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Tag: Easons

M.S. Busking, Listowel for Writers Week 2017 and more from that wedding

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On May 30, 2017

In Uncategorized

With all the excitement of the wedding I forgot to mention that May 19th 2017 was the annual busking day in town. This event is organised every year by the local branch of the M.S. Society. It is a cause close to my heart but this year I only managed a few photos as I had other things on my mind.

Barbara Walshe and Bridie O’Rourke were collecting at Super Valu.

Batt O’Keeffe joined Noelle Hegarty and Bridie O’Rourke in The Small Square.

Jimmy Hannon has been playing on busking day for years.

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Preparing for Writers Week 2017


The ladders are out and painting is underway at several locations.

The welcome banners are hoisted.

Essential maintenance is going on.


Allos was painted recently and it is looking smashing.

Eason’s has a new sign and Woulfe’s Bookshop has got a complete new look.

We are all ready for Writers’ Week which opens tomorrow evening. I’ll be busy with that for a while so posts will be sporadic. I’ll be taking lots of pictures, so bear with me and all will be revealed in due course

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Some More tales from the wedding



Clíona had three of the most gorgeous flower girls ever in her three nieces. Here they are before their moment in the limelight.

Here they are again with their cousins dabbing at the church.

Róisín Cora and Aisling….butter wouldn’t melt……

Cliona with her brother, Bobby and his handsome family

My neighbours and great friends, the Moylan family played a big part in our wedding. Above is Mary Moylan who chose and sourced all of the music. On the big day, she sang all the songs accompanied by  Áine Murray. Mary’s mother, Helen Moylan made the wedding cakes which were scrumptious.

I’ll let you in on a secret. The “cake” you see here is not a cake at all but styrofoam iced to look like a cake. The real cakes were traditional wedding cake, a chocolate biscuit cake and a lemon drizzle cake. This way the real cakes were kept clean and safe and no one had to eat the plastic icing.

These two lovely ladies are Cliona’s good friends, Martina and Gillian. They played traditional tunes to accompany the communion reflection which was written and delivered by Sinead O’Neill, sister of the groom.

Sinead is on the right in this photo with her sister Aisling and brother Seán.

At the top table we remembered two men who would have loved to have been with us. We lit a candle to remember Cliona’s dad and we brought Fr. Pat Moore’s book with us. Before his final illness Fr. Pat was looking forward to doing the wedding. He had baptised Cliona in the Erinville hospital in Cork when she was only three days old and struggling to hold on to life. He told me that he was honoured to be there at the start of her life and it would have given him great pleasure to marry her. Alas it was not to be.

We remembered the words given to Billy Keane as he mourned the passing of his mother; 

When those we love and lose are not where they used to be, they are everywhere we are.

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Tomorrow evening May 31 2017 is opening night of Listowel Writers Week 2017. I’ll be busy taking lots of photos and helping out with events so I’ll be off the radar for a while.  Enjoy Writers Week, The Races or the Seán McCarthy festival. I’ll be back soon.

Easons, Nana’s birthday, advertising in the 1950s and more from the Coolard Book Launch

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On March 14, 2016

In Uncategorized

Now and Then

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Another Listowel blogger





Jackie Halpin is studying to be a primary school teacher. She is blogging her journey towards her dream HERE

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Family Time

Recently I celebrated another birthday en famille. Here is a little flavour of the day.

 The children, aged 4 to 10, made their own pizzas.

The boys enjoyed this part of the proceedings just as much as the girls. Maybe we have two Jamie Olivers in the making.

There is extra satisfaction in eating a meal you have cooked yourself.

The girls made Nana a birthday cake as well . I thoroughly enjoyed being the centre of attention for a day.

A sign of the times. the pavement artists added a few hash tags to their creations.


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Advertising in the 1950s  ( Shannonside Annuals)



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Knitting in time of War



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Coolard Book Launch



Past pupils, friends and relatives lined up in St. John’s on Saturday March 5 2016 to have their book signed by the author, local historian and teacher Maurice O’Mahony.




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Castleisland People, Your help is needed



Members of the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project Committee have issued an appeal for historic or old photographs which may help to illustrate the wide-ranging research findings now coming to light.

Committee members will facilitate the collection of photographs and the information behind them on St. Patrick’s Day from 12-30pm at Tomo Burke’s old shop beside Hannon’s Fashion Shop at Lower Main Street.

Committee chairman, Johnnie Roche also feels that there is a story or two in the number of Castleisland natives who have made an impact in several countries abroad in the world of business and industry.

Landmark contributions in the continents of Africa, America and Australia stand out but others may well feature if a flow of information on the topic can be triggered. Any such information would also be welcome on St. Patrick’s Day.

The photograph here was stuck to a card and the names were printed on that card but someone had cut off all but the tip of the first line of the caption. From that scrap of information it seems that the people in the picture were members of a choir. Alice O’Shea, standing on the left of the picture, had a shop where Mrs. Quin’s Charity Shop is now. Fashion historians may be able to put a more accurate date on it than a 30s/40s guess.    

(Story from Maine Valley Post via Find My Kerry Ancestors)

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Festival Success for Blithe Spirit and Listowel Drama Group



Kerry Drama Festival

2nd overall in the Kerry Drama Festival 

Imelda Dowling Garvey Best Actress of the FestivalClare Drama Festival
Best actress of the festival: Imelda Dowling Garvey.
Best Production
Best Young Actress Anna Sheehan

Well done all.

Listowel and Compensation claims after the civil war

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On August 8, 2014

In Uncategorized

Another shop closure on Church St.

Elaine at work in Halo on one of her last days trading in Church St. I’m sorry to see her go and I wish her well in whatever new venture she takes on.




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Changes






Listowel then and now




Listowel Printing Works then, Easons now


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Pronto a Mangiar then; Emilia’s now

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Is this a eucalyptus?




If this is a eucalyptus then Vincent Carmody might have discovered why it is bare of leaves in the height of summer.

Vincent writes:

“In your blog of 31/6 you had a photograph of a bare tree in the Towm Park and posed the question, why is it bare ? Is it a eucalyptus tree? if so, the answer is on page 1 of today’s Irish Examiner Farming section.

This contains an article on Beetle pest, part of which states,

“It is the first leaf beetle of its kind to become established in Europe, and was initially discovered damaging foliage crops in Kerry in 2007. It is now commonly found in many areas of Co. Cork.Predictions of the pattern of spread suggest that it only a matter of time before it is established throughout the island, posing a bio-security risk also to the U.K. and mainland Europe. The colourful beetle defoliates eucalyptus trees and even small amounts of damage renders renders eucalyptus foliage crops unmarketable.” 

So now you know, if it is a eucalyptus tree…. if not, one can learn something new everyday !!!”

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Drat!!!!!


This is Ballymaloe House which I visited on Friday last .

This is Hollywood heart throb Gabriel Byrne. He is in the news because he married his long term girlfriend in Ballymaloe House on Saturday last.

I missed it by a whisker.

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More Kerry applications for compensation after the Civil War


Title

Timothy O’Carroll, Ballyhennessy,
Lixnaw, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/12

Date

Dec 1922-[?1926]

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly
responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners,
the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation
Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the
Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of
the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One Ridge Whitworth motorcycle
commandeered at Listowel by Irregular forces on 3/4 July 1922

Title

Hannah Dromey, Cahirciveen, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/16

Date

Feb 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of
the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One motor cycle and one push bike
commandeered at Cahirciveen by IRA [Irish Republican Army] on 12 August 1921.

Extent

1 file

Title

John C Duffy, Green View Terrace,
Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/27

Date

Dec 1922-Nov 1926

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of
the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One Ford motor car seized and taken
away at Edward Street, Tralee, by unknown men on 6 August 1921

Title

John Fitzgerald, Strand Street, Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/31

Date

Dec 1922- Feb 1927

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation
of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One motor car seized and taken away
at Tralee by unknown persons on 19 July 1922.

Title

Ambrose Deenihan, creamery manager, Tonreagh, Ballyheigue,
County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/40

Date

Dec 1922-Jan 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional
Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to
have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were
‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1
April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One motor cycle, side car and accessories taken from
claimant’s residence at Tonreagh by armed men on 7 July 1922; file states
claimant subsequently found the vehicle badly damaged at Ballymullen
Barracks, County Kerry.

Title

Patrick Barrett, Pembroke Street,
Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/54

Date

Jan 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation
of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´
also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not
formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title
the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The
Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann
Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Damage to claimant’s property and
articles while occupied by National troops at Pembroke Street, Tralee, in
August 1922

Title

Hannah O’Donnell, Lohercannon House, Tralee, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/46

Date

Dec 1922- Jan 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also
trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One Triumph motor cycle taken by Irregular forces at
‘Glenview’, Ballyard, Tralee, County Kerry, on 17 July 1922

Title

Captain Jack F Shea, Glenbeigh, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/21

Date

Feb 1923-Nov 1926

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner.
The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional
Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to
have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were
‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1
April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Apartments and food forcibly supplied to Irregular forces at
Glenbeigh from 5 July 1922 to 21 January 1923; drapery goods and alcohol
commandeered at Keelnabrack, Glenbeigh, County Kerry, by Irregular forces on
24 February 1923; cattle commandeered at Lower Keelnabrack, Glenbeigh, County
Kerry, by Irregular forces commissariat on 8 October 1921.

Title

Richard Lavin,40 Lower
Bridge Street, Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/47

Date

Dec 1922-Dec 1926

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Two Ford cars and accessories destroyed and garage premises
set on fire at Prince’s Quay, Tralee, County Kerry, on 6 September 1922

Title

Henry Percival
Maxwell, Landsdowne Lodge, Kenmare, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/52

Date

Jan 1923-Dec 1926

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also
trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Three bullocks taken away at Kenmare Old, County Kerry, and
Gortnadullagh, County Kerry, by armed men in the months of September and
October 1922; goods looted from claimant’s house at Kenmare by armed men on
various dates from 28 July to 7 November 1922; field gates and corrugated
iron taken away at Kenmare Old, County Kerry, and Gortnadullagh, County
Kerry, by unknown persons on various dates from 6 August to 8 November 1922;
bedding goods taken away at Kenmare by armed Irregular forces on various
dates from 25 October to 8 November 1922

Title

Michael Egan, Maglass, (No Suggestions), County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/53

Date

Jan 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the Department
of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation
(from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the
annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government
agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil
Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development
(from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union
budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922
for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous
administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the
administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the
Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One motor lorry taken away at Ballydwyer, County Kerry, by
National troops on 15 August 1922

Title

Sara Cain, Listowel, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/62

Date

Feb 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of
the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Dwelling house occupied by National
troops which they subsequently burned down after vacating the premises along
with the furniture therein at Spa, Tralee on 19 January 1923.

Title

William A Lynn, Castle Street,
Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/72

Date

Jan 1923- Dec 1926

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly
responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners,
the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation
Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the
Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of
the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One Ford motor car and 6 suits of
clothes taken away at Tralee by National troops on 15 February and 11 July
1922.

Title

Ellen Harman,
William Street, Listowel, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/105

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past responsibilities of
the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic
policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national
accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure
by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of
the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment,
promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and
arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number
of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission,
the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the
Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official
designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was
´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before
April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry
of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of
the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the
‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and
references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes.
Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers
and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An
Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of
its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Premises used as a telephone exchange damaged by
gunfire at William Street when occupied by National troops and attacked by
Irregular forces on 30 June 1922

Title

Mary Supple,Ballyheigue, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/119

Date

Dec 1922-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past responsibilities of
the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic
policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national
accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure
by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of
the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment,
promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and
arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number
of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission,
the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the
Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official
designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was
´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before
April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry
of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of
the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the
‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and
references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes.
Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers
and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An
Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part
of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One heifer shot dead at Dirtane, Ballyheigue, County
Kerry, by National troops on 23 October 1922; file states that it is
believed the cow was shot by a stray bullet; trees and a wall thrown down
to block the road at Dirtane, Ballyheigue, County Kerry, by Irregular
forces in October and November 1922.

Title

John Ross,
jeweller, Castle Street, Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/122

Date

Jan 1923-Feb 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of
the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic
policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national
accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure
by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of
the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment,
promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and
arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number
of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission,
the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the
Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official
designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was
´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before
April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry
of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of
the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the
‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and
references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes.
Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers
and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An
Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part
of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Mirror and glass of premises smashed by rifle fire
at Castle Street, Tralee on 2 August 1922; file states this was the day
Free State troops entered Tralee

Title

Hanoria Brosnan, Bridge Street, Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/123

Date

Jan 1923-Jan 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Damage to dwelling house by rifle fire due to the entry of
National troops to the town at Bridge Street, Tralee, on 2 August 1922.

Extent

1 file

Alice O’Donnell, shopkeeper, Tarbert, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/127

Date

Jan 1923-Jan 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Damage to premises due to fire, rifle fire and furniture used
as a barricade during occupation by Irregular forces attacking the Free State
barracks opposite the premises at Tarbert on 10 September 1922.

Extent

1 file

Title

Marie McElligot, Mount Rivers,
Listowel, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/129

Date

Jan 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past responsibilities
of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic
policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national
accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous
administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the
administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the
Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Damage to premises ‘The Listowel
Arms Hotel’ as it was occupied by National forces and attacked by Irregular
forces, food and bedding was subsequently commandeered by Irregular forces at
The Square, Listowel on 30 June 1922

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A Little something for the weekend

Update from town

By

On February 8, 2012

In Uncategorized

This is the colorful Mc Auliffe’s Gift Shop and Little Secret Ladies clothes shop on Church St.

A few doors down Listowel Printing Works, soon to be Easons, is nearing completion. I peeped in. It looks huge.

 

A little further down the street is Ladbrokes. This is the building that was ACC Bank, then Bruce Betting and now Ladbrokes. In a previous existence it was a school and before that a hatchery. What tales these old walls could tell!

Only a few days left!

Update on my update; I just received the following clarification from Vincent. I bow to his superior knowledge of Listowel. But I do know a bit more about Fitzpatricks than he does.  Fitzpatricks hail from Kanturk, which is my home town. In fact I worked for a summer in Fitzpatrick’s Hatchery in Percival Street in Kanturk and have very happy memories of my time there.

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It does not give me any great joy, however I must correct you, what is now Ladrokes was not a hatchery, the house above it, now a closed clothes shop, belonging to the Scully family, a business  was ran here for years by the Fitzpatricks of I think Kantoher (right or wrong spelling), County Cork. This place operated as a fowl and egg store, not a hatchery.Prior to this they also had a store above in the backway at the back of my place. Among those who worked at Fitzpatricks were Johnny Riordan, Kevin Sheehy, father of the present Kevin (the eggman) and most famous of all, during his early fowl buying days, our own, the late and great John B.

Now Mary I hope you don’t have egg on your face.

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