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Irish Red Cross Society, Limerick Area - Details the work of the local organisation, taking in services and training, membership matters, including how to join, contact details and a members-only area.
Catholic Diocese of Limerick - History and general information. Includes a weekly 'Sunday Thoughts' section from Bishop Donal Murray.
Glin Heritage Centre - A cultural, historical and genealogical centre for Glin and the surrounding area of Co Limerick housed in a former church. History and photographs of St Paul's Church; visitor information.
Glenstal Abbey - This Benedictine Abbey, the national base of the Order in Ireland, presents notes on monastic life, provisions for the environment and guests, fundraising, music, shop, library and a note on its school (separate website).
Limerick Youth Information Bureau - Accommodation, travel, financial, legal, health, education and entertainment information, with profile and links.
Diocese of Limerick Heritage Project - Research on all Catholic parishes in Limerick Diocese city and county. Details churches, graveyards, holy wells, ruins, famous people, history and folklore.
Irish Palatine Association - Preserving the heritage of families who migrated from the German Pfalz to Ireland in 1709.
UL Young Fine Gael - Information about the student club at the University of Limerick Young Fine Gael.
King John's Castle - An illustrated history from Earthlore Ireland of the medieval fortress in Limerick built to guard the Shannon frontier. Includes discoveries from 1990s excavations.
County Limerick - Genealogical resource for Limerick includes a map and a guide to villages and towns.
Limerick Philosophical Society - Information on forthcoming lectures, and copies of previous society lectures. Links to other philosophy sites.
Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly - Centred on St. Patrick's Rock, Cashel, and comprising 46 parishes in Counties Tipperary and Limerick, the Catholic archdiocese provides details of its history, parishes, people and pastoral work.
Limerick Baptist Church - Features welcome, services, purpose, news, beliefs, feedback and links.
Limerick City Parish - Limerick Cathedral and St Michael's Church of Ireland. Clergy, events, dioceses, cathedral, St Michael's and a welcome.
Limerick Youth Service - Programmes of work, locations, contacts and pictures.
Pagan Society of Limerick - Pagan news, book reviews, links, online articles and society background.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous Society and Culture A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Society and Culture Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Society and Culture It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Society and Culture If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Society and Culture "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Society and Culture A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Society and Culture Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Society and Culture All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Society and Culture "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
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