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Military Tattoo, Lartigue Museum, Lyre school and some more Garden Fete

What a great weekend in Listowel!

Listowel Militart Tattoo
2013 organising Committee,

Back, Padraig Nolan, Jim
Halpin, Ger Greaney, Denis Carroll,

Front, Patrice O Callaghan
and Damian Stack

Listowel Military Tattoo
Official opening of the Lartigue Museum

Photos by John Kelliher

When I recover, I will post many of the hundreds of photos I took.

Today’s photos were  taken by other, better photographers.

Denis Carroll took this one of Damien Stack, one of the organisers of the Military Tattoo with the French Ambassador and Jimmy Deenihan.

Listowel’s War Memorial which was unveiled on Saturday May 5 2013

Some of the large attendance at the Lyreacrompane School Reunion.

Meanwhile Limerick held a Riverfest 

And Rory McIlroy tweeted a photo from his birthday party.

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Lovely cheery display by Listowel Garden Centre. Methinks, summer may be here at last.

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Some more from the Garden Fete

Anne was taking a break from knitting to serve some tea and cakes.

These lovely ladies were serving these lovely goodies

I met Máire and Judy MacMahon and we had a chat about old times. Máire was as good as her word and she has sent me some fascinating old photos for the blog. You will see them in due course. Presently I’m showing them to  few people in the hope of gleaning a few names before I put them up.

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These two boys were enjoying an al fresco meal of homemade burger and chips.

This warmly clad lady in seventies headscarf was looking after the book stall.

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Lartigue then and now

This is a picture of a steam train on the streets of Cork in 1962.

Listowel had its very own steam train, pictured below. Click on the link below and read all about the restoration project of this unique mode of transport.

http://www.lartiguemonorail.com/

  Ballybunion

Lisselton

I took a trip on  the modern Lartigue monorail recently.

On the left is the restored engine and on the right the museum and visitor centre.

The locomotive is kept in pristine condition by a committee of hard working volunteers.

No automated points here. Every job has to be done manually. I was fascinated to watch these local men happily do the manual work done by their Listowel fathers before them.

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Green shoots of recovery?  Maybe.

Coco Kids opening shortly.

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 Random Irish news;

Elephant on the loose in Blackpool, Cork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AR51Jo2Tmw&feature=youtube_gdata

Mary McAleese in Listowel and some NKRO news

I took this photo in the marquee in the grounds of The Lartigue on the day President McAleese and her husband came to town to perform the official opening.  Do you recognise some well known faces in that crowd? I thought that it was fitting to include it today as we elect her successor.

Now some NKRO news.

We are very lucky to have on our committee a very talented graphic artist, Grace Kelly. She has designed this beautiful logo for us and you should be seeing lots more of it in the future.

The Advertiser  http://www.theadvertiser.ie/ has given us the opportunity to submit a weekly column so, starting next week, look out for news of our doings, some old photos and more old guff from me online and in print.

Date for the diary: Friday November 4 another session of music, raffles and craic, this time in The Harp and Lion in Church St. Listowel.

Coming soon, news of other music sessions in venues other than pubs and in places other than Listowel.

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