| Waxing lyrical over city streets
LIMERICK is going all limerick. In fact, every city centre street will
soon have its own.
The city is to embrace its poetic heritage by erecting plaques bearing
the eponymous five-line poems on the city streets.
Mayor of Limerick Councillor Diarmuid Scully has decided to hold a public
competition to choose poems to place on street corners.
And the idea has got the backing of the city council and the poetry plaques
will be erected on all city centre street corners.
Mr Scully said: “Limericks are irreverent, warm-hearted and fun
— the very characteristics of the city that lends its name to them.
“I feel it is time we began to latch on to the limerick and take
advantage of its international appeal.”
Would-be poets have been invited to compose and submit limericks about
any street, square or public place in the city. The competition ends on
February 27.
Mr Scully said: “The prize is to have your name and work immortalised
on the streets of your city.”
Do you have a limerick ideal to celebrate the city that gave them its
name? Send suggestions to Irish Post Limericks, The Irish Post, Cambridge
House, Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith, W6 0LE.
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