Signs of Spring

Upper Church Street in March 2025

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A Corner of Tralee

Pillar Post Box and Telephone Box at the top of Denny Street.

You’ll have to tell me who he is. His image is on the utility box on the same corner.

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Beautiful Daffodils immortalised in Moments of Reflection

This is the vase and these are the descendants of the daffodils I wrote about on page 4 of my latest book. These flowers are from the 2025 crop.

Below is the reflection on page 3 of Moments of Reflection.

Daffodils

I love daffodils. I love to see them raise their yellow heads to tell us another winter has passed.

We know where to look for them as they flourish in the same locations year after year.

This year my friend brought me a lovely bunch. These were not the dainty elegant narcissi so popular now. They were the original old daffodils, the kind that Wordsworth saw “tossing their heads in sprightly dance.” They were the more raggedy unkempt looking daffodils of my childhood.

I knew exactly the right vase for this gorgeous posy. These daffodils are the descendants of bulbs that were planted over 100 years ago. Years ago my friend’s mother-in-law gave me daffodils from this same garden. When she gave them to me, she also left me keep the beautiful old vase that she had brought them in.

So I placed my charming old daffodils in my beautiful old-fashioned vase and I said a prayer for Kitty and Bridget and for all the people who have enjoyed these beautiful flowers over the years.

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John Kelliher’s Pictures of the 2025 Confirmation Classes

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Lenten Display in St. Mary’s

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from the Newspaper Archives

Jer Kennelly found this one.

            New York Irish American Advocate June 1914

Potter and Shaughnessy

Sunday, June 7, a t five o’clock in the afternoon. Both bride and bridegroom are natives of Listowel, North Kerry, and were schoolmates in the younger days at th e old town on the Feale.

Twenty years ago th e two parted, Mr. Potter entering th e educational

department of European schools in British East India. Mr. Potter came

to America, where he again met his sweetheart of school days and the
youthful admiration ripened into eternal love, and then the inevitable
happened. Miss Julia O’Shaughnessy, a sister of the bride, will be the bridesmaid and the best man will be Arthur Jenkins, who is an expert accountant in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. William Moore will act as master of ceremonies.

Mr. Potter, who is a dramatist of note, has written many successful
plays of Irish Life, the latest of which, “The Eviction,” will be
produced on Broadway this fall. Mr. Potter is the American
correspondent of the Dublin “Weekly Freeman,” Ulster “Guardian” and
the Cork “Examiner.”

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2025

The Listowel Celtic crew are always good for a laugh.

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Traffic in Town Yesterday

Is it just me or does anyone think that there are now more heavy lorries going through town than before we had the relief road?

Yesterday a tractor broke down on Church Street just after mid day. By the time the gardaí sorted it out, it felt like half the town was in a traffic jam. I was in town (on foot) and I did my citizen journalist thing for you.

Eventually

Order was restored and all’s well with the world…except for all the heavy traffic!

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A Fact

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