Limerick Castle is a pretty castley castle.
Three sides of it are at any rate. Perhaps not the fourth side which is the new visitors centre and which is known locally as the Chick Shed because it looks like, well, like a factory farm chicken shed.
The AV at Limerick Castle was fantastic. Fantastically informative alongside being tremendously melodramatic with a big emphasis on the female characters wailing every time something awful befell the menfolk of Limerick.
It turns out that a lot of awful things have befallen the menfolk of Limerick.
The AV essentially told a 1000 year history of the castle and the city through the eyes of the mothers, wives and daughters of the locals. The principal historical actors were referred to for their ability to motivate and mobilise locals to rise up or in terms of the horrors and crimes wrought against the local population.
It was fascinating and filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge of Irish history.
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