised in...
127 months ago

Publisher: Field Day Publications ; Distributed by Faber & Faber, Lawrence Hill, Derry, Northern Ireland, London, 1991-2002.
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The following adverts were published in the Newcastle West newspaper the Weekly Observer in the 1921. They show advertisements for companies based in Limerick...
70 months ago