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Posted on: 5:21 pm, September 01, 2008

www.limerickcity.ie/Archives/

Shannon Development and Limerick City Council have joined together to provide public access to lots of historical records pertinent to the city.

Among the records to be included are Limerick City Council's minute books, the Chamber of Commerce collection, and Limerick Harbour Commissioners collection. Limerick City Archives holds a complete record of all minutes of Limerick City Council from 1841, when Ireland was in the grip of the famine, right up to 1972 when Ireland was about to join the EU.

The archive also contains records from the House of Industry on Clancy's Strand where the sick, old, poor or mentally ill stayed. Limerick City Archives holds a register of all those admitted from September 1774 to May 1783, which contains 2,908 names most of which were admitted voluntarily, and many who were suffering from conditions described as "full of whiskey", "big with child", "sore eyes", "lame of both legs," "loves liquor", "dropsy", and "mad".

(From http://www.limerickleader.ie/city/Online-archive-of-Limerick39s-history.4371672.jp)

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