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2021-01-31 SEAN KEATING AT AWARDS FROM LIMERICK, DUBLIN, 4TH JULY 1969. 2022-01-21 JAMES WALLACE, FISHERMAN OF BARRACK LANE, ISLAND FIELD, HOLDING PATSY WALLACE, FARRANSHONE, 1940. 2021-08-31 STAFF AT NEWSOM’S OF LIMERICK, C.1970S

RICHARD ‘DICK’ HUMPHREYS, WAS IMPRISONED AT WAKEFIELD, YORKSHIRE, FOR HIS ROLE IN THE 1916 EASTER RISING.

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RICHARD ‘DICK’ HUMPHREYS WAS BORN IN LIMERICK CITY BUT SPENT SOME OF HIS CHILDHOOD IN MURROE. HE WAS IMPRISONED AT WAKEFIELD, YORKSHIRE, FOR HIS ROLE IN THE 1916 EASTER RISING, WHERE HE WROTE ‘EASTER WEEK IN THE GPO’ ON TOILET PAPER. HE DIED ON 20 SEPTEMBER 1968.

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