Limerick goes down memory lane for 1929 show

VISITORS to the weekend Limerick Show were taken on a nostalgic trip down memory lane by the organisers.

The 200-page catalogue featured pages from that of the 1929 Great Limerick Show, held on the same dates as this year, August 21 and 22, but on a Wednesday and Thursday, rather than on a Saturday and Sunday.

Patrons attending that event at Greenpark Racecourse 81 years ago paid one shilling for the catalogue, which carried not alone the names and addresses of the exhibitors but also the breeding of the horses and cattle they had entered.