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Sharon Slater

@limerickslife.com
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🌍 Historian | ✍️ Author | 🎤 Public Speaker | 🏆 National Heritage Hero Award | 🏳️‍🌈 Grand Marshal Limerick Pride | 🇵🇸 Free Palestine. linktr.ee/limerickslife

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John Creedon @johncreedon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1970s & 80s Ireland is the setting for my new memoir - This Boy's Voice - as I negotiate Boarding School, Boot Boys, Broadcasting, Babies, Relationships & Rathmines! A story of failure & frolics on the journey home to me. Now available to pre-order. I hope you enjoy. Thank you.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 23/09/2026
Tell people whose work has helped you that it has done so, as receiving these kinds of messages can be a huge boost. I was getting very jaded.
Email thanking me for my history work
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 21/09/2026
Today would have been my brother Con's birthday so I've bought myself a kaleidoscope and am going stare through that for awhile.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Job in 20th-century Irish history at Mary Immaculate in Limerick www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 14/09/2026
Night terrors, so much fun! I get them but it's the person who sleeps with me who suffers.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/09/2026
Only 71,850 people have registered to vote in the new Higher Education constituency for the Seanad, despite a potential electorate of between 800,000 and 1,000,000 graduates. The unified 6-seater is open to graduates of over 80 higher level institutions, not just the historic TCD and NUI.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 10/09/2026
I find it very amusing when someone I follow on socials posts 3 anti Ai stories and follows it up with a very clearly Ai generated video of something "cute".
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Women's Collective Limerick @wci-limerick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Safety And The City Research Project: The launch of a new publication on public (un)safety in Limerick City takes place on Wednesday 16th of Sept. in Wickham Way at 6:30pm. Join us and discuss how we can better use urban space and create a Limerick for us all. Catering provided by the Lilac Bakery.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 08/09/2026
Feel like putting my out of office on. Not going anywhere but have a lot of catching up to do.
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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Are you desperate to read about dirty washing in the 19th century British army? Pre-order now to learn about how soldiers' wives kept everyone's undies clean. (and all the other contributors great pieces too) #SpéirGhorm 🗃️ #skystorians www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/t...
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Four Courts Press | The Irish Soldier
In Peacetime and at War, at Home and Abroad, from Earliest Times to the Present by Thomas Bartlett, editor
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In 1860, a local landowner tried to interfere with public access to a ruined church & graveyard on his land in Killone, Co Clare. Letters to the paper give us a sense of the local reaction - ‘for he who wars with the handful of dust at his feet is no friend to the living’ (Munster News, 14 Jan)
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 29/08/2026
Not everything needs to have an app.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 28/08/2026
Going to be up at 4am for a 6am flight, check in on the other side isn't until 3pm, it's going to be a long day 😆
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 24/08/2026
Trying to find an image of one man with an unusual name but his uncle with the same unusual name happened to be more famous!
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 23/08/2026
I've so many different social media accounts with various levels of privacy, yet there is so much I want to yell into the world that I don't put on any of them or if I do it gets deleted very quickly.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 20/08/2026
I've an electrician in and he's pulled up a load of my floorboards. It's been a fun night!
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Ormston House @ormstonhouse.com · 19/08/2026
Ormston House is 15! On 16 August 2011, Ormston House launched its very first exhibition. Since then we have developed and delivered 125 exhibitions and projects, both on and off-site. We have produced over 520 multi-disciplinary events and collaborated with over 500 artists and practitioners.
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If anyone's in Limerick tomorrow I'll be talking about hairy folklore at the Hunt Museum at 7! Come along to hear about hairy poets, mermaids and remedies for baldness. www.limerick.ie/discover/wha...
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Hairy Stories: Hair Traditions in Irish Folklore
Hunt Museum Nights programme is a series of evening events that invite audiences to engage with the museum’s collections through conversation, creativity and shared social experiences.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 06/08/2026
Suggestions please. I've been contacted by someone with a collection of 1920s/1930s academic books, maths, woodwork, Irish, poetry. Looking for a new home for them.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 26/07/2026
Why do we still need Pride they ask. www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...
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One dead, 16 injured at Berlin Pride event, police say, after vehicle driven into crowd
Police launch an intensive manhunt in the German capital and tell people to avoid the area.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 24/07/2026
What period of history do you find most interesting? For me it is the Victorians who have somehow laundered their reputation into being the pinnacle of prim and proper but the records beg to differ!
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Claire Bradley @cbgenealogy.ie · 19/07/2026
News today that the National Archives has taken their genealogy site offline indefinitely. Find where to get the collections elsewhere here: cbgenealogy.ie/nai-collecti... #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 20/07/2026
Headstone in Quin Abbey, Co. Clare to two sisters who died during the sinking of RMS Leinster in 1918.
Headstone with photographs embedded in them
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 16/07/2026
The other day I accidentally said "Love You" instead of thank you the person who dropped down my coffee in a cafe. That's it, I've done life now.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 11/07/2026
Got my Pride on in Limerick today. Yesterday a stranger sat beside me on a bench and told me about the hate crime he committed against a Trans Woman, and people wonder why we still need Pride!
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 09/07/2026
Apparently this is going to be way more popular than anticipated. Also, there will be people dressed as clowns at it 😆
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 05/07/2026
Giving a tour for Limerick Pride next Friday. Made the poster, it may be rubbish but no Ai was used in its production.
Poster for Walk This Gay tour
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 05/07/2026
Go team go! Beat the other team! Sports!
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 02/07/2026
Hinge snapped on the front gate this evening. Going to be fun trying to figure out how to fix that tomorrow. Wish me luck!
Measuring tape against broken hinge
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Ormston House @ormstonhouse.com · 24/06/2026
As we near the deadline for the Graduate Artist Affiliate Scheme we are looking back at the various forms our artist residencies have taken over the years. #OrmstonHouseAt15
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 24/06/2026
Got to represented EuroPride2028 in Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday. Bring out the gays!
Sharon holding booklet in the President's house
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 22/06/2026
#DIBLives To celebrate #Pride 2026, this week we are featuring members of Ireland's LBGTQ+ community. In the 18th century Lady Eleanor Butler & diarist Sarah Ponsonby, better known as the 'Ladies of Llangollen' lived together as 'romantic friends' or 'damned Saphists'. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy
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Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick
Apply for the Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 12/06/2026
It makes me giggle when people think I'm earning money from the podcast (or any social media stuff), when in reality it costs me €160 a year to host it 😆 Anyway, if you like it, share an listen so all the time, effort and money we put into it isn't a complete waste 😅 shows.acast.com/limericks-li...
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Limerick's Life Podcast
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In 1852, part of the Gort Estate at Oatlands in Roxborough, Limerick was bought by a local wine merchant & grocer, James Rowand of William Street, Limerick. A potent sign of the decline of the Ascendancy class and growth of the middle class in Ireland. The Gort estate in Galway was also sold. /2
Part of the front page of The Limerick Chronicle, 24 Oct 1846 showing a large ad for James Rowand's wine merchant business at William Street, Limerick city.

Source: British Newspaper Archive Screenshot of an announcement by the Court of the Commissioners for Sale of Encumbered Estates in Ireland regarding the sale of the fee simple estates of John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort, in the Barony of Kiltarton, Galway

Source: King's Inn Library, Virtual Treasury of Ireland
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Robbed from Insta, so very very true!
I am an actual historian, and Al history influencers make me want to scream.
Most of human history has never been digitized, so Al cannot actually see it.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 02/06/2026
Season 2 Episode 4 of the podcast is out now for your listening pleasure shows.acast.com/67d2b2474e9d...
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The Union is Forever - Part 1 | Limerick's Life Podcast
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Whatever about the impact on my own career, I am so sad and frustrated to see more and more artists I love struggling or considering leaving the field because of decreased sales, increased costs, and the impact of genAI. I don't want to lose the joy of seeing my favourite artists' beautiful work.
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick” Aidan O’Sullivan UCD School of Archaeology, & Cathy Moore, describe a carved wooden object from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick dated to 7th century
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Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick
Prof Aidan O’Sullivan UCD School of Archaeology, and Cathy Moore, MA and Archaeological Wood Expert, describe a carved wooden object from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick. A stick dated to…
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 25/05/2026
How is your day going? Me... I sat in gum on the train while wearing black trousers. Then realised I had buttoned up my shirt wrong. Almost couldn't get out of the train station. Lost my water bottle. 😁 Time for lunch, hopefully the afternoon is better!
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 20/05/2026
*cough* Limerick Castle *cough* ... curses John Ferrar!
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 19/05/2026
The guy who wanted me to explain racism to him emailed me after I blocked him on Facebook.
Ranting of a racist
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Interesting to see the majority of the Dáil still consider women to be hysterical creatures who can't be trusted to know their own minds.
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Śéáń @fiercemilder.com · 13/05/2026
This, after "very fine people on both sides"-ing the worst elements of the fuel protests last month, is just a very disappointing pattern to see form.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 13/05/2026
Love isn't overrated... who knew!
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 12/05/2026
Posted this picture with the caption "The quays and Sarsfield Bridge c.1910" on Facebook and somehow a random dude managed to put a racist comment under it 🤷‍♀️
Sailboat moored on quays
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 10/05/2026
Lady Mary Heath's life story is so intense that people would call it too far fetched if it was fiction.
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 23/04/2025
Plaque of the day.
Michael Hogan the bard of Thomond 1826-1899. Statue erected by Peter Janes Higain memory of his father Peter John Hogan of 47 Mary Street, Limerick city, cousin to the Bard, wounded by sniper's bullet during the Irish Revolution from British rule during 1916-1922, while in the military service to his country in the Irish Republican Army
The descendants of the carpenter and coach building family of Hogans (1820-1970) of No. 2 Carr Street rejoice in honouring Michael Hogan, the bard of Thomond. Sculpture by Jim Conolly 2005
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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 15/03/2025
The bells of St Mary's Cathedral plaque inside the building. As with everything in Limerick, the bells come with a legend limerickslife.com/bells-of-st-... #speirgorm #treatycity
List of dates and weights for the bells of St Mary's Cathedral Limerick City
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Margaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"Art is food. You can't eat it but it feeds you." The wonderful Rat Project is in the Test Space at Limerick City Gallery for another couple of weeks. Go add some tape art or thoughts to the wall. A lovely bit of community building and sharing. www.instagram.com/theratprojec...
A manifesto for cheap art. All rats deserve a space...
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