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Listowel Town Park, A Listowel chaplain in WW2 and a Church Street landmark gets a touch up

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On February 8, 2018

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A Great Tit

Photo credit: Graham Davies

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Childers’ Park


Pedestrian entrance to Listowel Town Park with Dandy Lodge in the background

The newly enlarged entrance from Bridge Road

Sign flattened by the elements

1916 commemorative garden

Dandy Lodge



Listowel Community Centre

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Listowel Parish commemorates The Holocaust


This is Fr. Michael Morrison who was born in Listowel in 1908. He was a chaplain who attended at the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp at the end of WW2.

His story is here

 BBC Archive; World War 2 People’s War

Photo: Kerry’s Eye

At Sunday mass in Listowel on January 28 2018, Holocaust Memorial Day, Fr. Morrison’s grandnephew, Finbarr Walshe of Tralee presented an icon to Listowel parish. The family believe that the icon was made by inmates in the concentration camp.

The Bergen-Belsen camp was built to hold 10,000 people, but on the day it was liberated 60,000 were crammed into appalling conditions. An estimated 50,000 people died there between 1941 and 1945.

Following the war, Fr Morrison served as a parish priest in Australia, before eventually returning home to Ireland, where he died in 1973.

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Plasterwork getting a Facelift



A little touching up to the famous plasterwork was in progress as I passed by on Church St. in January 2018.

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The Success of Sive in 1959



Some more newspaper cuttings from the Sive 1959 archive. Thank you, David O’Sullivan.






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Listowel in 1968



Newsbeat came to town to see if it was snobbery that was keeping local girls from applying for lucrative jobs in a new local factory. The interviewer was the late Bill O’Herlihy.

Newsbeat in Listowel

Listowel Trees and Statues a Beaver Moon and some folk on a food trail

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On November 16, 2017

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Listowel Big Bridge in Autumn 2017

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The Community Centre Gym



The gym is now housed downstairs in the recent extension.

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More Trees

Tree in the car park at Listowel Community Centre

Old trees on Bridge Road, Listowel

Beautiful stand of trees on the perimeter of Listowel Pitch and Putt Course

Steps leading from The Garden of Europe, Listowel

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Some Listowel Sculptures

This great likeness of the late scholar, teacher, poet, essayist, playwright, short story writer and folklore preserver stands outside the castle in the grounds of The Seanchaí, listowel’s literary and arts centre.



Listowel’s most recent sculpture stands in the town square and welcomes visitors to Listowel. The seat commemorates the outstanding success of Listowel in The National Tidy Towns’ competition.

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A Beaver Moon

People have been noticing that for the past while the moon appears bigger and brighter than usual. It is not, as some thought, a super moon or even a harvest moon. It is, according to Mike Enright who is usually correct about things related to tides and weather, a beaver moon.

Chris Grayson took the photo.

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Date for the December Diary

This event sounds novel and very enticing

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Some of my Fellow Food Trailers





Here are some of the lovely people who trailed for food around Listowel as part of Listowel Food Fair 2017


Community Centre public seats in Listowel and blue signs in The Square

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On April 6, 2017

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Chris Grayson’s chaffinch…..super photo!

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Progress on the community centre




It’s coming along nicely. The new gym extension is looking great. It will be an asset to the town when it’s finished. I can’t help noticing the new trend towards employing a personal trainer. All this awareness of the importance of keeping fit must lead to a healthier population.

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Fealy’s Yard


This lovely old photo is attributed to Mike Hannon

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“A poor life this, if, full of care

We have no time to stand and stare.”


If, when in Listowel you just want to sit and rest a while or just sit and stare we are well supplied with public seating. Here are a few.

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Intrusive Signage




Is it just me or do other people feel that large colourful signs like these spoil our lovely square?

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Allos Thank their loyal customers




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Easter Monday sorted



Listowel Writers’ Week are delighted to present the Easter Monday Literary Walk for Cruinniú na Cásca, an exciting new government initiative supported by RTÉ and Kerry County Council. Cruinniú na Cásca will be an annual event, a day to celebrate & encourage creativity nationwide. 

Beginning at 11am on Monday 17th April from The Seanchai Centre in Listowel Square, the morning walk will take you around the beautiful and resourceful River Feale. You will see and hear some dramatised stories, poems and excerpts from the plays of Listowel’s literary giants such as Bryan MacMahon, John B. Keane, Dan Keane, Maurice Walsh, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Brendan Kennelly, Billy Keane and many more. 

The walk is free, and will begin with the opening of an open art exhibition by local artists both professional and amateur followed by a brief introduction to the walk. Along the walk we will be entertained with short performances by local actors. After the walk, we will return to the Seanchai Centre for complimentary tea & coffee. 

Feel free to bring friends. See you there!

Trees, Listowel Community Centre and Tennis, Melchert and Second Time Around

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On March 8, 2017

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Trees

Catherine Moylan took these photos. The top one she took in The Garden of Europe and the one above in Gleannaginty, Castleisland.

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Progress at the Community Centre


They have roofed the extension.

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Listowel Tennis


In preparation for the new season the club had power washed the courts. They are looking very inviting.

The clubhouse could do with an upgrade

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Melchert in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and a Reunion of Melchert workers




Photos; Mike Hannon on line

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My Favourite Listowel Shop



I love charity shops. They have lots of attractions that are lacking in other shops. They always stock a variety of goods and you never know when you will come across a treasure.

Another huge advantage of these shops is the calibre of people who volunteer in them. I have met the kindest, most patient shop assistants in charity shops.

My all time favourite of these boutiques is Second Time Around, the St. Vincent de Paul outlet on Upper William Street, Listowel.

It opens for business on Thursdays and Fridays from 11.00 a.m. It stocks a great quality variety of clothes, books, jewellery and brick a brac. Stock moves quickly here. If you like it buy it. It probably won’t be here when you come back.

One of the attractions of Second Time Around is the lovely shop assistants. Here are just a few of the many friendly, helpful volunteers.

Cathrina, Eileen, Marie and Kay were volunteering on Thursday afternoon March 2 2017

Nancy and Hannah posed for me with Miriam, who was dropping off a donation on March 4 2017

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Look who was on the Today show




Photo from the Rte website

A Robin, Some old photos and Parking Balls in Florida

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On March 3, 2017

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Ireland’s Largest Megalithic Cemetery

Catherine Moylan took this photo in January 2017 in Carrowmore, Co. Sligo.

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Posing Robin


This friendly fellow met me in the town park and he kindly agreed to pose for me.

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Progress on the Community Centre Extension





Listowel Community Centre shared the following photos from inside the new gym.

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Some Old Photos from National Geographic online



The men are saving the hay, the women knitting and gleaning.

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Waiting



Nicholas, a blog follower, likes this poem. I do too.

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Meanwhile in Sarasota, Florida



Pat del Savio is following the story of the balls as a deterrent to parking on the pavement. When she made a trip to her local Target store recently she photographed these for us.

True to form, the US balls are bigger and more colourful.



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