Tag: Charles Haughey

Canty’s Shebeen and Coco Kids on June 5 2020

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Some Beautiful Trees in Listowel Pitch and Putt Course

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Meeting the Famous

(Photos by Tom Fitzgerald)

John B. Keane with Charles Haughey

Patrick Sheehan and Eamon Kelly at Sheehan’s Cottage in Finuge

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A Fascinating Tale with a Listowel Connection

Schenectady NY Gazette 1952

GAZETTE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1952

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (AP)—An ex-GI explained for Ireland tonight for his first meeting with the Irish milkmaid -who found his name and address in a bottle washed up by the sea on her village beach. It was Christmas night, 1945, that Frank Hayostak, returning aboard ship after three years overseas, tossed the bottle into the ocean 100 miles from New York.

THE LONELY medical corps-wrote a wistful note giving his name, his address, 184 Iron street, Johnstown, Pa., and a personal description. Breda O’Sullivan of Listowel, County Kerry, now 23, found It near a farm where she lived on the southwest Irish coast on Aug. 23, 1946. She wrote Hayostak, 27, an electric are-welder In a Johnstown steel mill, telling him of her find. The pair have exchanged 70 letters.

[This story must ring a bell with someone. I would love to know who Breda is. Was there a happy ever after ending to this romantic story?]

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Emmetts Grounds still out of Bounds

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Out and About (with camera)

As I was having a socially distant picnic with friend in the park I met Marjorie Morkan and Eithne Galvin on their way to the pitch and putt course

Ned Kelly, people at Listowel Races 2013 and Helena Quinn

By Listowel Connection

On October 21, 2013

In Uncategorized

Gougane Barra 1954; Still as beautiful today.

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The Wild Colonial Boy

This account of Ned Kelly’s demise comes from News Australia

Ned Kelly had a “soft
and mild looking face and eyes” and cried “I am done I am done”
when finally shot by police, according to a 133-year-old letter that gives new
insight into the infamous bushranger.

Kelly staggered when hit
by the force of rifle bullets, the eyewitness reported, “but it was only
when they got him in the legs and arms that he reluctantly fell”.

The account was from
Scotsman Donald Gray Sutherland who was working at the Bank of Victoria in
Oxley when Kelly made his last stand 133 years ago.

The previously unknown
letter described Kelly as a “powerful man” who lay on a stretcher
“quite calm and collected” after sustaining five or six gunshot
wounds in the stand-off with police.

Sutherland goes on to
describe the famous armour – weighing about 97 pounds or 44kg – that caused
police bullets to slide off Kelly “like hail”.

“They were firing
into him at about 10 yards in the grim light of the morning without the
slightest effect,” he wrote.

Sutherland had heard of an
affray involving the Kellys while in Oxley and went to nearby Glenrowan, in
northeast Victoria, to see the “desperados” who caused him “so
many dreams and sleepless nights”.

He then documented what he
saw in a letter to his family.

Now, his descendants have
handed that letter dated July 8, 1880 over to the State Library of Victoria.

A lock of hair from
Kelly’s horse was enclosed with the letter.

State Library of Victoria
chief executive Sue Roberts said the letter is a remarkable document.

“This letter is a
very personal account of events that have become part of Australia’s
folklore,” she said.

“It will join Ned’s
armour, Jerilderie Letter and other important items in our Kelly collection –
one of the largest and most significant in the world.”

The letter will be on
display in its Changing Face of Victoria exhibition from Monday.

It can also be viewed
online with a full transcript on the State Library website.

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This looks like a challenge.

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A few more from Races 2013. Jer Kennelly took these.

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SUDAN; Helena Quinn daughter of Tadgh and Kathleen Quinn, Purt, Abbeyfeale is to to spend two months working with Fr. Tim Galvin on his mission in Sudan. Tadgh Quinn, her father was with the Irish Army in the Congo in 1961. Follow Helen at

https://twitter.com/helenaquinn

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Actor, Aidan Gillen is filming a film about the life of Charles Haughey