M.S. Busking, Listowel for Writers Week 2017 and more from that wedding

With all the excitement of the wedding I forgot to mention that May 19th 2017 was the annual busking day in town. This event is organised every year by the local branch of the M.S. Society. It is a cause close to my heart but this year I only managed a few photos as I had other things on my mind.

Barbara Walshe and Bridie O'Rourke were collecting at Super Valu.

Batt O'Keeffe joined Noelle Hegarty and Bridie O'Rourke in The Small Square.

Jimmy Hannon has been playing on busking day for years.

<<<<<

Preparing for Writers Week 2017

The ladders are out and painting is underway at several locations.

The welcome banners are hoisted.

Essential maintenance is going on.

Allos was painted recently and it is looking smashing.

Eason's has a new sign and Woulfe's Bookshop has got a complete new look.

We are all ready for Writers' Week which opens tomorrow evening. I'll be busy with that for a while so posts will be sporadic. I'll be taking lots of pictures, so bear with me and all will be revealed in due course

<<<<<<<

Some More tales from the wedding

Clíona had three of the most gorgeous flower girls ever in her three nieces. Here they are before their moment in the limelight.

Here they are again with their cousins dabbing at the church.

Róisín Cora and Aisling....butter wouldn't melt......

Cliona with her brother, Bobby and his handsome family

My neighbours and great friends, the Moylan family played a big part in our wedding. Above is Mary Moylan who chose and sourced all of the music. On the big day, she sang all the songs accompanied by  Áine Murray. Mary's mother, Helen Moylan made the wedding cakes which were scrumptious.

I'll let you in on a secret. The "cake" you see here is not a cake at all but styrofoam iced to look like a cake. The real cakes were traditional wedding cake, a chocolate biscuit cake and a lemon drizzle cake. This way the real cakes were kept clean and safe and no one had to eat the plastic icing.

These two lovely ladies are Cliona's good friends, Martina and Gillian. They played traditional tunes to accompany the communion reflection which was written and delivered by Sinead O'Neill, sister of the groom.

Sinead is on the right in this photo with her sister Aisling and brother Seán.

At the top table we remembered two men who would have loved to have been with us. We lit a candle to remember Cliona's dad and we brought Fr. Pat Moore's book with us. Before his final illness Fr. Pat was looking forward to doing the wedding. He had baptised Cliona in the Erinville hospital in Cork when she was only three days old and struggling to hold on to life. He told me that he was honoured to be there at the start of her life and it would have given him great pleasure to marry her. Alas it was not to be.

We remembered the words given to Billy Keane as he mourned the passing of his mother; 

When those we love and lose are not where they used to be, they are everywhere we are.

<<<<<<<

Tomorrow evening May 31 2017 is opening night of Listowel Writers Week 2017. I'll be busy taking lots of photos and helping out with events so I'll be off the radar for a while.  Enjoy Writers Week, The Races or the Seán McCarthy festival. I'll be back soon.

Easons, Nana's birthday, advertising in the 1950s and more from the Coolard Book Launch

Now and Then

<<<<<<<<

Another Listowel blogger

Jackie Halpin is studying to be a primary school teacher. She is blogging her journey towards her dream HERE


<<<<<<<<<<<<

Family Time

Recently I celebrated another birthday en famille. Here is a little flavour of the day.

 The children, aged 4 to 10, made their own pizzas.

The boys enjoyed this part of the proceedings just as much as the girls. Maybe we have two Jamie Olivers in the making.

There is extra satisfaction in eating a meal you have cooked yourself.

The girls made Nana a birthday cake as well . I thoroughly enjoyed being the centre of attention for a day.

A sign of the times. the pavement artists added a few hash tags to their creations.

<<<<<<

Advertising in the 1950s  ( Shannonside Annuals)

<<<<<<<<

Knitting in time of War

<<<<<<

Coolard Book Launch

Past pupils, friends and relatives lined up in St. John's on Saturday March 5 2016 to have their book signed by the author, local historian and teacher Maurice O'Mahony.

<<<<<<

Castleisland People, Your help is needed

Members of the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project Committee have issued an appeal for historic or old photographs which may help to illustrate the wide-ranging research findings now coming to light.

Committee members will facilitate the collection of photographs and the information behind them on St. Patrick’s Day from 12-30pm at Tomo Burke’s old shop beside Hannon’s Fashion Shop at Lower Main Street.
Committee chairman, Johnnie Roche also feels that there is a story or two in the number of Castleisland natives who have made an impact in several countries abroad in the world of business and industry.

Landmark contributions in the continents of Africa, America and Australia stand out but others may well feature if a flow of information on the topic can be triggered. Any such information would also be welcome on St. Patrick’s Day.

The photograph here was stuck to a card and the names were printed on that card but someone had cut off all but the tip of the first line of the caption. From that scrap of information it seems that the people in the picture were members of a choir. Alice O’Shea, standing on the left of the picture, had a shop where Mrs. Quin’s Charity Shop is now. Fashion historians may be able to put a more accurate date on it than a 30s/40s guess.    

(Story from Maine Valley Post via Find My Kerry Ancestors)

<<<<<<<<

Festival Success for Blithe Spirit and Listowel Drama Group

Kerry Drama Festival
2nd overall in the Kerry Drama Festival 
Imelda Dowling Garvey Best Actress of the Festival

Clare Drama Festival
Best actress of the festival: Imelda Dowling Garvey.
Best Production
Best Young Actress Anna Sheehan

Well done all.

Listowel and Compensation claims after the civil war

Another shop closure on Church St.

Elaine at work in Halo on one of her last days trading in Church St. I'm sorry to see her go and I wish her well in whatever new venture she takes on.

<<<<<<<<<

Changes

Listowel then and now

Listowel Printing Works then, Easons now

<<<<<<<<

Pronto a Mangiar then; Emilia's now


<<<<<<<<<<

Is this a eucalyptus?

If this is a eucalyptus then Vincent Carmody might have discovered why it is bare of leaves in the height of summer.
Vincent writes:

"In your blog of 31/6 you had a photograph of a bare tree in the Towm Park and posed the question, why is it bare ? Is it a eucalyptus tree? if so, the answer is on page 1 of today's Irish Examiner Farming section.

This contains an article on Beetle pest, part of which states,

"It is the first leaf beetle of its kind to become established in Europe, and was initially discovered damaging foliage crops in Kerry in 2007. It is now commonly found in many areas of Co. Cork.Predictions of the pattern of spread suggest that it only a matter of time before it is established throughout the island, posing a bio-security risk also to the U.K. and mainland Europe. The colourful beetle defoliates eucalyptus trees and even small amounts of damage renders renders eucalyptus foliage crops unmarketable." 

So now you know, if it is a eucalyptus tree.... if not, one can learn something new everyday !!!"

<<<<<<<<<<

Drat!!!!!

This is Ballymaloe House which I visited on Friday last .

This is Hollywood heart throb Gabriel Byrne. He is in the news because he married his long term girlfriend in Ballymaloe House on Saturday last.
I missed it by a whisker.

<<<<<<<

More Kerry applications for compensation after the Civil War

Title	Timothy O'Carroll, Ballyhennessy, Lixnaw, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/12
Date	Dec 1922-[?1926]
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	One Ridge Whitworth motorcycle commandeered at Listowel by Irregular forces on 3/4 July 1922

Title	Hannah Dromey, Cahirciveen, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/16
Date	Feb 1923-[?1926]
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	One motor cycle and one push bike commandeered at Cahirciveen by IRA [Irish Republican Army] on 12 August 1921.
Extent	1 file

Title	John C Duffy, Green View Terrace, Tralee, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/27
Date	Dec 1922-Nov 1926
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	One Ford motor car seized and taken away at Edward Street, Tralee, by unknown men on 6 August 1921

Title	John Fitzgerald, Strand Street, Tralee, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/31
Date	Dec 1922- Feb 1927
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	One motor car seized and taken away at Tralee by unknown persons on 19 July 1922.
Title	Ambrose Deenihan, creamery manager, Tonreagh, Ballyheigue, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/40
Date	Dec 1922-Jan 1927
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	One motor cycle, side car and accessories taken from claimant's residence at Tonreagh by armed men on 7 July 1922; file states claimant subsequently found the vehicle badly damaged at Ballymullen Barracks, County Kerry.

Title	Patrick Barrett, Pembroke Street, Tralee, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/54
Date	Jan 1923-[?1926]
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	Damage to claimant's property and articles while occupied by National troops at Pembroke Street, Tralee, in August 1922
Title	Hannah O'Donnell, Lohercannon House, Tralee, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/46
Date	Dec 1922- Jan 1927
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	One Triumph motor cycle taken by Irregular forces at 'Glenview', Ballyard, Tralee, County Kerry, on 17 July 1922
Title	Captain Jack F Shea, Glenbeigh, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/21
Date	Feb 1923-Nov 1926
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	Apartments and food forcibly supplied to Irregular forces at Glenbeigh from 5 July 1922 to 21 January 1923; drapery goods and alcohol commandeered at Keelnabrack, Glenbeigh, County Kerry, by Irregular forces on 24 February 1923; cattle commandeered at Lower Keelnabrack, Glenbeigh, County Kerry, by Irregular forces commissariat on 8 October 1921.
Title	Richard Lavin, 40 Lower Bridge Street, Tralee, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/47
Date	Dec 1922-Dec 1926
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	Two Ford cars and accessories destroyed and garage premises set on fire at Prince's Quay, Tralee, County Kerry, on 6 September 1922
Title	Henry Percival Maxwell, Landsdowne Lodge, Kenmare, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/52
Date	Jan 1923-Dec 1926
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	Three bullocks taken away at Kenmare Old, County Kerry, and Gortnadullagh, County Kerry, by armed men in the months of September and October 1922; goods looted from claimant's house at Kenmare by armed men on various dates from 28 July to 7 November 1922; field gates and corrugated iron taken away at Kenmare Old, County Kerry, and Gortnadullagh, County Kerry, by unknown persons on various dates from 6 August to 8 November 1922; bedding goods taken away at Kenmare by armed Irregular forces on various dates from 25 October to 8 November 1922
Title	Michael Egan, Maglass, (No Suggestions), County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/53
Date	Jan 1923-[?1926]
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	One motor lorry taken away at Ballydwyer, County Kerry, by National troops on 15 August 1922

Title	Sara Cain, Listowel, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/62
Date	Feb 1923-[?1926]
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	Dwelling house occupied by National troops which they subsequently burned down after vacating the premises along with the furniture therein at Spa, Tralee on 19 January 1923.

Title	William A Lynn, Castle Street, Tralee, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/72
Date	Jan 1923- Dec 1926
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	One Ford motor car and 6 suits of clothes taken away at Tralee by National troops on 15 February and 11 July 1922.

	Title Ellen Harman, William Street, Listowel, County Kerry.  Reference FIN/COMP/2/8/105 Date Jan 1923-Feb 1927 Creator Department of Finance Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance. Scope and Content Premises used as a telephone exchange damaged by gunfire at William Street when occupied by National troops and attacked by Irregular forces on 30 June 1922
	Title Mary Supple, Ballyheigue, County Kerry.  Reference FIN/COMP/2/8/119 Date Dec 1922-Feb 1927 Creator Department of Finance Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance. Scope and Content One heifer shot dead at Dirtane, Ballyheigue, County Kerry, by National troops on 23 October 1922; file states that it is believed the cow was shot by a stray bullet; trees and a wall thrown down to block the road at Dirtane, Ballyheigue, County Kerry, by Irregular forces in October and November 1922.
	Title John Ross, jeweller, Castle Street, Tralee, County Kerry.  Reference FIN/COMP/2/8/122 Date Jan 1923-Feb 1927 Creator Department of Finance Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance. Scope and Content Mirror and glass of premises smashed by rifle fire at Castle Street, Tralee on 2 August 1922; file states this was the day Free State troops entered Tralee
Title	Hanoria Brosnan, Bridge Street, Tralee, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/123
Date	Jan 1923-Jan 1927
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	Damage to dwelling house by rifle fire due to the entry of National troops to the town at Bridge Street, Tralee, on 2 August 1922.
Extent	1 file
	Alice O'Donnell, shopkeeper, Tarbert, County Kerry.
Reference	FIN/COMP/2/8/127
Date	Jan 1923-Jan 1927
Creator	Department of Finance
	Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance.
Scope and Content	Damage to premises due to fire, rifle fire and furniture used as a barricade during occupation by Irregular forces attacking the Free State barracks opposite the premises at Tarbert on 10 September 1922.
Extent	1 file

Title

Marie McElligot, Mount Rivers, Listowel, County Kerry.

Reference

FIN/COMP/2/8/129 Date Jan 1923-[?1926] Creator Department of Finance Administrative History/Biography Past responsibilities of the Department of Finance have included fiscal, budgetary and economic policy; taxation (from 1923); the preparation and auditing of the national accounts and the annual budget, the collection of revenue and expenditure by government agencies, exchequer accounts and payrolls; the management of the Civil Service including recruitment, staffing, establishment, promotion, remuneration and conditions, pensions, conciliation and arbitration; the preparation and examination of Bills; economic forecasting, planning and development (from 1959); European Union policy co-ordination and the European Union budget and funds. It was allocated responsibility in January and April 1922 for the control of a wide number of agencies taken over from the previous administration and is currently directly responsible for overseeing the administration of the Revenue Commissioners, the Office of Public Works, the Civil Service Commission, the Valuation Office, the Ordnance Survey, the State Laboratory and the Office of the Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. The initial official designation of the Department under the Provisional Government (1922) was ´Finance and General´, but the title never seems to have been used. Before April 1922, the non-official titles employed were ‘Treasury’ or ‘Ministry of Finance’ [or Aireacht Airgid in Irish]. From 1 April 1922 by order of the Executive Council [the Cabinet], its official title became the ‘Ministry of Finance’. The term ´Treasury´ persisted less formally, and references to ´Finance Department´ also occur in Executive Council minutes. Official titles of offices were not formally settled until the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, when the title the Department of Finance [or An Roinn Airgid in Irish] was established. The Department can also trace part of its provenance to the Dáil Éireann Department of Finance. Scope and Content Damage to premises 'The Listowel Arms Hotel' as it was occupied by National forces and attacked by Irregular forces, food and bedding was subsequently commandeered by Irregular forces at The Square, Listowel on 30 June 1922  <<<<<<<<< A Little something for the weekend