An Inspector, An Outlaw and An Artist

Listowel Town Square, September 2024

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Highlight of September 2024

The biggest night of September 2024 for me and my family will be the launch of my new book in The Listowel Arms Hotel on Sept. 21 at 7.00p.m.. Moments of Reflection is a collection of reflections, previously broadcast in the Just a Thought slot on Radio Kerry. The Thoughts are accompanied by some uplifting photographs.

The book will cost €20

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Listowel’s Monday half day

Remember we had this poster last week and I wondered about the year. Dave O’Sullivan to the rescue. The year is 1913 and the measure was not universally popular, as Dave uncovered in the following newspaper stories.

Monday January 27 1913 , Kerry Evening Star

And then on Friday, November 9 1934, Irish Press

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Castlemaine

Castlemaine’s most famous son is Jack Duggan, aka The Wild Colonial Boy, who terrorised Australia according to legend.

Cora posed with the statue of the outlaw she had never heard of.

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Tony O’Callaghan Bronze Plaques

This picture was shared on line by Gerard Leahy. Carol Broderick also has one of these. The names in the “book” would appear to be the names of the founders of Writers’ Week.

Do other people have them? Were they some kind of souvenir/reward?

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Fireman

In the early 1900s this is how a fireman dressed so that he could get nearer to the fire to better extinguish it.

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A Saturday Serenade

The local Knotweeds group, John Kinsella, Mary Murphy, Paddy MacElligott, Mike Moriarty and Denis O’Rourke performed in the Square on Saturday August 31 2024.

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A Fact

In AD79 Vesuvius began erupting on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

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