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2020 Art Gallery, Griffith House, North Mall,
Cork, Ireland
Tel: +353 21 4391458 | www.2020artgallery.com
Limerick
luimneachimerick is a county that has for millenia been a hub of commerce and cultural exchange.
LDominated as it is by the Shannon river, this region has long had one eye to the lands
beyond the sea to whom the mighty river brings access and wealth. Having it’s metropolis in
the city of culture and history, Limerick has been a place of great power, a seat of the Irish
elite for generations.
Limericks rural hinterland boasts many pretty towns rare double flying staircase! There have been very
– from the picturesque beauty of Adare interesting characters among these fabled Knights,
(Áth Dara “place of the oak”) “Ireland’s prettiest including “The Cracked Knight” and “Knight of the
town” with it’s 12th century Castle and impressive Women”. Ireland’s longest serving President,
Abbey, to Askeaton’s charm and impressive Eamonn De Valera (1882-1975) was brought up and
ruined fortress. One of the loveliest houses in went to school in the Limerick city village of Bruree.
Ireland is Glin Castle, home to Ireland’s romantically Although sentenced to death for his part in the
named “Knights of Glin”. The castle is owned by the rising of 1916, De Valera was released because,
Fitzgerald family who have lived in the area for 700 being born in New York he could have been
years. The castle itself is said to have a window for considered an American. His boyhood cottage at
every day in the year and inside a beautiful and very Bruree is now a National Monument.
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Cork, Ireland
Tel: +353 21 4391458 | www.2020artgallery.com
Limerick
luimneachimerick is a county that has for millenia been a hub of commerce and cultural exchange.
LDominated as it is by the Shannon river, this region has long had one eye to the lands
beyond the sea to whom the mighty river brings access and wealth. Having it’s metropolis in
the city of culture and history, Limerick has been a place of great power, a seat of the Irish
elite for generations.
Limericks rural hinterland boasts many pretty towns rare double flying staircase! There have been very
– from the picturesque beauty of Adare interesting characters among these fabled Knights,
(Áth Dara “place of the oak”) “Ireland’s prettiest including “The Cracked Knight” and “Knight of the
town” with it’s 12th century Castle and impressive Women”. Ireland’s longest serving President,
Abbey, to Askeaton’s charm and impressive Eamonn De Valera (1882-1975) was brought up and
ruined fortress. One of the loveliest houses in went to school in the Limerick city village of Bruree.
Ireland is Glin Castle, home to Ireland’s romantically Although sentenced to death for his part in the
named “Knights of Glin”. The castle is owned by the rising of 1916, De Valera was released because,
Fitzgerald family who have lived in the area for 700 being born in New York he could have been
years. The castle itself is said to have a window for considered an American. His boyhood cottage at
every day in the year and inside a beautiful and very Bruree is now a National Monument.
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