Limericks to Limerick

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Tim O'Connor, whose drive heading up The Gathering gave spin to this competition
Tim O’Connor, whose drive heading up The Gathering gave spin to this competition

limerick |หˆlim(ษ™)rik|

noun

a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.

ORIGIN late 19th cent.: said to be from the chorus โ€œWill you come up to Limerick?โ€, sung between improvised verses at a gathering.

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Limericks to Limerick

A GIG that pulled in 600 last year is the โ€˜Bring your Limericks to Limerickโ€™ competition. Hey-ho so for Sunday May 24 at the venue of Dunraven Arms Hotel in Adare, circa 2.30pm as part of that weekendโ€™s three day Fรฉile na Mรกighe.

It was The Gathering of 2013 under the auspiceโ€™s of Tim Oโ€™Connor (who went on to give City of Culture heart and unpaid soul as a most able vice-chair) who gave the competition international spin as part of celebrations in UL. This met with enormous success.

But keeping things in order and manageable matters so Adareโ€™s final will be reduced to a shortlist of 25. Entries are being taken from all parts and one enters online at www.facebook.com/limerickcompetition or head for the local library for an entry form.