McKenna’s corner, Februry 1 2025
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Jimmy MacElligott
To recap for people coming new to this, Jimmy McElligott was a WW2 pilot and a native of Bridge Road, Listowel. Jimmy was a star of the Rockwell rowing team and Munster rugby. Jimmy’s plane was brought down at Dunkirk. Jimmy was not among the survivors. He was 24.
Thomas Buckley has found online the location of Jimmy’s grave in a war cemetery near Paris.
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Carmel’s Photos
Carmel has remembered a few more names.
I want to say the match was in Brosna but I could be pulling that out of the air.
Isabel Carmody, unknown boy, Kerry McAuliffe, Tommy Moore, ??, Carmel Hanrahan, Monica (or perhaps Martina) Barrett, Geraldine Browne, Maura ??, ??, Kathleen Kennelly, ?? man standing at back, Caroline Barrett, Niamh Long, ?? at back, Denise Mulvihill, ?? at back, Matty Donohue, Front: ??, Kerry’s friend from boarding school and Norma Doyle
Dermot Mahoney remembers that Kerry’s friend was Audrey Hanley.
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A Sobering Thought
I shared this before but it’s worth revisiting. I found it on the internet when looking for something else.
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Doing Anything on Saturday ?
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A Fact
In 1968 Dr. Christian Bernard performed the second ever heart transplant on Philip Blaiberg.
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Geraldine Pierce
Loved Carmel’s memories of growing up during the 70 and 80s .
I am the Geraldine Harrington mentioned in her story. We moved to Waterford from Listowel in 1975 . We lived in the Garda Barracks in Church St. We had a great childhood in Listowel .
Gerard MacElligott
I visited the war grave of Jimmy McElligott (my uncle) in France sometime in the 1980s.
I might have a photograph f the grave somewhere.