Listowel Connection

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

Tag: Allos

manhole covers, Rathea 1950 and a puzzling sign

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On October 8, 2014

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On the streets of Listowel


Today I’ve taken an unusual tack and I’ve photographed the various manhole covers in town. We walk on them everyday but did you realise there were so many different ones?

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Rathea 1950

The photo belongs to Betty Stack and was posted on Facebook by https://www.facebook.com/forur.genealogy?fref=ts

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Sizing Europe

Sizing Europe and Jonathan Burke after another great win in Gowran on Saturday. When it comes to photographing racehorses Healyracing of Listowel have no equals.

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Walking on water?

This sign from Glendalough made it into a European book of indecipherable signs. I get what it means. Don’t you?

 It must be an Irish thing.

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Amelia Wilmot, a blagger before the word was coined

Today in My Kerry Ancestors website, Kay Caball is blogging about a little known Listowel heroine. Amelia Wilmot, while working as a housekeeper in Abbeydorney R.I.C. Barracks in 1920 and 21 blagged information and passed it on the local IRA. She even managed to procure guns and ammunition.

Information about Amelia and other active volunteers is contained in recently digitized application forms for IRA service pensions. In order to qualify for the pension one had to give a detailed and verified  account of one’s active service during those troubled times.

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We are so lucky here in Listowel to have the winner of Georgina Campbell’s  casual Dining  Award for 2015 right here on our doorstep.

http://www.ireland-guide.com/award/casual-dining-restaurant-of-the-year-2015.2283.html

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Casa Mia, Allos, Collopy’s Corner and Listowel’s world class equine photography

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On September 8, 2014

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The Ever Changing Face of Listowel



Casa Mia

Allos Bistro

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WW1 and the Creagh Family of Listowel

From Kerry’s Eye

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Jimmy Deenihan’s constituency office occupies a building in a corner of Listowel Town Square. I photographed it this week as a result of an email I received from Joan Hayes;

“I came across the Gleasure letters by chance when googling my relatives recently and then came across your blog. My grandfather, Harry Smith and great aunt Myra Smith are mentioned in the letters. They were relatives of the Behans who owned the pub/hotel (I’m not sure exactly what) next door to the Gleasures. My greatgrandmother was Margaret Collopy and the Collopys were there originally. Her sister married a Behan, hence the name change.  know it burned down later.

I live in Dublin and we have no Kerry connections that I know of now.

Keep up the good work”


I looked up Vincent Carmody’s excellent Listowel; Snapshots of an Irish Market Town and this is what I learned about Joan’s ancestors:




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World Class photographer 




This photograph by Pat Healy of Healyracing, Listowel has taken on a life of its own on the internet, with photographers far and wide admiring and sharing it.


The details: The horse is Arbitrageur, the jockey Johnny King, the groom Aidan Wall, and the track  Laytown. This dramatic shot was captured by Pat Healy of Healyracing and printed in the Irish Independent.


By the way everyone is fine.



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Kick for The Kingdom



The pupils of Pres. Listowel TY class join the “Kick for The Kingdom” challenge in aid of cancer research;



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-R5qhpO6og

Junior’s Christmas Wish and a flavour of Christmas 2012 in town

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On December 18, 2012

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Christmas in Listowel in photos

 Allos

Claire delivers some Christmas mail to Brenda in Woulfe’s Bookshop.

St. Mary’s

Christmas display in Listowel Veterinary Clinic

Lawlee’s

 KDYS

Busy man

Pierse Walsh of John R’s helps a customer with a hamper.

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A Christmas poem from Junior Griffin

MY CHRISTMAS WISH

Oh
Lord, when we give this Christmas time,

Do
teach us how to share

The
gifts that you have given us

With
those who need our care,

For
the gift of Time is sacred~

The
greatest gift of all,

And
to share our time with others

Is
the answer to your call,

For
the Sick, the Old and Lonely

Need
a word, a kindly cheer

For
every precious minute

Of
each day throughout the Year,

So,
in this Special Season

Do
share Your Time and Love

And
you’re Happy, Holy Christmas

Will
be Blessed by Him above

Junior
Griffin

                                                                                            Listowel



Jer photographed a few people I missed at Vincent’s launch, including my good self  and our poet, Junior, with his brother, Bert.

Late news just in;  A little birdie told me that Vincent Carmody might feature on Liveline today talking to Joe about his book.

Halloween Ghouls and other Yolks

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On October 27, 2011

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Today we are all out voting in the presidential election so there will be a good buzz in town. Voters making their way along Church St. will encounter this ghoul at Jimmy Halpin’s door. Don’t worry. He is harmless!

I took this photo on Convent Street this week. Looks like a sign of development. Good news surely.

Next week we will have http://www.listowelfoodfair.com/ Looks like a brilliant programme in store for us this year. This next is from this week’s Kerryman.

Billy and Joe to yolk around at Food Fair

 Listowel publican Billy Keane will battle it out with Joe Murphy, Director of St John’s Arts Centre Listowel in an Omelette Challenge at the Listowel Food Fair next week. Credit: Photo by Domnick  Walsh

October 26 2011

TWO of Listowel’s best known hosts might have egg on their faces by the end of the Food Fair as Billy Keane goes head to head with Joe Murphy in a challenge to see who can cook an omelette the quickest.

It’s all part of the Saturday Live Kitchen event modelled on the BBC cookery show and taking place on Saturday, November 5, in the Kerry Parent’s and Friends’ Association centre in Clieveragh at 2pm.

Most of the event, however, will feature three top professionals from the north Kerry food industry — Armel Whyte, from Allos, Marius Crifan from the Horseshoe Bar and Gemma Ryan from Ruairí’s Bar in Tralee.

“It’s shaping up to be a lot of fun indeed,” Armel told The Kerryman. “We will be up against the clock making dishes and the audience will be in with a chance of tasting the food as well. I’m really looking forward to it even though it is not going to be easy by any means!”

“It’s a great departure for the Food Fair, a festival that’s hugely important to Listowel and north Kerry food. One of the most important things about the festival this year I think is in the fact it’s programme is geared to all ages. It is amazing how interested children, in particular boys, are getting in cooking and baking and it is not simply seen as something for girls anymore among the younger male age group.”

Kerry gastro pub of the year for the last two year’s running, Allo’s continues to win customers through its use of local ingredients — something the Food Fair will have in common as it promotes local producers.

“Our beef for instance is all sourced from within a ten-mile radius of Listowel and we pride ourselves on our contribution to the local economy in that regard.”

In the Horseshoe, chef Marius Crifan is now gearing up for the Saturday afternoon showdown and cook-off. “This is going to be a lot of fun, believe me. I will be cooking two chicken dishes on the day, one in our special Horseshoe style. But I’m only going to have about twenty minutes I think in which to do them so I will have to be very organised!”

Saturday Live Kitchen will also give Marius a chance to flag a looming expansion for his business. ” The Horseshoe will be expanding into next door soon and one of the dishes I am going to make will be from our new menu so I’m really looking forward to that too.

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