Signs in The Square, Sheahan's Cottage Finuge; Seán MacCarthy Festival and a hard working postman

Beautiful snap of a colourful kingfisher by Christopher Grayson

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Believe it or Not

I found this on the internet. Could it be true?

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A Seán MacCarthy Festival  Memory

Tom O'Connell sent us this great photo. No year but the musicians are

L to R

Richard Allen,  Eddie Brown, Brendan Hartnett, Michael Hayes who was recently 80. 

 In case you are wondering about the wellingtons, the session was held after a bog walk.

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Were you in Second Year in St. Michael's in 1979?

Photo from centenary commemorative book

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More from Listowel Town Square in lockdown in May 2020

These big signs on the bus shelter outside the church were later changed to advertisements for the charity, Alone. Alone looks after the welfare of older citizens.

Covid 19 has been particularly hard on older people like me. We have had to stay home, and shun all human interaction. Many of our friends in nursing homes have become very ill and many have died. It was a feature of the last pandemic, The Spanish Flu, that it killed many young people. Covid 19 took the elderly.

Social distancing guidelines make funerals very hard for the bereaved. Only 10 mourners are allowed to attend the funeral mass. Grief, for so many, has to be postponed.

Quilters'

Intreo Office

ETB at The Butler Centre

Two notices on  Marshall Macauley window

Bank of Ireland

Horgan Properties

This business, Fealeside Financial Services is new to me. Maybe it had just opened when it had to  close.

Bike Shops are allowed to open.

Postman, Pat Hickey is very busy these times delivering all the online orders and he is also now a paperboy as many people chose to get The Kerryman and Kerry's Eye delivered by An Post.

Fred Chute at work on Jet's, Bank of Ireland Refurb and Molly in Cork

Trees in Listowel Pitch and Putt course

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Still Number One

I saw Fred on his ladder painting one of the many pieces of  individual wall art that grace Listowel.

A master at work.

Fred's cousin, Liz, sent a request for a smile especially for her the next time I saw Fred painting. Here it is Liz, a smile especially for you from William St., Listowel.

In case any of the rest of you are getting any ideas, I can't make a habit of going around town disturbing people at their work and asking them to smile at their cousins in America.

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Bank of Ireland

I haven't called for a few days. This was how it looked last time I visited.

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Molly at Home

Molly is back in Cork with her family.

 Her girls are learning to touch type. Molly is waiting for them to get done and come and play.

She likes a walk and a little dip.

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A legendary Ballybunion Piper

This is Ballybunion at nighttime. Once upon a time a lone piper used to walk these shores at sunset composing tunes.


According to local lore, Tom McCarthy, the famous Ballybunion piper, was born in 1799. His favourite playing spot was the Castle Green but he also was said to walk along the cliffs listening to the wild life and replicating the sounds of Nature in his music.

He passed away in 1904 after a lifetime of composing and playing music.


After his death, his pipes became the stuff of legend, one man claiming that they played by themselves with no musician about.


Finally the pipes vanished and nobody has any idea where they are to this day.


(I read this story in Danny Houlihan's Ballybunion, an Illustrated History)

Painting the Community Centre, Changes at Bank of Ireland and Olive Stack's mural

Morning in Listowel Pitch and Putt course

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Molly is still enjoying her trip to Listowel

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Painting work continues at Lisatowel Community centre

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I Met the Hannons in The Square

Danny, Eileen and Maurice out for a stroll in the July sunshine

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Aspects of The Listowel Arms Hotel

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Changes at Bank of Ireland

They're changing the interior layout of the bank. I'll keep you posted.

Olive Stack's mural is still intact.

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The First of the Beal Spuds

Photo: Ita Hannon

Do you remember when the first of the new potatoes would come into the grocery shop and the grocer would boil a muller of them and plonk them outside the door?

 There was no better advertisement.

Ita Hannon's photo took me back to those days and I just know that there is many an emigrant mouth watering at the sight.