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Civic Inheritance

Civic Inheritance

Edmond Pery successfully asserted a remarkable inherited privilege in 1677 when he claimed two votes in Limerick’s common council. The right was traced through the Sexten family to the former priors of St Mary’s, whose religious property and privileges had passed into private ownership following the dissolution of the monasteries. Pery argued that succession to those lands carried political rights as well as rents and property. His achievement gave the family an unusual position within Limerick’s civic government, where elections for the mayor and common councillors shaped the distribution of authority among merchants, aldermen and established urban families.
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Civic Defiance

Civic Defiance

Edmond Sexten inherited his family’s extensive Limerick property around 1594 and became one of the most powerful, persistent and controversial figures in the city’s early seventeenth-century government. A grandson and namesake of the Tudor mayor who had acquired the former lands of St Francis’s and St Mary’s religious houses, Sexten served as an alderman, held the mayoralty several times and repeatedly occupied the office of high sheriff. His municipal service did not produce harmony with Limerick Corporation. Instead, much of his adult life was consumed by arguments over whether his inherited lands stood inside or beyond the authority of the city’s mayor and council.
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Rockbarton Burning

Rockbarton Burning

Limerick society was disturbed in 1900 by reports of a suspicious fire at Rockbarton, the imposing country residence near Bruff associated with wealth, landownership and titled families. Contemporary reporting described the outbreak as an alleged act of arson, but the surviving evidence presently available does not establish who started it, what motive was involved or whether anyone was prosecuted. The distinction matters. The fire was a serious incident at one of County Limerick’s best-known estate houses, yet suspicion cannot be treated as proof, and the language of accusation must remain separate from any confirmed judicial finding.
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Mallow Inheritance

Mallow Inheritance

William Cecil Pery’s choice of “Mallow” as the territorial designation of his barony appears to have reflected his close relationship with Mrs Theodosia Clayton and a probable inheritance from her family’s County Cork property. The Claytons had long been associated with Annabella, an estate outside Mallow, and retained considerable interests within the manor. When Pery was created Baron Glentworth of Mallow in 1790, the title joined the older Wray connection represented by Glentworth with a Cork property interest that had entered the Pery family’s expanding network of estates, financial responsibilities and social alliances.
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Gerard J. Hannan

Books By Gerard J. Hannan

Explore Gerard J. Hannan’s published and forthcoming books, spanning historical fiction, Limerick humour, family sagas and detailed studies of local and modern Irish history. Each title offers a distinctive story, subject or perspective, reflecting his interest in people, memory, identity, conflict and social change. From comic observations rooted in Limerick life to ambitious novels shaped by major historical events, the collection presents a varied and expanding body of work. Every book is accompanied by its cover, full description and publication details, with a direct Amazon link included wherever an edition is currently available for readers to purchase or discover more.

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Ashes

The Ashes Trilogy, Book One

Ashes begins the story of a group of children growing up in the streets and lanes of Limerick, where poverty and hardship are balanced by humour, imagination and fierce friendship. Their city is more than a setting: it watches, remembers and gives voice to lives often absent from official history. As the children explore their neighbourhood, they encounter family pressures, faith, hunger, danger and the first signs of a changing world. Through their adventures and loyalties, the novel captures the resilience of ordinary people and introduces the characters whose lives will unfold across the three volumes of The Ashes Trilogy.

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