Rhyme time in Limerick

It’s Limerick Day, and what better place to celebrate this unofficial holiday than in the Irish city of the same name? The connection between Limerick and the humorous, five-line verse is unclear. Several theories have been floated, none of them definitive. But the city of Limerick has embraced its namesake poetry style and, in recent years, the Limerick Writers’ Centre has hosted an annual competition called Bring Your Limericks to Limerick.
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