My hometown
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What a night we had!
Linngorm Community Hall, Kanturk on Friday, October 25 2024
I was delighted to meet so many old friends like Liz, Catherine and Susan
These are just some of the Boherbue ladies who came
My cousin, John Brosnan, with my brother Pat and me
Great to be among family, my family and Pat’s
The celebrations spilled over into the next day in Thomas Brown’s. Mary Lynch remembers my late sister well. They were in the same class and sat next to each other in the pew for First Homy Communion.
Apart altogether from launching my book, a trip home is always a joy. Being among my own people, people who knew “all belonging to me”, and who knew me “before I was famous” brings back so many memories.
I wasn’t allowed to have my phone to take pictures on the launch night so I’m hoping to have some more when people get round to sharing them.
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Iconic Stucco Work in Abbeyfeale
I was in Abbeyfeale last week and I spotted that the beautiful McAuliffe plasterwork has been painted. Isn’t it beautiful?
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Knockanure’s Unique Church
Photo and text from RTE website
Less than ten kilometres outside Listowel lies a simple structure that belongs to the first generation of modern Irish church architecture. The building is strikingly modernist, as is the artwork inside, but the young architect also reached back into the Hiberno-Romanesque ecclesiastical tradition.
Corpus Christi church in the village of Knockanure, near Moyvane, in North Kerry was regarded as a break with traditional church architecture and a modern fit-for-purpose design. This chapel of ease was commissioned in 1960 and its opening and blessing took place on 21 April 1964. Michael Scott of Michael Scott & Partners (later Scott Tallon Walker Architects) won the commission to construct the new church, with partner Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Tallon (1927 – 2014) designing it. Tallon would then establish the philosophy of the practice for the inclusion and integration of artworks in their buildings.
The Lightness of a Concrete Slab Roof
Corpus Christi is a Roman Catholic church in the International Modern style. It expresses a very simple concept: an open, unified space, like a temple on a podium, overlooking the valley of Knockanure. It is a double-height, flat-roofed, single-cell with four-bay side elevations. To the south-east side of the church is a freestanding iron belfry, built c. 1965, possibly incorporating the bell of earlier church. The most beautiful feature of the design is the church’s clear span, with its concrete roof, a series of T-beams cast in-situ, delicately floating in space above a transparent glass wall. This diffuses light through the interior and helps to express the quality of the board-marked concrete used in the shuttering for the beams.
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Still More Photos from the Hospice Coffee Morning
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A Corner of Tralee
The James Hotel
A pillar post box
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A Fact
The first newspaper crossword appeared in The New York World in 1913.
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