Limerick Day

Limerick is the third largest city and one of the oldest in Ireland. It’s a vibrant, exciting city, lying on the River Shannon and home to many historic landmarks such as King John’s Castle and St Mary’s Cathedral. The world-famous Irish Coffee was first made back in the 1940’s in the small port village of Foynes, Limerick.

A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. Limericks are usually humorous, but some limericks can be downright crude. Edward Lear helped to popularise the limerick. Although he did not invent the form, the five-line comic verse known as the limerick (though nobody is quite sure why) in effect came of age with Edward Lear’s popular series of poems published in 1846 as the Book of Nonsense.