Postcard
Collection object
1998.0240
H. 10.6 W. 14.9
Postcard, colour glossy, landscape format. White margin across bottom; title in margin at left "People's Park, Limerick City, Ireland". with "Colour Photo by John Hinde F.R.P.S." at right. View of Spring Rice memorial, looking towards Pery Square, with large crowd of people sat around the base; in right foreground is a bed of red and yellow flowers. Reverse printed mostly in black with red rectangle; at centre top the John Hinde logo of a stylised spool of film with "John Hinde/ Original"; at top left "2/172"; at bottom left a red rectangle containing an outline map of Ireland with black arrow and dot over Limerick", with to right "People's Park, Limerick City: 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 pleasant 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./ Printed and Published by John Hinde Limited, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin, Irish Republic."; box for stamp at top right with five lines for address below. Unused.