Description
“Limerick Walls” is the eighth 2022 Chapbook or Photozine (August 2022 edition) from Simon, based on his personal photography.
This Chapbook “Limerick Walls” is A5 in size, made up of 32 pages and featuring 17 photos captured by Simon. Thoughtfully printed on quality, heavy-duty paper (more details below), only 100 will ever be printed of these limited-edition chapbooks. Each one is numbered. (Subscribe to the complete 2022 chapbook series here)
From inside the front cover of “Limerick Walls”;
Every stone and brick herein is a handstone, each a memorial to the smiths that shaped and placed them using skills honed over a millennium. Their work has withstood the tests of assaults, sieges, invasions and regeneration schemes. The craftsmens’ names may have been effaced by time but their legacy still supports and renders the city in good light.
Half Right and Left
Each of these images may be entirely unremarkable yet Limerick’s – and much of the nation’s – history is rooted in each. The shame is that we know as little about these past builders as they knew of the future us. We must imagine the long dead hands as they cut and built up assemblages of extinct marine lifeforms, repurposing coral reefs as limestone walls. We can imagine arms that fired bricks from estuarine sands, stacked, mortared, plastered and painted them. No particulars are recorded but we can presume many hands, many people, probably all men, erected these walls.
Dance With Opposite
The city of Limerick has developed from a neolithic settlement on an island at the confluence of the Abbey and Shannon Rivers. The architecture of the Vikings, Scots, Normans, English and Irish has addressed administrative and urban challenges in different ways with ever-changing means. Some of this history was portrayed to a small group by Peter Carroll, principal of A2 Architects and Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Limerick (SAUL), as he guided us on a walking tour of Limerick. It was then that my camera found walls to support his narratives.
Dance Around
‘Limerick’s Walls’ was composed by Tomas Danaher as a four part céilí dance. It has been globally danced as ‘The Walls of Limerick’ since 1915, long after the construction of the walls abstracted in this chapbook.
More Chapbook Details
Saddle Stitched Book A5, Cover Silk 250gsm, Inner Silk 150gsm,
Portrait, Saddle Stitch Binding, Cover Both Sides, Cover One Side Matt, Inner Both Sides
See more about what Simon has to say about this Chapbook in these pages from his blog – walkingcommentary.net
- ‘Limerick Walls’ – this is the post made by Simon when he mailed “Limerick Walls” to his subscribers
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