Electric Lighting
Limerick Corporation voted by twenty-four members to four to adopt J. Enright’s proposal for lighting the city by electricity. The decision, reported on 12 January 1900, authorised a scheme designed to provide an installation meeting the technical requirements administered by the Board of Trade. Enright was described as being from London, suggesting that the Corporation had sought outside expertise for a modern undertaking of considerable engineering and financial importance. The decisive majority indicated that most councillors accepted electric lighting as a necessary civic improvement, despite continuing disagreement over how power should be produced and supplied.
