Number 36. Winter 1999 €10.00
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The Limerick Municipal Elections, January 1899 by Enda McKay 3
The Munster Fusiliers and the South African War, 1899-1902, Part III by Des Ryan 11
James McMahon of Mount Mungret – A Timber Merchant by Morgan McCloskey 14
Two Obituaries of the Bard of Thomond (1832-1899) 18
Limerick Volunteers 1776-1793 by Kieran Kennedy 21
The Night of the Big Wind by Gerard Curtin 27
A Brave Slave, Robert St. George by John Curtin 30
The Irish Brigades in the South African War, 1899-1902 by Des Ryan 32
From Limerick to Van Diemen's Land: Transportation at Work by Richard Davis 34
More Urban Townlands – Mount Kennett, Courtbrack and Corcanree by Tony Browne 39
The Coopers of Limerick – A Craft of the Past by Morgan McCloskey 42
Limerick Turkish Baths by Tom Donovan 45
Abolition and Reinstatement of the Limerick Night Watch, 1898-99 by Larry Walsh 48
Reminiscences of Old Limerick by Ernest H. Bennis 55