Áras an Phiarsaigh

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In The Rose Hotel, Tralee

A magnificent bookcase

You’ll have to enlarge to read the history of this gorgeous pice of craftsmanship.

The beautiful detail is a lasting tribute to the work of these master craftsmen.

This piece on top is not explained but would seem to have associations with its previous religious owners.

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In Boherbue

My visitor, Phil, grew up in the little village of Boherbue on the Cork Kerry border. It’s in Co. Cork but in the diocese of Kerry.

Now a centre of activity in the village is this hub which has the local supermarket, the post office and a really lovely café.

Here we met up with some old friends and some family of old friends.

The range of ages in this photo is close to a century. Boherbue is a vibrant close knit community. Listening to some of these reminiscing was a pleasure. Three of the people in this picture once worked in the post office when everyone in town visited the post office for some errand or other. The telephone exchange was also housed there. In those days the telephonist knew all the numbers by heart. There is a story here for another day.

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Family Visit

My next visitors were Carine and Bobby and the lovely Reggie.

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From the Newspaper Archives

April 1930

A few good-steed salmon were amongst those landed within the past

few days, between Kilmorna and Abbeyfeale. John Creaghe Harnett got three, 10 to 15 lbs.; J. Kelly, Kilmorna, landed a 28.5 lb. salmon; J. Hickey, one 19 lbs.; W. R. Collins, two, 10 and 12 lbs.; M. Galvin, Duagh, one, 10 lbs.; J. Relihan. one, 11 lbs.; D. Downey, two, 9 and 10

lbs.; J. Clancy, one, 11 lbs.; W C. Harnett, one 9 lbs.

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Beautiful Paintwork

Isn’t this superb?

I managed to find signwriter, Martin Chute, nearby so he posed for me with another of his beautiful masterpieces. I think this just might be my new favourite shop front, not mad for the flags but I’ll allow that bow to modernity.

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Martin is now working on this shop next door. It’s much more minimalist and a contrast to the buildings on either side. It’s going to be an interiors shop I’m told, soft furnishings and homewares.

Great to see new life coming back to town.

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A Fact

Fred Bauer (1918 -2002), the designer of the Pringles can, had his ashes buried in one.

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