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In Gurtenard Wood in Winter 2021
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Tom Linnane’s memories of Fireside stories in Littor Long Ago
(From Shannonside Annual 1956)
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November, The Month when we Remember
Cyril Kelly’s poem remembers his parents, a devoted couple. and his mother’s inconsolable grief when, without warning, she lost her “heart’s best treasure”.
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Listowel Pitch and Putt Course
This course is always beautifully maintained. It’s a much appreciated local treasure.
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Where the streets have two names
Is Listowel the only town in Ireland where the streets have two names?
The Irish name translates as Upper Ashe Street.
The name in English translates as Sráid an tSéipéil Uachtarach.
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More Memories from Tom Linnane of Littor
from Shannonside Annual 1956
More tomorrow
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A Fact
(From my Book of the Year 2019/ The world’s weirdest news)
Led Zeppelin guitarist, Jimmy Page, has a long running dispute with his next door neighbour over, among other things, the allegation that he plays his music too loud.
Who is this neighbour?
Robbie Williams.
What music is he playing too loudly?
Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Pink Floyd according to a letter sent by Page to his local council.
Williams’ representative denied everything.
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More Shannonside Memories from Tom Linnane
(Shannonside Annual 1956)
On St. Martin’s Night it was customary
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Carroll’s of Course
Beautifully repainted building in Listowel’s Town Square
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Lower Church Street
Recent refurbishment at Perfect Pairs has uncovered this old name, Molyneaux.
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Ard Chúram News
Listowel has a new dementia day care centre, Fuchsia Centre
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Rainbow over Listowel on November 1 2021
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Last Week’s Visitors
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An Unusual Knitting Pattern in last week’s Woman’s Weekly
The mind boggles.
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In Athea
This lovely old fireside scene was posted on a site called Vanishing Ireland. This traditional fire is in Batt’s Bar in Athea, Co. Limerick. From firesides long ago I remember the crane and the bastable and kettles . I also remember the bellows you activated by turning a wheel.
Echoes of the past.
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Great Memories here for Old Asdee Families
From Shannonside Annual 1§956
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From an Old Presentation Secondary School Album
Looks to me like a Parents Council group, since it has parents and teachers in it.
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The Man of the Moment has a Listowel Connection
Every newspaper this weekend had copious coverage of rugby player, Jonathan Sexton, who played his 100th international game on November 6 2021.
My photograph is from my Saturday newspaper where Jonathan’s proud godfather, Listowel’s Billy Keane, brought us the man behind the legend.
Jonathan’s Listowel Sexton family travelled in numbers to the match. They and everyone in Listowel are proud of him.
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From Shannonside Annual 1956
John L’s Irish connection was with Abbeydorney from where his parents emigrated to Boston.
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Kanturk 1900
In these days of calls to reduce the national herd by 30%, I was amused to see this old picture of Strand Street in my native Kanturk on the mother and father of all fair days in 1900
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A Nostalgic Poem from a Local Poet
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Some Presentation Secondary School staff
Sometime in the 1970s or ’80s is my best guess.
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