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: Pat Nolan’s

William Street, Nolan’s, an overdue library book and more from the 2019 Parade

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On March 21, 2019

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William Street, Listowel

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Pat Nolan’s, Charles St.

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St. Patrick’s Day 2019



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A Patient Dog at Lidl, Listowel



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Caught on Camera


I was snapped taking a penalty against Elmo. Thank you Listowel Celtic!

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It was Roses Roses all the way






Denis Hegarty was having a whale of a time in New York on St. Patrick’s Day posing with mayors, Roses, gardaí and all

Mr. OShea and Tara who has family in Tralee

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Truth is often Stranger than Fiction



Local media this week were all agog about the return to the public library of a book that was overdue by 50 years.

Like all good stories this one is not without an ironic twist. The book was a biography of Andrew Carnegie, the founder of the trust that funded Listowel’s and other libraries around the world. Our library used to be known as The Carnegie Free Library and thanks to funding by the Carnegie trust the library service was free for years and years. Maybe the borrower thought that the books were free too.

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Meanwhile in Rattoo on March 17 2019




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Just a Thought



My last week’s Thoughts from Radio Kerry are at the link below.

Just a Thought

A match, some changes and a good night in John B.’s

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On September 4, 2013

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This and lots more great photos from Sunday’s match are on John Kelliher’s page here;

https://www.facebook.com/john.kelliher.79

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This is a photo from the good old days. Ballybunion was still the place to be in the sunshine yesterday.

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A few changes in Listowel’s streetscape

Above is how it was; below is how it looks today. I think most will agree that it’s shaping up nicely.

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Pat Nolan’s and John B.”s were painted over the summer.

One Thursday evening during August I spend a very entertaining few hours in John B.’s.

The Knockaderry and Clouncagh Players were staging John B.’s The Highest House on The Mountain. They made a great job of adapting the play to the venue and we all enjoyed a great night’s theatre.

Billy Keane with the cast.

That was the night on which Billy twinned his pub with De Danu in Toulouse.

Joan Kenny met her cousin, Pat Hartnett, from Ballybunion.

Eoin Hand was there.

Billy gave Trevor a picture of himself as a jester.

Trevor gave Billy a signed Toulouse rugby jersey which he hoped to see hung beside Jonathan Sexton’s one in the corner by the bar.

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