Áras an Phiarsaigh in April 2024
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Great Show in The Glen
Friday, April 12 2024 was a special day for our own Frances Kennedy. She and I were back on our home turf of North Cork in The Glen Theatre, Banteer. Frances was performing and I was in the audience.
The show was a Frances Kennedy and Sonny Egan special. Frances looked ever so glamorous and Sonny was his usual understated self.
Didn’t I capture him well on a borrowed phone from my seat in the second row?
It was a big night for Frances. She was celebrating a roundy birthday. And it was forty years to the day since she met Patsy. Frances and Patsy met on her first day in Listowel, which was also her twentieth birthday. Meeting Patsy put paid to her plans to emigrate to the U.S., she told us. Thank you, Patsy.
Sonny and Frances sang, danced, played and told stories to the delight of the appreciative audience. The highlight of the night was a rare duet from Patsy and Frances.
It was a great night’s entertainment from two very versatile, talented performers.
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Maureen Sweeney
I told you last week that An Post was commemorating Maureen Flavin Sweeney with a postmark.
Eleanor Belcher sent us this obituary from The London Times.
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From Pres Yearbook 04/05
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Horses!
Luckily horses love mud, almost as much as pigs do. Fields are saturated these times but these two boyos were delighted to be allowed to play outdoors for the first time without their coats.
As he frolicked around the field, kicking up mud in all directions, it was hard to believe that Henry is 24 years old.
These best buds love a bit of mutual grooming.
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A Fact
In 1914 in Brussels the first non direct blood transfusion was performed by Dr. Albert Hustin.
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