Listowel Arms Christmas Tree 2024
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When Life in Asdee was Full of Prayers
Eddie Murphy , aged 14 in 1937 submitted a long list of prayers to the Folklore archive.
Here are a few;
“God bless us” is said when a person sneezes.
“God bless all here” is said when a person enters a house.
“God bless the hearers” is said when a person hears of an accident occuring or some other serious happening.
“I. P. R. I.” – a person puts those letters on his forehead when going to bed and repeats the following words: “My Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews save me from a sudden and unprepared death”. If those words are said a person will not get a sudden death.
“The Lord have mercy on the dead” Is said when a person dies.
“The Lord between us and harm” Is said when a person hears of some bad happening.
“God speed the work” is said when a person is seen hard working.
“God speed you” is said to a person going on a journey.
“God save all here” is said by a person when he enters a house.
“God bless the mark” is said when a person speaks of a máchail of another person.
“The Lord have mercy on the poor souls” is said when a person takes a pinch of snuff.
That the harms of the year may go with him” it is said when something dies.
When going to bed the following prayer is repeated: “Here I lay down my head to sleep, to God I give my soul to take. Wake now wake never, to God I give my soul for ever. There are four corners in my bed there are four angels at my head. St. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, God bless this bed that I lie on, and if any evil comes to me, the Lord of heaven protect me, and if I die before I wake to God I give my soul to take.
“The Lord forgive me my sins” is said when a person says a curse.
“As St. Peter was standing on a marble stone at the gate of Jerusalem our Lord Jesus said to him “What ails thee Peter?
O Lord Jesus I am suffering from a toothache.
Peter thou shall be healed.
Anyone that keeps this in memory or about them shall never suffer from a toothache”. This prayer is repeated nine times after each other. The person must have belief in the prayer.
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Saturday Nov. 23 2024 in Bridge Road
Bridge Road was closed to traffic.
Emergency service people were doing all they could.
The water edged further up the road and into the park after I left.
I lit a candle and said a prayer on my way home.
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History Repeats Itself
(from the National Archives)
| NAI REFERENCE: | CSO/RP/1822/811 |
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| TITLE: | William Ponsonby, Listowel, County Kerry: request for financial aid as compensation for losses sustained by flood of 16 August |
| SCOPE & CONTENT: | Letter from William Ponsonby, chairman, District Committee, Listowel, County Kerry, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, pleading for financial aid as compensation for losses sustained by a flood of 16 August in the baronies of Clanmaurice and Iraghticonnor, an event that brought ‘most extensive distress in a district already severely impoverished’: encloses an account indicating in tabular format name of parish, number of persons effected and the ‘amount of Damage sustained’ as a direct result of the flood water. |
| EXTENT: | 2 item; 4pp |
| DATE(S): | 26 Aug 1822 |
| DATE EARLY: | 1822 |
| DATE LATE: | 1822 |
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Athea Church
St. Bartholomew’s Church was built by Fr. John Ryan in 1832 on a site donated by Thomas Goold. It is Gothic in style with its high pitched roof and tall elegant windows. In 1862, Fr. Martin Ryan consecrated, remodelled and enlarged the church at a cost of £650 and also installed a bell. Fr George Quain added a spire to the church in 1905 and a new bell. The entire church was renovated in 1986/87 by Fr Thomas O’Donnell P.P. and was completed by Fr. Patrick Kelly P.P. It was rededicated on October 18th 1987 by Bishop of Limerick Jeremiah Newman.
A window is Athea church
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Food for Thought
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A Fact
In 2005 Angela Merkel became the first female chancellor of Germany
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Mary Hanlon
Loved your Food for Thought today. It certainly is!!