The College of Education was created in 1991 from the dissolved Thomond College of Education, Limerick that shared a common campus with the university.

* 1972 – Physical Education and Sport Sciences Building ( originally home to Thomond College of Education ) ( Renovated in 2012 )

He went to live in Templeglantine, just five miles from Newcastle West and worked for a time as a lecturer in creative writing at Thomond College of Education, Limerick.

He collected the funds for the establishment of the Irish College of St Isidore in Rome, for the education of Irish priests, opened 24 June 1625, with four lecturers -— Anthony O ' Hicidh of a famous literary family in Thomond, Martin Breathnach from Donegal, Patrick Fleming from Louth, and John Ponce from Cork.

Thomond College of Education, Limerick was a teacher training college in Limerick City, until it was amalgamated with the University of Limerick.

Spillane subsequently attended Thomond College in Limerick where he studied to be a P. E.

Spillane also played club football with Thomond College during his time there in the late 1970s.

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He was educated at St. Michael's College, Listowel and later at the Thomond College of Education, Limerick in Limerick.

Other analysts during the programme ’ s first season included Enda Colleran, a former Galway footballer, and Dave Weldrick, trainer of the Thomond College team that won the All-Ireland club football title.

Thomond College of Education, Limerick was also located on the same campus and was later dissolved and integrated into the university.

In 2008 Drom / Broadford GAA club won the Munster Senior Club Football Championship the last and only other team from Limerick to win the championship was Thomond College in 1977.

In early medieval times Limerick was at the centre of the Kingdom of Thomond which corresponds to the present day Mid West Region however, the Kingdom also included North Kerry and parts of South Offaly.

He was one of the 12 sons of Cennétig mac Lorcáin ( d. 951 ), king of Dál Cais and king of Tuadmumu ( Thomond ), modern County Clare, then a sub-kingdom in the north of Munster ).

Brian was born at Kincora, Killaloe, a town in the region of Tuadmumu ( Thomond ).

As described by Donal O ' Sullivan, Aibell ( modern spelling: Aoibheall ; pronounced ae-val ) " was the Fairy Queen of Thomond in Irish mythology ; and her palace, Carraig Liath or The Grey Rock, is a hill overlooking the Shannon about a mile and a half above Killaloe, on the Clare side of the river.

It was renamed Thomond, meaning North Munster and spawned Brian Boru during this period, perhaps the most noted High King of Ireland.

From 1118 onwards the Kingdom of Thomond was in place as its own petty kingdom, ruled by the O ' Brien Clan.

Sovereignty of Thomond was handed over to the Tudors in 1543 and the area joined the Kingdom of Ireland as a county.

County Clare succeeded the district of Thomond ( which was part of Connacht ), and when first created it was sometimes called County Thomond.

Thomond Village was opened for the Autumn 2004 semester and comprised the first university buildings to be located on the north bank of the River Shannon, in County Clare.

Thomond Village was the first facility on the North Bank, opening in 2004, and was followed by the Health Sciences Building in 2005.

Sussex was the first representative of the English Crown who enforced authority to any considerable extent beyond the limits of the Pale ; the policy of planting English settlers in Offaly and Leix was carried out by him in 1562 with a certain measure of success ; and although he fell far short of establishing English rule throughout any large part of Ireland, he made its influence felt in remote parts of the island, such as Thomond and the Glynnes of Antrim, where the independence of the native septs had hitherto been subjected not even to nominal interference.

Conn O ' Neill was a relative of Gerald Fitzgerald, and this event accordingly led to the formation of the short-lived Geraldine League, a federation including the O ' Neills, the O ' Donnells, the O ' Briens of Thomond, and other powerful clans ; the primary object of which was to restore Gerald to the earldom of Kildare, but which afterwards aimed at the complete overthrow of English rule in Ireland.

He recommended The O ' Brien, when he gave token of a submissive disposition, for the title of Earl of Thomond ; O ' Neill was created Earl of Tyrone ; an administrative council was instituted in the province of Munster ; and in 1544 a levy of Irish soldiers was raised for service in Henry VIII's wars.

Clare became a county under rule of Elizabeth I and Ennis was chosen as its capital because of its central location and because of its great influence by the Earls of Thomond.

* Lady Henrietta Somerset, who was married twice, to Henry Horatio O ' Brien, Lord Ibrackan, with whom she had one son, the 8th Earl of Thomond, and three daughters, and to Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk as his second wife

Killone Abbey, situated on the banks of Killone Lake some 3 miles south of Ennis, County Clare, was an Augustinian nunnery founded in 1190 by Donal Mor O ' Brien, King of Thomond and Munster and dedicated to Saint John.

The Earl, by now Lord Thomond, became owner of Dromoland on payment of Ј132. 13. 4.

The western portion faces out to the lake, and the east towards the hill where Thomond House now stands.

Thomond (, meaning North Munster, now spelled Tuamhain ) is a region of Ireland associated with County Clare, County Limerick, north County Kerry and north County Tipperary ; effectively most of north Munster.

Biarritz, now playing in the elite European competition, the Heineken Cup, the club had a successful run, finishing at the top of their pool, but were eliminated by Irish team Munster, losing 38 – 29 in the quarter-finals at Thomond Park.

He now raided Thomond, and in Waterford he sought to enforce his feudal rights on Sir Maurice Fitzgerald of Decies, who invoked the help of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde.

* From Limerick City Library / Local Studies / Books & Journals / Worthies of Thomond, a collection of biographical notices of notable people of Co.

During the 12th century the O ' Briens who were Kings of Thomond, left their seat of power in Limerick and built a royal residence at Clonroad on the then island.

In 1510, an Anglo-Irish army led by Gerald Mór FitzGerald, the 8th earl of Kildare, marched on Thomond, and was met and defeated near Cratloe by an army of the O ' Brien, McNamara, Sil-Aedha and Clanrickard clans led by Turlough O ' Brien, son of Teige Mac Murrough O ' Brien, the Lord of Thomond.

After the partition of Munster into Thomond and the MacCarthy Kingdom of Desmond by Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair in the 12th century, the dynasty would go on to provide around thirty monarchs of Thomond until 1542.

Today the head carries the title of Prince of Thomond, and depending on succession sometimes also Baron Inchiquin.

* after this Examinant together with the said Robert Clarke went from the fort to the towne of Galway: vpon whose comeing there was a Court of assembly called where were present the Maior Adermen and burgesses of the towne or the < A > greater part of them, and likewise Mr Patrick Darcy & Mr Martin Lawyeres Before whom this Examinant and the said Robert Clark were called And this Examinant shewing the said warrant before the said assembly, the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin being present, They the said Mr Darcy & Mr Martin Did there publickly declare that it was treason in this Examinant and the said Clark to hinder & deteine the said Armes from them by virtue of the said warrant ( they then pretending themselues to be his Maiesties subjects ) And therevpon committed both of them to the towne gaole of Galway where they remained for the space of 10 or 12 dayes following vntil they were released by the Erle of Clanrickard, And this Examinant further saith That the said Erle of Clanrickard did make an end of the said differences betweene the merchant of the said shipp & the said Robert Clarke, and did assure the said Clarke that all things shold be fairly carried But the said Erle Leaving the said towne of Galway the said Dominick Keghran factor to the said Tho: Linch with divers others, ( by the direction of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin ( as this examinant verely beleeveth went aboard the said shipp & carrjed with them seuerall boats, vpon pretence to vnlade the salt, And vpon their comeing to the said shipp ( the said Clark being at the fort, and some of his men to out of the ship to fetche Ballast ) entered the said ship and killd the Masters Mate and twoe or 3 more of the men aboard the said shipp and wounded seuerall others there, & soe possessed themselues wholly of the said shipp, being of the burden of three hundred tun or thereabouts, And likewise tooke out of the said shipp, about tenn peece of ordinance, which were landed presently, and planted against his Maiesties fort And further this Examinant saith That in the beginning of the Rebellion, vntill such tyme as the said Mr Darcie and Mr Martin came to the towne of Galway, they within the said fort were furnished of such necessaries as they wanted for their moneys But after the comeing of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin to the said towne, the townsmen admitted the Irish people of Err Connaght, to come into the said towne, whoe robbed this examinant and the English Inhabitants within the said towne and Killd & murthered seuerall of them: Amongst which they cut off the heads of one John Fox & his wiffe, and murthered one Mris Collins as she was kneeling at her prayers, And as this examinant hath heard, after the said murders were comitted the Irish tumbled the heads of the heads of the said ffox & his wiffe about the streets, And further saith That at althoughe the said people of Err Connaght had robbed and murthered the English as aforesaid: yet neither the Maior or Aldermen of Galway aforesaid or the said Darcy < A > or Martin did any way punish the offenders, but rather abetted and manteined them in their barbarous cruelties And this Examinant further saith That after, by direction & helpe of the towne of Galway the said fort was s beseiged, And the townsmen of Galway hyred the Cuntry to doe the same Soe that the fort was inforced to yield about the xxvth of June 1643: Wherevpon this Examinant went into the towne of Galway to demand some of his goods according to the quarter given them, And in the meane time the shipping being in the harbour went away & left this examinant behynd Soe as he was inforced to get a Convoy to Bonrattee to the Erle of Thomond, And being there one Dunn servant of Sir Roger ô Shafnusy, related to the Erle of Thomond and him this Examinant, that he sawe the said Richard Martin whoe was then Major of Galway, vpon a Sunday morning with a pick ax in his hand setting people on work to domolish & pull downe the fort of Galway John Turner Jurat.

Another win for Munster at Thomond Park on 14 May 2011, ended the Ospreys Celtic League aspirations at the semi-final stage.

The Kingdom of Desmond originated in 1118, based on the Treaty of Glanmire, when the major parts of the prior Kingdom of Munster fractured into the Kingdom of Desmond and the Kingdom of Thomond (, meaning North Munster ).

The 12 – 0 victory occurred on Tuesday 31 October 1978 at Thomond Park, in front of a crowd of 12, 000, though many times that number still claim to have been present, such was the occasion.

He built Thomond House on a hill overlooking Dromoland.

He was later joined by his brother Mick at Thomond and they both played on the college football team.

It was announced on 13 July 2012 that Limerick would face Premier League champions Manchester City at Thomond Park on 5 August 2012.

Limerick FC has used a number of venues around the city as their home ground over the years, including The Market's Field in Garryowen, Jackman Park on Carey's Road, Hogan Park in Rathbane, Thomond Park and Pike Rovers ground at Crossagalla.

At its largest extent, the Kings of Síol Anmchadha ruled all the land on the west shore of Lough Derg ( Shannon ) as far south as Thomond ; the land between the Shannon and Suck rivers ; and a corridor of land, known as Lusmagh, across the Shannon in Munster, in the direction of Birr.