Listowel Connection

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Faces of Listowel

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On November 4, 2022

In Listowel

Feale Sculpture, Listowel Toin Square, October 2022

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Listowel Pitch and Putt Club, The Beginning

The club is celebrating 50 years this year, 2022, but according to these press clippings unearthed for us by Dave O’Sullivan, it was founded in 1968 and “reformed” in 1972.

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Faces of Listowel

Daria Piaseczna is a Polish photographer living in Listowel since 2014.

Daria has 2 areas of special interest to her as a photographer, food and people.

In conjunction with Listowel Food Fair 2022 she opened her exhibition, Faces of Listowel, in St John’s Arts Centre on Saturday October 29 2022. The exhibition has now moved to Kerry Writers’ Museum so you can see it there.

Jimmy Deenihan did the official opening.

Here are my photographs of the photographs of some of the “faces”

I asked my friend, Catherine to pose with her photograph and with the photographer.

Here are some of the audience who attended the opening. Some of the audience were also subjects of the portraits.

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Food and Craft Fair in Listowel Arms

Sarah Fitzgerald of The Green Green Gate was getting a helping hand from her mother, Peggy. Her delicious Kombuchas were selling fast.

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Scarey Times 2022

Halloween Mid term break has been a scarey old week in Listowel. We’ve been in the national media every day for reasons we’d prefer to forget. So I’ll leave you this Friday November 4 2022 with a few images from my granddaughter’s holiday. She dressed up as a clown, played old fashioned Halloween games, bobbed for apples and traipsed the neighbourhood Trick or Treating. Oh to be 11 again!

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Green Green Gate of Home

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On July 15, 2022

In Ballybunion, Listowel

Tidy Town seat in Listowel Town Square in summer 2022

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Coming into Cork

My friend took these as the ferry came up the Lee estuary.

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In the Ballybunion Market

I was in the Ballybunion outdoor market on Saturday July 9 2022. I met the lovely entrepreneur, Sarah Fitzgerald of The Green Green Gate.

Sarah was being helped in her enterprise by her lovely Mammy, Peggy Fitzgerald.

I bought elderflower cordial. Delicious!

“Where did she get the name for her business?” you ask.

Here is the answer in Sarah’s words:

The Green, Green Gate was a half way meeting point between my house and the local sports field on my family land.!!! We didn’t have phones to keep in touch back then so my friend, cousins and I would arrange to meet there in the evening or weekends.

The Green Green Gate simply marked the start of many adventures and fun times for us all. It was our Gateway to Fun !!!! The fields, the forest, the bogland, the stream, the trees and the wide open spaces were our computers and phones of today’s children.

How lucky were we !!!!!

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A Few More Irishisms

from this book…

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Church of the Immaculate Conception, Blarney

Blarney is one of those churches where, if you gave a generous donation to the cause you got a plaque on the wall. Other churches put names on windows or pews.

I’m presuming this is the man who set up Blarney Woollen Mills. It used to be known as Mahony’s Mill.

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Town this Week

Flags, bunting, green and gold everywhere and I expect to see much more of the Kerry colours flying in the next few weeks as we near the All Ireland.

Thank you Seán OShea, the Cliffords, Spillanes et al for lifting all our spirits.

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