Listowel Connection

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Tag: RDS

Adare, Ballybunion, a chance meeting on a Dublin bus and some people up for the match

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On August 29, 2017

In Uncategorized

Photo; Ita Hannon

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Upper Church Street in Summer 2017



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Adare

Recently, on my way home from Limerick I decided to stop to stretch my legs in the beautiful village of Adare, County Limerick. Adare is a martyr to traffic congestion. That is perfectly understandable as it is one of the prettiest villages in these parts. I met the two lovely ladies below in the local café. They are volunteer Adare ambassadors. They just chat to visitors and answer any questions you might have. They were very welcoming and friendly. Every town should have ambassadors like these.

I decided to take a stroll through the park which is in the heart of the village.

The site for the park was donated to the people by the Earl of Dunraven. Above, at the end of the path, you can see a gate into the Dunraven estate.

I’d highly advise a stop in Adare if you find yourself with a while to spare on the way to or from Limerick.

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Ballybunion Sculptures


This lovely floral boat adorns the Doon Road in Ballybunion. It is the work of the Ballybunion Tidy Town’s Committee


Nearby this sculpture to past Doon families has been unveiled.

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Well, be the hokey!


When I went to Dublin for the Horse Show recently I travelled to and from the show by public transport. I took a No. 4 bus from O’Connell Street to Ballsbridge.

On my return journey I again boarded the No. 4. Just to  be sure to be sure I was on the correct bus, I asked the lady beside me if the bus I was on would return me to O’Connell St.

To cut a long story short, this lovely lady turned out to be none other than Betty Given, a lady with a very strong Listowel connection. Truth is often stranger than fiction.

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Up for the Match



John Kelliher was in Dublin for the match on Saturday August 26 2017. He wisely took his camera with him and here are a few of the great photos he shared on Facebook

Lovely day for the rematch

The hope before and the desolation afterwards well told in these two pictures.

Will you look who John caught on camera on their way to the match: None other than Jimmy Deenihan with Elizabeth, Sarah and Mary Kay Marince of Florida  AND could that be the Rose of Tralee escort still in attendance on the Rose?


Music in Finuge n 1974 and Sonny Bill at the RDS

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On August 14, 2015

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August 13 2015


(Photo: Ballybunion Prints)

The good times returned to Ballybunion yesterday, dare I say, for one day only!

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My Trip to the Dublin Horse Show 2015



When I heard that my family’s horse, Sonny Bill was entered for the RDS in August 2015, I resolved to go to support him and to see for myself what all the hype is about.

Health Warning; If you have no interest in my day at the show look away now, cos the next bit is all about the RDS Dublin horseshow on Wednesday August 5 2015.

I got to the RDS bright and early and the place was deserted. The vendors and stall holders were just setting up shop. I was the first to enter every competition for a spa day, numerous holidays and god knows what else. There were free sweets, free samples of stuff etc, in short a child’s paradise. You could spend the whole day shopping and never see a horse.

I met Ireland’s leading equine artist; Tony O’Connor from Tarbert. His magnificent works are a tad out of my price range.

These horse sculptures were made out of driftwood.  Aren’t they lovely? Why didn’t Kildare Co. Council buy these instead of those dreadful new stainless steel horses on the roundabout by The Kildare Village Outlet Centre?

There was a craft exhibition too. These fellows were knitted!

I did buy something, a Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner from this lovely young lady. It was home before me, delivered free as a perk of buying it at the show.

In the stable area I found my brother sitting guard over Sonny Bill. The washing and plaiting is done.   Showing is a beauty pageant for horses and, like all beauty queens, Sonny Bill has to suffer for his art. He is ponced up with his tail wrapped and curls in his hair and soon he will have his designer dress tweaked and his nails painted.

This is the decorating part. Felicity, who will ride Sonny Bill in the competition, is making patterns on his back with  baby oil, a sponge and a brush.

Noreen, another of the horse beauticians, is painting his hoofs.

His number on, his rider gone for her beauty treatment, and Pat gives him a little bit of last minute advice, “Head up, ears foreword, smile and behave for the judges and absolutely no bucking.”

“As if…”, thinks Sonny Bill

We’re a long way from Kanturk now, in Ring 1 at the RDS Horse Show 2015. Sonny Bill began his showing career in a soggy boggy field in Tralee at the Kingdom County Fair 2015. It was the only day he didn’t win a rosette. Since then he has got used to victory so hopes are high for his first foray into the big time.

Felicity and Sonny are well used to one another by now and they look as at ease here in the big arena as  if they were riding down the Glen Road at home.

Now this is where the equine beauty contest diverges from the human one. Each judge in turn rides each of the horses. Sonny Bill knows that this is where he is being tested and he behaves impeccably.

Next comes the nerve wracking bit. The judges call in the horses in order of merit as they rated them after their ride. Sonny Bill is second. It would be foolhardy to count any chickens at this stage because at any time along the line the judges can change this order. The first could be last and the last first.

This is the equivalent of the swimwear section. Sonny Bill has to strip off down to the bare essentials and allow the judges to look him over and he has to do a little trot to show how he can move when nobody is on his back giving him orders.

Phew! the order of the first three remains the same.

Sonny Bill is second. He is given his blue rosette. Everyone is delighted.

You might think that we would be a little disappointed that he didn’t win. Not at all! there were 10 other disappointed 4 year old hunters in that ring whose owners would have given an arm and a leg for any colour rosette from The RDS.

Like all beautiful creatures he has to learn to put up with the groupies.

All the titivating has to be undone and he has to be given loads of praise and hay as a reward.

Sonny Bill and Felicity congratulate one another on a job well done.

My friend, Margo, who, like myself, is not fully at ease around horses gets close enough to give him a little pat. Elizabeth can’t keep the beam from her face and Sonny has a little sniff of the latest ribbon.

I went as well to the main arena where the show jumping was coming to an end for the day.

Leo Varadcar was presenting the prizes in this competition. In answer to your question I have no idea why.


My friend, Margo’s, grandnephew, Tommy Harty was jumping in this arena.

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And now for something completely different…..





Finuge, 1974


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Lee Strand U16 County League




(Photo: Ita Hannon)

Beale U16s who defeated Duagh to win the U16 Football County League 2015

Ballybunion, Hollymount, Listowel Then and Now and haymaking in Bromore

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On August 7, 2014

In Uncategorized

The Fisherman’s view

A Ballybunion vista as captured by Mike Enright, sea angler.

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Hollymount Again


Do you remember this from last week? I thought it was a fairly long shot that anyone would know any of these sisters. How wrong I was.

I got the following email from Kay Caball;

“…I know who wrote that book about the Hollymount Centenary. She was Sr. Brigid Moloney from Lyreacrompane a first cousin of my fathers’.  She and her sister Bessie joined this order and they spent all their working lives in Letchworth.  A number of other young girls from the same area joined the order also.  I know that Mary Rose Gleeson from Lyreacrompane joined and I notice the name Geaney on the photo.  This branch of the Moloney were cousins of the Geaneys (from Castleisland) so I presume Eilish Geaney  was another postulant as they were called then.
Re Brigid, when she retired,  came back to the Irish house – Moore Abbey  in Monasterevin which had previously been the home of John McCormack and we visited her there. As far as I know, she was instrumental in  establishing  the Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer School there, it is now called the Gerard Manley Hopkins International Literary Festival now and takes place in Newbridge College. She died in 2010, as far as I know her sister Bessie is still alive in one of their UK homes.
She had written a number of articles for the Lyreacrompane Journal over the years with great reminisces of her youth there.  

MOLONEY Sr. Brigid – December 26, 2010 (peacefully) at Moore Abbey Convent Monasterevin and of Kerry. Deeply regretted by her loving sister Bessie (Sr. Elizabeth), her community of Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, the Moloney, Carey, and Nolan families and many friends. May she rest in peace. Requiem Mass today (Tuesday) December 28, at 12 noon in The Convent Chapel, burial afterwards at St Evin’s Cemetery, Monasterevin   [Irish Times 28 Dec 2010].”



Another source informs me that there were at least two Listowel girls in that convent. Eleanor Stokes of Charles Street and Joan O’Connell joined that order and went to Hollymount. Could they be the “aspirants” in the photograph?


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Post truce claims for compensation



Find Your Kerry Ancestors has this to say about post civil war Ireland.

County Kerry Claims for compensation for loss of or damage to property that occurred as a result of military action between July 1921 and March 1923, under the Damage to Property (Compensation) Act, 1923 are now available  at the National Archives.   I have been going through them and publish here a selection to give you a flavour of life post the Civil War

Nothing was sacred – heifers, cars, boats, motorcyles, suits (6), food, alcohol, ‘drapery goods’ – you name it.  While the major portion of the blame is attributed to the ‘Irregulars’, the National Army were blamed for an amount of damage also, and the more discreet applicant blamed ‘unknown persons’.

Here are a few examples;

Claims for compensation for
loss of or damage to property that occurred as a result of military action
between July 1921 and March 1923, under the Damage to Property (Compensation)
Act, 1923

Title

John McKenna, Market Street,
Listowel, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/11

Date

Jan 1923-Jan 1927

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation
of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Petrol, hardware goods and
foodstuffs commandeered at Listowel by Irregular forces on various dates from
29 April to 3 August 1922.

Title

Jerry Galvin, William Street,
Listowel, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/13

Date

Jan 1923- Jan 1927

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation
of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One Ford motor car commandeered at
Listowel by Irregular forces on 13 July 1922

Title

Timothy O’Carroll, Ballyhennessy,
Lixnaw, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/12

Date

Dec 1922-[?1926]

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly
responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners,
the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation
Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the
Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of
the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One Ridge Whitworth motorcycle
commandeered at Listowel by Irregular forces on 3/4 July 1922

Title

Hannah Dromey, Cahirciveen, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/16

Date

Feb 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of
the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One motor cycle and one push bike
commandeered at Cahirciveen by IRA [Irish Republican Army] on 12 August 1921.

Extent

1 file

Title

John C Duffy, Green View Terrace,
Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/27

Date

Dec 1922-Nov 1926

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of
the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One Ford motor car seized and taken
away at Edward Street, Tralee, by unknown men on 6 August 1921

Title

John Fitzgerald, Strand Street, Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/31

Date

Dec 1922- Feb 1927

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation
of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance
Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of
offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act
1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish]
was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the
Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One motor car seized and taken away
at Tralee by unknown persons on 19 July 1922.

Title

Ambrose Deenihan, creamery manager, Tonreagh, Ballyheigue,
County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/40

Date

Dec 1922-Jan 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional
Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to
have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were
‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1
April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One motor cycle, side car and accessories taken from
claimant’s residence at Tonreagh by armed men on 7 July 1922; file states
claimant subsequently found the vehicle badly damaged at Ballymullen
Barracks, County Kerry.

Title

Patrick Barrett, Pembroke Street,
Tralee, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/54

Date

Jan 1923-[?1926]

Creator

Department
of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative
History/Biography

Past
responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary
and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of
the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and
expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the
management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing,
establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation
and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic
forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy
co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated
responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of
agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently
directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue
Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the
Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of
the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation
of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and
General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the
non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or
Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive
Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’.
The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´
also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not
formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title
the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The
Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann
Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Damage to claimant’s property and
articles while occupied by National troops at Pembroke Street, Tralee, in
August 1922

Title

Hannah O’Donnell, Lohercannon House, Tralee, County
Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/46

Date

Dec 1922- Jan 1927

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information
Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the
Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never
seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed
were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From
1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also
trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

One Triumph motor cycle taken by Irregular forces at
‘Glenview’, Ballyard, Tralee, County Kerry, on 17 July 1922

Title

Captain Jack F Shea, Glenbeigh, County Kerry. 

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/21

Date

Feb 1923-Nov 1926

Creator

Department of FinanceDescription: http://nai.adlibhosting.com/images/plus.gif

Administrative History/Biography

Past responsibilities of the
Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy;
taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts
and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by
government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the
Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion,
remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the
preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and
development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European
Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April
1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the
previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing
the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works,
the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the
State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner.
The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional
Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to
have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were
‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1
April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official
title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less
formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive
Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until
the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of
Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can
also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.

Scope and Content

Apartments and food forcibly supplied to Irregular forces at
Glenbeigh from 5 July 1922 to 21 January 1923; drapery goods and alcohol
commandeered at Keelnabrack, Glenbeigh, County Kerry, by Irregular forces on
24 February 1923; cattle commandeered at Lower Keelnabrack, Glenbeigh, County
Kerry, by Irregular forces commissariat on 8 October 1921.

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Then and Now


Telephone exchange

Pierse and Fitzgibbon




Some places are much changed, some just a little


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Victorian post box

I don’t think that there are any post boxes from this era in Listowel. I spotted this one on my travels in East Ferry, Co. Cork.

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Hay and Tae in Bromore



They had a great haymaking event in Bromore recently. An old fashioned meitheal gathered to help Mike save his hay and they enjoyed tea and confectionery in the meadow. It’s the first time I’ve seen hay piped home. What a setting for a day in the meadow!

They also serve who only stand and wait
the meitheal at Bromore August 2014
some fine wynnds
making a wynnd to the accompanyment of the bagpipe

(these and more photos Bromore Cliff Walk)

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Success at the Dublin Horse Show

This is my brother, Pat, and my niece/ goddaughter, Elizabeth in the RDS with Mr. Riordan, their very special horse. Mr Riordan was bred by a man with a great eye for a horse. This man is Mr. Riordan, uncle of Elizabeth’s husband, who was, unfortunately, not well enough to travel to Dublin. He was well represented by a huge contingent of the Ahern and Riordan clans.

You saw the horse here on listowelconnection when he won his first show at The Kingdom County Fair in Tralee. He went on to win many more rosettes after that on his campaign for Dublin. Qualifying for Dublin was the aim. Having hit that goal, a top 5 finish in his class was the next target. He achieved that yesterday with a magnificent display which saw him placed fourth. Much credit is, of course, due to his trainer and rider, Ann O’Grady who presented him in tip top form.

Where to now?

The sales ring, I’m afraid. My connections have taken him as far as they can go. He has huge potential and will go on to great things. My horse mad clan have truly enjoyed the adventure so far.

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