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The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
“Níl fhios again go cinnte cá rugadh Naomh Pádraig” . I remember well, many years ago at school, having to learn off a passage on St. Patrick that began with those words which translate as, “we don’t know for certain where St. Patrick was born”. Opinion is divided as to whether he came from England or France. We do know that he was brought here as a slave so it is more than likely he came from Wales. When we think of slavery, more than likely we think of the African slaves in America but not all slavers were American and not all slaves were black Africans. Slavery was very common in olden times and there are numerous references to it in the Bible. Ireland was no different, especially along the eastern seaboard where small boats would cross the Irish Sea to raid settlements along the Welsh coast. They plundered and looted what they could and brought back some of the young and the fittest to be sold in Ireland as slaves to the rich land owning chieftains. We don’t know much about his first time here except that he was minding sheep on a hill and eventually escaped. When he returned to convert the people to Christianity he seems to have had an easy task and quickly made a name for himself. Much of what is written about that period can be taken with a pinch of salt. He did not, for instance preach Catholicism, as some would like to claim, it wasn’t very widespread at the time. There is also the also a mixture of fact and myth in the accounts of that time. The banishing of the snakes from the country can be placed in the latter category. As one wit stated “he might have got rid of some snakes but he left more than a few of the two-legged variety behind”. Anyway, he did have great success and became our national saint so every year we celebrate on March 17th. It is not, however a celebration of the saint or his life, it is now an excuse for the worst type of Paddwhackery and Plastic-Paddyism as people all over the world wear green, don ridiculous outfits and get drunk. That may be a bit of an overstatement because there are also a lot of good parades and other events that highlight the best of being Irish. It is amazing that a little country like ours, a small island off the coast of Europe with a population that would fit into most European cities, has such worldwide appeal. I suppose we can thank the famine for that because it forced the Irish to leave and try to build a life in other countries. We didn’t just stop at the nearest refuge, we spread to all corners of the world so no matter where we go today we will find somebody with Irish blood in their veins. From humble beginnings the Irish emigrants got involved in their adopted countries and became prominent in business and politics to such an extent that many have held the highest office, president of the USA. What is it about us that makes us different? I don’t know but we certainly punch above our weight in sport and the various arts. Over the years out athletes, boxers, golfers and swimmers have had great success and our writers and poets are world famous. At one time, under the reign of Jack Charlton, our soccer team was ranked 6th in the world while our rugby team have been at no.1. Our actors are the best in the game and our traditional music is getting more popular by the day. There are now branches of Comhaltas in every continent with the latest branch being set up in Dubai. Wee excel at modern music as well with artists like Sinead O’Connor, Shane McGowan and of course the no. 1 band in the world for years: U2. Yes, we have a lot to be proud of so it is no wonder that we want to celebrate on St. Patrick’s Day. The fact that it has nothing at all to do with the actual saint is another matter. I was glad to be able to play a few tunes on the day and I spare a thought for the man who, despite being enslaved here, returned to save us and, yes, my middle name is Patrick!
I wonder what kind of reception would St. Patrick get if he came to Ireland today. We were always known as Ireland of the welcomes but the “cead míle fáilte” seems to have gone in recent times. The fact that he was a single male from a foreign country would be enough to cause some people to object to his being here. He would be lucky to get a tent on the street and hope not to be molested. He would be ok for last weekend because, in a very cynical move, the tents were removed from the city centre to what turned out to be a far from suitable location on the outskirts. It is obvious this was done as a cosmetic exercise for the many who would come to the capital for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. There is no reason why people should be in tents on the streets. The city is full of empty office spaces and what about the religious orders? They have buildings in abundance such as empty convents, that would give a modicum of shelter to these poor people. I know it is not ideal but it is better than what is happening at the moment. There is also the fact that there are boarded up houses in every town in the country that could be easily made ready for occupation if the will was there. There is a problem with the amount of people coming for asylum but these are the times we live in and we are obliged, morally and legally, to do our best to accommodate them. We are a rich country by comparison with others and we are lucky to live in a free and democratic society that wants to care for all sections of the community. We should not take this for granted when we see the amount of dictatorships that have sprung up around the globe. Just look at what happens in places like Russia where any opposition to the ruling regime is regarded as treason and punishable by imprisonment or even death. The government needs to come up with answers and do it fast or else we may see a big change in political circles. The far right are gaining ground throughout Europe and we are no exception here. All I can say is; God help us if they ever get into power, it would be unthinkable.
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-SNOOZE TIME—
Do you have a special time that’s just for you alone,
A time to leave the World outside and make the day Your own.
It could be in the Afternoon when you can take a snooze,
A cat nap or just 40 winks, whatever you may choose.
So close your eyes and drift away for just a little while
And when you wake you’re sure to find that Life can wear a Smile.
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RECORD: Ceili group which broke the Guinness book of records for the largest Ceili gathering. 384 performers lined out in the Dublin stadium to break the record during the RTÉ series’ St Patrick’s Day Special on March 15th 2024. The feat had previously been achieved by Scotland with 288 musicians taking part at Stonehaven Folk Festival in July 2018.
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Well, if you’re the B.C. government, you dive still deeper into the fantasy of an EV transition, and accelerate your mandated timeline, declaring late last year that 100 per cent of new car sales in the province will be zero-emission by 2035, five years sooner than your previous-yet-equally-unlikely target date of 2040. This is the very definition of reckless driving.
Headlines virtually every day show that automakers do not believe mandates for an EV transition are plausible. In just one article in Business Insider, you can find quotes from the CEOs and senior leadership of General Motors, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes Benz and even Tesla who are all announcing slow-downs in their EV production plans and warning they see slower sales ahead.
https://tnc.news/2024/03/14/op-ed-eby-government-ev-transition-consumers/
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From Listowel Connection
A moving poem was delivered by Taylor Lynch. In a day away from Mother’s Day, Taylor’s poem in honour of her late mother was dignified and poignant.
Everything Wasn’t Perfect.
Everything was perfect.
Until it wasn’t.
Your sweet smile,
And loud laugh.
Your buoyant nature.
How birds sang,
As you walked.
Your hair danced,
In the wind.
You were perfect.
A mother’s love,
There’s no compare.
Imprisoned into darkness.
A hospital grey.
Taken from us.
“Paradise” you said,
“I’m going there”.
Four short decades.
Freed from life,
like a bird.
Now your name
Is a word,
Carved onto stone.
Everything was perfect.
Until it wasn’t.
Taylor Lynch
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FAMILY: Jennifer Roback Morse Commentaries
March 20, 2024
As someone who has been promoting the family for decades, I am delighted to see a new, fresh, young voice proclaiming the core message that kids need their parents. Robert Kim Henderson, with a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a doctorate in psychology from Cambridge, has written not an academic tome, but a memoir.
Henderson did not come to Yale and Cambridge by the usual routes. He came via family breakdown, foster care and the U.S. military.
In his memoir, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class, he recounts his tumultuous childhood. His earliest memory is of being taken away from his drug-addicted mother at age 3. Little Robbie entered the California foster-care system. He was angry, unhappy and marginally literate. He recalls the stress surrounding his multiple placements: unreliable adults, minimal supervision, limited food, and a bevy of temporary foster siblings, who, like him, would come and go.
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Vietnam: The Central Party Committee, a top decision-making body in Communist Party-ruled Vietnam, approved Thuong’s resignation just about a year after his election.
The president holds a largely ceremonial role but is one of the top four political positions in the Southeast Asian nation.
Calls to the presidential office on Wednesday went unanswered.
The committee’s meeting preceded an extraordinary session of Vietnam’s rubber-stamping parliament scheduled on Thursday, when deputies are expected to confirm the party’s decisions.
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Irish History 1916 through to 1923
The bloodiest Bloody Sunday
It was probably after the killing of a man named John Lynch, shot on his bed in the Exchange Hotel in the middle of the night of 23th September, 1920, that the IRA Intelligence became aware of the activities of a group of British secret agents in Dublin - what was to be later known as the Cairo Gang. Lynch was a Sinn Féin loan organizer with no connections with the military side of the movement and may have been mistaken for the successful Cork guerilla leader Liam Lynch.
The effort made by the British military intelligence to halt the advance of the Irish guerilla - mainly the policy of assassinations carried by the Squad, the elite unit attached to the IRA Intelligence department - started with the arrival of Colonel Ormond D’Epée Winter in May. He was in charge of military intelligence and organized a network of ex-British officers used to this work to counter the counter-intelligence operation led by the IRA. They started their very own “murder gang” - and by the time of Lynch’s death they were getting closer.
But Michael Collins, the IRA Director of Intelligence, wasn’t a helpless target. By 5th October he had already in his hands all information about how a group of military and RIC killed Lynch. “There is not the slightest doubt that there was no intention whatever to arrest Mr Lynch”, said the report he sent on the subject to the acting president Arthur Griffith. He was by then receiving informations from his trusted agent right inside the military command in the Castle - known only as Lt. G. Today it’s known that the military title was actually a short form for “Little Gentleman”, and that hidden behind it there was a woman, Lily Mernin, a typist on the Garrison Adjutant’s office. She was able to provide a great deal of information to identify the members of the “Cairo Gang”. Another source was Sergeant Mannix of the DMP station at Donnybrook. Other information came from talkative secretaries, a drunken agent with a heavy conscience about Lynch’s killing, and even a housemaid who was unknowingly flirting with Vinny Byrne, one of the top Squad men.
Things weren’t going too well by then. On September, a British spy managed to get close to the Sinn Féin leadership in order to get Collins, but he was exposed by Griffith in front of a group of reporters. On 11th October, the military gang managed to track down Seán Treacy and Dan Breen in Drumcondra; Breen was severely wounded in the ensuing fight, and Treacy managed to escape, but was killed three days later on Talbot Street. On 25th October, Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, died on hunger strike. About the same time an account of the torture committed after the arrest of Tom Hales, commandant of the Third Cork Brigade, arrived on the hands of Collins. The four men were his personal friends.
The last straw was the execution of 18-years-old Kevin Barry on 1st November, followed by the arrest of some of the higher-rank members of the intelligence department. Liam Tobin and Tom Cullen managed to fool their captors, but Frank Thornton was held by ten days. Neither was identified. On 10th November, the IRA Chief of Staff, Richard Mulcahy, had a close shave and had to escape of the house he was sleeping through a skylight. It was enough. “Arrangements should now be made about the matter”, wrote Collins to the commandant of the Dublin Brigade, Dick McKee, on 17th November. The date of 21th November, a Sunday, was chosen to take advantage of the Gaelic football game scheduled to that afternoon.
On Saturday night, Collins, Mulcahy, McKee, the Vice-Brigadier Peadar Clancy and others met with the Minister of Defense, Cathal Brugha, to settle the last arrangements. Brugha personally analyzed the list of men that were to be shot. He found there was little evidence about some of them and reduced the list from 35 to about 25 names. They were to be shot in their lodgings scattered around Dublin on Sunday morning, precisely at 9 AM.
At least 100 IRA members, divided in around 15 units, took part of the job - not only the Squad, but also Intelligence officers like Charlie Dalton, and men drawn from the several Dublin battalions, like the future Taoiseach Seán Lemass. Things ran as planned, and in the end 19 men were shot - 15 dead, 4 wounded. Only one IRA man was arrested - Frank Teeling. He was sentenced to death, but managed to escape in February 1921.
Not all the targets were home. Two of them, Auxiliary division Captains Hardy and King, were called early in the morning to the Castle to interrogate three suspects arrested in the previous night. They were no less than McKee and Clancy, who were betrayed by an informer and arrested in their lodgings at Gloucester (now Sean MacDermott) Street, along with an innocent Gaelic League enthusiast, Conor Clune. At the moment of the shooting, both captains were torturing the prisoners in the Castle. On that night, all three were shot dead.
Collins tried to get the game in Croke Park cancelled, but the organizers thought it was too late and proceeded with it. As a result, a group of Auxiliaries and RIC, “excited and out of hand”, according to their own commander, entered the field and started shooting randomly for 90 seconds, killing 14 persons, including a player and three children. In the end, 32 individuals lost their lives on the bloodiest of the Irish Bloody Sundays.
Adriana Moura
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Irish History 1916 through to 1923
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Did You Know?
Prior to the opening of Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, Catholics had nowhere to bury their dead due to the repressive Penal Laws. It was Daniel O' Connell who campaigned for the establishment of a burial ground in which both Catholics and Protestants could bury their dead with dignity.
So it was then, that on February 22nd, 1832, the small coffin of Michael Carey, a young boy from Francis Street in Dublin, was placed into a little patch of ground on Dublin's northside. From such humble beginnings arose a national cemetery, which,so far, has become the resting place of over one million people.
Glasnevin now covers over 124 acres and is the last resting place of such famous people as Daniel O'Connell himself, Michael Collins and his fiancée, Kitty Kiernan, Newmarket born, John Philpott Curran, Charles Stewart Parnell, Kevin Barry, Brendan Behan, Harry Boland, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington to mention just a few.
The cemetery contains over 800,000 unmarked graves. Daniel O' Connell wanted the poor of Dublin to have a burial place so the funerals of those with no money came from the Magdalene Laundries, the Union and the Workhouses and the poor from the tenements of Dublin.
Life was cheap in the tenements. The buildings themselves were structural death traps. It was said that even driving a nail in a wall could cause the wall to collapse. With all cooking, cleaning and heating done in the same room on an open fire of turf or coal, the risk of fire was huge. Diseases such as TB, diphtheria, smallpox, respiratory problems and typhoid caused thousands of deaths. Children had no shoes and walked in the mud and filth of the streets and often gangrene set in on cut feet. There were no drugs such as penicillin and having a diet of mostly bread and tea, they were unable to withstand such attacks and often these simple cuts proved fatal.
At this time, the poverty, injustice and hardship in Dublin was unparalleled in any other European city See less
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Fulton Sheen
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Event by Kilrush and District Historical Society and Paddy Waldron
Teach Ceoil, Grace Street, Kilrush, County Clare
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
The first KDHS lecture of the 2023-24 season, entitled "History of the O'Briens of Dromoland: a slideshow focusing mostly on the scandalous bits" will be given in the Teach Ceoil at 8pm on Tuesday 26 September by Colm Liddy.
For 300 years, the O'Briens of Dromoland were one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in County Clare. Intimately involved in several key moments of Irish history, they were also quite a bunch of interesting characters. This is their story.
Colm Liddy is a historian who likes taking photos of old ruins, even if it involves a bit of harmless trespassing. He has a regular slot on Clare FM radio talking about the history of the county and is author of several books on local subjects, including Nan Hogan (leader of Clare Cumann na mBan) and Dromoland. You can check out his mildly amusing posts on Facebook and Twitter as ‘Long Ago in County Clare'
KDHS lectures are free to members, EUR5 for non-members, payable on the night only. New members are welcome. The annual membership fee (July-June) is EUR20.
The membership form can be downloaded from our website at
http://kdhs.ie/assets/files/general/membership_form.pdf
If you are not able to attend this event, or any of our lectures, then you can participate via Zoom. Details of how to watch the lecture via Zoom are circulated by email shortly before the event to those on the Society's mailing list. There is a mailing list sign-up form at kdhs.ie
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Invites you to what seems like a social lunch but turns out to be a business pitch, you’re apt to feel used — that you were treated as an object, an instrument, instead of a human being.
Most of us avoid acting like a tool by outright treating others as such. But we can all, especially in close relationships, lose sight of the fact that others have their own ends, apart from what we want from them.
You want your kid to take over the family business. But is that what’s right for him?
You want your girlfriend to move across the country for you. But is that what’s best for her?
You want your spouse to change some trait, but what if it’s part of what makes them, them and helps carry them towards their life’s purpose?
Of course, in relationships, people have a common end, and each person makes compromises so that they can reach that place together.
But even as you journey towards this shared destination, you should never approach someone solely through the lens of “What can you do for me?” but also ask, “How can I help you become who you’re supposed to be?”
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Poetry
“Paradise”
Make an Impact
Heal By Reuben Kendall
Read "Paradise", a poem about nature and man — and the special connection shared between the two.
On a thousand wings they came
to that bent and blasted pear tree,
the slender joints of all their legs and long antennae
bending gently on the saturated air,
tasting in their strangely insect ways
the same sweet-sour promise of fallen fruit
that drew us children to the tree
on feet of flesh and bone,
on feet all stained with dust and sweat
and unafraid of stinging things
despite the red and blue and
black and yellow stripes and barbs
and biting parts of the gathered
wasps that glittered on the ground
there, beneath a roof of drooping leaves;
It was a cradle of things
we had been taught to fear,
but in that warm abundance of the air
we learned a mutual peace,
us, and the wasps, and pinstriped
soldier flies with round red eyes, and bees,
and butterflies that with their wings were painting
the scene of summer armistice
in flags of orange and yellow and green
and black; perhaps half the butterflies were black
at that house, living little books of night
lacquered with splashes of blue-green glaze
and galaxied with small white stars
sparkling on their flitting pages;
Green and black
and orange and brown and red and gray
and dusty purple like the low dark clouds on an
almost-stormy day
and yellow and white
with spots and bars and eyes
all blinking, a turmoil of eyes
that gazed between the wings
as if in imitation of the cherubim.
We gathered under the pear tree there
and gnawed half-ripened fruit
still green but sweet and sticky,
and threw the bitten cores on the teeming ground;
and we were not afraid of God, and all the
creatures thick with eyes and wings
had put away their swords,
and the air was thick with a cider smell
and heavy with the sound
of all those wings,
And all the little things on which those
flickering pinions were fitted crept
across the smooth hemispheres of rotten fruit,
slow in the abundant air,
and happy,
full and happy and
so drunk they had been gentled
and forgotten how to sting
or fight; they sipped their cider side by side
and rolled across the ground
unable to fly;
Because of this I dream of paradise
like a pear tree,
bark blasted and black and
the earth underneath uneven with rotten fruit
and a smell like booze and vinegar
and honey thick in the air;
I dream of wasps and flies and butterflies
with black wings,
and dust on all our feet,
streaked with sweat and stepping
unafraid but careful through the teeming peace,
I dream of lips sticky with nectar and the heat
and the smell of rotten fruit
and the hum and murmur of bees
and hornets fanning their wings,
I dream of paradise like this;
I have seen it,
when in its time there was enough for all,
so much sweetness the air was thick
with a rotten stink of it;
that is the smell to me
of paradise.
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1925-1927 - 1145.pdf
June 11 1927 ?
The death of Michael Enright, father of Rev. J. Enright, Sacramento, U. S. A., removes one of the oldest inhabitants of the village of Ballylongford. He will be missed by a multitude of relatives, friends and admirers. ----------------
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1928-1929 - 0724.pdf
29 June 1929
At the Irish College, Paris, his Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Collier, Lord Bishop of Ossory, conferred orders on the following students: Priesthood, Revs. T. Cussen, Limerick; W. McDonald, do.; J. Murphy, Kerry; T. Coakley, Ross. -------------------------------
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New York NY Irish American Advocate 1928-1929 - 0769.pdf
August 3
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Sister Mary Bonaventore Woulfe, daughter of the late J. P. Woulfe, Cratloe, Abbeyfeale, whose death has occurred at Abbeyfeale, was an outstanding educationist in a Community of Sisters who have raised their fine schools to a high educational standard. -------------------------------
Rev. Charles Doyle, Brooklyn, is spending his holidays in his native town, Killarney
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Paddy Waldron
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In association with the recent Rootstech conference, the lower price is available for the entire month of March by entering the relevant promo code from
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There are further discounts for those who previously bought the now outdated Y-STR analysis and wish to upgrade.
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As administrator or co-administrator of the Clancy, Durkan, Marrinan, McNamara and O'Dea surname projects and the Clare Roots project, I will organise a further USD50 discount from project general funds for men with any of these surnames or variant spellings who order or upgrade to Big Y-700, on a first-come first-served basis. Please also contact me directly by email or telephone to arrange this, or leave a comment below if you don't already have my email address so that I can send it to you privately.
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Bringing Home the Holly
As he trains for his next race, David Kissane ruminates about times gone by when Christmas outings had a different purpose but were no less gruelling.
Dec 11 2022 Bringing the Holly
By David Kissane
Bang! My father’s bike got punctured just outside the University. The University of Lisselton.
This is the first thing that comes into my mind this frosty morning as I head to Banna, driving very carefully, to do a 10K walk ahead of the national 10K road championship in Dublin next Sunday. I gingerly get out of the van and head for the safety of the sands. What a beautiful morning! Crisp and clear and honest above the head. After a week struggling with a man flu and no voice, this is like a dash to freedom with four layers of tops, all gloved up and a raw hunger. In our house, I have tried to get man flu defined as a serious ailment. With no success.
I settle into a race-walk mode and transition from flu to fluency. I recall the burst ball in the England v France World Cup quarter final last night and decide that was what spurred the memory of my father’s burst tube on a frosty day in December 1965.
You may never have heard of Lisselton. If you’ve heard of Jason Foley, 2022 GAA All-Star full back, then it may help to know he is from Lisselton in the Parish of Ballydonoghue. You may not have known there was a university in Lisselton. Most people definitely won’t know that fact. In December 1965 when my father’s front tube went bang, there was a university in Lisselton. Before MTU, Tralee. It’s a long story. Well, it’s a short story really!
There was a well-established Christmas custom in our house. On the Sunday after December 8th since he was a young man, my father would head off on his trusty Raleigh to bring home the holly. It was no short journey. From the side of Cnoc an Fhómhair to the source of the holly, Sallow Glen near Tarbert was a fair distance. Thirteen hill and dale miles there and thirteen dale and hill miles back in the dark of the December night.
He had worked on Hanlon’s farm near Sallow Glen when he was in his twenties. He fell in love around the area and the green and lush wood was to be his pre-Christmas pilgrimage every year. I always thought it was about more than holly, although holly was an essential part of the decorations at a time when Christmas trees were not a custom and fairy lights were yet to shine on our hill.
Initially my uncle Mike used to cycle with my father on these pilgrimages. My brothers had been allowed to accompany him on his Noelly journey later while I, as the youngest in the family, had to watch them go and await an eternity of their return with the red and green magic. My sisters did not qualify to share the journey. It was a man thing.
And then came the first day of December 1965 and the announcement by my father that I was to share the journey with him. I was twelve years old. I became a boy-man that day.
I had become the owner of a second-hand bike the previous summer. My brother Seán tells me that he gave me the £5 note that purchased the bike-animal from Mickeen Lynch in Killomeroe. (There are many advantages in being the baby of the family. Older siblings gave you things.)
There was a smile on Mickeen’s face when he handed over the bike. A Hercules. By name and nature. A tank of an animal made more for war than peace. So high, I had to cycle by placing one of my legs underneath the bar and leave the saddle redundant. A piece of contortionistic twisting that possible stretched muscle and bone for football and athletics in later years. A balancing act ideal for discus throwing. A weird thing to look at, though and I became a cycling legend on our hill before my time.
So the day came. The voyage of St Brendan of Ardfert to America or that of Maol Dún of Irish folklore would hardly equal the heady level of expectation on that December Sunday. Home from early mass, my father made his version of ham sandwiches. Usually my mother did all the food in our house but the holly day was all male. When I say ham sandwiches, I really mean an inch layer of butter on each slice of home-made mixed bread with three thick slices of ham nestling in between. A pig in between two bread vans, my father called it.
Off we headed down the hill after my mother had drowned us both, especially me in holy water from the blue font inside out front door. Left at the bridge and on to the better road and then “bang!” as that puncture happened. My father uttered a strange new word of a semi-religious nature that I hadn’t heard before. I was indeed growing up now that he would allow me to listen to his secret language. Luckily, the tyre/tube explosion had happened outside Moss Enright’s house. The University of Lisselton.
Every Sunday and holy days of obligation after second mass, the young bucks of the Parish of Ballydonoghue (of which Lisselton was once the centre) would gather in this small thatched intimate two-roomed cottage. The owner, Moss Enright was a blind man who never saw the changing colours of the hill above but could see into your soul. He lived alone but on Sundays his house became a rambling house for the teen and early twenties – boys and young men only. The house acquired the name of “The College”. Later it was upgraded to university status. Why? Well apparently a lot of learning went on there. Mainly about boy-girl relations. There were rumours of The News of the World being read there which had pictures and stories that were not in The Kerryman. Fellas who didn’t know certain things were asking questions and getting answers. Interesting answers. Sometimes slightly exaggerated by the wily older “lecturers”. What, where, how and when was the first word in many of the questions and the expressions “hayshed”, “liquor is quicker” and “jiggy jig” seemed to occur quite a lot. Allegedly. Mothers raised their heads and looked down their noses and rooted for their rosary beads when Moss Enright’s house was mentioned.
And the fact that young fellas went there after second mass seemed a special affront to the strict ethos of the world that we thought we knew. The culture of unspeakability was in force.
My father had a decision to make. Seek help in the den of iniquity or turn back home. I think he may have blessed himself as he made the fateful decision, quickly enough. I concurred. No knocking in those days. My father lifted the latch and walked in. I could hear the devil giggling in front of the fires of hell as we entered the small living room which was half the house. The smell of turf from Ballyegan bog in the fire to our right had a devilish aura about it. I distinctly remember a voice breaking off in the middle of a sentence that had “mini-skirt” in it and then a silence fell. Male eyes looked at my father and then at me. They ate our presence. They were all seated on the sugán chairs which Moss himself made. He could see with his carpenter’s hands.
I was about to bolt when Moss asked “Who’s there?” He guessed from the silence that we were not regulars and my father said “Moss, my bike…” and Moss immediately said “Jim Kissane, come in and sit down!” And before we knew it, four or five fellas were turning the bike upside down and applying sharp-smelling solution to the tube and lighting a match to heat it and applying a patch and soon we were on the road again.
They may have been dancing with the devil, but they could certainly fix a puncture.
As we thanked them and left, I was endowed with awe as to how the story of the mini skirt developed and what the question was that gave it substance. I did look back once. At the little sash window of wonder that looked south to Lisselton Cross. A lookback of pre-memory.
I was to look back many times like that in my life-post-Lisselton University.
Onward we pedalled, right at Gunn’s Cross and left just below it at Lyre Cross and up Boland’s Hill. Past Fitz’s shop on the right that supplied groceries to the local population of Farnastack and beyond since before the Emergency, otherwise known as World War 2. Our family had shopped there with the ration books which ensured a measure of tea and sugar and flour. Most times. People on our hill sometimes went without the basics while the world powers rattled bullets at each other. The price of neutrality, or being a small nation. There was always torching for birds at night or the turnips or the hens and ducks which were sacrificed for the bare kitchen tables.
But now it was 1965 and the world was different. We had butter and ham sandwiches to look forward to.
We had to dismount near the top of Boland’s Hill and my father reminded me of the famous local poet, Robert Leslie Boland who once resided there. A local poet who wrote like Keats when necessary. He also wrote a sonnet about piles. The only poet in the world to write a poem about piles. Apparently he had to write it while standing up. He also wrote a poem about Brown and Mageen who had owned a shop long gone by the 1960s. He was yet to be recognised as a major poet by the ones who think they know.
On the farm also on our left was the stone structure of Boland’s Loft. Another den of iniquity, my father said with a new trust in my cognitive capacity. He was telling me a story rather than preaching. Dances took place when the loft was empty. Priests tried to close it down because men and women came together there. Dancing was a dangerous thing and priests had been told by their mothers, the church and by their superiors that dancing meant hell. I tried to figure this out and concluded temporarily that all good things were sinful. It was only one pm and already life was becoming incredibly interesting.
My brain was purring as we remounted our iron horses just after Boland’s Quarry which had supplied stones for local roads. To our right was another quarry across the fields, Lyons’s Quarry.
“I worked there myself” my father said and he added that a rat had run up the leg of a worker’s trousers while he was sitting down to his lunch. “What happened then?” I asked with wide eyes in the frosty air.
“The rat came down again…there wasn’t much to see there!” he quipped and I reddened while interpreting that one.
Onward past Guhard and Tullahinell, along uncertain narrow roads where I had never been before. I was informed of a Healy man who married one of my aunts on a farm here in Tullahinell and who was buried somewhere in England. The story in between was not revealed so I nodded silently as my nose began to run with the cold. Cycling doesn’t really warm you up, I said to my father and he silently agreed.
As we cycled down towards Ahanagran Cross, the blue Shannon revealed itself to the north and soon we were in Ballylongford.
“We can’t leave with the curse of the village” my father declared as he jumped off his bike outside a public house on the right. Before I could ask the meaning of that, we had entered the pub and I was told to sit on the high stool at the bar. Another first. I distinctly recall the smell of porter and pub that pervaded. A conversation started between my father and the few others who were having an after-mass drink (what time did mass finish in Bally?) and a glass of sparkling Nash’s lemonade was placed in front of me by the barman who sensed he had another new possible customer.
With refreshed heads, we headed out of Ballylongford and onward to Sallow Glen, past Lios Laughtin Abbey where we stopped to pray for a silent moment. Before I could ask why, my father was already on his bike.
The first sight of the wood was enthralling. A place of mystery and verdant cover with all sort of possibilities and holly somewhere. In those days, it was not an issue to go through a farm or a wood and pick holly. My father had warned me that he would pick the first holly when we found it. He would ensure that he would show me how to cut it properly so that twice the amount of produce would grow on that branch next year. He had warned me also that he had come there a few rare years and found no red berry holly at all…an October frost had enticed the birds to eat every berry they could find. This challenged my confidence until we started searching.
We were searching for a long time. An hour passed as we wove through brambles, briars and branches, but all green and brown. Not a berry in sight. A briar with a sting like a wasp tore through the back of my hand as exhaustion and despair knocked on my heart’s door. My father examined the wound and spit on his hanky and rubbed the blood off. I guessed he was not impressed with my undernourished enthusiasm or my dipping stamina. I had to follow the leader to be safe. I had visions of being abandoned and lost for years in the bowels of Sallow Glen. Eating berries, if they could be found and wood bark and ciarógs. Drinking water from the stream that rippled somewhere on its way to the Shannon. Emerging from the wood as a hairy old man, unable to express myself, filthy and smelly and making animal sounds. A bit like after finishing a marathon…
And there it was! All of a sudden, a huge holly tree stood majestically before us, a riot of red and green.
“A Mhuire Mháthair!” my father exclaimed. My eyes opened to the gift which Sallow Glen had bestowed on us. He had told me stories on winter nights about the Celts worshipping trees, about Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Fianna having adventures in the great forests in the days of old. Now I believed him. I swear to God that at that moment the low December sun shone through an opening in the wood and lit up the holly tree and turned it into an altar of light, a fire of nature and a blessing and an affirmation that we had found the holy grail. He blessed himself and so did I.
I watched him take out his pen-knife and lovingly accept the small branchlet of scarlet berried wonder from the tree. It felt more like the tree was gifting it to him. Then he motioned to me to take out my little excalibur-not of a pen knife that I had bought in Behan’s shop at Lisselton Cross and gently showed me how to accept the holly. I thought I was in the presence of a spirit and was uplifted and enthralled and almost said thank you to the tree.
Years later the experience would be replicated in other sharing moments. It started in Sallow Glen.
Then , when I was still under the spell, my father said “enough”. I opened my mouth to say “more” but he raised his finger and shook it towards my brain. That was that. Like all good experiences, less was more.
The eating of the well-buttered sandwiches and the cold tea from the bottles on a fallen tree trunk, untouched by time, was magic. We ate in silence as in the bog or after a rare experience. A robin came right up to us to check out why we had invited ourselves to his/her wood. We threw a few crumbs and there was the beam of low sharp sunlight breaking through again and shining right in the little bird’s eyes. I was able to see the colours of his middle eye and I think I became a half robin at that moment. That day just kept on giving.
As I rose from the tree trunk full of everything, my father said “Hang on a minute”. I sat back down silently. He shifted his hat on his head and said emotionally “You know the graveyard in Lios Laughtin that we passed on the way here?”
“Yeah” I said lowly.
“Well”, he stated with a fierce sincerity “you have a little brother who is buried there. He was only four. I think of him when we come this way for the holly. I think he knows it too”.
I had heard silences and broken conversations at home when death had been mentioned and might even have decided not to remember such things. But I heard it now. And I was to remember it.
We went over to the bikes and secured our barts of holly on the carriers. The weight of the moment was lifted when my father failed to get his leg over the bart of holly on the carrier of the bike and fell over in a heap. Cue the laughing by us both…but I had to wait till he laughed first!
My father was never the same, but he was always himself.
Soon we were back on our bikes and heading back the thirteen starry miles home, partly by a different road. Despite the shine of a possible frost on the narrow road, a gratitude attitude pervaded my being. What threads were making up the fabric of that day! The sun set at this stage as December suns don’t hang around and a chilly breeze faced us from the north west. I felt warm inside though, happy to be here and not always wanting to be there.
When we passed Moss Enright’s later, the house was dark and Moss was asleep in his own darkness. I wondered what inner luminosity his dreams bestowed with the visions he got from the words of others. Of the visions supplied by his gifted carpenter’s hands. Or the deeper visions given only to those who are blind.
I looked up the hill and whispered to Moss, and to my lost brother, the first words that came into my head. A sky of stars, the plough pointing to the north star, lights in Kennelly’s, Linnane’s, Henchy’s, Kissane’s, Healy’s, Sullivan’s, Lynch’s, Linnane’s, Deenihan’s, Bambury’s and Barry’s houses. And Christmas was coming.
Now I am back on Banna with the 10K nearly done. People are basking in the December 2022 sun. Damien and Adrienne McLoughlin wave as they pass…a lot of athletics knowledge in the McLoughlin house. The huge success of the Irish cross country squad in the European championships in the past few hours in Turin is mentioned. Then two young women raise their arms to the sun as they pass by and kiss each other. Moss Enright would have smiled behind his closed seeing eyes. Unknown people like him helped to create the open world we have in Ireland in 2022 and beyond. It can’t be an accident that Kerry rhymes with merry! A normal Sunday for most of us and later we will say that we didn’t do much today. The writer Montagne would comment “You say you have done nothing today…have you not lived?”.
Last week we put the name of Joseph Kissane on a new headstone on the family plot. A bright and crisp Sunday lies ahead. My 69th Christmas on earth is coming too and next Sunday I will walk the walk in Dublin for our little brother Joseph who never saw his 5th Christmas.
https://listowelconnection.com/2022/12/
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The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
The good news first; wasn’t it great to see Niamh Nolan (left), daughter of Donie and Maura, the well known musical duo, competing on “The Voice” on Saturday night and getting through to the next round. She gave a fantastic performance and thoroughly deserved the praise she got from all the judges after she sang. She came across as a lovely, caring, very talented young woman who now has the world at her feet. It is no wonder she is as good as she is. Her mother Maura is a member of the Ahern family from Knockfinisk, all really talented singers and her father, Donie from Kilcolman is not only a great box player but has won an All-Ireland singing title at the Fleadh Cheoil. As they say, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” We don’t know what the future holds for her in the competition but, if she goes no further, she has put herself and West Limerick on the world stage and we should all be extremely proud of her.
The bad news was the tragic explosion in Donegal that took so many lives in a small close-knit community. So many young people losing their lives at the one time is devastating and there are no words to express how the relatives and friends must be feeling. Since the news of the explosion spread there has been a constant presence of TV cameras and reporters working 24/7 trying to get sound bites from all and sundry. In these situations they try to interview the local clergy, school teachers, heads of sporting organisations and basically, anyone who will talk to them. The national papers also have wall to wall coverage. The sheer intensity of it borders on the ghoulish. These unfortunate people need their privacy to grieve and try to come to terms with a world that has been turned upside down overnight. The last thing they need is intrusive coverage by media. I have a problem with how RTE covers tragic funerals. They should not zoom in on mourning relatives as remains are removed from the church or at the graveside when they are at their most vulnerable and don’t really want to be on the national airwaves. Next week they will have moved on to the latest story and the people of Creeslough will have been forgotten about but those affected by the awful tragedy have to live with it for the rest of their lives. The best we can do is to pray that they get the strength they need to overcome the life changing events of last week and support them in any way possible. I would ask RTE to give more thought to their coverage in future and remember that people have a right to privacy, especially at the most trying times of their lives.
Over the past days I have listened to the leaders of various political parties make speeches at their annual congresses. Liz Truss wasn’t exactly inspiring at the Tory gathering and looks like somebody who has bitten off more than she can chew. Geoffrey Donaldson spewed the same old rubbish and repeated that the DUP won’t go back into government in the North until the Northern Ireland Protocol is abolished. Their line is: unless we get what we want we will throw our toys out of the pram and scream. The most effective leaders, for me, were Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Féin and Nicola Sturgeon of the Scottish Nationalist Party. Both their parties are in a very strong position and it is just a matter of time before there will be a referendum in Scotland and a border poll in Ireland. Whether the DUP or the Tories like it the UK is about to be dismantled in the not too distant future and they have only themselves to blame. The truth is that the British couldn’t care less about Northern Ireland and would gladly walk away from it. Scotland is a different proposition being rich in natural resources and also very pro-Europe. They do have the right to self determination if the numbers stack up and I hope that they will get the referendum they so deserve.
Our leaders here seem to lack one vital ingredient – common sense. At the recent budget they announced a levy of 10c on every concrete block made in the country to help pay for the houses in the West and North West that were affected by pyrite and have to be rebuilt. This, at a time when the costs of building are soaring beggars belief. They say the building industry have to play their part in funding the Pyrite Redress Scheme but putting a levy on concrete blocks is not the way to do it. That levy will be passed on to the builder and eventually to ordinary people who are trying to build their homes. It is like giving money to help people with one hand and then taking it back off them with the other. The same applies to the carbon tax. Putting up the price of fuel is not a good ideal when prices are already multiples of what they were last year. It simply does not make sense but it is another case of the Green tail wagging the dog. The coalition seem to be afraid of the Greens and have leaned over backwards to accommodate them. There is merit in a carbon tax that will be used in the right way but now is not that time. It is no wonder Sinn Fein are dancing jigs. The way things are going they will be in power after the next election and maybe they will be a refreshing change. They may put an end to the unfair distribution of Government money such as the children’s allowance. It is galling to think that Ireland’s ultra-rich, with private helicopters, planes, yachts and holiday homes throughout the world, can walk into a Post Office once a month to collect children’s allowance. Of course they don’t even have to call to the Post Office anymore, they can have it paid into their already bloated bank accounts. They will also benefit from all the other schemes to help people with fuel bills etc. As the song goes “It’s a rich man’s world”
https://www.athea.ie/category/news/
== Athea Fishing Club
Fishing for the DENNY MULLANE CUP was contested last SUNDAY on our river GALE.
Water levels were ideal for this competition after a dry season of very low waters all year.
Our winner & Cup went to local man JOHN HEFFERNAN who had a nice selection of brown trout, the heaviest, almost tipping the scales of 2 pounds
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Tom Aherne- 28 Jul 2022 2:00 PM, from Limerick Leader July 2022.
HANLEY'S GROCERY Shop and Filling Station Creeves Cross closed for business on Friday, July 22, after nearly a century serving the people of the locality.
The owner Thomas Hanley is retiring from the business situated at the five crossroads branching towards Askeaton, Ardagh, Foynes, Rathkeale and Shanagolden. The shop began life in a thatched house owned by John Barry who was a teacher in nearby Nutgrove School which opened in 1869. Patrick Hanley and his wife Johanna Doherty who came from Rooskagh took over the shop in 1925 building up the business. Their son Tom continued to serve the people of the area until the present owner his son Thomas took over in 1981. He oversaw the construction of a newly extended premises, offering a wider choice of goods and better value. Thomas and assistant Ann worked long hours in the shop and filling station which also boosted Lottery, hardware, news agency and fuel supplies. People calling outside opening hours were always welcome and catered for in a satisfactory manner.
It was always a very busy five crossroads and a good location for a shop with the school attendance, up to its closure in 1968. The building of Alcan in the 1980s continued this trend and it was also a meeting place for both young and adults to converse. The sporting and traditional entertainment families created great life around there. Many famous people called to the shop for business reasons as salespeople and the local hunts held meetings there. It was used to advertise the activities and fundraisers for local clubs and organizations. Over its lifetime the shop has experienced the economic War, World War 2, The Emergency, rationing, numerous recessions, Brexit and Covid 19. It has witnessed the arrival of rural electrification, had the first telephone in the area(Shanagolden 10), and made the big switch from counter service to self service supermarket.
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O’Donovan Ancestry of West Cork Landlords Becher/Wrixons.
Apr 21, 2022
O’Donovan Ancestry of West Cork Landlords Becher/Wrixons.
The RCB Library houses the Welply Genealogical Collection which if I aha it right is 40 boxes
Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/20387
With the bulk of Irish probate records lodged in the Public Record Office at the Four Courts in Dublin having been destroyed in 1922 any copies of abstracts created before that date are invaluable to genealogists. Noted Cork genealogist W H Welply was, along with other members of the Society of Genealogists like Captain G S Carey, the Rev. Wallace Clare and J R Hutchinson, part of that movement started in the 1930s and 40s to recreate and provide substitutes for Irish records destroyed in 1922.
The abstracts of Irish wills and genealogical information from the Plea Rolls were presented to the Society’s document collection (then known as D.Ms) by William Henry Welply in 1921 and 1922. Subsequently these pencil notes were typed up for the Society by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, accessioned into the Society’s book collection and placed on the Irish shelves (IR/G 96-113 & 116-7) in 1933. While largely containing abstracts of wills from various testamentary Courts in Ireland and England, the abstracts to have references from court cases in the Chancery and other Equity Courts in both countries.
An index to these and other surrogate abstracts of Irish wills in the Genealogical Office was compiled and published in 1949 by Miss P Beryl Eustace in the journal Analecta Hibernica (including the reports of the Irish Manuscript Commission) vol. 17 p 147 and this work is frequently cited and reported on line.
Copies of Welply’s work can be found in various record offices including PRONI and his genealogical notes and papers were finally bequeathed to the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin after his death in 1960. The will abstracts from these papers are indexed in Volume 6 of the journal the Irish genealogist and abstracts of Irish Chancery Bills and other genealogical notes or “gleanings” at the RCBL are indexed in volume 7 of the Irish Genealogist.
Welply’s abstracts stand with other similar collections at the Society notably Lorna Rossbottom’s Collection of 4000 abstracted Irish wills also digitised and made available for members on SoG Data Online
Although of Dublin, Welply is known as a Cork genealogist. Many of his abstracts relate to the Province of Munster and by far the greater part are from Cork, however there are references to wills from most dioceses in Ireland and many for Dublin.
According to the FamilySeach wiki the abstracts from Welply’s collection relating only to families living in the Cork area were printed and published in the Albert E. Casey Collection (usually entitled “O’Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland”). Volume fourteen of this fifteen volume set contains the will abstracts for counties Cork and Kerry and covers the entire time period the Prerogative Court of Armagh was in existence (1536 -1857). The wills are indexed by every name mentioned in the abstract at the end of volume fourteen. However, the index is defective and some entries are missing. Casey’s collection was microfilmed by the Family History Library and volume 14 is on Family History Library microfilm 823809 item 2. Again, this material was printed only for the Cork area families, the remaining extracts were not published in this work.
In Volume 19 held at the RCB Library is a small note book in handwriting. The Genealogy of the Beechers/Becher is recited. Also in great detail is the genealogy of John Philpot Curran:
] (https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/JohnPhilpotCurran.php)
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Poetry
A Prayer for all Archivists
by Margie Buttitta, coordinator
Nations and institutions have archives - and you and I do, too! My personal archives go deep into my past, their vaults and drawers holding the history of my life, my mind, my heart, my relationships, my soul...Lent is a good time to go through my personal archives: to do some sorting and reviewing, to better understand the person whose history I'm living and making...Here are some suggestions for searching through your archives...
Archivist Katie McNally, from Boston CSJ Archives | Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston, shared this poem below from unknown author.
How often do I consult my archives, Lord,
the filing cabinets of my life's story?
When I go to my archives, what do I find there?
what records, reports and transcripts,
what files marked PERSONAL and CONFIDENTIAL?
Have I locked up files that need to be read,
to be aired in the breath of your mercy?
Are there files in my archives I'm slow to pull,
slow to read, slow to bring to you in prayer?
Are some of my records in need of correction,
any balance sheets in need of adjustment?
As I go through my archives,
do I focus on files of failure,
letters of losses, memoirs of grief?
Are there files of joy I need to review,
memos of good times I ought to recall,
treasure, savor and keep?
In reopening my personal files,
do I remember what's stored there is history,
that I live in the present moment,
that I need not be chained to my past?
Have I taken the time to find in my archives
the documentation, the proof,
that you've always had my back, Lord,
that your file on me is always active?
Have I read and treasured the folders of stories
of those who've befriended, helped and loved me?
Have I opened the files on the good I've done
for those I've cared for, loved and befriended?
Have I found and read with a grateful heart
the minutes and notes on my hope and trust,
my desire and efforts to grow in faith?
As I go through my archives, remind me, Lord,
how you know every fact that fills my file yet you love me still,
wanting only and always to heal and forgive, refresh and redeem me...
Lord, give me the grace, the courage I need
to open my personal archives
to my files, the permanent record,
of your kindness, compassion and love...
Amen.
1) Were I to choose 3 files from my archives this Lent
to share in prayer with God,
which files would they be?
2) Will I pray for the Spirit
to help me with files I need to open
but I know I'll be slow to read?
3) Do I trust the Lord to review my files
with understanding, healing and pardon?
4) Do I trust Jesus to expunge the files
he seals with his mercy
and free me from consulting, ever again,
all he's erased from my heart and his?
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Memorial Cards
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More Memorial Cards
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Notable Deaths 2020
Catholic Church Jan. 12 — Father Francis MacNutt, U.S. priest (94).Jan. 23 — Father Thaddeus Malanowski, U.S. priest, deputy chief of chaplains of the U.S. Army (97).Feb. 11 — Father George Coyne, U.S. priest, astronomer, director of the Vati-can Observatory (87); Ferdinand Ulrich, German philosopher (88).Feb. 15 — Virgil Dechant, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus (89).March 3 — Mother Tekla Famiglietti, ab-bess general of the Bridgettines (83).March 15 — Auxiliary Bishop Gilbert Espinosa Chávez of San Diego (87). March 18 — Sister Kathleen Appler, superior general of the Daughters of Charity (68).March 29 — Jesuit Father Joseph O’Hare, president of Fordham University (89).April 6 — Archbishop Stephen Sulyk, Ukrainian archbishop of Philadelphia (95).May 27 — Peter V. Sampo, Catholic educator, founder of Magdalen College and St. Thomas More College (89). June 5 — Bishop James Murray of Youngstown, Ohio (71).July 1 — Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, German priest and brother to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (96).July 11 — Bishop Edward Kmiec of Buffalo, New York (84).July 15 — Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile, Alabama (66).July 17 — Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski of Poland (80). July 20 — Sister Ruth Lewis, U.S. reli-gious sister (77).Sept. 2 — Cardinal Adrianus Simonis of the Netherlands (88).Sept. 5 — Cardinal Marian Jaworski of Poland (94).Sept. 11 — Father Anthony Cekada, U.S. priest, sedevacantist (69).Sept. 24 — Archbishop John Myers of Newark, New Jersey (79).Nov. 1 — Andrew Walther, president of EWTN News (45).Nov. 15 — Cardinal Raúl Vela Chiriboga of Ecuador (86). Nov. 16 — Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz
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Listowel Connection
I published the following essay in 2013. It was written for the Presentation Secondary School yearbook 1988
Kilmorna House
About 5 miles east of Listowel there once stood the great Kilmorna House. It was owned by the O’Mahoneys Kerry. George O’Mahoney was step brother to Arthur Vicars. Sir Arthur Vicars was in charge of the crown jewels when they were stolen. In 1912. When George O'Mahoney died. Kilmorna House and grounds passed on to Vicars’ sister. At once she offered Vicars the place, free of charge, for as long as he wished. Little did he know the tragedy which would follow his stay at Kilmorna House. Sir Arthur Vickers loved the house. It was everything that could be wanted by a man who adored high society.
It stood on 600 acres of the beautiful countryside in the deep west of Ireland. Three lodge houses with painted roofs stood by stonewall entrances. These lodges are still standing and are occupied by local people today. Kilmorna House was built of brick, surfaced with smooth Kerry Stone and, for most of the year, ivy climbed up its high walls. On the west side of the house a walk of lime trees paraded down to the bank of the river Feale, rich in salmon and trout meandering and flowing through the estate. From the granite terraces to the house, the smooth lawns sloped gently down through shrubberies and flower beds. The estate stretched from Shanacool Cross to Gortaglanna Cross, to the bridge which divides Duagh parish from Knockanure. From Shanacool to Kilmorna Station there were plantations of beech, oak and yew trees.
At the age of 53, Sir Arthur, to the surprise of many, married Miss Gertrude Wright of Kilurry house near Castleisland.
There were over 100 local people employed directly or indirectly by Sir Arthur, who paid them wages above the average for this backward area of Ireland. The old people of Kilmorna today still remember the huge party that was organised for the local children by Sir Arthur at Christmas. He loved to ride about the neighbouring farms on horseback. He owned the only car in the district and, once or twice a week, he would drive to Listowel, handing out produce from the Kilmorna gardens and orchards to needy families, Protestant and Catholic alike. His wife kept tiny Yorkshire terriers and in the event of the death of one of these creatures, a funeral was arranged and the workmen were expected to dress in black and look solemn.
After the theft of the crown jewels, Sir Arthur, with bitter experience of the unreliability of safes, had built a strong room to house his wife's jewels, Kilmorna’s silver ornaments, valuable books and family paintings when he was away from the house. It was natural that wild stories spread through the countryside amongst uneducated peasant farmers. Could it be, asked some, that Sir Arthur really stole the crown jewels and had hidden them in Kilmorna’s strong room? It was thought that there may have been guns stored there also. The IRA considered him to be a spy and informer. Despite many warnings he refused to leave his beloved Kilmorna.
On Monday, 14 April 1921, Sir Arthur was still in bed at 10 o'clock when his wife rushed into the room to tell him that there were men with pistols in the house. He ordered the servants to save as many valuable things as possible. His manager, Michael Murphy, told him the men said that they had only come to burn the house and that no one would be harmed.
By this time the army was on its way from Listowel, alerted by a message from Kilmorna Railway Station. The soldiers wasted precious minutes in a chase that was fruitless. In those minutes, Sir Arthur stood under the guns of the three men from the North Kerry Flying Column, his back pressed against a beech tree. It was there at 10.30 that he was shot three times in the chest and neck and twice in the head. The house had been burnt down as the men had run through it with blankets soaked in petrol.
The army wondered what might remain in the smoking ruins of Kilmorna so they blew open the strong room to find nothing. It had been empty all the time..
The O’Mahoney’s Of Kerry called in lawyers to formulate a claim for compensation against the British government, valuing Kilmorna House at around £15,000. From Listowel, people came to gaze at the great black ruin. Their children played with the dismembered pieces of suits of armour they found lying on the terrace. Some wandered amongst the tiny headstones of Lady Vicars’ canine cemetery but mostly they stood looking silently at the devastation before them.
All that remains today in Kilmorna is Parnell’s tree – an oak tree was planted by Parnell 67 years ago. He said that he hoped that we would have Home Rule in Ireland before the magpies built their nests in the tree.
(By Irene O’Keeffe and Laura Doran)
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E.coli is the most common cause of blood poisoning, with more than 40,000 cases each year in England alone, according to Prof Livermore.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-e-coli-infections-caused-by-bad-toilet-hygiene-than-undercooked-meat/
Bantry Show
https://durrushistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/bantry-agricultural-www.pdf
The Working Class Movement Library is fortunate in possessing two major collections of books on Ireland, plus an extensive collection of pamphlets and leaflets.
https://www.wcml.org.uk/our-collections/international/ireland/
Vincent Carmody wrote this for Listowel Connection
The Gleeson picture reminded me of the history of the house, I carried a mention in my 2012 book, pages 88 & 89 and more in the 2018 book, pages 66 & 67.
The house (Gleesons/Jumbos) was actually built in the 1860's by Daniel Broder for his daughter Johanna and her husband John Buckley. They had gone to America previously and John had died there. Johanna came home with her three children and operated the pub/grocery business, operating under the name, the Widow Buckley (page 89, 2012 book) Her three Buckley children were, Lar, John and Daniel.
Lar became a cooper, serving his time at Kirby's in the Square, having completed his apprentice he married Ellen Kearney and set up a cooperage in Upper Church Street in a house which belonged to the Kearney family, Been of an entrepreneurial nature, Lar was aware of the ongoing development of Upper William Street and it's potential with its closeness to the Market and the Railway Station. he purchased a site from Lord Listowel on which he built two houses, now, No's 24 and 26. He lived and worked in No. 26, the other he leased. It was in No 26 that he raised his family, his eldest Kathy, afterwards finding fame as chief cook in the White House. Laurence was an elected member of the Listowel U.D.C. in three elections between 1905 and 1918.
John Buckley, ( Lar's brother) married a Matilda Walsh from Tarbert and then went to Melbourne.
Daniel, the third of the Johanna's children died as a young boy.
In the 1870's a rail connection was developed between Limerick and Tralee. Listowel then became an important terminus due to its large fairs and vibrant butter market. One of the railway personnel that found employment in Listowel was Tipperary man (I think he was from Upperchurch ?) Timothy Gleeson. Over time he met with the Widow Buckley, first friendship, then romance and in December 1871 they married. They had five children, Edward, Julia, James, Mary and Daniel. Edward (Ned) was the man the gave the address of welcome to Parnell.
Johanna Buckley and Timothy Gleeson had a long life together, they both died within 4 days of each other, Timothy, on the 19th of December 1918, aged 76 and Johanna on the 22nd of December, aged 98.
My first cousin, Eileen (Buckley) McCaffrey, Johanna's great granddaughter once told me the her family attributed Johanna's longevity to her having a daily, morning full body dip. in a water filled large whiskey casket, which she kept for that purpose in a back shed.
In my book of 2018, page 45, I presented a poster of the sale of a cottage in Courthouse Road, this was in 1903, the seller was Daniel Broderick (Broder), aged 82.. He was the man previously mentioned as having built the house for his daughter Johanna Buckley In my comment about the poster I pointed out that Daniel Broderick, beside's his daughter having a business in the town, he also had two sons, John, who owned a public house in the premises now housing the Credit Union (he was grandfather of Fr. Tony Gaughan) and Joseph, who was grandfather of Joe Broderick and great grandfather of Diarmuid, who runs Brodericks well known hostelry down in Tay-Lane.
Original Book Cornell University, New York
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Prom the Genealogical Table given at p. 4, it is clear that Cuchonnacht na Sgoile O'Daly, who died at Clonard, in 1139, was the first man of the O'Dalys who was celebrated for his learning. Prom his period forward poetry became a profession in the family, and the Corca-Adaim sent forth poetical
professors to various parts of Ireland. About the middle of the twelfth century Eaghnall O'Daly settled in Desmond, and became chief professor of poetry to Mac Carthy, king of Desmond. Prom him, no doubt, the O'Dalys of Muintir-Bhaire, in the south-west of the County of Cork, are descended ; but their pedigree has not been preserved by the O'Clery's or Mac Pirbises, and it is to be feared that it is irrecoverably lost. Dr. O'Brien, indeed, asserts in his Irish Dictionary (voce dala),
that the O'Dalys of Munster are descended from the third son of Aenghus, king of Cashel, who was baptized by St. Patrick ;
'O'Reilly mentions twenty-eight poets of this family, and gives the first lines of upwards of one hundred poems written by them ; and we have in our own collection almost as many more which escaped his notice ; but they are chiefly religious, being the compositions of Donough Mor O'Daly, who died in 1244, and of Aenghus O'Daly surnamed " na Diadhachta" (the Pious or Divine), who flourished about the year 1670. See O'Reilly's Irish Writers, p. cxxxix. But this is one of the very many unaccountable errors with which that work abounds. The same error has been interjiolated into several modern copies of Keating's History of Ireland.
Of the O'Dalys of Muintir-Bhaire, of whom was Aenghus the Bard liuadli, some notices occur in the Pacata Hibernia, Book III., and in the MS. entitled Carbrim Notitia, which formed No. 591, of the sale catalogue of the late Lord Kings- borough's library, which are here given, that the reader may
have before him all the information respecting the sept of the O'Dalys at present accessible : —
" 1603. Fourth [of May], Odalie was convented before the Lord President and Council, and in regard it was proved that he came from the Rebells, with messages and offers to Owen Sulevan. to adhere and combine with the Enemy, which the said Owen did first reveal to Captaine Flower, Sergeant Major of the Army, and after publikely justified it to Odalie's face ; the said Daly was committed to attend his tryal at the next sessions.
LIMERICK FLEADH June 2019
WHEN THE Hawthorn tree is in blossom, and the Cuckoo calls, it is time for the annual Limerick Fleadh Cheoil, which takes place over the June Bank Holiday weekend. Athea is the venue this year, and an action-packed programme of events has been put in place for traditional music lovers by the host Comhaltas branch. A lot of outdoor events will be held and if the sun shines it promises to be a wonderful weekend. The county Fleadh has been held there eight times since 1975, and in 2001 it was chosen to host the event in a very special year celebrating 50 years of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. 2002 was the last time the pretty village by the Banks of the flowing Galey hosted the annual event.
The river that flows under the magnificent footbridge has been immortalised in song and story by many writers including the late Dan Keane. I quote the first verse from his composition titled The Galey.
By Rooska’s rugged regions the gleaming Galey rose
From marsh and heather mountain, it freely forward flows
To leave Glenduff’s black valley on its journey to the shore
As the glittering Glasha Bealtaine joins in at Glenagore.
The plaque on the footbridge reads as follows
Athea Footbridge
Dedicated to the memory of Pope Paul 11
1920-2005
Opened June 10th, 2005 by
Most Reverend Donal Murray D.D.
Athea is a pretty little village nestling at the bottom of a valley at the north side of the high ridge of Dromada which runs westwards from the Ardagh direction. Only about two miles from the Kerry border. Athea stands at an important crossroads, where the road from Glin to Abbeyfeale crosses the road from Rathkeale to Listowel. The name Athea is generally taken to derive from the Irish Ath an tSléibhe, meaning “the Ford of the High Moorland”.
As well as being a village, Athea is also a parish. Up to comparatively recent times however, the parish was not known as Athea but as Rathronan. Rathronan was a huge parish comprising, according to Lewis (Topographical Dictionary of Ireland), 18,153 statute acres. At the time Lewis speaks of (1837), 1,000 acres of the parish were under tillage. 5000 acres were meadow and rich pasture, and the remainder consisted of mountain pasture, plantation and turbary. The land in the eastern portion – towards Ardagh – was Lewis states “of good quality being based on a substratum of limestone and produces excellent crops under a good system of cultivation”.
We do not know when the village of Athea came into existence, but it appears on an estate map of 1710. At that time, it would have been a very isolated village, situated in a wild and largely inaccessible country. The road from Glin to Abbeyfeale, which now passes through it, had yet not been constructed, nor would it be for another 120 years or so. In fact, it was the building of that road that was to prove the principal factor in the development of Athea.
The famous Gaelic poet, Micheál Óg O’Longáin – whose father was a steward to the Knight of Glin in the latter part of the 18th century – was born in County Cork, but, when growing up, returned for some time to his father’s native district and opened a hedge school in the neighbourhood of Athea. Sixpence a quarter was the fee he charged his pupils; but they proved very bad payers, so much so that a very bitter and disappointed Micheál Óg penned this quatrain about them:
Miserable my business and poor and impoverished my calling
Teaching the young, and not well do they pay me
I promise ye, every immature youthful boor in the country
That “twill be long before my likes comes among them again.
Athea was noted for its athletes and two won world-wide fame. Dan Ahearne established a World record in the Hop Step and Jump event and won numerous titles in America. His younger brother Tim, a sprinter, hurdler and high-class jumper, won an Olympic gold medal in the Hop Step and Jump event in London in 1908.
A focal point in the village is their community hall which is named after Con Colbert one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising. He was born in Monalena, Castlemahon but he spent his youth in Athea. The President of Ireland Erskine Childers officially opened it on January 20th 1974.
Famous people associated with Athea include author Kevin Danaher who worked for the Irish Folklore Commission collecting folklore and recorded it in ten books. Maighréad McGrath a renowned historian who was at the forefront in promoting all Athea’s history. Domhnall De Barra a past President of Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Eireann, and a member of the present committee who are organising this year’s Fleadh.
Timmy Woulfe, a former school master, who has been involved in a positive way with most of the parish organisations. He is highly regarded in Set Dancing circles at present as a teacher and a collector of our past dances. He was a member of the Athea set dancers who won the All Ireland Senior Scór final in 1978, with his wife Nancy, Pat and Gretta Enright, Joe Murphy, Margaret Cotter, Tim O’Keeffe and Mary Barry. The following is the second verse of Pat Brosnan’s ballad about their win.
‘Twas the Scór competition of seventy-eight
Those dancers they practised both early and late
They won out the West and the County hands down
Then they went on to capture the big Munster Crown.
While the Fleadh Cheoil will be in full swing, Athea native Tom Moran will be involved in an abseil down the Red Cow Hotel in Dublin. Tom has enjoyed an action-packed life, from growing up in Knocknagorna in rural Athea, to becoming the first publican in the country to pay over one million for the Red Cow Pub in 1988. Three years ago, a stroke caused Tom to sustain a fall whilst on holiday in Spain causing a significant injury to his head. He underwent a craniotomy and spent 6 weeks in an induced coma in Carlos Haya Regional Hospital in Malaga before being air-lifted back to St James Hospital under the care of neurologist Dr Colin Doherty. He spent a total of 312 days in hospital and he has defied all odds and has made an incredible recovery.
Tom is getting stronger daily and is excited about the abseil with family members and friends. On Sunday, June 2 to mark the 3rd anniversary of his near-fatal brain injury he will abseil down the 9-storey extension of the family Hotel. Tom’s goal is to help the hospital that helped him to make a positive recovery, and his aim is to raise €200k to build a dedicated Brain Disease Resource and Research Centre at St. James’s Hospital. He will be joined by his wife Sheila and children and we wish all a safe landing.
The village of Athea at present has a lot to recommend it to visitors who will flock in their thousands to enjoy its musical heritage this weekend. They will be able to visit the Fairy Trail and admire the wall murals. The Tidy Town Committee recently erected 20 place name signs around the village, and beyond, which connect to make a lovely walk.
There is something about Athea as a venue for a Fleadh, as it has an atmosphere of its own. This is due in no small way to the hospitality of the local people who know what a Fleadh is all about and make the visitor feel at home. They are proud to host the near long week festival which attracts people from all corners of the county and beyond. Enjoy the experience.
Taken from https://www.athea.ie/
Thought
“It’s good to get away from chaos and from din,
To seek in solitude and peace the beauty that’s within,
To go into a quiet wood and breathe it’s loveliness,
To contemplate in silence those things which calm and bless”
101 Places to Pray Before You Die: A Roamin' Catholic's Guide Kindle Edition
by Thomas J. Craughwell
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: PAYING A VISIT TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
A Countess who became a Poor Clare Nun was asked to explain Her long and frequent visits to the Blessed Sacrament in the church. She replied “Oh I could stay there for ever – – What do I do? Well –
What does a beggar do when he sees a rich person? What does a sick man do when he goes to see a doctor?
What does a thirsty man do at a cooling spring? What does a starving man do at a table full of good food?”
Whenever you get a chance – Do drop into a chapel to visit the Lord
Take Holy Water reverently on your fingers and Bless yourself.
Walk towards the Tabernacle, genuflect and kneel.
Speak to the Lord in your own way – for example Jesus this is Jimmy …………
Pro Life Precession Limerick May 2018.
Church of the Sacred Heart, The Crescent, Limerick, Limerick City
Terraced cruciform-plan three-bay three-storey pediment brick church, built between 1864-67, with seven-sided apse to rear. Erected largely to the rear of two terraced late Georgian houses.
Elaborate marble altar furniture, altar rail and mosaics to the apse. High altar, dated to 1876, made in Rome. Shrine to the Sacred Heart dated to 1920. Marble altar rails dated to 1927. Sanctuary mosaic, dated to 1939, and worked by Italian craftsmen.
The Jesuits moved into the current house in 1862 and started building the church in 1864. It was begun during the rector ship of Fr. Thomas Kelly. The church was dedicated in 1869,
In 1938 Patrick Joseph Sheahan was responsible for the painting and decoration.
Weekly History Bits
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Interesting Facts about Ballyduff
1. Ballyduff or in Irish "An Baile Dubh", means the "black village".
2. The Rattoo Round Tower is the only complete round tower in Kerry.
3. On 1 November 1920, the Black and Tans shot local man, John Houlihan, dead and burned the creamery to the ground.
4. The first motor car – A Chambers - was brought to Ballyduff in 1907 by Dr. Pierce.
5. Canon William Ferris, the author of "The Gaelic Commonwealth" and many other works came from Ballyduff.
6. The Boys of Ballyduff song was written by P.J. Sheehy on the occasion of the Ballyduff/Crossabeg All-Ireland Hurling final in 1891.
7. Rattoo Heritage museum is located in the village. The museum contains local and archaeological discoveries about North Kerry.
8. John Mahony (1863–1943) was a famous Ballyduff Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with the Kerry senior inter-county team in the 1890s and captained Kerry to their only All-Ireland hurling title in 1891.
9. RTE television, the first station in Ireland, went on the air on the 31st December 1961. Not many people in Ballyduff had television sets at this time so people gathered nightly on the street in the village to watch a television which was switched on in the window of Kearney’s shop!
10. The Church in Ballyduff village was first opened on June 20th 1837 and was called after SS. Peter and Paul.
11. Rahela Grotto was built in 1957 which was known as the Marian year in honour of Holy Mary. Babies that were born in the Marian Year, whether they were boys or girls, had to be given the name Mary-even if it was a second name!
12. Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh (Well of Sunday‟s King) is a Grotto and Holy Well on the Ladies Walk. It is also known as the Well of Lepers.
13. Tom Dunne, Glounerdalive was the first local man to ride a bicycle (Penny Farthing) through the village!
14. Tobar a Leighis is the grotto and Holy well near the Cashen. The water from this well is said to heal your mind as well as your body! It is said that a Golden fish can be seen in the well by people who are cured! St.Bridget visited this well when she came to Kerry.
15. Ladies used to walk everyday from the Great House in Rattoo to another Great house in Ballyhorgan. In those days, there was a law that stated that the people living on the road that linked the two houses were not allowed to have windows facing the road so they could look at the ladies walking by! This is why the road is now known as Ladies Walk!!
16. Kerry were represented by a Ballyduff team when they first won the All-Ireland Hurling Championship in 1891
17. The library in Ballybunion was moved brick-by-brick from the church in Rattoo in 1952!
18. Edmund Barrett , a very successful sports-man was born in Ballyduff in 1880. In 1908, at the Olympic Games held in London, he won a bronze medal in wrestling, and also won a gold medal with the London tug-of-war team. He also won an All-Ireland gold medal with London in hurling against Cork in 1901. He is the only Irishman to win two gold medals.
19. Butter was once made in The Ballyduff Creamery. The Churn was installed in 1958 and the butter maker until 1971 was John McCarthy.
20. There was an underground tunnel called a Suterrain linking Rattoo Great House and Ballyhorhan House.
Tralee antiquarian Rev. Arthur Blennerhassett Rowan and future bishop of Limerick Rev. Charles Graves were collaborators in archaeology and antiquarianism in Kerry from the 1840s. They also had a scholarly interest in the Irish language fifty years before Douglas Hyde founded the Gaelic League.
From the 1850s Graves leased a summer house for himself and his family at Parknasilla. It was Rowan who introduced Graves to the young Dingle antiquarian Richard Hitchcock, who assisted Graves in his work of collecting and deciphering the Ogham stones of Kerry, which abounded in West Kerry in particular but also in the south of the County.
BUILDINGS: http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/
Muckross House, labelled "Muckross Abbey" on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1841; published 1846), is said to be the fourth house erected by successive generations of the Herbert family on lands granted (1586) in the Killarney district by Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603; r. 1558-1603). Writing in 1837 Samuel Lewis commented that 'Muckross House, the seat of H.A. [Henry Arthur] Herbert, Esq., is situated in a demesne of enchanting beauty. The old mansion has been taken down, and is about to be rebuilt in a style according more with the beauty of the grounds, and the numerous interesting objects in the immediate vicinity: the road through the peninsula of Muckross and across Brickeen bridge to the island of that name, will be so improved as to form a delightful drive through the whole of this romantic demesne' (Lewis 1837 II, 127).
Diamond Jubilee
Few of us can have missed that Queen Elizabeth II officially celebrates sixty years as Queen in June. She ascended to the throne on 6th February 1952 with her Coronation taking place on 2nd June 1953. The central activities take place, 2 - 5 June 2012, throughout the United Kingdom and across the Commonwealth.
Royal Jubilees
The celebration of royal jubilees really began in the reign of George III. The beginning of the fiftieth year of his reign, in October 1809, was marked both in Britain and the Colonies. The King and other members of the Royal Family attended a private service in Windsor and a grand fête and firework display at Frogmore. In London the Lord Mayor and Corporation processed to St Paul's Cathedral for a service of thanksgiving before holding a dinner at the Mansion House.
The only other British monarch to celebrate both Golden and Diamond Jubilees (besides the current Queen) was Queen Victoria in 1887 and 1897 respectively. Her jubilee celebrations followed the same format as the present Queen’s with processions, military reviews, garden parties, concerts, banquets, receptions, investitures and a Thanksgiving Service at St Paul’s Cathedral. Public celebrations such as the lighting of beacons all over Britain, locally-held parties and concerts in honour of the Queen also took place. The idea of staging a Silver Jubilee was first conceived in 1935 for the reign of King George V.
The record for the longest reigning British Monarch goes to Queen Victoria (63 years 216 days), Queen Elizabeth is due to overtake her in September 2015 when she will also become the longest reigning female monarch in world history.
The longest reigning monarch ever is Sobhuza II of Swaziland who ruled 82 years, 254 days. The longest reigning European monarch was King Louis XIV of France whose reign lasted a ‘mere’ seventy-two years, 110 days.
The longest claimed reign was that of James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II), whose pretence lasted 64 years, 106 days as the Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The world’s longest reigning living ruler is King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who has reigned for almost 66 years.
St. Patrick's Breastplate:
I bind to myself today
The strong virtue of the Invocation of the Trinity:
I believe the Trinity in the Unity
The Creator of the Universe.
I bind to myself today
The virtue of the Incarnation of Christ with His Baptism,
The virtue of His crucifixion with His burial,
The virtue of His Resurrection with His Ascension,
The virtue of His coming on the Judgement Day.
I bind to myself today
The virtue of the love of seraphim,
In the obedience of angels,
In the hope of resurrection unto reward,
In prayers of Patriarchs,
In predictions of Prophets,
In preaching of Apostles,
In faith of Confessors,
In purity of holy Virgins,
In deeds of righteous men.
I bind to myself today
The power of Heaven,
The light of the sun,
The brightness of the moon,
The splendour of fire,
The flashing of lightning,
The swiftness of wind,
The depth of sea,
The stability of earth,
The compactness of rocks.
I bind to myself today
God's Power to guide me,
God's Might to uphold me,
God's Wisdom to teach me,
God's Eye to watch over me,
God's Ear to hear me,
God's Word to give me speech,
God's Hand to guide me,
God's Way to lie before me,
God's Shield to shelter me,
God's Host to secure me,
Against the snares of demons,
Against the seductions of vices,
Against the lusts of nature,
Against everyone who meditates injury to me,
Whether far or near,
Whether few or with many.
I invoke today all these virtues
Against every hostile merciless power
Which may assail my body and my soul,
Against the incantations of false prophets,
Against the black laws of heathenism,
Against the false laws of heresy,
Against the deceits of idolatry,
Against the spells of women, and smiths, and druids,
Against every knowledge that binds the soul of man.
Christ, protect me today
Against every poison, against burning,
Against drowning, against death-wound,
That I may receive abundant reward.
Christ with me, Christ before me,
Christ behind me, Christ within me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ at my right, Christ at my left,
Christ in the fort,
Christ in the chariot seat,
Christ in the poop [deck],
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
I bind to myself today
The strong virtue of an invocation of the Trinity,
I believe the Trinity in the Unity
The Creator of the Universe.
December 2009.
THOUGHT: The greatest gift you will ever receive will never be found under a Christmas tree. It is far too valuable to be stored in any other place but in the depths of your heart.
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UNIVERSITY of the People established by the UN aim is free on line courses, it is reported that President Obama is considering state assisted free on Line University.
BITS and Pieces from Athea Journal 2009; Dr. Kieran Murphy, recalls 25 years living in Athea , over the period 500 have died, he recalls ten pubs in Athea and their owners, the busy creamery and
four petrol pumps, . Surgery began with himself and his wife answering the phone and door and now a team of eight deliver the practice to the community.
An unusual story of Fr Brosnan who was buried three times is recounted in another article, he was born at Currow in 1833 and died March 1st 1884; Timmy Woulfe looks back at clothes and how people
wore their peak caps; All the local sports clubs report their activities, GAA received a substantial grant from Minister O Donoghue to provide dressing rooms, several GAA pictures are included ,
Athea Ladies Football Club are to be congratulated for winning Senior Girls Championship nine times in a row ;Athea United have a synthetic training pitch costing E110,000 in `07; Community Games
have a page; Athea Comhaltas remembers the loss of valued members and Scor celebrated 40th anniversary in the Parish; Racing exploits of Ryan Farquhar is recalled; Pat Brosnan remembers the great
story teller Mickey Liston; While George Langan researches his family tree; Joe Quill gives lists of notable GAA events and players while Pat T Ahern revives memories of the great Carrigkerry
hurling team; Athea and district natives recalled includes Sean McDermott his mother Collins, Garry McMahon and his singing, Pa Fitzgerald recalls his life, Tom Fitzgerald reflects on Cowboys and
Indians, Brendan Buckley a Knockanure is remembered in his obituary, Mary T Mulvihill recounts a trip to the Great Wall of China.
Last but not least a little bit of history and the location of Athea submitted by Nora Hurley.
SOME Civil War Women Prisoners; Names selected from "No Ordinary Women" by Sinead McCoole;
Nora Brick, Cathy Cantillon, Hannah and Mary Clifford, Mary Fleming, Annie Foley, Dorothy Hanifin, Pauline Hassett, Nora G Hurley, Mary Mac Sweeney, Hanna Moynihan, Bridie and Hannah O Connor,
Eileen O Shea, Jo and Margaret Power, Agnes Sheehy, Annie Sinnot and Annette Tyndall, all of Tralee; Nora Brosnan, Katie Daly, Peg Fitzgerald and Elizabeth O Donnell, of Castlegregory; Sheila
Nagle, Castlemaine; Teresa O Connell, Cahirdaniel; Kate Breen and Nora Spillane, Killarney; Julia Hassett, Kerry; S. McInerney, Kilkee; Margaret Morrissey, Limerick;
BIRTHS, Marriages and some deaths can be found at Births www.irishgenealogy.ie
KERRYMAN Dec. 18th 1909, snippets; A branch of the Irish Industrial Development Association was formed in Tralee, it was attended by priests, politicians, builders, traders, and ordinary people
were welcomed to join, the society was to be non political, non sectarian, its motto self reliance.
Death took place of Mrs Charles O Hanlon of Upper William Street, Listowel, her late husband was a victualler, and she was survived by a son Michael O Hanlon and daughter Mrs Kelliher.
Death took place of James J Long who was born at Dingle and was a reporter for various papers for 50 years, he started the Kerry Vindicator in Tralee, and the paper was sold to Mr T Harrington
M.P. later. Mr Long was President of the Kerry Tenants Association also. Over the years he was reporter with, Munster News, the Freeman's Journal, in the early 60s he was the only Catholic in the
Belfast Press, he served in Kilkenny and Clonmel also and was jailed for 3 months for his outspoken views on land and nationalism. Death took place at Cheshire Mass.USA, Of Maurice O Carroll aged
93 years of Irremore, he was predeceased sixteen years ago by his wife Ellen Healy of Killarney. The Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland were insulted by a report in the Sinn Fein
(daily) for giving publicity to the Rathmines grinder and adding their own remarks. Listowel court fined Michael O Hanlon of Lixnaw for not keeping his horse under control and not having his name
and residence painted on the car. Tom Griffin had no light on his car and a woman was seeking alimony from her husband both were young. Fitzmaurice widow had a row with her in laws and also with
Keane, Brennan and Quirke. One in-law was playing the concertina on the night her husband died, later a dance was also held next door to her and she was not invited, several smart comments were
made during the trial. Jerh Bunyan was drunk and disorderly when he hit long John Carroll the bailiff with his umbrella, he was fined 5s. A man names Costelloe was demanding possession of a house
at Banemore where an old lady Julia O Connor lived.
CALENDAR: Scoil Chorp Chriost Knockanure N.S. now has a school calendar with pupil's picture, copies available from students and staff.
BOOK: Peig Sayers stories are can now be read and listened to in a CD, Peig was born in 1873.
BALLYGUILTENANE Journal is treasured by locals, among the articles this year are, This and That and another thing, by Joe Quille, the article includes excuses for speeding and the effects of
alcohol on important occasions; Bridie Quille gives a list of Saints and Patrons; Louie Byrne gives a glossary of old Irish sayings, Jumping the Fire and an insight into Charlotte O Brien; John
Mangan is remembered by Tom Aherne; Donal O Connor and Dr. Brendan A Barrett gives us some of their poetry; Patrick Lynch recalls his first All Ireland and a West Limerick Historical Tour; George
Langan recalls his Langan ancestors; Kearney's Bakery behind the scenes work is recalled; Tim Griffin presents a fine selection of high quality photos from both sides of the Shannon; John O
Donoghue has a collection of wise words; We all knew Mickey Liston, he receives a nice tribute in the magazine, several local items are also included too numerous to mention.
Athea Journal is also available now, as usual it has many articles of interest to the wider community.
RECESSION: according to press reports, Ballybunion Golf Course were paid for about 8,000 green fees rounds this year, not so long ago they had 24,000 yearly green fee rounds. Teagasc had about
1,500 staff, now they have more pensioners on their books than workers; the average staff pension is about E26,500 per year. Researchers sponsored by the EU are to receive E1.9 million over 3
years to bridge the gap between climate change scientists and costal zone decision makers. It is reported because of cut backs 44,000 who were able to receive dental treatment in Kerry under
cover of PRSI will from Jan. `10 only receive an examination; Good news is that E800,000 worth of cheese will be distributed by charities over the Christmas period.
200,000 people who had their savings in bank shares have lost nearly everything, property owners have value drop by nearly half, while people with guaranteed pensions and cash have gained during
this recession.
BALLYGUILTENANE Journal is now in its 32 year, three of the founding members of the journal are still active, and they are now joined by over forty other contributors. Next week I hope to give a
flavour of the magazine, it must be noted that Pat Brosnan a stalwart contributor began as a writer of the Lyreacrompane Notes for the Kerryman in 1949. His pen pushing for the Kerryman and
various publications not counting his music and social activities over the past 60 years is enormous.
KNOCKNAGOSHEL Shamrock Then and Now is available locally. The 82 page booklet is ideal for forwarding to relatives for Christmas.
Among the articles in this years edition is the story of Seon Burns and his great strength; Duagh pitch and the match played in the Munster Final played in Feb. 1892 at the Barley Inch between
Ballyduff and Treaty Stone. Luke Keane selects Kerry Team of Knocknagoshel players, also included are many football pictures. Deaths are recorded, including historic events in the lives of
Catherine Doody who died aged 96 in 2008 and oldest man aged 96 Liam Herlihy of Knocknagoshel. US veterans are also remembered. Knocknagoshel men who took part in the International Clay shoot in
Scotland and the Abbeyfeale Vet who went to a rugby match and had to play for Castleisland in 1958 because they were short of a man. Of local interest in 1949 Maynooth collection amounted in
Moyvane to £230, Listowel £713 and Duagh £110.
Boar premiums in 1935 were paid to Tom Connell Ballygolouge, Ed. Carmody Knockanure and Michael Collins Moyvane. Older members will be delighted to see a picture of Jerome Murphy, his stall and
onlookers.
KERRYMAN December 44th 1909, Snippets; Mr M. J. Flavin M.P. was busy in Parliament asking questions like, when will Bealkilla near Listowel be vested in the tenants, was the Hussey Estate near
Duagh offered for sale to the Estate Commissioners, were the agreements signed by the tenants to purchase the Foster Fitzgerald estate in Newtowndillon lodged with the Estates Commissioners,
there was a question about flooding and a fund set aside to maintain banks, what was the agent Mr Crosbie position. Mr Flavin was told that eighteen evicted tenants on the Miss Fitzmaurice
property near Duagh were reinstated. I was reported that Neville Stack a London Financier was going the contest Mr Flavins seat in the January elections, (note Mr Stack was a Knockanure man).
Register of voters in Kerry contained 27,258 names in 1910 which was 16 more than 1909. Killarney Urban Council were attempting to regulate boating traffic on the lakes. Fr Alphonsus O.F.M.
Killarney celebrated his golden jubilee. Mr M Griffin Secretary of the GAA County Board chaired a meeting of Listowel GAA Club, J. J. Hayes was appointed delegate to the County Board, other
business at the meeting including forming a Harrier Club and physical culture class. Fare to the All Ireland by train was 6s 6d. The marriage has been arranged between James Sherrard the grandson
of S. M. Hussey Edenburn and Priscilla youngest daughter of the late Eager Harding of Boston USA. Dr Florence Ann Gallagher and Dr. Mary Theresa Gallagher were medical officers. Mr. Edward Spring
an old staunched Nationalist died. It was proposed to give Edward O Connor who came from America with his wife and family £10 to help him emigrate to New Zealand, he was in the sanatorium and a
long time in hospital. A meeting was going to be held at Tarbert Parochial Hall to appoint collectors for the Parnell Monument.
TRAIL: Appalachian Trail run from Maine to Georgia is 2,200 miles long, a new trail opened recently is the Lebanon Mountain Trail which is 272 miles long and takes 26 days to traverse it. Any
hope of a similar trail to attract the physically active tourist to this country.
NEW Moon on Dec. 16th, the Winter Solstice is on 21st, remember partial Eclipse of the Moon on Thursday Dec. 31st starting at 6.52pm.
EXTRACTS from Kerryman Nov. 13th 1909; Listowel Board of Guardians and Rural District Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for workhouse reform. It was noted that the commission for
workhouse reform was formed seven years ago and reported five years ago and it is two years since the English commission reported on the matter.442 labourers cottages were provided up to the 1906
act, the exchequer grant of £444-15-7 applied to 310 cottages, leaving no share for 132 cottages under 1905 scheme. Maximum compensation for TB cow ordered to be slaughtered was £10, only six in
a hundred cows would qualify for payment Extracts from Kerryman of Nov. 20th 1909; Two shillings in the Pound was remuneration for collector of rents for cottage plots and tenants. Opening of
Parnell Memorial Hall discussed. Jack Shanahan tailor of Ballylongford was following in the footsteps of his father and J.J. Kennelly of Cloth Hall, Listowel was advertising his ability as a
clerical tailor. Miss A Bolster qualified nurse lately of the Coombe Hospital, Dublin, was now prepared to attend maternity cases. R. H. McCarthy of Listowel promised London market prices for
game. Editorial in the Kerryman complained that people are not honouring, Alan, Larkin and O Brien.
Match; All Ireland Football Semi-Final between Kerry and Ballina was to be played at Ennis, Cork had objected to Kerry under six headings following their recent contest.
LIMERICK Chronicle, snippets can be viewed on line at Limerick Library page; Items, in L.C, Limerick Lunatic Asylum had 242 men and 245 women inmates on 14th Dec. 1879; L.C. Feb, 2nd 1882 reports
that £209,000 was withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday, money scarce, bankers calling in their loans, bank charges 7 to 8% for accommodation; Married 29th April 1880, Carrol eldest son of
Late Carrol Naish J.P. Ballycullen to Theodora Ann Maria only daughter of Robert Keating Sheehy of Fortwilliam, Cork, she was granddaughter of the late Burke White Esq., J.P. Timothy O Connell,
Limerick, was mentioned as sub inspector on 9th Feb. 1884; Fun was being made by the paper of the questions asked of a 10 year old that was joining the army as a drummer boy, among the questions
asked was he married, he replied defiantly not, more at L.C. 29th April 1880; L.C. 19th Aug. 1880, Tuesday in Listowel a thunderstorm followed by rain made the river thick with bog stuff, killing
salmon which were later sold in hampers in the town.
JOURNAL: Ballydonoghue Parish magazine 2009 will be launched in Lisselton on Dec. 11th at 8pm, copies are in the shops now. Many articles are of interest to locals including; Paddy Drury by Jin
Finnerty; Eamonn Kissane T. D. of Moyvane by his daughter Brideen Kiernan; Local born Gerard Moran writes on the weather; Jubilee of Canon Linnane; Our retired Parish Priest Fr Nolan, give a
glimpse of some old documents, including one letter from a Fr. James Murphy who went to be educated in Toulouse in 1770, ( grandparents of Fr Nolan's mother and father are buried in Knockanure),
the Journal contains over 200 pages of articles and pictures.
FULL Moon this month is on the 2nd and 31st of December. Recent revelations about the promoters of Global Warming cast a cloud over much of what we hear from the experts. You can read for
yourself on the internet hundreds of leaked emails.
November `09
TAIGEEN'S Farewell a film written, produced and directed by local man Leo Finucane was launched at Tintean Theatre in Ballybunion on Friday night Nov. 20th `09 last, the car park was full at 8pm,
it was great to see all the cast and the general public mixing in the foyer of the theatre. The film itself brought to light the many ways cute country people could cheat each other and beat the
book educated, plenty of fun was woven into the film including, music, singing and old time storytelling. The cast included; Francis and Patsy Kennedy, John Sheehan, Jerry Murphy, Larry Burke,
Billy Keane, Donal Woulfe, Paudie Mulvihill, John McMahon, Eileen Cronin, Jill McCarthy, Mary O Keefe, Margaret Freeman, Angela Ryan, Denis Mahony, Peggy Walsh, Eileen Fitzgerald, Helen Quaid.
Cameramen were Denis O Carroll and Tom Lenihan. The film was edited by Shane Finucane. Local man Tom Moloney designed the cover.
WEDDING took place at Newtownsandes Church on Nov. 16th 1909 of Timothy Kennelly second son of Dan Kennelly of Kilbaha and Mary Jane Hanrahan second daughter of John M Hanrahan of Kilbaha. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Fr. Lyne C.C.. The couple left by train from Listowel for their honeymoon. Above wedding reported in Kerryman of Nov. 20th 1909.
Death took place on Nov. 2nd 1909 of John Johnny Curtin of Brosna, Newsagent and Shopkeeper, he was born 63 years ago at Ahane Brosna, Johnny was one of sixteen children all of whom reached
adulthood. His father was John Denis Curtin called Uncle John. Chief mourners were Maggie, Hannah and Mary daughters, Maurice and Dan Curtin brothers, his oldest brother Postmaster at Rockchapel
was unable to attend due to illness. His sisters were Mrs J Horgan senior Knockane; Mrs Sullivan Mountcollins; Mrs Connell Do; Mrs Quirke Do; Mrs Cullinne, Reacasla and Mrs O Connor of
Innishannon, Co Cork.
Above death taken from Kerryman of Nov. 13th 1909.
DEATH: Camillo Cibin who died on October 25th `2009 was aged 83, is survived by his wife, Maria, and their three children, was a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great. He was the
papal bodyguard who caught Mehmet Ali Agca who was being held by a nun and others after trying to assassinate Pope John Paul 11 on May 13th 1981,in 1982 he was also involved in saving the Pope at
Fatima from an attack. His Parish Priest encouraged him to join the papal guards.
HOAX: Media claim that the Pope condemned Halloween was a hoax by an English paper; It was copied by lazy reporters around the world.
GREAT to see all the wind turbines being erected just across the border in Athea, reduction in red tape should bring cheaper and more sustainable power to our country, which badly needs a new form of patriotism.
KERRYMAN 1909: Oct. 16th 1909 reported a 50% increase in the number attending various classed attending Tralee Technical Instruction school; Listowel court had many charged with being drunk, at a later court Patrick Drury was described as a good customer, cant keep him from getting drunk, transfer of licence from Miss M Hartnett, William Street to Mr T Walsh, Miss Mary Namack got transfer of licence from Mr James Walsh house in Church Street once occupied by the late Patrick Hennessy; Death in Cork of Rev J Larkin P.P. Lixnaw, died suddenly John J Harnett son of John Harnett and Ellen Galvin and brother of William Harnett a native of Abbeyfeale, died in New York, Hannah Dunn nee Curtin wife of Denis Dunn of Castleisland; Cattle Fair prices in Listowel, calves 20s to £4-10s, yearlings £5-5s to £7- 10s, three year olds from £9 to £11, milch cows from £10 to £15, lambs from £1to £2 each, beef 50s to 56s per cwt, lamb 6d to 7dper lb. Kerryman on Nov. 6th 1909, Sunday last exciting match between Craughdarrig and Ballybunion, score Craughdarrig 2-7 and Ballybunion 0-4; Death of Crimean Veteran Thomas O Connor aged over 80 years, he served in the old 88th Regiment in the Connought Rangers, also served in India, was on pension of 1/6 per day, he died in Tralee Workhouse. Death of Mr Patrick Moran a native of Dromerin, Listowel, he was brother of Mr E Moran UDC, Mr John Moran Sub-manager Cleary and Co. Dublin, Chief mourners were Mrs Moran (Mother), Edmond, Denis and John brothers; Mrs Eggleston, Mrs Leahy, Mrs faley, Mrs Scanlon, Mrs Whelan and Miss Ellie Moran sisters, among the wreaths was one from the Young Ireland Society. Sympathy was expressed to Vice Chairman Thomas O Connell of Listowel Old age pension committee on the death of his wife, outrage was expressed also at the painting of Hay Grabber on the wall of Canon Davis house. Thomas Downes a candidate for clerkship at Cahirciveen was described as the great grandson of the Liberator, he also volunteered to fight in the Boer War.
PRISONERS: The following is a sample of local prisoners taken from a list at Tralee Library, weight, height crime and other details recorded; 1886 list includes, Bridget Griffin age 17 assault; Pat Horan born Lismore; Ellen and Margaret Foran assault, of Duagh; Scanlon of Glin stole property worth £180;James Buckley of Listowel and Duagh, drunk; John McCarthy of Newtownsandes failed to vaccinate child; Margaret Cusack drunk; Matt Enright Carpenter; John Brunnell age 36 a nailer; Dan Joe Murphy aged 20 years; Morgan Neville drunk; John Collins shoemaker; Christopher Julian aged 55 born at Murhur; 1887 List; Dan Connor mason, John Stack and Edward Nash all of Ballylongford; Pat Mulvihill aged 35 and Michael Goulding aged 34 of Knockanure; John Burns of Duagh and Listowel; Jer Lyons, Duagh assaulted policeman aged 19years; Richard Stack of Doon; John Shine aged 42 of Athea; Catherine Kennelly aged 17 of Moybella abusive language; Colin Lydon aged 19 of Galway and Tarbert; Tom Connors aged 23, and 6ft, Dan Walsh aged 24, Edward Ryan aged 24 all of Tarbert; also of Tarbert/Ballylongford, John Stack, Cunningham, and Dan Scanlon a dealer; Maurice Fitzmaurice aged 36, 5ft 9inches grey eyes, brown hair, fresh complexion, suspected felony, was with Patrick Pierce a painter.
KERRY Champion of Nov. 22nd 1952 reports: Dedication of Listowel Rectory by the Bishop of Limerick assisted by Rev J.M. Wallace, Rector of Listowel; Lovely Listowel League held a dance at Walsh's Ballroom; Listowel Greyhound Track sold; Several Knocknagoshel farmers were charged before a court with having unlicensed bulls; Book review of No Other Law the story of General Liam Lynch; Fr Sean Ryle of Listowel was leaving for his mission in Japan, there are now 26 Columbans in Japan.
CUBA: Father Bryan Oliver Walsh an Irish priest and helpers brought 14,048 unaccompanied Cuban minors to the United States from December 1960 to October 1962. Parents were suspicious that Castro may send the children away for indoctrination.
CRUCIFIXES; The case was brought by a woman near Venice to get the crucifixes removed from Italian schools but her complaints were rejected by Italian judicial officials. The European court awarded her $7,400 in damages.
PRISON: In the USA many states permit children as young as thirteen or fourteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment with no opportunity for parole. It cost about $20,000-$28,000 to house an inmate for one year in the US.
OWN Funeral: A Brazilian bricklayer supposedly killed in a car crash turned up at his own funeral recently. Relations of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified his body after a car crash in southern Brazil.
POPES Intentions for November, "That all the men and women in the world, especially those who have responsibilities in the field of politics and economics, may never fail in their commitment to safeguard creation". His mission intention is: "That believers in the different religions, through the testimony of their lives and fraternal dialogue, may clearly demonstrate that the name of God is a bearer of peace".
KERRYMAN extracts; November 13th 1909, Marriage at Killorglin Church of Dr. Michael O Sullivan of the Square, Listowel and Mollie C O Sullivan daughter of the late Michael O Sullivan and Mrs D O
Donovan of the Square Killorglin. Rev. M. McCarthy O Connor P.P. Ballymacelligott uncle of the groom officiated, assisted by four other priests, the bride was attended by her cousins Monica
McCrohan and Mai Curtayne , the groom was attended by Dr. McNamara, after the reception the couple left in a motor car for Dublin, then travelled to London, Rome and Switzerland. Concert was held
at the Temperance Hall in Newtownsandes under the auspices of the Sacred Heart Total Abstinence League on Sunday last, the Rev. P Garvey Presided, also present were Rev T >J. LyneC.C.
Newtownsandes and the Rev. P.J. Brennan C.C. Duagh, the hall was crowded and abstainers were prominent. Fr Garvey in his powerful rich baritone sang the Wests Asleep, Miss Broderick sang Romany
Lass, Fr Brennan sang When You and I are Dead, six little children sang Down in a Deep and Shady Bed, they were trained by Mrs O Callaghan. Other songs, My Old Kentucky Home Good Night and Home
Sweet Home. Miss Annie Nolan sang Aileen Alannah. Priests sang, I Saw from the Beach. Misses May O Callaghan and Ellie Kearney sang A Little Tin Soldier. Four year old Nora O Callaghan brought
the house down when she sang, There is a nice little Clock .Messrs Cronin and Casey of Knockanure contributed greatly with their Gramophone and Messrs Connor and Lynch exhibited step dancing.
Lighting was by 100 candlepower lamp presented to the society by Mr J. McKenna of Listowel. Mr Keating presented the staging. The completion and equipment of the hall was principally due to Tom P
Culhane Sec. Timothy Scanlon of Leitrim, Dan O Connor, Maurice Walsh, Pat Bunce, John Moloney, Joseph Enright, Dan Keating, Michael Garvey, John O Connor, John O Connor Junior, and John Mahony. A
concert was held at Castledrum, it started at 4.45pm and Fr T O Shea Presided. Died in New York Michael Francis Morrissey aged 56 years leaving a wife Hanora O Mahony and four children, they had
a dry goods store at Allentown, PA and later in New York, Hanora was sister of John O Mahony of Brosna.
October `09
SAD to hear that Ballyloughran Outdoor Pursuits Centre is closing.
DAIRY farmer in New Zealand owes $200 million.
GOLD: Newmarket Co-Op Creamery has won gold with its cheddar cheese in its category at the International Cheese Awards at Nantwich in Cheshire, there were 2,655 entrants in the competition from all over the world, and the prestigious awards began in 1897.
GREEN: Sustainable Energy Ireland in association with Teagasc is presenting a one-day conference in Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore, Co Offaly on Thursday 22nd October that will focuses on a technology that is revolutionising the possibilities for organic material - Anaerobic Digestion.
IT spending in Ireland will reach E2.9 billion this year, according to Microsoft and they forecast a growth in spending per year of 0.4% up to 2013.
KERRYMAN of Oct. 2nd 1909: John Dillane was recommended by Mr Waters to prepare fences for the two day Listowel Races; Fr James Troy son of John Troy of Church Street , Listowel receives lavish praise, he was then serving at Farmington Iowa, he was educated at St Michael's Listowel, ordained at Carlow and then went to Davenport; Prices tendered to the Board of Guardians, First Quality Flour £13-9s-10p per ton, Guinness XX porter 1s and 5.5d per doz, Lemonade 1s per doz, Whiskey 24s and 5d per gallon, Tobacco 3s per lb, Eggs 11.5pence per doz, Butter 11.5 pence per lb, Men's Caps 7s and 11d per doz, Women's handkerchief cost c 2s and 10 pence, Mid-wife salary£25. Tralee Sports, some results, 16 lb shot, first and second Listowel natives J J Foley and J Stokes also mentioned J J Walsh of Listowel, Kirwin and O Brien of Abbeyfeale, Histon and Sheehy of Listowel.
BLACK Thursday 24th Oct. 1929, about 13 million shares dumped in a day, Black Monday Wall Street Crash with a further 16 million shares dumped.
O CONNELL Tribute Day was fixed for Oct. 26th 1834 for the year 1834.
MORE: Patrick Kavanagh born Oct 21st 1904, he died 30th Nov. 1967; Florence Nightingale left England with 36 nurses for the Crimea on 21st Oct. 1854. News report Oct 31st 1964 said that 1.107 sheep died in ship on way to Kuwait, there were 6,000 sheep on board at the time; Lamass and Lynch had discussions with British Prime minister about the 15% tariff on industrial imports into the UK.
THOUGHT; "The things you own end up owning you." -Tyler Durden
DISASTERS: India has a million people affected by floods, Philippines typhoon affects 3.9 million, Typhoon in Vietnam leaves 300,000 in need, Earth Quake hits Western Sumatra and tidal wave devastate shore of Samoan Islands and we complain about small things.
NEWTOWNSANDES site at geocities is closing down; the new site is at http://newtownsandes.jimdo.com/
KERRYMAN: Of August 28th1909, has an advertisement from St Brendan's in Killarney who have scholarships of £10 raising to £15 in the second year, it states that a student who has a good knowledge of Irish and Mathematics can hardly fail to receive a scholarship; Other items in the paper include the sale of creamery plant and machinery at Derrico near Ballyduff on Sept. 2nd 1909; GAA Tournament, Football and hurling in aid of Ballyheigue Church on Sept. 5th 1909; Suffragettes had a meeting at Hudson's Bridge in Dingle, Mrs Cousins Treasurer of the Irish Women's Franchise League spoke for 45 minutes; Editorial in the Kerryman remarked on the lack of amusements at our health resorts. Kerryman of 25th Sept. 1909 reports murder of water bailiff, there is a second murder in the October edition; Pierce Mahony a former member of the Irish Parliamentary Party was accused of evicting a Kerry tenant, but it was his son Cork Herald in Dublin Castle who done the deed; District Inspector McAuley who was retiring was described by Mr McElligott as one of natures gentlemen; Listowel court, Mathew James a corner boy was fined 10s 6d for abusive language, Mary Mournane fined 2/6 for abusive language, Jer Galvin of Ballyhennessy summonsed for assault, case dismissed, Gowran of Knocknacrohy failed to pay rent.
MONSTRANCE was presented to Fatima Sanctuary by Bishop Finbar Ryan on behalf of the people of Ireland on Oct. 7th 1949, it was made of donated jewellery was 42 niches high, 17 lbs weight, had 1,750 jewels, 450 pilgrims were with Bishop Ryan on the pilgrimage.
LOOKING for relations of William Stack b. Moyvane 1863, died Elphin Co. Roscommon 1895, his father was John he married Mary Ellen Barry born1864 at Ballingar, Co. Roscommon. They had 4 children 1890-94, John William, Mary Francis, Richard Eugene, Hanoria Josephine.
THOUGHT When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.
MISSION Sunday Oct. 18th, at present there is about 1981 Irish missionaries abroad.
BOOK: The third volume of the Great Book of Kerry is now available, Sean Quinlan of Ballyduff has spent many years working on the project.
PHENOMENON: On the 6th May 1788. Between two and three in the afternoon, a water-spout of considerable diameter made its appearance between Adare and Barnakill-bridge in the county of Limerick in Ireland. This phenomenon, which is rather uncommon in Ireland, is described to have been of a spiral storm, exhibiting a very dazzling brightness, and attended with a ???? somewhat resembling the clash of arms. It is added that the beasts of the field appeared terrified, and that several crows, as if suddenly killed, dropped to the earth. At the same hour a very heavy rain (accompanied with loud thunder and unusually vivid flashes of lightning) fell in the city and liberties of Limerick, but did not extend beyond them. We have not heard whether the bursting of the water-spout occasioned any particular injury to the part where it fell, story from The Times London, Middlesex, England May 20, 1788.
FLIGHT: Sophie Pierce who came from Newcastle West set World Record by climbing to 17,000 ft in her plane on October 8th 1927, two years later she went to 23,000 ft, she died aged 42 years. The Wright Brothers made first flight in 1903. Harry Ferguson made his own plane and had his first flight recorded in Ireland in 1909, in August 1910 he flew tree miles winning a prize of £100, Bleriot crossed the English Channel in 1909, Lilian Bland in 1910 was the first woman to fly in Ireland in her plane called Mayfly, first flight across the Irish Sea was made by Wilson of Kilkenny in 1912, Alcock and Brown made the first transatlantic crossing in 1919. Some things never change the American government spent $70,000 up to 1903 trying to make a flying machine and failed, while the Wright brothers who were cycle mechanics, in their spare time succeeded.
The European Investment Bank will loan E500m to ESB and EirGrid. E300m will go towards the Interconnector with Wales. ESB will receive up to E200m in loans to erect its 248MW of wind power capacity by 2012, costing E475m.
Oct 28th `2009
FOUND in Belfast a 320 year old account book of Paymaster General Thomas Coningsby who kept a record of the 35,000 army of King William III who came to Ireland to fight his uncle and father-in-law James II.
KERRYMAN of October 18th 1909, Snippets; Police evicted at Firies, they were in the house for 15 years; Richard Shaughnessy one of oldest citizens of Listowel died, he was in good health a few days prior to his death, he was over 80 years, chief mourners were sons Jim, Jack, Dick and Paddy. Julia O Shaughnessy and Mrs M Fitzgerald were his daughters, Dick O Shaughnessy grandson, John Enright of Ballingrane and F. T. Enright of Ballybunion were nephews, cousins included Jeremiah Kennelly RDC, Bedford, James Kennelly of Woodford and John Dee of Gortnaminch. The Gaelic League passed a vote of sympathy to the bereaved family, Mr Richard Shaughnessy Junior was a member, the chairman was Mr M Keane and the secretary was Mr Griffin, other members at the Gaelic League meeting were, Hayes, Leahy, Collins, Cronin, Walsh and Fitzmaurice. Monsignor O Riordan of the Irish College in Rome visited Killorglin. Mrs Moriarty came home to visit relations; she was wife of Mr P J Moriarty Gaelic scholar and worker in Bute Montana. Kerry priests Fr O Connor and Fr O Sullivan were in Queensland, Australia collecting for the Cathedral in Killarney. Sale at the Arms Hotel in Listowel of Thorough bred horse and Polo ponies on Tuesday 26th of Oct. 1909.Emigration from Ireland in 1908 was 23,295, in the first nine months of 1909, emigrants amounted to 24,067, of whom 6,000 had their passage paid for them to America. Dry weather and scarcity of water reduced river fishing, the American fish market was glutted last year with Irish mackerel some of which is still on hands in America.
GAA founded Nov. 1st 1884.
September `09 Notes
FULL Moon on October 4th; The fine weather brought some respite to everyone, after a summer of rain and very little sunshine. Australia had the worst dust storm in 70 years last week.
NEW Creche costing E1.2 million was opened recently at IT Tralee, it can cater for up to 50 children.
ARCHIVES: The Northern Ireland records office is due to close for nine months from Sept. 2010, to facilitate moving to a new building.
PLOUGHING Championship in Athy attracted many from the Parish last week; there were a host of stands funded by the taxpayers which did not attract many visitors despite the availability of oceans of useful literature. The EU stand had an expensive camera to record your questions and put them on a website. A look at Athy and district; their GAA Club was founded in 1887, Rugby Club established 1879/80 Season; Athy is a designated Heritage Town, where they hold a Tuesday market, among the amenities is the river Barrow and Canal which was completed in 1791, Geraldine Park, Golf Club formed in 1906 ; Gordon Bennett Motor rally was held there in 1903; their population is 9,000.The first Town Charter dates from 16th centaury. Much more information at visitkildare.ie
RUN away from David Kennedy, living in Oxford Township,
Chester County, an Irish Servant, named Thomas Cane, late from Ireland; the Fellow can read and write, about 5 Feet high, of a fair Complexion, short fair Hair, and speaks with a Tone: Had on,
when he went away, a Thickset Coat and Jacket, of a dark Colour, the Coat has remarkable long Skirts, Calf skin
Breeches, much dirtied, Worsted Stockings, brown and white; he had also a Pair of short Petticoat Trowsers, with a Seam round each Thigh, half worn Shoes, large Copper Buckles, a Felt Hat, half
worn. Said Fellow came in a Dublin Vessel last May. All Masters of Vessels are forbid to carry him off. Whoever takes up and secures said Servant, so as his Master may have him again, shall have
Five Pounds Reward, paid by David Kennedy, jun. Advertisement in The Pennsylvania Gazette of September 22, 1763;
SENATOR to replace the late Edward Kennedy is Paul Kirk a grand-nephew of Cardinal William H. O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston from 1907 until his death in 1944. Kirk's grandfather was an older brother of the Cardinal.
EUCHARISTIC Congress 2010 theme "The Eucharist: Communion with Christ and with one another." Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said the theme was chosen because the celebration of the congress coincides with the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Vatican Council II. The first International Eucharistic Congress was held by Pope Leo XIII in Lille, France in 1881. Dublin had a congress in 1932 which is still recalled by the few who still remember the event.
REDEDICATION of St. Carthage Church, Brosna by Bishop Bill Murphy will take place on Friday, September 25 at 8pm.Then on Sunday, September 27th, the St. John's Tralee Gregorian Choir directed by local born Fr. Pat Ahern will present a choral recital to celebrate the Rededication of the Church.
ENVIRONMENT: This country and the EU are constantly placing extra environmental regulations on their people, while they allow another group build nearly 240 nuclear reactors around the world between now and 2030, in Belgium more than half the electricity consumed at present is of nuclear origin; who talks about the 100,000 tons of radioactive waste dumped into the Atlantic up to 1982.
HISTORY: As we celebrate the races in, let us not forget that they were held in |Moyvane in 1857, before moving to Listowel, part of the Island Course in Listowel was owned by the Connell, Sullivan and Leary families; Bishop John E Fitzmaurice the 4th Bishop of Erie Diocese was appointed on Sept. 19th 1899, he was born at Moyvane in 1840; John McCormick became an American Citizen in 1919; Fitzmaurice and McIntosh left Baldonnel in the Princess Xenia on Sept. 16th 1929 trying to fly to America, bad weather forced them to abandon the attempt , so they landed at Ballybunion, attracting crowds of onlookers; During the Second World War 43, 000 from the South and 38,000 from the North fought and worked on the British side; Convict Ships for Australia departed our shores at the start of September to take advantage of Trade Winds; Michael Fitzgerald aged 59 years died on September 7th 1899 from injuries received in a riding accident at Kumara, New Zealand, he had relations at Coolkeragh; Bon Succours Sisters came to Tralee on Sept. 8th 1879; Cromwell and his army laid siege to Drogheda on Sept. 11th 1649; List made on 14th Sept. 1799 of people who supported and were against the Union with England was published in the Limerick Chronicle in January 1800;
ALL IRELAND: Kerry V Louth played in the All-Ireland Gaelic Football Final of 1909. It was the first time Louth were Leinster Champions since 1887, half time Kerry 1-03 to Louth 0-3, Kerry won 1-9 to 0-6. Kerry Team were; T. Costello (Captain), M. McCarthy, F.J. Cronin, C. Healy, J. O`Sullivan, M. J. Quinlan, T. Rice, D. Breen, R. Fitzgerald, P. Dillon, C. Murphy, E. Spillane, J. Skinner, J. Mullane, J. Kennely, B. O` Connor and J. McCarthy. The attendance was 15,000.On their way to the All Ireland Kerry beat Tipperary, then played Limerick in Listowel, score 2-18 to 1-02.Kerry had a disputed match with Cork which was given to Kerry following an objection, but Kerry insisted in playing Cork again and beat them on November 7th in Cork City. Before winning the All Ireland in 1909 Kerry had lost two All Ireland finals in a row.
2009 National Ploughing Championships take place on the lands of Eamon and Willie Fennin, Cardenton, Athy Co Kildare on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th September `09.The National Ploughing Association was founded in Athy in 1931 and the first ever National Championships was held in Coursetown, Athy.
NEW Moon on the 18th; 40 years after Pete Conrad and Alan Bean set foot on the moon, a high-resolution picture taken recently show footprints and equipment,left by the men. At long last we have glorious weather and long may it continue. It was a disturbing sight to watch a herd of hungry cows bellowing for grass in a wet bare field at the beginning of September, suddenly high pressure changed everything. Round Bales are being made of any available fodder, in preparation for an expected long winter.
DANCE Record: For the first time Tralee has been invited to take part in Culture Night along with 12 other cities and towns across the country. The aim of Culture Night is to provide a new and imaginative way for people to participate in cultural life in all its diversity, free of charge and free from time pressures. Culture Night we are challenging the people of Tralee, Kerry, Munster and beyond to set a Guinness World Record for the longest Irish dancing line ever formed. 10,037.
RECORD: Britain's longest married couple, Frank and Anita Milford met at a YMCA dance in Plymouth, Devon, in 1926 and they married two years later. Their advice for a long marriage was, "give and take" and making up after rows with a kiss and cuddle. Both were 101 years old when Frank died last week. September 5th marked the 40th anniversary of the day when California's Governor Ronald Reagan signed the US, first "no-fault" divorce law.
SCHOOL: The Jesuits in Limerick are celebrating 150 years of teaching in the City. The Georgia Professional Standards Commission, suspended the licence of two teachers also voted to investigate at least seven educators in three other elementary schools for their part in what state officials say was a ploy to change students' answers on fifth-grade math tests in summer 2008 to improve their scores and avoid federal sanctions.
HISTORY of Irelands School Inspectorate 1831 to 2008 compiled by Tarbert man John Coolahan is now available.
NEWTOWNSANDES: Sample of names from Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Paris, Bourbon Co., KY: Gregory, Ellen, wife of George Gregory, of New Townsans, County Kerry,
Ireland, d. Nov. 4, 1871 age 65 years 6 mos. Gregory, Ellen, wife of George Gregory, b. in County Kerry, Ireland, d. June 1, 1884, age 45 ; Gregory, George, b. County Kerry, Ireland, d. May 18, 1914 age 80; Gregory, Margaret, dau. of Ellen and George Gregory, 1873; Gregory, Thomas 1877-1903;
Griffin, Bridget, wife of John Griffin, of the Parrish Mayfayte, County Limerick, Ireland, July 3, 1865 age 30;
McQuinn, Bridget, d. Sept. 2, 1854, age 9 ;
McQuinn, Catherine, b. in County Kerry, Ireland, d. Dec. 15, 1884, age 75;McQuinn, Catherine, 1809-1885 (wife of James McQuinn; McQuinn, Cornelius, child of James McQuinn (father of Newtown Sans, County Kerry, Ireland) child d. Nov. 1, 1858, age 16 ; McQuinn, James of Newtown, Sans, County Kerry, Ireland, d. May 13, 1861, age 63 ; McQuinn, James, 1798-1861; McQuinn, Margaret, d. Sept. 3, 1854, age 2 years 6 mo.; Walsh, John, 1820-1896; Welsh, John R., native of Newton Sandy, County Kerry, Ireland. d. Sept. 24, 1865, age about 53. Erected by son Patrick Welsh; Welsh, Patrick, 1834-1896
Welch, John, native of Co. Kerry, Ireland, 1856-1886
Welch, John M., native of County Kerry, Ireland 1839-1889
Welch, Julia, a native of Co. Kerry, Ireland. 1848-1914
Welsh, Willie, son of J. H. and J. Doyle, 1889-1889
(Note: Four Welsh records on one stone)
Welsh, John 1842-1903; Welsh, Mary 1843-1912 ;
Welsh, Elizabeth, b. June 1, 1857, d. Aug. 18, 1938 ;
Welsh, Margaret, 1860-1942; Welsh, Mary, dau of T. & B. Welch, b. Oct. 10, 1866 d. Sept. 20, 1877; Welsh, Timothy, b. Mar. 15, 1825 d. Mar. 6, 1908; Welsh, William, born in county Limerick, Ireland, Mar. 15, 1850 d. Mar 11, 1885; Welsh, Bettie, 1872-1906, Compiled by Eades Family.
FACT: Domestic violence in the U.S. results in more injuries that require medical treatment than rape, auto accidents, and muggings combined.
OLYMPIC Park near Stratford, preparation for the 2012 Games is the largest operational construction project at present in Europe.
GOODYEAR Snippets: 1898: Frank A. Seiberling borrowed $3,500 for the down-payment on an abandoned strawboard factory establishing founding The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
1906: produced the world's first easily detachable straight-side, the Quick Detachable Tire. "the tire that made Goodyear."
1907: Henry Ford bought 1,200 sets of tires for the Model T,
1916: acquires its first rubber plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia; Goodyear becomes the world's largest tire company
1919: develops the first bullet-proof gas tanks for airplanes.
1932: adopts a 6-hour workday to address the high level of unemployment caused by Depression
1954: The world's first passenger conveyor belt, a Goodyear creation, carries patrons of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad up an incline of 227 feet,
1970: Goodyear had the first tires on moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission.
1976: chemical division develops the first plastic beverage bottles, made out of shatterproof polyester resin
2001: GT3 tire debuts as the first tire made from a compound derived from corn.
2009: Helen and John Taylor break a Guinness World Record driving a car equipped with Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max tires. The couple's three-week, 9,000+ mile drive through all 48 contiguous states in the U.S. The Taylors broke the drive's previous fuel economy record of 58.82 miles per gallon with a final MPG average of 67.90.
ENERGY: A new record for the amount of electricity generated by Ireland's wind farms has been achieved, recently peaked at 999 MW with enough to supply over 650,000 homes. At times, the amount of wind power met a record 39% of national electricity demand. There are 429 energy from waste plants in Europe, energy from waste market is worth €3.1 billion in Europe.
From 1st September old-style incandescent bulbs go out of production. The phasing out will start with 100-watt bulbs. WORLD War 11: European leaders marked the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II on September 1st `09.
THOUGHT: Deep within there is a glorious and terrible empty space - loneliness. It is out of sight, pushing us to our best and to our worst. Behind every effort to make a friend - Behind ambition - Behind pride - Behind gossip - Behind memories of your mother's kitchen - Loneliness. We were created with the space carefully planted in our hearts. God created us with the loneliness that moves the heart to others, the loneliness that moves the heart at last to God. Is it what moves us to become whole, David Kidd
CELEBRATION: Fr Bill Carroll invites all to the celebration of his Golden Jubilee to the priesthood at St. Brendan's church, Upper Rock Street in Tralee on Thursday, September 10th at 7.30pm. He hopes on Tuesday September 8th to start a walk at 6am from the Dominican Church in Tralee to the Blessed Well in Ballyheigue arriving in time for 11am mass celebrated by Bishop Murphy.
MEDIA: Locals Fr Pat Ahern and Gabriel Fitzmaurice were on Radio Kerry last week. Up and coming film maker Gerard Barrett had his film about Gortaglanna shown at Tintean on Friday night last August 28th. The hall was packed to capacity, all were appreciative of the films ability to follow faithfully the account given by Con Dee, most people know the song The Valley of Knockanure but few realised the background. The official version of what happened at Gortaglanna was a complete fabrication, there was no ambush, the men that were shot were unarmed, but the activities of the IRA at the time provoked the Tans.
FULL Moon on Sept. 4th.Bog grass is taking on its autumn colour and the heather has lovely purple flowers. Apples, blackberries and haws are edible. The heavy rain will put severe strain on grass supply from now on, many are fearful of another long winter. ISS will be visible over Ireland from 6th to 22nd of Sept; 400th Anniversary of Galileo's Telescope this week, it had 8 times magnification. Mars is the bright star rising in the East at 1am this week.
HISTORY: Sir John Benn Walsh on August 17th 1849 recorded in his diary that potato blight infected whole field at O Connors land in Derrindaff. Knock Apparition occurred on a wet Thursday 21st of August 1879. Bon Secours Sisters arrived in Tralee on Sept. 8th 1879. Paddy O Callaghan N.T. died on August 23rd 1969. Sept 1st 1939 Germany invaded Poland, England and France declares war on Germany Sept. 3rd 1939. IRISH Deserters in New Zealand, John Danaher Rathkeale, was in Otengo in 1863; John Daly Killarney a waiter was at Bay Islands 1856; George Pickford was at Napier 1855; John Dunden was at Auckland in 1862.
MONEY: Canada Company remittances 1844 Tom O Connor Toronto £1-17-6 to his brother John O Connor Island Macloughra. P.O. Listowel; 1843 remittances John McEllistrum to Mrs Julia McEllistrum of Tralee; John O Connor of Toronto to Mrs Ellen O Connor his mother Listowel, townland Island.
HAPPY Retirement to Ned O Callaghan who has spent nearly 30 years teaching at St Joseph's Secondary School, Abbeyfeale, he will celebrate at Fr. Casey Club House on Friday night April 16th
DIARY of Roland Davies April 2nd 1690; Parliament has voted to supply his Majesty with £1,200,000, but resolved rot yet on how to raise it. The Danes are almost all in Ireland, which so
disheartened the Irish that King James issued a proclamation that no man should report that they were landed on pain of death: John Wesley in his diary April 5th 1790, reports the Mr Sellers has
a Newfoundland dog and a old raven who have fallen deeply in love with each other and never desire to be apart, the bird can bark like the dog and hoards food for the dog when he is away; Francis
Kilvert in his diary, April 7th 1872 wrote Colonel Pearson gave us some of his Crimean reminiscences, most of the English officers could speak French. Hardly one of the French officers could
speak English. The Russian officers could speak both French and English fluently. A French officer came one night to tell old General Brown about an attack the following day, the French man was
grimacing and bowing trying to pass on his message, but the old General could not understand a word of what was being said, eventually to get rid of the Frenchman he ordered that he be given a
glass of sherry and sent on his way. Perhaps a hundred lives depended on the message.
GOOD FRIDAY: Kerryman of April 4th 1925 reports that exemption was granted at Listowel court to 41 traders in Listowel to open on Good Friday from 11am to 5pmwhish was market day.
SHROUD of Turin will be on exhibition till April 15th 2010. The Holy Shroud was transferred from Turin during World War II to keep it out of reach of Adolph Hitler, according to a Benedictine
priest. Monks in Avellino, Italy stored the relic until 1946.
OLDEST man in Ireland Jon Guerin of Lixnaw and Ballyeigh aged 110 years according to the Kerry Evening Post dated 18th April 1900.
FIRST Woman to fly solo from England to Australia was Amy Johnson on 24th April 1930.
SPACE: Discovery Shuttle had 3 are women on board; former high school teacher, women robotic arm expert and a Japanese woman. Space Flight Engineer on board the Space Station is also a woman;
this is the first time that four women were in space together.
STUDY by Cornell University found that people often feel buyer's remorse when they purchase something, in contrast after a hike or a game of softball in the park; there are rarely negative
feelings with these experiences.
GAA:
Players:
9 - Henry Shefflin
9 - Noel Hickey
9 - Noel Skehan
8 - Christy Ring
8 - Denis Moran
8 - Eddie Brennan
8 - Frank Cummins
8 - Ger Power
8 - John Doyle
8 - Mikey Sheehy
8 - Páidí Ó Sé
8 - Pat Spillane
7 - Charlie Nelligan
7 - Danno Keeffe
7 - Eoin Liston
7 - Jack O'Shea
7 - J. J. Delaney
7 - John O'Keeffe
7 - Michael Kavanagh
7 - Mick Spillane
7 - Seán Walsh
7 - Tommy Walsh
6 - Con Brosnan
6 - Darragh Ó Sé
6 - Derek Lyng
6 - Eoin Larkin
6 - Jackie Tyrell
6 - Jack Lynch
6 - Jimmy Barry Murphy
6 - Joe Barrett
6 - John Egan
6 - Martin Comerford
6 - Michael Fennelly
6 - Mick Spillane
6 - Paudie Lynch
6 - Richie Power
6 - Tommy Doyle
5 - Brian Cody
5 - Brian Hogan
5 - Dick Fitzgerald
5 - Gega O'Connor
5 - James McGarry
5 - Jimmy Deenihan
5 - Joe Keohane
5 - John Joe Landers
5 - Johnny Culloty
5 - Johnny Walsh
5 - Mick O'Connell
5 - Miko Doyle
5 - Ollie Walsh
5 - Pat Henderson
5 - Tim Kennelly
5 - Tim Landers
5 - Tomás Ó Sé
5 - Tom O'Sullivan
Updated list:
Managers:
9 - Brian Cody
8 - Eamonn O'Sullivan
8 - Mick O'Dwyer
7 - Tommy Maher
4 - Seán Boylan
Players:
9 - Henry Shefflin
9 - Noel Hickey
9 - Noel Skehan
8 - Christy Ring
8 - Denis Moran
8 - Eddie Brennan
8 - Ger Power
8 - John Doyle
8 - Mikey Sheehy
8 - Páidí Ó Sé
8 - Pat Spillane
7 - Jack O'Shea
7 - Seán Walsh
6 - Jimmy Barry Murphy
6 - Mick Spillane
5 - Ollie Walsh
5 - Pat Henderson
4 - Tom Spillane
9 - Brian Cody
8 - Eamonn O'Sullivan
8 - Mick O'Dwyer
7 - Tommy Maher
** Players:
9 - Henry Shefflin (Kilkenny/H)
9 - Noel Hickey (Kilkenny/H) ***
9 - Noel Skehan (Kilkenny/H) ***
8 - Christy Ring (Cork/H)
8 - Denis Moran (Kerry/F)
8 - Eddie Brennan (Kilkenny/H) ***
8 - Frank Cummins (Kilkenny/H) ***
8 - Ger Power (Kerry/F)
8 - J. J. Delaney (Kilkenny/H)
8 - John Doyle (Tipperary/H)
8 - Michael Kavanagh (Kilkenny/H) ***
8 - Mikey Sheehy (Kerry/F)
8 - Páidí Ó Sé (Kerry/F)
8 - Pat Spillane (Kerry/F) ***
8 - P. J. Ryan (Kilkenny/H) ***
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Ladies
Managers:
6 - Eamonn Ryan
**** Players:
15 - Kathleen Mills (Dublin/Camogie)
13 - Úna O'Connor (Dublin/Camogie)
12 - Angela Downey (Kilkenny/Camogie)
12 - Mary O'Connor (Cork/Camogie/Football)
GAA Medals;
Kerry Mike:
When we won our first 3 All Irelands in 1903,1904 and 1909 it was Tralee Mitchels who represented Kerry, how many of those players were actually from Rock Street the home turf of Austin Stacks I dont know, but Austin Stack himself played in the first 2 years captaining Kerry in 1904. It was 17-a-side back then too.
1903 - KERRY (TRALEE MITCHELS): Thady O’Gorman (Captain), Paddy Dillon, Jamesey O’Gorman, Maurice McCarthy, Austin Stack, John Buckley, Con Healy, C. Ryan, Charlie Duggan, Dick Fitzgerald, T O’Sullivan, Denny Kissane, Willie Lynch, P. McCarthy, Roddy Kirwan, Denny Breen, T.Sugrue.
1904 - KERRY (TRALEE MITCHELS): Thady O’Gorman, Jamesey O’Gorman, Billy Lynch, John Thomas Fitzgerald, P. Cahill, John Buckley, J. Myers, Dan McCarthy, Denny Curran, Austin Stack (Captain), Maurice McCarthy, Denny Breen, Denny Kissane, F O’Sullivan, Con Healy, Paddy Dillon goal, Roddy Kirwan
1909 - KERRY (MITCHELS): Paddy Dillon, Denny Breen, Maurice McCarthy, Tom Costelloe (Captain), Con Healy, J. McCarthy, J. Lawlor, F.Cronin, E. Spillane, C. Murphy, B.O'Connor, P. Kennelly, Paddy Mullane, Dick Fitzgerald, Johnny Skinner, M.J. Quinlan, J. O’Sullivan.
RYAN served in Moyvane
http://irishgenealogyqueries.yuku.com/reply/2239/Re-Ryan-Healy-Photos#.UcxKlaymXHo
His cousin won 6 All Ireland Medals with Kerry