Thursday 5 December 2019

New Kerry Jersey, Gap of Dunloe and a Teacher Contract in 1923 and Christmas Parking

A Christmas Robin

Photo; Chris Grayson

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Do you Like the New Jersey?



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The Gap of Dunloe from old Kerry Photos




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Holycross and Sive


Billy Keane visited Holycross recently to lend his support to the local drama group who chose the John B. Keane classic, Sive. for their 2019 production.

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I missed this very special event in St. John's. Poetry from the Pulpit was a great successs with local minor celebrities reading their favourite poems. I think this is our own recently retired Vicar Joe.

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The Good Old Days

Patrick O'Shea shared this on Facebook. It is from the US but I dont know if terms this side of the pond were much better.


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It's No Ordinary Panto....It's a Listowel Panto



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Christmas Parking in Listowel....Good News


Free parking arrangements will be put in place in Listowel in the run up to Christmas.
Beginning this Saturday, parking will be free in the town for up to two hours every day; this will continue until January 1st.
Parking on Sundays will continue to be free, as usual, during this period.

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Christmas Customs from the Dúchas Folklore Collection

Old Times Christmas
Long ago the people were not as well fed as they are now days. They had to buy meal when there was no flour, and then wet the meal with boiling water and in this way they made the bread. This bread was eaten with a cup of butter milk. There were no ovens or pans for baking but a griddle hung over the fire by means of the pot hanger and in this way the bread was baked in squares. Latter on in years they got a querns for grinding oats, and when it was ground the sieved was got and this used to keep all the shells of the oats, and leave the oaten meal through. They used also make bread from this and this bread was called oaten meal bread. This was given to the people for their dinner. The supper the people used to have that time was to get a fist full of oaten meal and put it in a wooden cup of butter milk and stir it with a piece of a stick. The people had nothing for Christmas but “stampy”. It was made a few day before Christmas. They would get the potatoes, and cut them up with a grater. Then they would get a flannel cloth and put the cut potatoes into it. Then they would twist the cloth and the water would come out though the cloth. Then it would be put down to bake, and this would be eaten on Christmas morning.
Collector, Jerry Moloney- Informant, Maurice Shanahan, Address, Liscullane, Co. Kerry.

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