This blog is a personal take on Listowel, Co. Kerry. I am writing for anyone anywhere with a Listowel connection but especially for sons and daughters of Listowel who find themselves far from home. Contact me at listowelconnection@gmail.com

Daffodil Day

Listowel branch of Kerry Library

Daffodil Day

Today is Daffodil Day. To co- incide with the fundraising, the local committee has shared a photograph of the first Daffodil Day committee.

Home, Sweet Home

St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2025

A few more from the parade…rescue services

The Famine memembered by schoolchildren

Extracts from the schools’ folklore collection are included in John Pierse’s Teampall Bán

A Fact

A magpie can hatch three to ten eggs but, on average, only one or two from any brood survive to adulthood.

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1 Comment

  1. Kay Caball

    Its nice to see my mother’s puipils in Islandanny National School collected their parents memories of the Great Famine for the schools Folklore Collection p.85 – Margaret O’Connor. It is contributed by her brother Michael O’Connor, Springmount – father of Canon Declan I’Connor.

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