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

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Feale Monument, People at Pride of Place and a Listowel Graveyard

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On September 15, 2015

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Early Autumn in Listowel

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More from Pride of Place


 After The Lartigue, I headed to The Seanchaí where Cara had assembled an Arts and Cultural presentation to wow the judges

The best of North Kerry music was to be heard as Comhaltas pulled out all the stops.

The Vintage Wireless Museum was represented and a colorful display of old broadcasting and recording machines were on show.

The story of the Fleadh in Listowel was there too.

Matt Mooney and young musicians showed the way forward for North Kerry’s great musical tradition.


Jim Halpin does trojan work in preserving the memory of those who gave their lives in war. His Military History Museum is a must visit for young and old visiting Listowel. Here he is chatting to Cathy Walsh of Gurtenard House

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John Paul 2 Graveyard


Listowel people look after the graves of their dead. John Paul Cemetery on the Ballybunion Rd is always ablaze with flowers and a very hard working committee keep the communal areas looking neat and cared for.

There is now a good footpath all the way so that people who want to walk to visit a family grave can do so in comfort

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The Next Generation



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Welcome Back




Something different for the punters at the Races…. Bingo in the Plaza on Weds and Thursday

Drop in and see the newly refurbished hall.  All in aid of a good cause…Listowel SVP.

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R.I.P. Brendan Daly


Brendan Daly (second from right) will be remembered by many as Listowel Race Company Secretary. He is pictured here with McKenna’s Hardware colleagues at a Christmas Social. May he rest in peace.

Listowel Races, Pride of Place 2015 and a traditional thatched cottage

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On September 14, 2015

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Race week in Listowel and an All Ireland Final to look forward to

Listowel is festooned for Race Week but football is not too far from people’s minds.

Meanwhile on The Island…..

(Photo; Bridget O’Connor)

The weather is spoiling everything.

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More Photos from the Pride of Place judging



All of these local people were in The Lartigue Museum for the judges visit.

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Looking Lovely!


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“Fond memory brings the light

Of other days around me”

Photo from The Capuchin Archives

By the roadside, Croagh Patrick, County Mayo, c. 1910

An image of a traditional thatched cottage at the base of Croagh Patrick, a mountain and an important site of pilgrimage in County Mayo. It is climbed by pilgrims on Reek Sunday every year (the last Sunday in July). The photograph dates to about 1910 and was taken by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) who was known as the ‘Guardian of the Reek’ in honour of his long association with the pilgrimage. This association lasted from 1906 to 1949, during which he climbed the mountain forty-two times missing only two years, in 1919 due to a railway strike and 1922 due to the Civil War. (Image Identifier: CA-PH-1-51).

Pride of Place 2015, Ballincollig and Fleadh na Gael in Listowel in 1974

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On September 8, 2015

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Pride of Place


On Sept 1st. 2015 the judging for this year’s Pride of Place competition took place in Listowel.

The sun shone, Listowel put on its best dress, and the place never looked so good.

The business community, the volunteer community and clubs and associations went the extra mile to show the judges a taste of what happens in Listowel and how the local people engage with their town. I think the judges left impressed and, if Listowel does not win, it will be a travesty. I took photos in The Lartigue Museum and in the Seanchaí and I’m told that the display in The Family Resource Centre was excellent and showed the town in the very best light.

The judges were a husband and wife team. They took their job very seriously. They chatted to everyone, looked and admired everything on display and seemed genuinely impressed by everything that was going on in the town.

This is the judge alighting from one of Fitzpatrick’s coaches which brought them from venue to venue.

 Jimmy Moloney and Mary Hanlon of Listowel Tidy Towns were bursting with pride in their place.

Jimmy Deenihan was on hand to welcome them to the Lartigue and to explain to them a bit about the project, its origins and how it runs today. 

Click on the link below to see the video Denis Carroll made of the event at The Lartigue.

Pride of Place 2015 by Fealegood

Tim O’Leary and Martin Griffin were ready to welcome the visitors.

 Two other visitors were watching the video prior to their trip on the train.

The Tuesday crew, driver, John MacAulliffe and guard, Junior Griffin, were on a tea break and chatting to Paddy Keane and John O’Connor.

The museum, as always. was looking in tip top shape and was of great interest to the two “ordinary” visitors who had travelled from Canada and were on a trip around the world looking at railways. They were very interested in all the doings of the railway and brought a knowledgeable eye to view the workings of the engine and the complicated changing of the rail so that the train could be turned.

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Music in the Community


Music in the Community is a great initiative to bring music into the lives of as many people as possible. I attended a great free open air concert in Ballincollig Regional Park  on Sunday August 30th 2015. The sun shone. The setting was ideal and we all had a great day. A bit like a free Electric Pixnic!

 This is a section of the crowd in the Regional Park for the free concert.

My family, plus newly acquired dog, Cappi, were there in force.

The marvelously energetic Jerry Fish was the headline act.

This is the queue for a crepe! The queue for coffee was longer.

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Fleadh na Gael in Listowel



A brochure from Betty Stack’s collection of Comhaltas memorabilia.



This is a flavor of the brochure for Fleadh na Gael in Listowel in 1974

Some odds and ends for a Monday

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On September 7, 2015

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Heather at Bromore Cliffs

(photo: Bromore Cliffs)

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Group of Listowel People

Has anyone any idea who, where, when or why?

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Can Bake; Will Bake

This is Adi Canty from Listowel, winner of one of the National Junior Baking Competition regional finals. The competition is sponsored by Aldi and is in association with Foróige and the National Ploughing Association.The qualifiers of The National Junior Baking Competition were held through Foróige youth clubs and projects nationwide. The National Semi Finals will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of September in the Aldi Marquee at the 2015 National Ploughing Championships Ratheniska, Co. Laois. Two people will be picked from each day and they will go head to head in the final on the 24th of September

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La Place




The new clothes shop in the Square has a name…La Place. 



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Back to Class at Listowel Family Centre


(Photo: Listowel FRC)



Above are some of the beautiful projects made by adult students in the Craft Textile class, run by the VEC in Listowel FRC.



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The countdown has begun

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Solidarity on the shore



This event was organized at short notice but it still made an impact. 

Here is what Lisa Fingleton posted on Facebook to accompany the photo by Rena Blake;

‘Solidarity on the Shore’ : A candlelight vigil to send light for safe passage and a better life for all refugees. 8pm Friday 4th September. Ladies beach, Ballybunion.What a powerful evening. Thank you to the sixty people who came to show solidarity with refugees on the shore in Ballybunion tonight. Don’t forget to bring your clothes etc to Ballybunion Community Centre from 12 next Friday. Photo by Rena Blake”



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Under 10 Winners


Moyvane who won the U10 football competition in Listowel yesterday, Sept 6 2015.

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Winner Alright



I have been following here the fortunes of Sonny Bill, the horse owned by my brother and niece. Yesterday was his last show for this year. He won his class and was declared overall champion of the show in Bantry. What an achievement for a four year old in his first year showing.

The Seanchaí, Writers’ week 1981and rich Galway men with a Listowel Connection

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On September 2, 2015

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In the John B. Keane room at The Seanchaí

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Front and back covers of Listowel Writers’ Week brochure 1981

And the inside pages

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Galway Millionaires with  a Listowel Connection



Galway brothers Luke and Brian Comer
are among the richest men in Ireland, with an estimated wealth of €675 million. 

They are among fourteen individuals
and families either from Galway or currently living here, who have a combined
fortune of just under €1.4 billion.

The Comers are former plasterers from Glenamaddy and
featured in 16th place in the ‘Ireland’s Rich List 2014’, published by the Sunday
Independent.

The Comer brothers – the main backers
of the  Galway FC League of Ireland team
– earned their fortune by developing properties in the UK in the 1980s, before
buying an extensive portfolio of office blocks, almost 30 shopping centres and
hotels in the UK and Germany.

The proceeds from selling-off some of
their assets have been pumped back into Ireland over the past two years, and
their purchases in Galway include the ‘Odeon syndicate’ site in Eyre Square,
the Connacht Hotel on the Dublin Road, the former Corrib Great Southern Hotel,
the Kingston Hall and Silver Seas apartment developments in Knocknacarra, Bun
na Leaca in Newcastle and Howley Square in Oranmore.

In 2014 they were now valued at €675m – that’s up €300m on
last year.

 (Story and photo: The Connaught Tribune)


The Listowel Connection? Luke and Brian are married to Listowel sisters whom they met when working in Listowel on an extension to Kerry Ingredients in the late 1970s.


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St. John’s from the steps of Listowel Castle




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