Róisín Darby riding Eclipse on the avenue at Lee Valley Equestrian Centre
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23 Years on
Sand art on Ballybunion beach on September 11 2024.
Alice Moylan sent us the photo and she also did the research. The number 343 is the number of New York fire department personnel who died in 9/11.
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Something Old
We all had this beautiful old cutlery in the days before the dishwasher.
Bone used to be used to make the handles. Bones of cattle or deer which were available locally and cheaply were used. But then came plastic and I think our knives were faux bone. They were warm and comfortable to hold.
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Cora and Molly
Cora read a reflection from Moments of Reflection to Molly. She didn’t show much interest. Molly’s nose is out of joint because she is not in this book.
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Newmarket
Scarteen Street, Newmarket, looked picturesque in the September sunshine last week.
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Tony O’Callaghan Bronzes
Liz Kearney, daughter of the late Bill, shared these photos of two beautiful pieces presented to her father. The first was from Listowel Pitch and Putt Club. It is replete with symbols of Bill’s life, his family and friends.
This one from Listowel Drama Group, celebrated his involvement with their production of Our Town.
Owen MacMahon will remember Bill and other stalwarts of the drama group in his talk in Kerry Writers’ Museum at 12.00 noon on Saturday, September 21.
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From the Archives
The Sydney Herald
May 4 1840 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
TEMPERANCE REFORMATION IN IRELAND. The intelligence we have communicated from time to time, respecting the rapid diminution of drunkenness, and its concomitant evils, crime and distress, in various parts of the South of Ireland, has given to many a heart an impulse of pure and benevolent pleasure. Thousands in this country have panted for the amelioration of Ireland, but have almost despaired of realising, even in distant prospect, the accomplishment of their desires. The wretchedness and degradation of Ireland seemed curable and hopeless, and hung as a dead weight the neck of British philanthropy. A brighter day is at length dawning. A movement, doubtless proceeding under a special blessing from above, has commenced, having for its object the extinction of drunkenness. Already have thousands of the Irish population risen as one man, and freed themselves, by a single fart, from their hereditary bondage to an appetite which entailed upon them almost the total sum of misery and degradation which human nature was capable of sustaining. Not the least pleasing feature in this incipient social revolution is, that it is self – originated and self sustained. It is from first to last an Irish movement, and therefore promises to be both thorough and permanent. In introducing the following extracts, it may be desirable to remark that they are called both from Orange and Catholic journals. So far as we see, this glorious cause redeemed from the bitterness of sectarianism and partisanship, being carried on by true lovers of their country, of various sentiments in religion, and of diverse opinions in politics. ” We have heard, ” says the Dublin Evening Post, from authority which cannot deceive, and which has no object in deceiving – good Protestant authority too – that in almost all the small towns of Cork, Kanturk, Bandon, Middleton, Mill-Street, Fermoy, the progress has been so extraordinary that the whiskey shops are in the process of being shut up and soap, coffee, and tea houses are establishing generally. In the small town of Listowel, in the county of Kerry, seven or eight of these have been closed within the last two months. In the county of Clare the progress also has been very great, and we expect that we shall speedily have Galway to add to our list.
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An Artist Paints at the Gallery of another Artist
Martin Chute at Olive Stack’s this week.
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A Fact
In the US in the 1940s a chicken lived for 18 months without a head. His jugular vein and his brainstem were left mostly intact.
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