Showing posts with label Colm Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colm Cooper. Show all posts

Friday, 4 May 2018

Listowel people, Abbeyfeale church and Colm Cooper is the 2018 Kerry Person of the Year

Convent door, Castleisland in 2018

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People in The SeanchaĆ­

I took a few photos at the lecture in The SeanchaĆ­ on April 22 2018

 Arthur Caball, John Pierse and Paddy Keane


Con Kirby and John Corridan


Dolores Carroll, Vincent Carmody, Paddy Keane and Liam Grimes


Mairead Pierse and Kathy Walsh


Kay Caball, Donal O'Connor and Helen Moylan

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Abbeyfeale Parish Church

On my recent visit to Abbeyfeale, I took the opportunity to visit the church and to say a prayer. The church has some lovely mosaics but bot too many stained glass windows. You can tell a lot about the wealth of a parish but the amount of artwork in their place of worship.



This lovely grotto stands in the church grounds.





















There are two sets of Stations of the Cross, one more traditional then the other but both beautiful.








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Familiar Faces at Kerry Person of the Year 2018 Event  in The Mansion House





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The Final piece of the Convent Street jigsaw is in place

Look what came to my inbox yesterday!

The little boy is Maurice Bunyan and the dog’s name is Rusty (who belonged to John Guerin).

Mary Dunne (previously Corridan)

Yes it's an email from the lady in the curlers.


So, from left to right in John Hannon's Convent Street photo we have;
Mary Corridan (now Mary Dunne), Maurice Bunyan, Mike Healy with John Guerin's dog, Rusty

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The Dandy Lodge


This house, Vincent Carmody tells me, was always called The Dandy Lodge. It was the home of the Hannon family. Danaher's house was at the other entrance to Lord Listowel's estate in Cahirdown.



Monday, 22 January 2018

Convent Street, Pitch and Putt and Athea Mural blown down

From The Irish Farmers' Journal



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A Quiet Corner of Town undergoing renewal



This site has gone Sale Agreed so we await developments.



One is sold and the other is for sale


This is the area of Convent Street that is about to change.


These houses in Convent Street are boarded up too so it will be good to see life return to this corner of town.

And in another corner of town...

A little bird tells me that Iceland is coming to Listowel shortly.

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Listowel Pitch and Putt Club

Dave O'Sulivan, a loyal follower and supporter of the work of your blogger replied to my appeal for history of the Pitch and Putt Club.





My photos taken at different times of the year show the variety and abundance of planting in the course over the years.

Here are the cuttings that Dave found for us;







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Athea Revisited on January 19 2018



That was then



This is now

The high winds last week flattened the lovely mural with the whole history and mythology of the village on it. I have no doubt that the good people of Athea will see it restored to its former glory.

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And the Winner is

The Dublin Kerry Association have announced their Kerry Person of the year


There was a goodly attendance on the night.


Colm Cooper was revealed as this year's choice and he got a standing ovation as he entered.


Colm was a very popular choice.


Colm Cooper with  Keelin Kissane of  Listowel, chair of The Kerry Association in Dublin