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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Schooldays

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On July 31, 2023

In Listowel, Poem, Schools

beautiful corner of Listowel Town Square in July 2023

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Last of the Memories (for now)

Every second Wednesday was fair day and wooden barricades were placed along the edge of the footpaths. . The farmers arrived in with their cattle early so the fair was in full swing as we left for school . We were fascinated to see bright red notes changing hands. We didn’t know what denomination they were but we’d never seen them. When the fair was a horse fair which spread up to Market Street we got a day off school as it was considered it would be too dangerous for us to walk through the horses. All that stopped when the Mart was built in the early sixties. 

All of us children walked to school  which was quite a long way from the Square to the Convent. We would walk with the Fitzgibbon girls and we always cut through the archway between the top of Tae Lane and the Market. I remember clearly seeing the car being painted on the side of Tarrant’s garage which I think is still there. 

Eleanor Belcher

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Revival 2023

Still time to get your tickets

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A Success Story with a Listowel Connection

Richard Sheahan (on the right in the photo) was selected on the 4 person team to represent Ireland in the International Chemistry Olympiad which took place in Zurich over 10 days. At the awards ceremony he learned that he had won a bronze medal for Ireland. He is pictured with his teammates. 

Richard is the grandson of Nora Sheahan and the late Jim Sheahan from Greenville.

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Remembering Schooldays

Many of these ladies still in town may help with the last few names and maybe a year.

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A Fact

There is a golf course on the border of Sweden and Finland. There are nine holes in each country.

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A Poem or Two, a snap or three and an extraordinary crowd in Cork in 1932

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On December 12, 2017

In Uncategorized

Little Drummer Boy

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Switching on the Christmas lights, November 26 2017

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We had one of these

This pump is in a lawn outside the Tinteán Theatre in Ballybunion. I remember a pump just like this in what we called the pump field at home. It used to take a lot of elbow grease to get water out of it.

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I try to include this poem/song every Christmas as I know it means a lot to Listowel people


Kerry Candlelight by Bryan MacMahon




I am standing here at Euston, and my heart is light and gay,

For ‘tis soon I’ll see the moonlight all a- dance on Dingle Bay,

So behind me, then, is London, with the magic of its night,

And before me is a window filled with Kerry Candlelight.


CHORUS

‘Tis the lovely light of glory that came down from heav’n on high,

And, whenever I recall it, there’s a teardrop in my eye,

By the mountainside at twilight, in a cottage gleaming white,

There my true love sits a dreaming in the Kerry Candlelight.



She’ll be waiting by the turf fire; soon our arms will be entwined,

And the loneliness of exile will be lost or cast behind,

As we hear the Christmas greetings of the neighbours in the night,

Then our hearts will beat together in the blessed Candlelight.



Now the train is moving westwards, so God speed its racing wheels,

And God speed its whistle ringing o’er the sleeping English fields,

For I’m dreaming of an altar where, beside my Breda bright,

I will whisper vows of true love in the Kerry Candlelight.

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Walking the Kerry Way


David Breen took this photo as he was walking The Kerry Way

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Home in Asdee

Liam OHainnín found this one and posted it on Facebook


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A Few More Photos from Enterprise Evening

The special guest on the night was Rachel Allen. She was interviewed by Billy Keane.





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Would you believe it?


Tony Leen shared this photo on Twitter with this caption:

An extraordinary picture of the crowds outside the @irishexaminer office in 1932 awaiting news of the Jack Doyle-Jack Peterson world heavyweight title fight at White City in London.

Something old, something new and something funny

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On January 18, 2012

In Uncategorized

We’ll begin with a smile,

An eagle-eyed photographer snapped this in Kanturk.

This following is a Lawrence photo of the Square on a busy fair day.

I am really surprised at the number of cows who appear to be unattended.

Next up is a more recent market day.

And lastly a few more of The Square for good measure.

Don’t forget tonight in The Seanchaí at 8.00p.m. we will have our first NKRO meeting of 2012.

On the agenda, our UL training, our Week of Welcomes, our schools programme, website progress and much more.

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