Families of County Limerick
The Treaty City on the Shannon, siege country of 1690 and 1691.
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Families of County Limerick
Historic ties to Limerick
Families with historic but not core ground in this county.
Champions of County Limerick
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Limerick.
- John O'MahonyThe Limerick gentleman-farmer and Gaelic scholar who joined Young Ireland, founded the Fenian Brotherhood in New York in 1858, naming it for the medieval Irish warrior bands, and was the foundational figure of the modern Irish-American republican movement.
- John DalyThe Limerick bakery-apprentice and IRB recruit who served twelve years' penal servitude for the cause, was released on the 1896 amnesty, was elected Lord Mayor of Limerick in 1899 as the first IRB-affiliated mayor of an Irish city, and was the Limerick mentor of the 1916 signatory Tom Clarke.