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: Olivia Buckley

Writers and Lambs

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On April 18, 2022

In Listowel Writers Week, Schools

This is Lisa Egan’s photograph. Lisa is a member of Mallow Camera Club and this lovely capture is one of the photos the club donated to Kanturk Community Hospital.

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Easter 2022, God and Mammon

St. Mary’s church window

Some Listowel shop windows

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Look who’s Coming to Writers’ Week

Two Irish journalists making names for themselves in the U.S. are coming to town. They will tell us about what they know best, disinformation, fake news and the role of the media.

Both men are to the forefront of reporting on the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the assault on the Capitol which followed.

Donie works for CNN and Malachy for The New York Times.

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Olivia Buckley’s Reminiscence of a Big Event in her Life

Fom an article in Pres. Secondary School Yearbook 2003

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Valais Blacknose Sheep

These are the sweetest, most photogenic sheep. They are very rare. These two boys are Jimmy and Joey and they have just arrived to Kennedy’s Pet Farm. They may be the only two in The Kingdom. I can’t wait to see them.

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Shirley Valentine

On my recent birthday celebration trip to Dublin, I was taken to The Gaiety to see Shirley Valentine.

Look where I joined the queue. I felt at home.

This Shirley Valentine was from Cork but she was just as entertaining as her Liverpudlian counterpart.

There is a touch of old world luxury about The Gaiety. It was lovely to be back there again.

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Grange Con and a Rose contestant

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On April 15, 2022

In Listowel

Poshey Aherne took this photo. He confessed to putting a little dab of peanut butter on the eye lens. Isn’t it a super shot all the same?

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I was in Grange Con

I can’t say I’d ever heard of Grange Con in Co. Wicklow until my daughter told me that we were going there for the weekend.

It’s a lovely peaceful little village within easy reach of Dublin and Kildare.

We stayed in a lovely Air BandB cottage. It is a converted old stable in the most idyllic peaceful spot just outside the village.

This is the view from my bedroom. There used to be a mill in this village before and it looks like tillage is a big element of farming locally.

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From Pres Yearbook 2003

Olivia Buckley, a past pupil of Pres., was the Kerry Rose in 2002.

(More on Monday)

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The End of the Road for Turf

This is a photograph from the National Museum collection. I think its Sligo. Its not a scene familiar to Kerry people anyway.

The reason I’m talking about turf today at all is because of the latest proposal from government. Turf as fuel is not really an issue in our cities but the turf fire is ingrained into the memories of many in these parts. Turf is the preferred fuel in many Kerry houses. It is proposed that one will be allowed to have turf for yourself but selling of turf will be banned. This sounds sad to me as many people who love a turf fire are now a bit beyond cutting their own turf. Harvesting turf is hard work.

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