 It hosts the Unfringed Festival, which is Limerick's only performance festival in spring.O'Connell Street dates from the late 18th to early 19th century as part of Edmund Sexton Pery's plan for the development of a new city on lands he owned to the south of the existing medieval city.In 1765, he commissioned the engineer Davis Ducart to design a town plan on those lands which have since become known as Newtown Pery.