Praying for Peace with the People of Ukraine
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A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant
Jer Kennelly found an old play programme.
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1930s Listowel
8 Church Street Listowel , Co. Kerry
Photo copyright; Tipperary Studies Photographs of Munster Shops
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From Presentation School Yearbook 1991
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Some Famous Faces at Writers’ Weeks Past
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Where they Lived and Where they Lie Tour of Listowel 2017 (continued)
It is Listowel Writers Week 2017 and we are on our Friday walking tour of the town with Vincent Carmody. The theme of the walk is Listowel and its people. Carrying on from yesterday, we are now in The Small Square or more correctly Main Street.
Here at the statue that stands to her father, John B. Keane, Joanna O’Flynn read his poem to his father.
We wandered on to Tae Lane and the premises which was once the restaurant of Sandy Fitzgerald. Here we had poems from John Fitzgerald and Dick Carmody.
Next stop was the entrance to the old mart. Joe Stack read Bryan MacMahon’s account of how he ensured that the bag of spuds he would buy in the market would be the best on offer.
Joe Stack
Paddy Fitzgibbon
Thomas Ashe
A small section of the attentive and appreciative audience.
John MacAulliffe read his own poem about a sad weekend after the Harvest Racing Festival.
Kay Caball deputised for John Pierse and reminded us of a time when it wasn’t all fun and games. She read from John’s scholarly account of The Great Famine in his book, Teampall Bán.
On to William Street and Tony Behan read a poem called The Printer’s on the Tack which Bryan MacMahon wrote about his friend, Bob Cuthbertson who was living through a period of sobriety.
Another Bryan MacMahon came from Ballyheigue to follow the tour.
Eamon Ó Murchú celebrated Tim Enright, a little known Listowel classical scholar and translator.
Paddy Glavin read one of his own poems.
Knockanure Local recorded some of the bits I missed HERE
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An Appeal
I missed a great evening in Duagh as Fr. Pat Moore’s birthday was celebrated. Would anyone have a recording of the tributes or the choir to share with people who, like me, would love to have been there but couldn’t.
Everyone has gone to The Ploughing this week. The photo is from the ploughing championships of 1959 and no, we dont know who this Queen of the Plough is.
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Seaspray at Bromore Cliffs photographed by Mike Flahive.
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This is another of Maura MacConnell’s photos from the 1960s. I think that they are Red Cross.
I’m sure someone will put names to them all.
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Jer took these photos on Thursday Sept 19 on the racecourse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_KYA_SCtNY&feature=youtu.be
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I was in Ballincollig Co. Cork last week and everywhere was en fete for the hurling final.
My roots are showing again!
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Ireland youths played Estonia in soccer in Listowel on Tuesday afternoon. These people were there and John Kelliher took these and hundreds of other photos of the action.
By the way, Ireland won.
John Delaney got to be photographed with Martin Hickey, President of Listowel Celtic.
Maurice MacMahon has confirmed that he is the boy in the middle of the group snowballing on The Island. He estimates that the year is probably in the mid 1950s.
Recently, Ger Greaney, our chairperson in NKRO took a trip with his family to The Big Apple. While there he visited the New York City Library and, just for curiosity, he looked up what books they have about Listowel, Co. Kerry. They have two. One is Fr. Anthony Gaughan’s Listowel and its Vicinity, a second edition of which sold recently at auction for €400 and the other was …
Listowel Through a Lens.
Apart from bragging, why am I telling you this?
Because I, Mary Cogan, publisher of this book, am making the last remaining copies of it available at €5 each, while stocks last. If I have to post it to you, the bad news is that you will have to cover that cost, which, unfortunately will be more than the cost of the book.
For those of you not familiar with the book, it is a book of photographs of Listowel during the Celtic Tiger years. Much has changed since I took the photos between 2000 and 2009. The book records a prosperous and dynamic time in the history of Listowel.
Below are a few of the many photographs
A Corpus Christi procession with Fr. Donal O’Connor.
Joe Stack of RTE shares a joke with his former teacher, Eleanor Scanlon who, I am sad to say, passed away earlier this year.
A group of Ashes old boys who togged out for a victorious trip down memory lane.
The late great Michael Dowling, in the role of St. Patrick, a role he did so well, leads Listowel Emmets down Courthouse Rd.
Local historian and businessman, Jack McKenna, leads locals and visitors on a walking tour of the town during Writers’ Week.
You can contact me at listowelconnection@gmail.com if you would like a copy.
Why not bag a collector’s item for the grandchildren!
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