limerick

     

Limerick (pronounce /ˈlɪmrɪk/; Luimneach in Irish) is a city and the county seat of County Limerick in the province of Munster, in the midwest of the Republic of Ireland. The city lies on the River Shannon, with three main crossing points near the city centre and has a 2006 population of 91,000 inhabitants within the Limerick urban area and is one of the constituent cities of the Cork-Limerick-Galway corridor with a population of 1 million people.

Trivia about limerick

  • No connection has been established between this 3rd-largest city & the 5-line poem of the same name
  • The 1690s were a miss/ Eng. kings were far from bliss/ Jacobites warring/ Never was boring/ Ended by Treaty of this
  • There once was a clue from Nantucket, this kind of humorous 5-line Irish verse (sorry, that's it)
  • 5-line humorous verse named for an Irish county
  • These funny five-line verses often end with the name of a place; or, a place in Ireland
  • "There was an old lady of Prague" begins a popular one of these lighthearted poems of 5 lines
  • Since Harris was born in this Irish town, we assume he knew lots of saucy 5-line poems
  • A type of humorous poem bears the name of this Irish port city
  • This form of light verse named for a place in Ireland rhymes aabba
  • From the airport, get in your Dooley rental car & head toward this "poetic" city 15 miles east
  • There once was a clue in our place/ about this type of poem, not mace/ short & quick/ a niffy old trick/ but then we ran out of
  • Try writing one of these funny 5-line poems; here, I'll start it for you--"There was a man from Tibet...
  • 3rd-largest city in Eire/Of its sites we never tire/Just walk around/& you'll be bound/To see it in its entire