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Sharon Slater

@limerickslife.com

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🌍 Historian | ✍️ Author | 🎤 Public Speaker | 🏆 National Heritage Hero Award Recipient | 🏳️‍🌈 Grand Marshal Limerick Pride. Preserving Limerick’s history, one story at a time, since 2004. https://linktr.ee/limerickslife

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 5d

The last episode of season one of my podcast about the history of Limerick is available now on your streaming services #Limerick #speirgorm shows.acast.com/limericks-li...?

Milling about with the Russells | Limerick's Life Podcast

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 7h

I am in Barcelona at the moment as part of the team who has secured this for Ireland 😁

EuroPride EPOA @epoa.eu · 16h

West of Ireland wins EuroPride 2028!

For the first time, EuroPride will take place on the island of Ireland. With 70% of the votes, West of Ireland will bring a uniquely rural and inclusive Pride — giving voice and visibility to smaller Prides and communities. 💖

#EuroPride2028 #WestOfIreland #EPOA

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 4d

It is the way she claps when the child gets the basket 🥰

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 4d

Thank you for listening Bill 😊

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 5d

My monthly reminder... Limerick City has only elected 2 women to the Dail ever. While Limerick County has never elected a woman to the Dail.
#irishpolitics

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 5d

The last episode of season one of my podcast about the history of Limerick is available now on your streaming services #Limerick #speirgorm shows.acast.com/limericks-li...?

Milling about with the Russells | Limerick's Life Podcast

shows.acast.com

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 5d

That is exactly it! As long as people get out then we've got this!

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 5d

😆 one of them had to do it!

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 5d

You've the patience of a saint! People in other parts of the world exist and also have names! Who knew!

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 6d

They just keep doubling down, thinking that showing a screenshots of one other person with literacy issues would make the Irish stop rolling their eyes.

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 6d

😆 That's the one

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 6d

What was that one film that went to Galway from Dublin via Dingle 😆

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 6d

I switched off after the mob emerged from Stephen's Green park. That wasn't open to the public until 1877 by one of the people in the show no less!!

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 6d

They did not have an Irish historian consultanting on that!

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 7d

Let me know if it improves any bit!

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 7d

Couldn't make it through the first episode, there was way too much fiction in it. My history brain started twitching.

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 8d

Ding ding ding!!!

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 8d

It's an compendium of stories from Limerick, one related to every day of the year. The plan is to send it to schools and nursing homes to spark stories. Most people will only look for their birthday and move on 😆

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Ormston House @ormstonhouse.com · 8d

Ormston House Artist-in-Residence Mary Conroy has created a Hollywood Star for Constance Smith.

Connie’s star is the first piece of sculpture dedicated to any woman in Limerick city.

The sculpture will be unveiled in Limerick’s People's Park on 9 October at 1pm.

Image courtesy of Liam Bluett.

A black-and-white photograph of Constance Smith by a riverside. She holds the rope of a rowboat in one hand and a pair of glasses in the other hand. She smiles, with the tip of a glasses handle between her teeth. She has dark, shoulder-length hair and wears a patterned dress. The left of the photograph is signed "C Smith".

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 8d

Look at what just landed!! 😁

366 Days of Limerick by Sharon Slater next to little cat figurine

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 8d

Limerick is such a strange place, I love it. Our patron saint cursed us and we celebrate our biggest defeat.

Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 8d

This is everything!

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Aileen Fitzilla @mofette.bsky.social · 8d

"On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was,"
"Time to sign a treaty"

#Limerick #Luimneach #LostMyMarbles

Patrick Sarsfield and Dutch General Ginkel's faces superimposed over a screenshot of Mean Girls, where the subtitles say "It's October 3rd"

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 8d

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 8d

Typical!!!

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Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com · 9d

I had a working feed but the host left and I moved over to another host but no matter how much poking I gave it, it just wouldn't work properly so gave up.

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