Members of the Limerick Guild of Nailors' as published in the Freeman's Journal on October 21 1840 Barry, James Bourke, Patrick Brommel, John Byrne, John Byrne, Henry Clifford, William Corbet, John Duffy, Michael Fitzgerald, Richard Fitzgerald, John Gorman, Jeremiah Goss, Jas. Hickey, John Hickey, Laurence Lee, Michael Maher, Bartholomew Mahony, John Maigh, Edward M'Manus, Martin O'Farrell, Bartholomew O'Halloran, Michael O'Keefe, Patrick O'Leary, Daniel O'Shaughnessy, William O'Sullivan, John O'Sullivan, Timothy Perse, George Reilly, William Rickson, Edward Ronan, John Ronan, Patrick Ryan, Daniel Sargent, David Seymour, George Shaw, William Stokes, Phillips White, Henry White, James Woods, John Woods, Denis Additional text from article which PROCEEDED the above list of names: The subscriptions from the Nailors' Guild is accompanied by a report, agreed to by a select committee appointed by that body to inquire into the cause of the distress which prevails, and suggest the most efficient and certain means of bettering their condition. The report embodies the following statement: -- "That having minutely examined the past events and occurrences that have taken place in their trade for the last forty years, as recorded on their books, and from the testimony of living witnesses they find that at the period of the Union their journeyment were able to earn from 25s. to 30s. per week, while first-rate journeymen of the present day cannot exceed 8s. per week; and calculating the number of hours worked from Monday to Saturday, it will make more than nine days in the week; that their trade declined, according to the encouragement and importation of British nails of all descriptions, and of an inferior manufacture, since that unlucky period when the rights of the country and an unborn progeny were unjustly sold for sordid pelf [self?] and gaudy titles, and the mechanics and artizans left in penury to moun over their unfortunate and ill-fated but lovely island, which was surrendered into the hands of those whose objects were to give the manufacturing classes of Great Britain labour, regardless of putting the Irish mechanic out of employment, and casting him on his country as a pauper, not able to earn as much as wold subsit him with the common necessaries of life. That the committee have decided there is no permanent remedy to be found but in the restoration of an Irish parliament, for to such they can only look with confidence for that protection which, as Irish tradesmen, they are entitled to, but will never receive from British legislation." NOTE: Original list of names was not in any sort of order; I have alphabetized by surname to make them easier for folks to find. klr 22 May 2008