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: GAA 1960

Listowel, Old GAA Brochure and Writers Week 2015

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On May 22, 2015

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Ireland’s most famous dolphin

photo:  Fungie Forever

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Public Consultation



Last week, the Heritage section of Kerry County Council conducted a drop in consultative event in The Seanchaí . We got to tell the consultants what was good and bad about our town and we got to tell them of any opportunities we saw for improving our town for residents and tourists. I was there with my camera. Here are a few snaps I took on May 13.




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Ads and images from 1960 GAA Brochure






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Vincent Carmody and Jim Cogan R.I.P.




Vincent Carmody knows the history of Listowel and its people better than anyone.  This year, his morning walks during Writers’ Week promise to be the best yet. If you are in town, join Vincent and his  followers. You won’t regret it!

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Date for the diary




photo; Writers’ Week



On May 31 at 12.00 in St. John’s

 DÚCHAS – FONN | FOCAL | FÍSEÁN



Poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice & musician Danny O’Mahony share a passion for the traditional music, song & poetry of their native North Kerry. Fitzmaurice and O’Mahony collaborate in this unique project to bring the audience on a journey, celebrating local masters and their legacy of poetry, music & song.

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For The Young Ones














Judi Curtin will be in Listowel Community Centre on  Friday May 29th.with her Big Book  Quiz.

You don’t need too much book knowledge for this one. It’s a team effort for teams of 4 people.The atmosphere will be fun and relaxed. The prizes are super. Easons is sponsoring this event so goody bags of books etc could be on offer.

Suitable for book loving or not so book loving young people aged 9 to 12.





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Coming up






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Ladies Day




The hardest working lady in Listowel for the past few months has been Eilish O’Neill. She has organized a great event for Sunday May 31st. So ladies get your glad rags on. It promises to be a good one!



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Clarification




I posted these two photos on Wednesday to illustrate my great story about Liam Healy. I had asked Cathy for a photo of her father as a boy. She sent me these without caption, I presumed (wrongly) that the boys with Liam were his brothers. They weren’t. They were his classmates and the photo was cropped from a school photo.



Apologies to the boys, now men involved. Liam is the cute little fellow on the right and Tony Stack is next to him



Dromin Well, some old advertisements and Tullamore National School

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On April 27, 2015

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(photo: Timothy John MacSweeney, wildlife photographer)





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Scairbhín

(photo;Ballybunion Prints)



Scairbhín is the time of year from mid April to mid May when the weather vacillates between balmy and baltic. The old people used to say, ‘Don’t shed a clout ’til the may is out.” The may in this case referred to the flower of the blackthorn bush often referred to as “the flower of the may”.

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Count Your Blessings



Our ancestors lived through tough times. We are so lucky to live in a prosperous Ireland.


Dublin tenement 1940s

Blitzed London street



Our poor misfortunate ancestors evicted from their homes



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Dromin Well


Our amateur folklorists in 1937 took upon themselves to research stories of holy wells. One girl heard a story about Dromin well outside Listowel. According to the story, a girl called Depra, who was deaf and dumb was brought by her parents to the well and left there for three days. When her parents returned after the three days they found “to their joy” that their daughter could hear and speak. She told them that during their absence a beautiful lady had appeared to her and told her to drink from the spring. Depra did as she was told and immediately she was cured. She could hear and speak. The beautiful lady smiled sweetly and disappeared.

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1916 /2016




( photo: 1916 Commemoration)



In the aftermath  of the 1916, several booklets were published. This collection is in the Capuchin Archive.

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Some Great Old advertisements

Kay Caball of Kerry Ancestors lend me this recently.

I bring you today some ads from this publication, most of them for businesses long gone from the town.

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Who, Why, When?

Antony Hegarty (formerly of Tullamore) sent me this photograph from New York. It was published in The Ballydonoghue Parish Magazine. Antony is anxious to find out the provenance of the photo. Does anyone know who is in the photo and what was the occasion?

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Tar Abhaile


Julie and Glyn Evans



Mary Cogan, Kay Caball and Evelyn O’Rourke

“Don’t forget , TG4 , This Monday night. A night of Genealogy with North Kerry Reaching Out. This week’s programme of the “Tar Abhaile ” series comes from Listowel and other locations around North Kerry and West Limerick.

The first descendant who features this weekend is Julie Evans, a teacher from Sydney Australia who discovers the mystery behind how her grandmother’s grandmother, Bridget Ryan, ended up leaving Listowel Workhouse in 1849 and on a ship to Australia as a 16-year old girl as part of the Famine Orphan Girl Scheme. 

The second is Angie Mihalicz, a retired teacher from Beauval, Saskatchewan, Northern Canada who comes back to discover what she can about her grandfather’s father, Peter McGrath and his mother Ellen, who emigrated to Canada at the height of The Famine and after a long search finally gets to stand on the land of her ancestors.

This programme is a repeat.

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