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English: Audio pronunciation of the name "Limerick" in U.S. English (by a user with a Midwestern accent and of Irish descent). Date: 8 February 2024: Source: Own work:
An illustration of the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner by Walter Crane in the limerick collection "Baby's Own Aesop" (1887). The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three ...
Limerick – (from Luimneach). The limerick form was particularly associated in the 18th century with a group of Irish language poets called Filí na Máighe. lough – (from loch) a lake, or arm of the sea. madder, mether – A traditional square-sided wooden drinking vessel, Irish meadar. merrow – An Irish mermaid. Irish murúch.
There once was a limerick example, but this is just the preamble. ... For Gilbert and Sullivan fans, this one is by W.S. Gilbert himself, with the British past tense pronunciation of ate—”et. ...
Earl of Limerick is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, associated first with the Dongan family, then with the Pery family. It should not be confused with the title Viscount of the City of Limerick (usually shortened to Viscount of Limerick, or Lord Limerick) held by the Hamilton family also Earls of Clanbrassil .
Map of Limerick. Limerick (/ ˈ l ɪ m ər ɪ k / LIM-ər-ik; [5] Irish: Luimneach [ˈl̪ˠɪmʲ(ə)nʲəx]) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick.It is in the province of Munster and is in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region.
Within Ireland, the varieties are best associated with either the urban working class of the South-West or traditional rural Ireland in general, and they are popularly identified by their specific city or county, such as Cork English, Kerry English, or Limerick English.
Sliabh Luachra (Irish pronunciation: [ʃl̠ʲiəw ˈl̪ˠuəxɾˠə]), sometimes anglicised Slieve Logher, [1] is an upland region in Munster, Ireland. It is on the borders of counties Cork , Kerry and Limerick , and bounded to the south by the River Blackwater .