You may recall learning about limericks (or even writing a few of your own) in grade school. If you’re all grown up now and you love cracking short jokes or writing funny poems, why not add a ...

But that's limericks for you: funny, punny and filled with dubious rhymes. A man hired by John Smith and Co., Loudly declared that he’d tho. The post 12 Famous Limerick Poems and Examples to ...

A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. These silly rhymes were made famous by a man named Edward Leer, an Englishman who wrote The Book of Nonsense in the 1800s. The book is ...

Although there are many examples of funny limericks, the exact origins of the ... who (something)…” One of the most famous opening lines is: “There once was a man from Nantucket ...

Happy National Limerick Day 2016! Today is all about word play and rhymes to celebrate the birthday of English artist and writer Edward Lear. Lear, who was born in 1812, was all about a bit of ...

The most famous poet to write limericks was Edward Lear in the 19th century. He wrote lots of funny limericks in a collection called A Book of Nonsense. Watch the film again to hear an example of ...

AS part of next week’s Tailteann Nua Festival, the University of Limerick is holding a poetry competition highlighting the city’s most famous literary export, the five-line ‘limerick’ poem.