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A limerick (/ ˈ l ɪ m ər ɪ k / LIM-ər-ik) [1] is a form of verse that appeared in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland in the early years of the 18th century. [2] In combination with a refrain , it forms a limerick song , a traditional humorous drinking song often with obscene verses.
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 [1] [2] – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
In total, Lear wrote and published 212 limericks, and he is still one of the best-known writers of limericks, even now. Many of his nonsense poems make great limericks for kids , but adults enjoy ...
[101] [102] The main campus is located at Moylish Park, about 3 kilometres north-west of the city centre, and the Limerick School of Art and Design is located on campuses at Clare Street and George's Quay. Additional facilities and outreach centres are located at O'Connell Street and in Ennis, County Clare and LIT has two campuses in County ...
He was born Desmond James Bernard O'Grady in Limerick on 27 August 1935. He was a native Irish speaker. At the age of 19 he left Ireland for Paris and taught English at the Berlitz School, following in the footsteps of James Joyce .
Edward O'Dwyer was born in Limerick in 1984. He started writing poems in 2006 after earning a degree in English and Media. [3]He published his first collection of poems in the book The Rain On Cruise's Street in 2014, which was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. [4]
Silly Verse for Kids is a collection of humorous poems, limericks and drawings for children by Spike Milligan, first published by Dennis Dobson in 1959. [1] [2] [3] Silly Verse for Kids was Milligan's first book. Many of the pieces had been written to entertain his children, who inspired some of the poems.
Patrick Kavanagh was born in rural Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904, the fourth of ten children of James Kavanagh and Bridget Quinn. [3] His grandfather was a schoolteacher called "Kevany", [4] [5] which a local priest changed to "Kavanagh" at his baptism.