Loyal Addresses
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 4 April 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Loyal addresses have been presented to Queen Victoria by municipal...
Nationalist Defiance
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 4 April 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Maud Gonne and other advanced nationalists have organised determined opposition...
Hidden Discontent
Limerick Archives — April 1900 LIMERICK — Advanced nationalists have rejected claims that Queen Victoria’s public reception demonstrates widespread Irish...
Tenants Restored
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 21 February 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Evicted tenants remain at the centre of Ireland’s land agitation,...
Divided Allegiance
Limerick Archives — April 1900 LIMERICK — Queen Victoria’s final visit has intensified argument across Ireland over loyalty, national identity...
Cheering Crowds
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 4 April 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Large crowds have lined the route of Queen Victoria’s procession...
Ulster Divide
Limerick Archives — Friday, 12 October 1900 LIMERICK, Friday — The general election has confirmed a widening political division between...
Grazing Challenged
Limerick Archives — 1900 LIMERICK — The United Irish League is expanding its campaign against large grazing farms and the...
Home Rule Deferred
Limerick Archives — Thursday, 6 December 1900 LIMERICK, Thursday — The opening of the new Parliament has confirmed that Home...
Holdings Enlarged
Limerick Archives — 1900 LIMERICK — Campaigners are demanding that uneconomic smallholdings be enlarged through the redistribution of extensive grazing...
Boer Rallies
Limerick Archives — Thursday, 13 December 1900 LIMERICK, Thursday — Public support for the Boer republics has taken a prominent...
Labourers Organise
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Agricultural labourers throughout County Limerick and the wider Munster countryside...
Creamery Rivalry
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Local disputes are arising between co-operative creameries owned by milk...
Farming Progress
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction is promoting improved...
Western Hardship
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Congestion, fragmented holdings and poor soil continue to govern the...
Women Organise
Limerick Archives — Sunday, 15 April 1900 LIMERICK, Sunday — The establishment of Inghinidhe na hÉireann has provided women with...
Boers Defended
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 7 February 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Nationalists throughout Limerick are following a forceful parliamentary protest against...
Independence Demanded
Limerick Archives — Sunday, 15 April 1900 LIMERICK, Sunday — Inghinidhe na hÉireann has declared that the restoration of an...
O’Brien’s Organisation
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 20 June 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — William O’Brien has emerged as the chief organiser behind the...
Divided Loyalties
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 7 February 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Irish soldiers continue to fight with British forces in South...
Royal Dublin
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 4 April 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Queen Victoria arrived in Ireland today for what will become...
National Network
Limerick Archives — Tuesday, 19 June 1900 LIMERICK, Tuesday — Parliamentary nationalism has acquired a powerful new local organisation following...
Nationalist Victory
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 24 October 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — The reunited Irish Parliamentary Party has emerged from the general...
Military Review
Limerick Archives — April 1900 LIMERICK — Queen Victoria has reviewed troops drawn from the Dublin garrison and the Curragh...
Unionist Display
Limerick Archives — Thursday, 5 April 1900 LIMERICK, Thursday — Dublin Castle and unionist organisations have used Queen Victoria’s arrival...
National Programme
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 20 June 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — The reunited Irish Parliamenme Rule, land reform and the restoration...
Women Protest
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 4 April 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Women have assumed visible roles in the nationalist opposition surrounding...
Land Grabbers
Limerick Archives — 1900 LIMERICK — The hostile term “land grabber” continues to be directed against tenants who enter farms...
Redmond Chosen
Limerick Archives — Tuesday, 6 February 1900 LIMERICK, Tuesday — Nationalists throughout the city and county are today considering the...
Cold Continuation
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — January came into Limerick without ceremony for most of the...
Purchase Delayed
Limerick Archives — 1900 LIMERICK — Tenant purchase continues under the existing Irish Land Acts, allowing some farmers to replace...
Networks Endure
Limerick Archives — Sunday, 5 April 1914 LIMERICK, Sunday — The establishment of Cumann na mBan has revealed how strongly...
Wyndham Appointed
Limerick Archives — Friday, 9 November 1900 LIMERICK, Friday — George Wyndham has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in...
Daughters Founded
Limerick Archives — Sunday, 15 April 1900 LIMERICK, Sunday — Inghinidhe na hÉireann, translated as the Daughters of Ireland, has...
British Absence
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 24 October 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — The completed general election has again demonstrated the weakness of...
Ireland Votes
Limerick Archives — Thursday, 4 October 1900 LIMERICK, Thursday — Electors in Limerick City are voting today as the United...
Irish Commandos
Limerick Archives — Monday, 2 April 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Irish volunteers are continuing to fight beside the Boer commandos...
Party Reunited
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 31 January 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — News of the reunion of the Irish Parliamentary Party has...
Culture Revived
Limerick Archives — Sunday, 15 April 1900 LIMERICK, Sunday — Inghinidhe na hÉireann has placed the Irish language, national culture...
Farming Department
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — The newly established Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for...
Pageantry Challenged
Limerick Archives — April 1900 LIMERICK — Nationalist newspapers have criticised Queen Victoria’s visit as an elaborate imperial spectacle staged...
Creamery Contest
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Agricultural co-operation is challenging the private commercial control long exercised...
Women Participate
Limerick Archives — Sunday, 15 April 1900 LIMERICK, Sunday — Inghinidhe na hÉireann has declared that women must take an...
Harvest Journeys
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Seasonal migration remains essential to many small farming and labouring...
Children Fed
Limerick Archives — October 1910 LIMERICK — Inghinidhe na hÉireann has linked its demand for national independence with practical concern...
Unity Fractures
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 24 October 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — The completion of the general election has shown that the...
Land Dominates
Limerick Archives — 1900 LIMERICK — The land question remains the dominant economic and social issue across rural Ireland, shaping...
Rural Unrest
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Agrarian agitation has become especially influential across Connacht and parts...
Redmond Returned
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 October 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — John Redmond has retained Waterford City in the general election,...
Patriotic Children
Limerick Archives — Sunday, 1 July 1900 LIMERICK, Sunday — Nationalist women have organised a vast Patriotic Children’s Treat in...
Royal Residence
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 4 April 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Queen Victoria has taken up residence at the Viceregal Lodge...
Loyal Ireland
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 4 April 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Unionist opinion has interpreted the enthusiastic public welcome given to...
Grazing Dominance
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Cattle grazing remains more profitable than tillage in many Irish...
Royal Farewell
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 4 April 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — Queen Victoria arrived at Kingstown today for what would prove...
Boycott Pressure
Limerick Archives — 1900 LIMERICK — Boycotting and organised public pressure are being employed in some Irish districts against landlords,...
Unionists Hold
Limerick Archives — Wednesday, 24 October 1900 LIMERICK, Wednesday — The Irish Unionist Alliance has retained eighteen of Ireland’s 103...
Creamery Expansion
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — Co-operative creameries continue to spread across rural Ireland under the...
Estates Reorganised
Limerick Archives — Monday, 1 January 1900 LIMERICK, Monday — The Congested Districts Board is continuing its efforts to purchase...
New Nationalism
Limerick Archives — Saturday, 6 October 1900 LIMERICK, Saturday — Pro-Boer feeling is giving renewed confidence to younger Irish nationalists...
Nationalist Resistance
Limerick Archives — April 1900 LIMERICK — Nationalist-controlled authorities and public representatives in several districts have resisted demands that they...
Children Gather
Limerick Archives — Saturday, 7 April 1900 LIMERICK, Saturday — A vast children’s celebration has been held in Phoenix Park...