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Lunchtime lecture in the Hunt Museum Limerick

Thursday 11th February 2010 at 1pm
Speaker: Dr Eamon O’Flaherty

Limerick's urban development: from Viking to modern times
As part of the launch celebrations of the Royal Irish Academy’s Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21, Limerick, the author, Dr Eamon O’Flaherty will deliver a lecture summarising many years of research on the city entitled “Limerick's urban development: from Viking to modern times”.
Limerick examines the topographical information of the city’s three urban centres, from Viking, to Anglo-Norman to Georgian, depicting the strategic importance of this city on the Shannon for military and trading purposes from the 9th century.   Histories of over 4,000 sites are documented along with a rich collection of maps and illustrations from the 16th to the 21st centuries. Included with the publication is a fully searchable CD-ROM of the text, maps and illustrations.
Dr Eamon O'Flaherty is a lecturer in the School of History and Archives at University College Dublin. His research interests include, early modern European history; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French intellectual history; social history of ideas; eighteenth-century Irish history
Admission FREE