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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt'><b><font size=4 face=Calibri><span
lang=EN-IE style='font-size:13.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Lunchtime lecture in the
Hunt Museum Limerick<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt'><b><font size=4 face=Calibri><span
lang=EN-IE style='font-size:13.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt'><b><font size=4 face=Calibri><span
lang=EN-IE style='font-size:13.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Thursday 11th February
2010 at
1pm
Admission FREE<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt'><b><font size=4 face=Calibri><span
lang=EN-IE style='font-size:13.0pt;font-weight:bold'>
“<st1:place w:st="on">Limerick</st1:place>'s urban development: from
Viking to modern times”. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:
11.0pt'>As part of the launch celebrations of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Royal</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Irish</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>’s <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21, <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-kashida-space:80%'><i><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
lang=EN-IE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-style:italic'>Limerick</span></font></i><span
lang=EN-IE>, the author, Dr Eamon O’Flaherty will deliver a lecture
summarising many years of research on the city entitled “<st1:place
w:st="on">Limerick</st1:place>'s urban development: from Viking to modern
times”. <st1:place w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Limerick</span></i></st1:place>
examines the topographical information of the city’s three urban centres,
from Viking, to Anglo-Norman to Georgian, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:
11.0pt'>depicting the strategic importance of this city on the <st1:place
w:st="on">Shannon</st1:place> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font
size=4 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:13.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Speaker:
</span></font></b><span lang=EN-IE>. </span><b><font size=4><span lang=EN-IE
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-weight:bold'>
Dr Eamon O’Flaherty<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-IE
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-style:italic'>Dr Eamon O'Flaherty is a lecturer in
the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">History</st1:PlaceName>
and Archives at <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dublin</st1:place></st1:City>.
His research interests include, early modern European history; seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century French intellectual history; social history of ideas;
eighteenth-century Irish history</span></font></i><span lang=EN-IE><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:
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