Limerick Tweasure Hunt

Digital traces and physical places4 July 2012

The instructions(excerpts)• The aim of this tweasure hunt is primarily to have fun

but also to uncover some of Limerick City’s American connections and hidden treasures.

• Each team will be given a set of instructions with a list of quests and challenges each scoring different points. This will involve finding places, talking to people, taking photographs, being creative and tweeting. The winner of this game will be the group who amasses the most points.

• Tweet the answer/photo/object along with the #4thjulyLimerick and your Team Name. All photos must have the team symbols in it somewhere

The instructionsPoints will be awarded as follows.........

Scoring Points

• Each of the 10 locations hinted by the questions photographed and tweeted 10 each

• Each of the streetscapes retrieved, photographed and tweeted 10 each

• Talking to an American ambassador and tweeting a fact of interest that you learned from them 20

• Creating your Own Plaque in a place with an American connection, photo and tweet 20

• Recording (audio or in writing) of the story connected to that place 10 

The map

The teamsTeam Mickey Mouse

Team Washington

Team Liberty

The Organisers

The plaquesThe clue: You can find the namesake of this bar in Washington, D.C.

The plaquesThe clue: This place had a past incarnation as a school. A certain young man who had a history with the remnants of fire and brimstone was educated here.

The plaquesThe clue: Built in 1906 by a Scottish-American philanthropist, this former library which got a recent extension has a namesake in New York.

The plaquesThe clue: This Limerick monument can be found in perfect time;) It memorialises a man who clothed civil war armies.

The plaquesThe clue: This place, now a mere bricked-up façade, was once the clothing factory that produced the clothing mentioned in the question above.

The plaquesThe clue: With undoubtedly the best view in Limerick, this monument is dedicated to a popular Limerick MP whose grandson became the Irish Ambassador to the US.

The plaquesThe clue: The former name for this street was that of a leading British General who surrendered to George Washington in 1781.  

The plaquesThe clue: This anatomical sculpture commemorates the emigration of those affected by the famine to America.

The plaquesThe clue: Despite its name, you can eat in at this state-themed diner.

The plaquesThe clue: This plaque commemorates the home of the Bostonian who ministered during the American Civil War. His conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism caused a sensation in his Native New England Home. He came to Limerick to live in the early 1800’s and died in 1815 as a locally esteemed priest of edifying piety!