Jan. 5, 2005
After a tornado caused damage to the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin on Saturday, Notre Dame head coach and former English professor (at Winthrop College and Syracuse University) Tim Welsh – who was in the west-Ireland city of Limerick with the Irish swimmers – responded by composing his own limerick from the town that lent its name to the poem. A limerick is a humorous five-line anapestic verse with rhyme scheme aabba.
A Limerick from Limerick on New Year’s Day Events in Dublin
by Tim Welsh
We came to the Emerald Isle
To swim and to dive for awhile.
A tornado went “Poof!”
And blew off the pool roof.
No more diving. “It” happens. Smile!