Limerick Day 2024 is on Sunday, May 12, 2024: Day trip in Ireland? ?

Sunday, May 12, 2024 is Limerick Day 2024. Paul Bommer: St. Patrick's Day - Limerick # St. Patrick's Day - Limerick #

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There was a young other named Lear Who developeded Limericks, we listen to,. so now we converse. in funny verse. on Limerick Day every year

Named for the Irish city of Limerick, this too much enjoyed verse form was popularized by Edward Lear (not designed alas, yet 'popularize' didn't browse ...) and might date back as much as 5 hundred years. Its distinctive metre and AABBA rhyming scheme lend themselves well to nonsense verse, therefore Limericks are commonly juvenile or profane. The most effective ones tend to be both.

Why not celebrate Limerick Day this year with a copy of Edward Lear's original 1846 opus, 'A Publication of Nonsense', and state all 72 of his Limericks to your astounded family members, friends and associates? Conversely, make up some of your very own! All it takes is some extra time, a sense of tempo and a distorted or unclean creative imagination.

I live in County Limerick, and for me a day trip would be to the Cliffs of Moher, or to the Dingle Peninsula, or the Lakes of Killarney, or Cork city, or Killaloe, or Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, or any of the other sites in Clare, or Cashel, or Cahir, or any of the national parks within a couple of hours away by car.

You need to tell us where you're starting out from. From Dublin you could go to Newgrange, for example.

Forgotten Limerick??

Hiya,

- A few story-limericks for ya:

The Old Man by Shelby Brown:

"There once was a man known to us all,

Who was long lived in spite of a fall.

Through long years, trials, and trouble a bunch,

He kept on going by never missing breakfast, supper or lunch.

He was always able to offer a happy greeting,

By the mere fact that he never missed a feeding.

The secret of long life, he knew.

"Keep doing what you always do."

Each morning get up, put one shoe on then the other.

Stand up, take a step, then go a little further.

Each day is a gift to share,

But to see it, you first have to be there."

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- Good-luck with finding the one !

Writing Limericks in Poetry?

Your definition of a limerick is not quite right. A limerick consists of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines one, two and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of aabba.

There was a young lady named M.J.,

Whose every grade always was an A,

But she could not write verse,

And so making things worse,

She tried to find help here on Word Play!