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: Harp and Lion

Christmas preparations and Craftshop na Méar and Tar Abhaile

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On November 27, 2013

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Photos from Changes at Nine Seven , Christmas 2013

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Craftshop na Méar

Mairead Sharry is spinning by the range in Craftshop na Méar at No. 53 Church St. Listowel. Namir Karim of Scribes is opening a craft shop just in time for Christmas. Knitwits will be selling their wares there and spinning demonstrations, knitting classes etc are planned.

Our first job was to make a St. Bridget’s Cross to pray a blessing on the venture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tls8E00sYY0&feature=youtu.be

Kniwits joined in a good old sing song around the wheel and by the range;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpoH8Rail5o&feature=youtu.be

The shop will be officially opened on Dec. 10 2013.

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Do you liked the new sign?

Its not finished yet. I’ll bering you the fully finished sign soon.

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It’s that time of year again.

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These two are in rehearsals for this year’s panto. Alladin will go on stage in early January 2014.

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Date in the diary yet?

Mary Cogan, Kay Caball and Evelyn O’Rourke

Sunday next Dec 1 Tg4 9.30 Tar Abhaile from North Kerry. People outside of Ireland can watch it in a live stream from TG4.

This is the press release from TG4:

“Don’t forget , TG4 , This Sunday Night 9.30 P.M. 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 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.
Join us live on TG4 at 9.30 P.M Sunday , Listowel time
Monday 8.30 A.M. Sydney time
Sunday 3.30 P.M. Beauval Canada time.
Watch it live anywhere in the world athttp://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/tar-abhaile.html or Just go to www.tg4.ieand click on the Tar Abhaile (Come Home) logo when it appears in the ‘Check it Out’ box and it will bring you directly onto the series link on the player.
It is available to view live and for a further 35 days after airing.”


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Lovely photo from Friday night. Bernard Brogan and his parents watch the fireworks in The Square, Listowel.

( More beautiful shots from a better photographer than me to come in the next few days)

All the schoolboys named, Tar Abhaile and painting.

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On November 26, 2013

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Listowel

Flavins window

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Mike Enright took this great photo of a sunrise in Ballybunion, November 2013

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Don’t forget to watch TG4 on Sunday night next at 9.30

Julie and Glyn Evans pictured outside the famine graveyard in Listowel in Spring 2013.

Julie’s search for her the truth about her great great grandmother brought her to Teampaill Bán Famine graveyard.

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Dan Doyle’s old photo has brought much pleasure and not a few sad memories to many in Listowel and further afield. May the Lord have mercy on the souls of the men no longer with us who in this photo are smiling here as hopeful little boys, To the others who are still with us, thank you to those who have contacted me and a special thanks to Tadhg Moriarty and Aidan Murphy who put their memories to the test  and passed with flying colours.  Below are all the names as supplied to me by the two aforementioned men.

Má tá bréag ann, bíodh.   (If there’s a lie in it let it be).  This was the old storytellers get out phrase.

Front row

Oliver Doyle, Denis McElligot, Ned Lyons, John Burke,
Mark Walsh, Liam Gunn, Christy Walsh,Jimmy Moore, Padraig Walsh, Michael Scannell

Aidan Murphy, Ned Moriarty, Eamonn Hartnett, John
Beechinor , Stephen Coffey. 

Middle row 

Paddy Neville, Timmy Rellihan, Richard Keating, Maurice
Chute, Colm Keane, Paudie Carey , Michael Hannon, Paddy Horgan,
Pat O Donoghue, Tom O Connell,

John Sweeney, Gerry Kiernan, Gerry Murphy, PJ Brown

Tom O Connor.

Back row

Peter O Reilly, Pat Stack, Eamonn O Carroll,

Maurice Carroll, Kevin Woulfe, Raymond O Mahoney, 

Denis O Connor, Nelius Scannell, Tom McElligott, Tadhg
Moriarty, Michael Barry, 

Tim Nolan,  Paddy Duggan, Dan Doyle, Liam O Driscoll.

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Fred Chute continues his painting while he chats to Martin Hickey on Church Street last week.

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Date for the diary

Tomorrow night Weds, November 27 the committee of the great Ballydonoghue Parish Magazine will be in Conversation with Weeshie on Radio Kerry at 6.00 p.m. The winners of the competitions will be announced. I have entered a few photographs and I have high hopes.

Autumn in Listowel, Harp and Lion and Knitwits

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On November 21, 2013

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The trees are in their Autumn beauty

The woodland paths are dry….

Beneath those rugged elms, that
yew trees shade,

Where heaves the turf in many
a mouldering heap

Each in his narrow cell
forever laid,

The rude forefathers of the
hamlet sleep.

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 A well known landmark is getting a facelift. Fred Chute is doing a magnificent job (as usual) on The Harp and Lion.

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Knitwits busy hands


Knitwits is going from strength to strength. Our little group is growing in number. Soon you will be able to buy products knitted by Knitwits members in Namir’s new venture, Craftshop na Méar

 opening shortly in Church St., Listowel.




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Important date for the diary

Everyone is invited to The Lartigue Museum on Sunday night next Nov. 24 2013 at 7.30 p.m. for the launch of a very significant book on the North Kerry railway Line.

Anyone with even the remotest interest in Railways or in Listowel’s rail history must buy this book. It will be available on the night at a special price of €10.

If anyone belonging to you worked on or had any connection with the line, come along at 5.00 p.m. on the night and talk to Maria Leahy who is compiling an oral history of families associated with the line.

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Talk on St. Padre Pio in Lixnaw


1966 Listowel schoolboys, Duagh Sports Complex and Irish soldiers who fell in WW1 and WW2 remembered

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On November 13, 2013

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This is another great photo from Dan Doyle’s album. Scoil Realt na Maidine 1966.

Would it be The Country team from the town league?

Dan is second from left at the back.

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Then and Now

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This little corner of the world is getting a facelift these days.

Flavins is nearly done and The Harp and Lion repainting job has just started.

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Remember these?

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They’re making progress building their sports complex in Duagh.

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This is the old girls Primary school being demolished. Denis Carroll took the photo.

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Denis Carroll took this  photo in Listowel on Armistice Day. 

NKRO in conjunction with Listowel Military Festival would like to make contact with people whose relatives died in either of the two world wars, with a view to collecting their stories, photographing their memorabilia and commemorating them.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Veterans-Day-Lest-we-forget–The-Irish-who-died-in-World-War-One-133702923.html?utm_campaign=opt-tweets&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_flow

Above is a link to an Irish Central article on the Irish who gave their lives to redress injustice in the world. The fallen young men included my late husband’s uncle.

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Battlefield at The Somme

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http://mykerryancestors.com/kerrys-world-war-1-dead/

Above is a link to Kay Caball’s post about Kerry casualties in WW1

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