Postcard
Collection object
1992.0163
H. 10.5 W. 14.9
Postcard, colour glossy, landscape format, white margin around view. Title "Limerick City Ireland" in top margin, with sub-title "People's Park" in bottom left of view. View of Spring-Rice memorial seen across the park, with blossoming cherry tree framing the memorial at right and top. Reverse printed in black, with red rectangle at bottom left containing an outline map of Ireland on which Limerick is picked out with both a black dot and arrow; to right of rectangle "Limerick City, where the Shannon river meets the sea/ is one of the most progressive of Irish cities, where past/ and present mingle pleasantly. That part of the city/ called Newtown Pery was designed and planned in 1767, and is/ the Limerick of wide streets crossing at right angles, and/ the pleasantly tree sprinkled People's Park. The tall/ column in the park commemorates Thomas Spring Rice/ (1790-1866) first Baron Monteagle, an enlightened and/ progressive Limerick citizen."; at bottom left below rectangle and the previous "Printed and Published by John Hinde Limited, Cabinteely, Dublin 18, Ireland. [copyright sign]"; at top centre logo of a film passing between two spools, with "John Hinde/ Original" above and below the film; top left "2/172 Photography: Peter O'Toole."; rectangular box for stamp at top right with five lines for address below. Unposted and unused.