Limericks

LimericksWhen a Detachment of Irish brigadiers returned to their home county of Limerick after serving with the French army, they brought back with them a repertoire of snappy rhymed epigrams that made the colleens blush and the young bucks burst with bawdy laughter.That was back in the late Seventeenth Century. Before long, these ribald verses had taken on the name of the county, and the catchy rhythmic lilt of their five short lines were earning them an underground reputation all over the worl...