A snapshot of the 1970s, brought to you by archivists, artists and the Limerick Leader.
Timeline
Mayor and priests and audience at blessing of boats at Limerick Boat Club Centenary Celebrations 13-5-1970. Sarsfield bridge with bus, boat club and 1916 memorial can be seen in the background.
Clare Lakelands Hotel Scariff 1971
Trudy's Boutique - photo shoot at People's Park for advertising feature in 1971.
Killaloe yachting, May 1976
Crash at Hurler's Cross in 1971.
Press Reception at the Royal George Hotel for Mikado in 1971.
Barry's Butchers, Shannon Street, photographed for Fitt's Auctioneers in 1971
Miss Janice Boggie and Miss Mary Scanlon in 1971 (photographed for Seamus Kennedy).
Visit of Donald Caird, Church of Ireland Bishop of Limerick, to the Social Services Centre in 1971.
Mayor Liddy leaves for New York in 1971.
Jock Leahy of Banard Stud Farm, Abbeyfeale, in 1971.
Snow Scenes from Limerick and Clare in 1971.
Munster Cup Match at Thomond Park Young Munsters Highfield 1971
Limerick Young Students 1971
Shannon Inter-firm GAA Final, S.P.S. v Shannon Wire Weavers at Newmarket on Fergus in 1970.
Presentation to Hughie Hamilton, soccer star, at Danus Factory in 1971.
Car damaged by falling tree at Adare in 1971.
The repatriation of the body of Frank Stagg at Shannon Airport from Wakefield Prison in Britain where he died on hunger strike on 12 February 1976.
Garryowen versus Shannon in the Munster Cup at Thomond Park in 1971.
Eddie Hant of Kingston's, a menswear shop, Patrick Street, Limerick, in 1971.
Press Conference at Ferenka premises atAnnacotty in 1971.
Thomond -v- Richmond at Thomond Park in 1971.
Lahinch, Co. Clare, in 1971
Dr Noel Browne, Jim Kemmy and others at an EEC discussion at the Savoy Hotel in 1971.
Search for body at Ardnacrusha, 1976
Limerick v Bohemians in the 2nd Round of the FAI Cup at the Markets Field in 1971.
Clounanna Coursing Meeting in 1971.
Smith's Renault garage and its staff, photographed for advertising feature, 1971
Killaloe in 1971
FCA Dinner at Sarsfield Barracks in 1971.
Stephen F Stokes and Co Cecil Street 1970
Coursing Cup meeting at Mount Coote, Kilmallock, in 1970.
Meelick GAA Dinner at the Two Mile Inn in 1971.
Cork Constituion v Bohemians in the Munster Cup, Thomond Park, 1971.
John Wright, 1971
Limerick AFC training for FAI Cup Final at the Markets Field in 1971.
Prize winners from Adare Convent School in 1971.
Disabled children at Richard Harris's house in Kilkee, Co. Clare in 1971.
Sean Bourke in Limerick 1971
Wedding of Mary McAuliff at Abbeyfeale Church in 1971.
C.I.E. presentations and switching on of Christmas lights at Colbert Station in 1971.
Group from Monaleen school who won the group impersonation compeition at Feile Luimni with Mary Moore in 1971.
St. Michael's CYMS Table Tennis Players in 1971
The Limerick Inn Hotel, photographed in 1971.
Crescent Shopping Centre, 1976
M. J. Webb, Victualler, premises photographed for Louis de Courcy, Auctioneers, in 1971.
Patrickswell G.A.A., dinner at Parkway Motel, 1971.
Hockey, Munster versus Ulster at the Catholic Institute, Rosbrien, in 1971.
Guinness draw at the Limerick Greyhound Track in 1971.
Students' Protest March in O'Connell Street in 1971.
Eamon de Valera at ceremonies at St. John's Cathedral in 1971.
Surfing at Lahinch in 1971.
Clare Lakelands Hotel Scariff 1971
Mayor Rory Liddy planting a tree during the opening of Watergate Flats in 1970.
Photos taken at Gallows Hill near Cratloe, Co. Clare, in 1971.
Press Reception at the Royal George Hotel for Mikado in 1971.
Miss Limerick pictured at Winston's 1971
Photographer covering the visit of the Lord Mayor of London's visit to the Town Hall in 1971.
Kilmallock Gate in 1971.
Jock Leahy of Banard Stud Farm, Abbeyfeale, in 1971.
Firefighters at Pat Cullen Plant on the Ballysimon Road in 1971.
Pop group photographed at the People's Park, Limerick, for Dick Naughton, in 1971.
Civil Defence dinner at the Savoy Hotel in 1971.
The repatriation of the body of Frank Stagg at Shannon Airport from Wakefield Prison in Britain where he died on hunger strike on 12 February 1976.
Garryowen versus Shannon in the Munster Cup at Thomond Park in 1971.
Garryowen versus Monaleen challenge match at Monaleen grounds in 1971
St. Enda's swimming pool - swimming class, 1976
Thoroughbred Breeders of Ireland at the Shannon Arms 1971 with Des O'Malley, T.D., Minister for Justice.
Jemni Productions at Town Hall in 1971
Boys photographed for Br. Perkins in 1971.
Group shot of three men at NFA dinner atRoyal George
Senior Public Speaking (Impromptu), The Crescent, in 1971.
Limerick v Bohemians in the 2nd Round of the FAI Cup at the Markets Field in 1971.
Limerick versus Tipperary at Gaelic Grounds
Presentation to Altar Boys at Redemptorist Monastery in 1971.
Clounanna Coursing Meeting in 1971.
Action shot from Garryspillane versus Boher hurling match at the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick, 1970.
Mungret G.A.A. Dance at Parkway Motel in 1971.
Killaloe in 1971
Limerick Soccer Team arrives back in Limerick with the F.A.I. Cup in 1971.
Stephen F Stokes and Co Cecil Street 1970
Quarry Players press conference.
Mount St. Lawrence Cemetery in 1971
West County Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare, by Ger Saunders in 1971.
Cork Constituion v Bohemians in the Munster Cup, Thomond Park, 1971.
Triumph Spitfire taken in 1970
Limerick AFC training for FAI Cup Final at the Markets Field in 1971.
Photographs of fishing and shooting amenitiesin Limerick in 1971.
Mrs Tom Flanagan, 1971.
Wedding of Mary McAuliff at Abbeyfeale Church in 1971.
Official opening of Fulflex Factory by Des O'Malley T.D., Minister for Justice, in 1970.
Limerick (0) versus Shamrock Rovers (0) at the Markets Field in 1971.
Young Munsters versus Sundays Well in the Munster Senior Cup at Thomond Park in 1971.
Crescent Shopping Centre feature (Part 2), 1976
Bruff dinner in London in 1970
Kingston's Menswear photographed for an advertising feature in 1971.
Regional Development Programme for Industry at the Savoy Hotel in 1971.
Tumbleweed Showband, Royal George Hotel, 1971.
Eric Houlihan, photographed for soccer page, 1970
At Hanratty's Hotel, Glentworth Street, Limerick, in 1970.