Market Street
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Saving the Turf
The lovely 5 year old Kerrie Browne and her dog, Milo, pose for the camera beside Paud Pelican’s skilfully constructed turf stuaics.
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Ballincollig, Supporting Cork, Win, Lose or Draw
The bunting is still up. The pain of what might have been still being felt.
The real winner on Sunday July 21 2024 was hurling. The game was broadcast by the BBC and the reactions of this new audience say so much about hurling as the best game in the world.
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The Big Fair
We have had a very interesting email from Kay Caball.
Mary, your readers might be interested in this significant piece of Listowel history recovered by the Virtual Treasury.https://virtualtreasury.ie/ It is the Licence granted on 13th August 1688 by William [20th] Lord Baron of Kerry & Lixnaw to hold a Wednesday Market, & two Fairs on the Feast of St. Swithin (15 July) & St Luke (18 of October) on the day before each, at the Town of Listowhill.
I am sure many of your older readers will remember the ‘Big Fairs’ that took over the town each May and October.
I don’t have to tell you of the great work being done by the research partnership of the Virtual Treasury recovering and reconstructing, through digital technology many of the records destroyed in the disastrous fire of our national archives in 1922
Kay
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A Definition
From The Devil’s Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
circus, n. a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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A Fact
In 1981 in Florence, Sebastian Coe set a world record for the 800m. that stood unbeaten for 16 years.
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