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Angela's Ashes

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Out in the Atlantic Ocean great sheets of rain gathered to drift slowly up the River Shannon and settle forever in Limerick.
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Limerick = a city or county in Ireland

From October to April the walls of Limerick glistened with the damp.
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Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.
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My mother, the former Angela Sheehan, grew up in a Limerick slum with her mother, two brothers, Thomas and Patrick, and a sister, Agnes.
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After a night of drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song, Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder?
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No one knew why he was called Ab Sheehan, The Abbot, but all Limerick loved him.
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Limerick City erupts with whistles, horns, sirens, brass bands, people calling and singing, Happy New Year.
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We have morals in Limerick, you know, morals.
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Angela wanted to give him a middle name, Munchin, after the patron saint of Limerick but Malachy said over his dead body.
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No son of his would have a Limerick name.
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She tells Minnie stories about characters in Limerick and Minnie tells her about characters in Belfast and they laugh because there are funny people in Ireland, North and South.
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Philomena will write it because a teacher in Limerick told her once she had a fine fist.
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She brings him the cigarette and tells Mam the guards in the barracks have taken up a collection to pay our train fares to Limerick.
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There will be a motor car to pick up our trunk and leave us at Kingsbridge Railway Station and, You'll be in Limerick in three or four hours.
Chpt 2

I think we better go now or we'll be missing that train to Limerick.
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The sergeant's wife said she'd send a telegram to Grandma to meet us in Limerick and there she was on the platform, Grandma, with white hair, sour eyes, a black shawl, and no smile for my mother or any of us, even my brother, Malachy, who had the big smile and the sweet white teeth.
Chpt 2

The boys had shaved heads, snotty noses, and no shoes and we followed them through the streets of Limerick.
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There's enough consumption in Limerick without people smokin' fags on top of it an'
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The Limerick moon was so bright I could see bits of it shimmering in the water and I wanted to scoop up moon bits but how could I with the fleas leaping on my legs.
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They're a right bloody torment an' I should know for didn't I grow up in Limerick, down in the Irishtown, an' the fleas there were so plentiful an' forward they'd sit on the toe of your boot an' discuss Ireland's woeful history with you.
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Of course, he said, you're bound to have the cough when you live in Limerick because this is the capital city of the weak chest and the weak chest leads to the consumption.
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If all the people that has consumption in Limerick were to die this would be a ghost town, though I don't have consumption meself.
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I don't know what's up with Mam because everyone is whispering and I can barely hear Aunt Aggie telling Uncle Pa the child is lost run for the ambulance and Uncle Pa is out the door, Aunt Aggie telling Mam you can say what you like about Limerick but the ambulance is fast.
Chpt 2

There is no hope of a laboring man with a North of Ireland accent getting a job in Limerick.
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They say, Lord above, would you listen to the little Yankees, and they wonder why Mam in her American coat would be looking for charity since there's hardly enough for the poor people of Limerick without Yanks coming over and taking the bread out of their mouths.
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If we left it up to you we'd have the poor people of Limerick jumping into the arms of the Protestants.
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The smoking brought on Nora's cough and she told Mam the fags would kill her in the end, that there was a touch of consumption in her family and no one lived to a ripe old age, though who would want to in Limerick, a place where you could look around and the first thing you noticed was a scarcity of gray hairs, all the gray hairs either in the graveyard or across the Atlantic working on railroads or sauntering around in police uniforms.
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We grew up ignorant in Limerick, so we did, knowing feck all about anything and signs on, we're mothers before we're women.
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Let it never be said a child went sick in Limerick for want of an onion.
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I'm black because I work at the Limerick Gas Works shoveling coal and coke into the furnaces.
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Gassed in France and back to Limerick to work in the gas works.
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I don't want nothing that's half Limerick and half North of Ireland, so I don't, so ye can take him home.
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He carries me through the streets of Limerick and we go from shop to shop with him asking for food or anything they can give to a family that has two children dead in a year, one in America, one in Limerick, and in danger of losing three more for the want of food and drink.
Chpt 2

He carries me through the streets of Limerick and we go from shop to shop with him asking for food or anything they can give to a family that has two children dead in a year, one in America, one in Limerick, and in danger of losing three more for the want of food and drink.
Chpt 2

Dad says he's glad to see the spirit of Christ alive in Limerick and they tell him they don't need the likes of him with his northern accent to be telling them about Christ and he should be ashamed of himself dragging a child around like that like a common beggar, a tinker, a knacker.
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They hit you if you don't know why God made the world, if you don't know the patron saint of Limerick, if you can't recite the Apostles' Creed, if you can't add nineteen to forty-seven, if you can't subtract nineteen from forty-seven, if you don't know the chief towns and products of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, if you can't find Bulgaria on the wall map of the world that's blotted with spit, snot, and blobs of ink thrown by angry pupils expelled forever.
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He had such a high time of it he spent all his money and when he came back to Limerick the only job he could get was in the gas works shoveling coal into the furnaces.
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The horse clop-clopped through the streets of Limerick.
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It takes us all day to haul the furniture on the pram from one end of Limerick to the other.
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This is our first Christmas in Limerick and the girls are out in the lane, skipping rope and singing, Christmas is coming And the goose is getting fat, Please put a penny In the old man's hat.
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You never know when the clerk at the Labour Exchange might tell you there's a job going at Rank's Flour Mills or the Limerick Cement Company, and even if it's a laboring job what will they think if you appear without collar and tie?
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he says he'll never sink that low and the greatest sorrow of his life is that his sons are now afflicted with the Limerick accent.
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She says, Sorry for your troubles and I hope that's all you'll ever have, and he says that some day, with God's help, we'll get out of Limerick and far from the Shannon that kills.
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Isn't it enough that we dragged him all the way from Brooklyn to Belfast to Dublin to Limerick?
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Mam takes Malachy and me to the St. Vincent de Paul Society to stand in the queue and see if there's any chance of getting something for the Christmas dinner—a goose or a ham, but the man says everyone in Limerick is desperate this Christmas.
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He tells Mam, no, she can't have boiled bacon or sausages and if she has any sense she'll take the pig's head before they're all gone the way the poor people of Limerick are clamoring for them.
Chpt 3

He looks at me and the pig's head and tells Mam it's a disgraceful thing to let a boy carry an object like that through the streets of Limerick.
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Dad gets his first job in Limerick at the cement factory and Mam is happy.
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The cement factory is miles outside Limerick and that means Dad has to be out of the house by six in the morning.
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I know it's my father because he's the only one in Limerick who sings that song from the North, Roddy McCorley goes to die on the bridge of Toome today.
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Definitions:

(1) (limerick)
a humorous poem consisting of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

Limericks often have a 9-9-6-6-9 or 8-8-5-5-8 cadence and are ridiculous. Often they are slightly indecent.

Here is an example of a tame limerick:

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
As a proper noun, Limerick usually references a city or county in Ireland.

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