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2015 December 30 Knockanure

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CHURCH was full for the Christmas Eve Celebrations, young and old were in attendance, great to hear the choir, solo singers and musicians. The church was decorated for the occasion, great credit is due to all who help to make the celebrations meaningful and pleasant. Thanks to the sacristan our Parish Priest and the many helpers. Welcome to all who came to visit us and a safe return home.

CONGRATULATIONS to Gabriel Fitzmaurice on his translation of Micheal de Mordha’s book on the Great Blasket. The book runs to 700 pages and is called An island Community; The ebb and Flow of the Great Blasket, there is over 80 books on the Blaskets.

CORN NA FEILE: Abbeyfeale coursing club will hold the 44th Corn Na Feile Coursing Meeting on Monday and Tuesday, December 28 and 29. Coursing on both days will start at 11.30am. Then on Saturday, January 9 from 9.30pm the annual coursing dance with dancing to Joe O’Keeffe band.

CONGRATULATIONS on the engagement of Dan Leahy, son of Mary Ita and Stevie, Upper Athea, to Michelle Kearney N.T. daughter of Angela and Joe Moyvane.

ST. ITA'S WRENBOYS: Paddy Finucane and the Wrenboys were out again this year, collecting for Frs. Tim Galvin and John Moloney.

CEILI IN AID OF MS IRELAND LISTOWEL BRANCH: with Donie Nolan Sunday 27th December 2015 from 3 to 6 p.m. in Marian Hall Moyvane.

CENSUS will be held on Sunday 24th April. A total of 4,660 people will need to be hired for the job and paid about €2,400 each. applications open on Tuesday 5th January, see CSO census website.

SYMPATHY: To Gabriel and Brenda Fitzmaurice, Aughrim and the Coolahan Family, Tarbert on the death of Vincent Coolahan, Tarbert.

DEATH of Tom Moran, Clash Road, Athea, on the 17th December 2015, at Lystoll Lodge Nursing Home, Listowel. Survived by his sisters Bridie (U.S.A.), Noreen (U.K.) and Teresa (U.K.), brother Seán (Limerick), sister-in-law Bridie, nephews, nieces, grand-nephews, grand-nieces. Requiem Mass on for Tom Moran was celebrated in St. Bartholomew's Church Athea. Burial after in Knockanure Cemetery on Dec 19th 2015.ANNIVERSARIES: Sr. Gregory Dillon, Catherine Kennedy, Michael Kissane, Pat Dalton, Fr. Daniel Dee, Peg Dillon, Sr. Patricia O’Connor, Peggy Mahony. John Joe Hanrahan, Sr. Magdalene Harnett, Ned Buckley, Maureen McSkane, Kit O Rourke, Maurice Kennelly, Joan Kennelly, Denis Histon, Sr. Declan Buckley, Mary Ann O Carroll, Hannah Wetherall, Francis Dowling, David Kennelly, Brendan Mulvihill, Peg O’Shea, Sr. Felicitous Joy, Timothy Donoghue, John Fealy, Margaret Beardsley, Jimmy Lyons, Fr. Michael Francis Kennelly, Pat Mullane, Peg Joy, Mass Moyvane Church:Mon 28th Public Holiday 11am, Healing for our Sick. Wed 30^th at 7.30pm for John & Mike Dore (Anni).Fri 1st at 7.30pm for Brendan Mulvihill (Anni) Sat 2nd at 7.30pm for Martin & Mary Mulvihill, Leitrim East (Anni). Sun 3th at 11.00am for Bridie Cambell (nee Stackpoole) Aughrim, & UK.Knockanure Church masses; Sun 3rd at 10.00am for Teresa & Michael Bambury.

FIRST FIRDAY calls of 2016 are as follows: Knockanure on Thursday 7th and Moyvane on Friday 8th.

WALK: New Year’s Day Coiste na nÓg Athea will be holding a “Winter Wellie Walk” starting at the hall Athea, at 12 noon. Another New Year’s Day walk from the Rambling House Knockfierna, at 2.30pm and all are welcome to attend. People are asked to meet at Ballingarry Hall at 2.15 and after the walk a rambling house session will be held. This event will mark the 30th anniversary of the first session held there in 1986.

OVER 65: Ard Chúram is now in a position, due to increased capacity, to expand and enhance its services. Anybody aged 65 or over wishing to attend may contact the Nurse Co-ordinator, Margaret Payne at (068)22986, (087)1953631 or any public health nurse. The Committee of Ard Chúram is very grateful to the people of Listowel and North Kerry for their continuing support.

WRITERS WEEK; are now inviting entries for The Pigott Poetry Prize 2016. The Prize is for the best book of poetry by an Irish Poet (both North and South), published between 1st February 2015 and 1st February 2016.

The Poet of the winning collection will be awarded the top prize of €5,000 at the Opening Ceremony of Listowel Writers’ Week on the 1st June 2016. The Closing date for receipt of entries is Wednesday 3rd February 2016.

KERRY DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO FATIMA: 11th to 18th May 2016. Flights: Cork Airport. Spiritual Director: Fr. Noel Spring. Contact 021 4277700.

RECENT COLLECTIONS: The organizers wish thank all for their generosity: SVP Collection. The Bucket Collection at the Vintage Day raised €521.00 for the Alzheimer’s Society and The Samaritans.

THE NANO NAGLE; A great night was had by one and all at Maireάd’s on Sat night the 19^th Dec. for the annual Nano Nagle fundraiser, organized by Jimmy Collins. The entertainment provided by local and visiting artists was superb and the whole evening raised €1,500.00. Jimmy wishes to acknowledge and give thanks to all who helped.

TALK: The Diocese of Kerry will host a public talk given by Martina Lehane Sheehan, author and psychotherapist on Tuesday Jan 12th at 8pm in The Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney.

ST JOHN’S; month of January photographic exhibition looking back on 2015. Sat. 2^nd Jan; Ardu Vocal Ensemble, featuring six singers from Ireland and the UK; Tuesday 5^th The Great Wall, a Tadhg O’Sullivan film. Friday 8^th, Human Rights Film, more from 068 22566.

OPENING recently: Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan performed the opening ceremony of Coláiste Íde agus Iosef, the school has 660 students and she also unveiled an Issac Newton inspired piece of art in the school. The artists were Carol Anne Connolly and Augustine O'Donoghue ,the artists visited the birthplace of Isaac Newton at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire and were presented with seeds from the 400 year old apple tree under which Newton was reputed to have had his famous “Eureka” moment in 1762 and discovered the theory of gravity.

AWARDS: Limerick CC Awards to St Mary’s Cemetery Committee, Abbeyfeale who won first prize in their category in the LCC awards held recently and the committee of the Old graveyard in the square who came second in their category.

THOUGHT: “That best portion of a good man’s life

His little, nameless, unremembered acts

Of kindness and of love” from William Wordsworth 1770 -1850

From lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

BELL MOYVANE: Freemans Journal 1763-1924, 20.03.1856, page 3

The novel and interesting pontifical ceremony of blessing of a Church bell was performed in all its solemn forms on Palm Sunday, at the chapel of Newtownsandes, in the North East of County Kerry, by the Right Rev. Dr Moriarty. The bell, which was manufactured by Mr John Murphy, of Dublin, is a very beautiful one. It was placed on a platform before the altar in the Sanctuary. The local clergy and a large multitude of people, who seemed to take the deepest interest in the proceedings, were in attendance on the occasion. The Bishop addressed the congregation a touching and suitable discourse, which was listened to with almost breathless attention. It was the first ceremony of the kind performed in Kerry since the reformation and the bell is the first Church bell tooled in the parish of Murhur since the same period.

Dublin’s “freedom bell”, the first Catholic Church bell to ring in Dublin in breach of the Penal Laws 200 years ago,

Fr Michael Blake defied penal laws by tolling the bell in 1811, 18 years before Catholic emancipation. He faced charges, but was successfully defended by O’Connell, then a young lawyer.

Legend has it that O’Connell rang the bell to celebrate emancipation in 1829, creating the crack which remains visible today.

BELL: Philadelphian John Sartain claimed the U.S. Liberty Bell cracked while celebrating passage by the British Parliament of the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1828.

FR. MATHEW came to Newtownsandes on Sunday 10 of Oct 1841. The Kerry Examiner gave a list of people who donated Money to Moyvane(Newtownsandes) New Church on the day of Fr Mathew visit: Rev T Mathew gave £25.25. P Cheevers Listowel £4. Knight of Glin £1. R.Q Sleemon Glin £1. Rev TL McDonnell Listowel £2. A Murry Listowel £1. James O Halloran Colnaleen Listowel 50p. Rev Lyddy PP Abbyfeale £1. Rev D Leahy Glin 50p. Rev. B. M. Maher P.P. Glin £1. William o Leary Glin £1. Miss Sergent.

Kerry Evening Post 28-12-1861 page 2

Funeral of the Prince Concert in Tralee.

The bell of Tralee Church was tolled from ten o’clock to one on Monday last. In respect to the funeral of the lamented Prince Consort, which was taking place at Windsor.

2015 December 23 Knockanure

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CHRISTMAS Mass; Moyvane, Thurs 24th Christmas Eve 6pm Special Intention. 9pm Special Intention. Fri 25th Christmas Day at 11am, Special intention. Knockanure; Thurs 24th Christmas Eve 7.30pm, Mass (Special Intention).Fri 25th Christmas Day 10am Mass (Special Intention). Sun 27th 10.00am Healing Mass for all our sick. Moyvane Monday 28th 11am Sick of Parish, Tuesday 29th No Mass.

KNOCKANURE SACRISTAN ENVELOPES: available at the back of the Church in Knockanure.

DEATH took place of Anne Cunningham (née Fitzsimons) of Kilbaha, Moyvane on 14^th December 2015. Anne was predeceased by her husband Jimmy and brother Tony. Survived by children Caitriona, John, James, Margaret (Ahern), and Mary, son-in-law Tony, daughter-in-law Siobhán, grandchildren, sister Helen (Bourke), brothers Michael, James, John, Tom and Pat, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nephews and nieces, relatives, neighbours, and friends.

Requiem Mass for Anne Cunningham was celebrated on Friday the 18th of December at Moyvane Church, by Fr. McNamara P.P. assisted by Canon O Keeffe. Sean Ahern sang the hymns and Sr. Consolata played to organ. For over 50 years Anne has been playing the organ in many churches in the district. Anne was laid to rest in Ahavoher Cemetery beside her husband Jimmy who died in 2006.

DEATH took place on 13th December 2015 of Tom Mulvihill, Oaklands Nursing Home, Woodgrove & Aughrim, Moyvane.

Following Requiem Mass on Wednesday at Moyvane Church. Tom Mulvihill was laid to rest in Murhur Cemetery, Moyvane.

DEATH of Ron Kennelly recently, his father John was born at Barragougeen, Moyvane, he immigrated to Melbourne and both father and son were involved in politics in Australia. Ron is survived by two sons and a daughter. Their cousin Con Kennelly of Tarmons, also had two daughters working for the government in Sydney.

DEATH took place on 17th December 2015 of Eddie Carmody of Ballyline Ballylongford and formerly of The Hill Moyvane. Survived by his wife Betty, sons Sean, Aidan, Noel, and Raymond, daughters Marie (McCarthy) Listowel and Eilish (Lyons) Listowel, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, brothers John and Con, sisters Marie, Noreen and Liz, nephews and nieces,

Requiem Mass for Eddie Carmody was celebrated at St Michael's Church, Ballylongford, on Saturday 19th December, Eddie was laid to rest at Lislaughtin Abbey.

Death occurred on 16th December 2015 of Mary Walsh (née Foran) of Sallouglen, Tarbert and late of Shronowen, Listowel. Mary is survived by her husband Connie, son Michael, daughter Mary-Carmel, brother John, sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces.

Death has occurred of retired Cigire Scoile, Chrissie Nolan a native of Loughnanes, Lisselton on 16th December 2015. Following Requiem Mass at Ballydonoghue Church on Saturday, Chrissie Nolan was burial in Killahenny Cemetery, Ballybunion.

ANNIVERSARIES: Sr. Basil McAuliffe, Eileen Moriarty, Michael Collins, Ted Brosnan, Liam Foley, Noreen Buckley. Jim Sheehy, Sr. Marguerite Shine, Nora Mai Broderick, Paddy Healy, John Joe Sheehy, Michael Brosnan, Sr. Carmel Beasley, Jack O Brien, Michael Dalton, Bridget Finucane, Tom Walsh, Mary Moriarty, Margaret Lynch, John Behan, Dan Shine, Sean Broderick, Timmy Dillon, Maureen Sheehy, Denny McEvoy, Jim Kelly, Kit Ahern, Myra Downey, Elizabeth Lynch, Michael Flanagan. Mass in Moyvane; Church of the Assumption Moyvane: Mon21st at10.00am for Jack O’Brien, The Village (Anni).

Wed 23rd 7.30pm for Denis McEnery, Tubbertoureen (Anni).

Sat 26th St Stephen’s Day at 7.30pm for Maureen & Ned Sheehy

Leitrim Middle (Anni). Sun 27th 11.00am for John Joe Behan, Aughrim (1st Anni). Knockanure Church Mass; Tue 22nd at 7.30pm for Hannah & Ned Quinn, Beenanasbig (Anni).

HAPPY Retirement to Anne Prendiville N. T. who has taught at Murhur School for 33 years.

BEST WISHES to John & Nora O’Connell, Gortnagross who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary recently.

JOURNALS: Athea, Ballydonoghue and Knocknagoshel Thirty Two Journal are again available locally. Knocknagoshel magazine has 83 pages, packed with articles and pictures. Ballydonoghue Magazine is all in colour and would take a week to browse through it.

TENORS: The Celtic Tenors will perform in Concert in Shanagolden Church on Wednesday 23rd December at 8pm,

TALK: The Diocese of Kerry will host a public talk given by Martina Lehane Sheehan, author and psychotherapist on Tuesday Jan 12th at 8pm in The Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney.

ENDA Kenny On 8 December 2015, plans to negotiate ESO Membership when he launched Innovation 2020.

QUEEN aged 89 starts signing her 800 Christmas cards during Summer holidays.

SPECIAL LISTOWEL PARISH CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER & PARISH CALENDAR 2016. We invite you to take home the Christmas Newsletter & Parish Calendar 2016.

PAST PUPILS ST. JOSEPH’S SECONDARY SCHOOL: especially those who attended in 1960’s and who may have been classmates of the late Mary Cummins are invited to an informal get together at Kilcooleys Country House Hotel, Ballybunion on Friday 15th April 2016 in conjunction with Women in Media. Contact for further info:langanmai21@gmail.com

KERRY SAMARITANS: say thank you to all who gave generously to support their work in 2015. The Samaritans are always contactable, day and night, via the free call number 116 123. You can also call in to our Centre at 44 Moyderwell, Tralee.

THINKING OF THE PRIESTHOOD? Maybe you have been thinking about the Priesthood as a way of life for you? Maybe you have felt you are being called? You are invited to St. Patrick’s College, Thurles, on Feb 5th and 6th, 2016. This event is an opportunity for you to ‘come and see’. We start on Feb. 5th with dinner at 6.30pm, followed by some time for prayer, meet others thinking of the priesthood and some recently ordained priests. Stay overnight. On Feb 6th there is prayer, breakfast, a brief talk on discerning a vocation, preparation for Mass, lunch, discussion, depart. For more information contact Fr Michael Moynihan PP, Glengarriff at 087 6551902 or Fr Liam Comer, PP Dromtarriff, 087 2401246.

THOUGHT: Keep a diary of the little things your partner does that you’re grateful for, read it the next time you feel like criticising them.

BOOKS: The little library functions as basically just a neighbourhood book exchange. The idea is that someone will take a book that piques their interest, and sometime in the future return either that book, or a totally different one. http://littlefreelibrary.org/

WILLIAM FITZGERALD of Lahardin, Co. Clare and Moyvane, Co. Kerry and had issue: 1. Thomas, Lieutenant, 40th Madras Native Infantry, b. 19 Jan 1804 at Kilmanaheen, Co. Clare, served at Coorg 1834, d. unmarried 11 Jul 1834 at Ootacamund. 2. George, b. 1805, d. 1812.

FROM: The Times 12th July 1879

We have to record the death of Captain Stacpoole, M.P. for Ennis, which occurred on Thursday night at his residence, Carlisle-square, Chelsea. The hon. member had been ailing only a few days. Captaoin Stacpoole was the eldest son of Mr. Andrew Stacpoole, of Ballyalla, county Clare, by his marriage with Diana, daughter of Mr. D. Finucane, of Stamer-park, in the same county, was born in the year 1830, and was educated at Cheltenham College and at Trinity College, Dublin. He was for some years a Captain of the Clare Militia, and also a magistrate for that county, but about seven years ago was “superseded” in the commission of the peace at his own request. He had sat for Ennis in the Home Rule interest for upwards of 19 years. Captain Stacpoole married Miss Mary Ann Catharine Winifred Hennessy, eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Hennessy, of Leamington, Warwickshire. His death causes, of course, a vacancy in the representation of the borough of Ennis.

DEATH: The Times 16th September 1980. Mr. Edmund Painter Stacpoole, CBE, who died recently at the age of 78, deserves tribute for the selfless and matchless service he gave to Britain’s parliament, government and press as the Lobby correspondent of the Press Association for 30 years.

He joined the PA from the Southend Times in 1924 and was sent to Westminster in 1936. From then until his retirement after the general election of 1966 he carried the immense burden of that job day and night, serving morning and evening papers, entirely on his own. Never once during those years of receiving non-attributable briefings and private confidences did he betray a trust. Nor did his patience ever reach its limit, even at times of intense pressure like the Suez crisis of 1956.

Staccie, as he was known to prime ministers and PA messengers alike, played a vital part in giving the PA its reputation for total reliability. With it all, he possessed great kindness and an exceptional sense of humour. And his generosity made him pick up a junior colleague’s dinner bill as readily as he would share his knowledge with him.

His marriage in February 1979, to Enid Hanson give his last 18 months an exceptional dimension of happiness.

More at

http://www.archerfamily.org.uk/family/stacpoole.htm

Music Knockanure Dec. 2015

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ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre,

was on Monday 14th December 2015.Mass at 12.00 pm followed by meal at 1.00 pm, Music by Stevie Donegan, details ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.

PADRE PIO EVENING MASS in Listowel, takes place on Thursday Dec. 17th at 7pm. including Rosary, Mass & Benediction.

FIRST FRIDAY CALLS FOR DECEMBER: on Wednesday 16th in Knockanure and on Thursday 17th in Moyvane.

PADRE Pio meeting and Devotions 15th December at Lixnaw 7.30pm. Witness given by Jim Breen.

CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION: takes place on Sun 20th Dec at 7pm including the Nativity presentation, Choir, Hymns, Healing and a surprise for the children by a Special Visitor.

KNOCKANURE SACRISTAN ENVELOPES: available at the back of the Church in Knockanure.

MURHUR N.S. CHRISTMAS VARIETY CONCERT: Marian Hall Friday 18th Dec at 8pm. All Welcome.

KNOCKANURE N.S. students, teachers, parents and their many helpers put on a great show at the Community Centre on Friday night 11^th Dec., a night to remember and looking forward to more. After the show local entertainers continued, with music, song and stories, to the delight of all.

BEST WISHES to Jakki Collins and Thomas Begley who were married at Knockanure Church on 11^th December 2015 by Fr. Sean Sheehy.

Bridesmaids were; Michelle Collins, Carol Woulfe, Donna Forrest, Aine O Riordan and Mairead McGeehan. Best Men; Con Begley, Timothy Begley, Larry Begley, John Begley and Eric O Connor. Flower Girl, Siun O Riordan. Page Boy, Eoin Lane. Music was by Noel McAuliffe.

DEATH: Bridie Cambell, nee Stackpoole, who died in London. Bridie, was a frequent visitor to her native Aughrim, Moyvane.

ANNIVERSARIES: Liam Scanlon, Patrick O Connor, Denis McEvoy, Sr. Rose Twomey, Con Shine, Mary Maguire, Jim Walsh, Seamus Flaherty, Jack Flavin, Sr. Anthony Joseph Mulvihill, Elizabeth Mary Murphy, Sheila Buckley, Paidi O Shea, Hannah Dillon, Eileen Tierney, Bridie O Donnell, Fr Dan Mulvihill, Willie Mulvihill, Phyl O Kelly, Patrick Flavin, Marie Galvan, Sr. Loreto Relihan, John Mulvihill, Kevin Barrett, Nancy Daly, Sr. Anna Patricia O Connor, Michael O Connor, Peg Meade, Mass at Moyvane; Mon 14^th at 7.30pm for Connie Shine, The Village & Dec of Shine Family. Wed 16th at 7.30pm for Ned & Sheila Buckley, Main St. (Anni). Fri 18th at 7.30pm for Alice Hanrahan, her sister Kay and Grandfather Thomas Hanrahan, Aughrim (Anni). Sat 19th at 7.30pm for Margaret & John Meade (Anni). Sun 20th at 11.00am for Maurice & Joe O’Connell & Dec of O’Connell Family. Mon 21st at 10.00am Mass for Jack O’Brien, The Village (Anni). The Village (Anni). Knockanure Mass: Mon 14th Christmas Mass & Dinner in Knockanure Community Centre starting at 12.00 noon. Michael McNamara, UK (Special Intention).

Tue 15th at 7.30pm for Michael O’Sullivan, Rathmore & l/o Boherbue. Sun 20th at 10.00am for Michael O’Connor, Kilbaha (1st Anni).Tue 22nd at 7.30pm for Hannah & Ned Quinn, Beenanasbig (Anni).

KDYS LISTOWEL are hosting a nativity parade on Tuesday 15th December at 1 o’clock starting at the library and finishing at the Church, where the nativity biblical story will be narrated by Nano Nagle School. This will be followed by the local schools in the area singing songs and playing music

LISTOWEL ACTIVE RETIREMENT CHRISTMAS DINNER will take place at the Listowel Arms Hotel on Tuesday (15th Dec.) at 2.30pm.

CHRISTMAS PENITENTIAL SERVICE / CONFESSIONS: will take place on Monday (Dec. 21st ) at 8.00 p.m. at St. Marys Church Listowel.

CONCERT: The High Kings who will perform in Glin Church on Thurs 17th of Dec. Details from 087 9944245.

MEDJUGORJE MONTHLY PRAYER MEETING will take place in the Parish Meeting Room, Listowel on Monday night next (14th Dec.) at 7.30pm.

ARD CURAM had a get together at their Centre in Listowel last week, also nice to see several from the parish availing of the service, they also provide transport from your home.

SENIOR HELP LINE: Senior Help Line is a listening service for older people by older people for the price of a local call anywhere in Ireland, LoCall 1850 440 444. Senior Help Line is open from 10.00am till 10.00pm,

“THANK YOU” FROM THE ICA: A great Family Fun Day on Sunday 29th Nov. Prizes in the draw – winners as follows: Michael O’Connell, Ahalahana, won the hamper which was sponsored by Newtownsandes Co-Op. The turkey won by Ursula Enright was sponsored by Tom & Eileen Roche. The ham was won by Mary Sweeney, Knockanure was sponsored by Noel Stack Butchers. The Christmas cake was baked by ICA ladies Noreen McEvoy and Noreen Roche and was won by Gene Fitzmaurice, Gortdromasillihy. Voucher from Holly’s Gala was won by Jason Dean and Jack Buckley, Lixnaw. A big thank you all our sponsors and to all those who support us each year.

NANO NAGLE FUNDRAISER: Sat 19th in Mairead’s Bar. Music by Gabriel Fitzmaurice & Bog Hole Boys. All welcome. Your support would be deeply appreciated.

RECENT CHURCH GATE COLLECTIONS: ENABLE IRELAND: Amounted to €385.84. This will help fund Enable Ireland’s Children Services in Kerry. CONCERN: Amounted to €634.00. Sincere thanks for your generous contributions. Well done to the organizers and the collectors.

CONNIE HARNETT MEMORIAL SWIM: The second annual Connie Harnett Memorial Swim will take place in Ballybunion on New Year’s Day. This is a fundraiser organised by Connie’s wife and family in honour of the popular cattle dealer from Abbeyfeale who died in 2014.

BILL KIRBY MEMORIAL 4 MILE WALK in aid of Palliative Care. Gathering at the Brogue Inn on St. Stephen’s Day at 11am and walk commencing at 11.30am. Sponsorship Cards available from Michael Fox O’Connor 087 9833075.

The Celtic Tenors will perform in Concert in Shanagolden Church on Wednesday 23rd December at 8pm.

ST JOHN’S: Thu 17th, Goldilocks Christmas Adventure, Presented by Centre Stage Theatre, Belfast. Daytime performances. Sat 19th, The Best of Traditional, With Cormac Begley, concertina and Maurice Lennon, fiddle.

PARTY: Tarbert Historical And Heritage Society – Party night on Saturday 19th December at 8pm in the Bridewell. Sing song, stories, recitations, coel agus caint, tea and mince pies – Everybody welcome.

BOOKS: The ICA has produced a about Christmas including recipes, preparations for the event, making homemade cards and decorations, poems and stories and reminisces of past Christmases. Anne Marie Dennison of Mainistir na Féile guild and Peg Prendeville of Ballyhahill/Loughill guild have items in it.

John Sheahan, the last member of the Dubliners Group,. In Fiddle Dreams his subjects range from childhood and family through art and craft. His main focus is the music. John, whose mother came from Ardagh and his father from Glin, Book in bookshop, or online at www.dedaluspress.com Phone (01)8392034

RECITAL: Adare parish - a Christmas recital, All are welcome to a Christmas Recital on Dec 16^th. 'Live Crib' celebrations on Dec 20th.

CANDLE: On the 11th of December, a candle will be lit in the Grotto of Christ’s Birth in the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem. This flame will be taken by Israeli and Palestinian Scouts to Tel Aviv Airport, then to Austria. From Vienna, Scouts take the flame and transport across Europe and beyond. We in Ireland hope to pick up the 'flame' in Holyhead, Wales, on Tuesday 15th and hold our national Service of Distribution in the Church of the Visitation in Fairview, Dublin on Thursday 17th. This means that the Limerick celebration this year will place in St. Paul’s Church on Friday 18th of December at about 8pm.

KERRY DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO FATIMA: 11th to 18th May 2016. Flights: Cork Airport. Spiritual Director: Fr. Noel Spring. Contact: 0214277700

CHRISTMAS CAROLS AT ST. JOHNS Tralee: A Christmas Carol Recital by St. John's Choir will take place in St. John's Church, Tralee on Thurs, December 24th (Christmas Eve) at 8.30 pm.

ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE: Year Of Mercy - A Course on Faith: Twelve weekly one-and-a-half hour sessions at 7:00pm with Fr. Seán Sheehy, beginning Wednesday, January 20th, 2016. Resources: The Holy Bible and the Catechism. All Welcome. Further details available from Ardfert Retreat Centre 066 7134276.

YOUTH 2000 CHRISTMAS RETREAT: invites all young adults between ages of 16-35 to a Catholic weekend retreat taking place from 18th – 20th December, 2015 at Newbridge College, Co. Kildare. see www.youth2000.ie, Youth 2000 Ireland Facebook page or ( 00353 (0) 1 6753690.

TARBERT COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL ADULT EDUCATION: presents a Cookery Demonstration by Mark Doe ‘Just Cooking’ next Monday December 14th at 7.30pm sharp. Tickets €10 can be purchased from the school office. For further information ( 068/36105.

CONGRATULATIONS: to L.J. & Dawn Horan, Aughrim on their great Blotto win.

CHURCH BELL: The bell from the original Church has been fixed and restored. It is 160 years old.

FOURTEEN AT DINNER: On Tuesday last for the Feast of Our Lady, the thirteen Priests from our Pastoral Area plus our former P.P. Fr. John had dinner in the Presbytery. The fourteen of us have given 706 years in the Priesthood, the longest Fr. Paul Dillon with 61 years, while Fr. Pat Moore and yours truly are at the bottom of the table with 34 years, we were ordained in 1981.

PICTURES: Minister for the Diaspora, Jimmy Deenihan, TD launched Sarah Pierce's 'Pathos of Distance' exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland. The exhibition centres around 42 images relating to Irish migration, created between 1813 and 1912.

DUEL: Limerick General Advertiser Feb. 2nd 1808 ; Wednesday last a meeting took place at the Spa Ground, near Listowel, co Kerry, between Henry Cashel Esq of Ratanay, and William Hughes, Esq Barrack-Master of the Listowel District, in consequence of some misunderstanding which existed between the parties—Many Gentlemen present endeavoured to reconcile matters, but to no purpose, as Mr. H. would not yield, nor would his antagonists; whereupon they exchanged shots at twelve yards distance, fortunately without effect, when the Seconds and Dr. Franklin, rushed between them, and by perseverance prevailed on the two gentlemen to shake hands.

GOAL MATCH: Limerick Chronicle 24^th 8 1825

http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickred/newspaper/np_abst63.htm

A wanton and barbarous outrage was committed on Sunday last, on the person of an elderly man of the name Neligan, in the neighbourhood of Listowel, at one of those goal matches which usually disgrace the Sabbath and frequently terminate so fatally. He was a spectator on this occasion from a short distance, when four or five of the contending party approached and struck him with hurlies on the head—he fell and was trampled on, while blows were repeated with pitchforks, until death put an end to his sufferings. The only possible pretence that can be assigned for this murder is, that he was unfortunately connected with a party against whom his assailants cherished a hostile feeling or grudge from some old encounter.

VATICAN: It is 50 years since the closing of the Second Vatican Council! The Irish Bishops have issued a special pastoral to celebrate this moment. See www.catholicbishops.ie/2015/12/07/let-god-surprise...

Craft Fair and Sean Ahern

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LISTOWEL: anyone has information about, or photographs of, the following members of the Irish Volunteers, they are asked to get in touch with editors Owen O’Shea (087 7870070) or Bridget McAuliffe at kerry1916book@gmail.com.

Pat Griffin from Listowel who worked in McKenna’s Hardware

Servelus Jones, a tailor from Listowel

Patrick (Paddy) Landers from Listowel, a blacksmith and footballer

Joe Mahony from Listowel, a solicitor’s clerk

James Sugrue from Listowel, who worked as a drapery assistant

COLBERT: Ireland 2016 Centenary Year Information Sought on Con Colbert As part of Ireland 2016 Centenary Year, Limerick Genealogy is planning an exhibition on the family history of Con Colbert who was executed for his part in the Easter Rising.

Con Colbert was Captain of F Company, 4th Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. He was executed on the 8th May 1916 with Sean Heuston, Michael Mallin and Eamonn Ceannt. Cornelius Colbert was one of thirteen children born to Michael Colbert and Ann McDermot, in October 1888, in the parish of Mahoonagh and Castlemahon. When Con was around three years old, his father Michael moved the family back to Athea where Michael was born.

please contact Catriona Crowe, Limerick Genealogy on 061 496542 or research@limerickgenealogy.com.

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KNOCKANURE

ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre,

takes place on Monday 14th December 2015.Mass at 12.00 pm followed by meal at 1.00 pm, Music by Stevie Donegan. All Welcome.

If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.

JESSE TREE: please engage with the Jesse Tree in both Churches.

BEST WISHES to Siobhan Kelliher of Castlemaine who married David McCarthy of Moyvane recently in Kiltallagh Church, Fr. Luke Roche conducted the ceremony. David is son of Bridie and the late Jerry McCarthy and the bride is daughter of Mary and the late Aidan Kelliher. Congratulation also to Marguerite Lynch of Moyvane who recently married Ned Stack also of Moyvane. The bride is daughter of Margaret and Michael Lynch and the groom is son of Mary and Eddie Stack.

HAPPY 70^th Birthday to Kit Horan of Moyvane.

CHEQUE: The presentation of the Glin Charity Swim cheque, to Milford Hospice was made on 5th December in Geoghegans.

THANKS: Great credit is due to our volunteers who withstood the worst excesses of Storm Clodagh to collect for Tidy Towns on Sunday November 25th These are our local heroes and are to be complimented. To those who subscribed A Big Thank You. The money realised was 115 euro.

DEATH took place on November 30^th 2015 of Thady Healy of Direen Lr., Athea. Survived by his nieces, nephews, sister-in-law, relatives and friends. Following Requiem Mass on Wednesday at Athea Church, Thady Healy was laid to rest in Templeathea Cemetery.

ANNIVERSARIES: James O Connor, Nora Foran, Breda Thomas, Fr. Liam Hayes, Jane Desmond, Johnny Broderick, Peggy Moriarty, Tom Connell, Derry Tatten, Peggy O’Connor, Thomas J O Donoghue, John P Fitzgerald, Tom Relihan, Elizabeth Neumann, Sean Brosnan, Fr. Jerry Roche, John Fitzgerald, Bridie ODonnell, David Obrien, Sr. Mary Kevin Enright, Margaret Moloney, Danny Dunne, Vincent Sheehy, Eugene Brandon. Holy Day Mon 7th 7.30pm Maureen Foley. Tues 8th 10.00am for Tom Relihan & parents Annie & Jeremiah,

8th at 11.00am for Ollie Leahy (Anni).Moyvane Masses; Wed 9th 7.30pm for Pat Mulvihill, (Rec Dec).. Sat 12^th at 7.30pm for Teresa & Pat Joe Mullane (Anni).Sun 13th 11.00am for Seamus O’Flaherty, 1st Anni. Knockanure Mass; Thurs 10th at 7.30pm for Betty Newman & parents Peggy & John McElligott.

MASS Sun 13th 10.00am for Ann Cunningham (Special Intention) ). Mass Moyvane on Fri 11th at 10.00am for Mort O’Shea (Special Intention).

FIRST FRIDAY CALLS FOR DECEMBER: Calls on Wednesday 16th in Knockanure and on Thursday 17th in Moyvane. Starting both days, God willing at 10.30am.

PART TIME SACRISTAN: The position of part-time Sacristan in Moyvane Church is available.

SVP COLLECTION: will take place on 12th & 13th December. SVP contact number 087/4346444.

PARTY in Athea; The Christmas party will take place on Wednesday, December 9th. Dinner at 1.00pm with music after by Blue Rhythm.

FESTIVE JUMBLE SALE Old or unused items are being sought for a festive jumble sale to be held at Listowel Family Resource Centre on Tuesday. December 8 from 10am-1pm. Further details from Denis (068) 23584.

PADRE Pio next meeting and Devotions is 15th December at Lixnaw 7.30pm. Witness given by Jim Breen. Who is he? Founder and C.E.O. of Pulse Learning.

THE LATIN MASS will be offered in Holy Cross Dominican Church, Tralee at 1.30pm on Sun 13 Dec.

ECUMENICAL CAROL SERVICE and readings by Candlelight will be held on Sunday December 13th at 7pm in St Marys Church Tarbert. Refreshments will be served immediately afterwards in the Community Centre.

CLOUNMACON COMMUNITY ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MASS: at their Community Centre on Friday night Dec. 11th at 7.30 p.m. All are welcome!

HOLY Door of Mercy Holy will be opened at a special Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney at 5pm on Sunday Dec 13th.

CHRISTMAS PANTO tickets available from Listowel Family Resource Centre and all other charities involved. Proceeds from the show on Tuesday. December 28 show will go directly to Listowel Family Resource Centre. Each show commences at 8pm. Tickets from 10.00 euro (adults), 7,00 euro (children) and 25,00 euro family tickets are also available.

CRAFT FAIR: Duagh Christmas Craft Fair & FREE Santa's Grotto will take place on Sun 13th December 2015 from 12pm to 3pm in the Church Grounds.

CONCERT: Tickets are still available for the High Kings who will perform in Glin Church on Thurs 17th of Dec. They can be purchased from Siobhan at 087 9944245.

SENIOR CITIZENS CHRISTMAS PARTY will be held at the Community Centre in Tarbert on Sunday 13th December, to book your place please contact Breda Lavery 087-1909880.

TARBERT COMMUNITY CENTRE will host a coffee morning and cake sale in the centre on Saturday 12th December from 10am to 1pm. All proceeds in aid of Ella Ahern, Athea (daughter of Therese Ryan formerly of Dooncaha) your support would be gratefully appreciated. Donations of cakes, buns etc welcome.

GALA CHRISTMAS CONCERT : Kerry Choral Union Choir (100 members) featuring Miriam Murphy, Soprano and Mark Leen will perform their Gala Christmas Concert for Pieta House, Tralee in St. John’s Church, on Sunday 13th December at 7.30pm

WWW.STUDENTVOLUNTEER.IE will promote student volunteering. It is designed to connect voluntary organisations with 3rd level students. The ITT will launch the interactive website on Wed. 9th Dec. in the north campus at 1pm with Joanne O'Riordan Voluntary organisation are invited to register on the database.

AWARD: Roisín, Vincent and John McCormack from Gkinetic Energy who were recently presented with the SEAI Design Award 2015 at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham Dublin, see more at www.gkinetic.com

SPECIAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: in preparation for Christmas in Listowel Church on each Sunday of Advent in the Adoration Chapel from 3pm to 6pm. You are invited to drop in and spend time before the Blessed Sacrament.

BOOK: Fr. Jim O’Connell’s book “A Life to Live” now available at the parish office, Castleisland at €10.00.

BEST WISHES to Sr. Aquin (Noreen) Enright, Doonard who recently celebrated her 90th birthday. A missionary sister with the Holy Rosary Order she spent over forty years working as a nurse in Nigeria, Biafra, and Kenya, her older sister, Sr. Mary Kevin S.H.C.J is her retired to Dublin.

NOMINATED: Mrs Ursula Leslie, has been nominated inaugural Heritage Hero by the Heritage Council of Ireland. The nomination was supported by Tarbert Historical and Heritage Society. This award celebrates someone who makes an outstanding contribution to the protection and promotion of heritage, particularly during National Heritage Week. Ursula will be honoured at a Heritage Council event in February 2016.

C.E. O. Jim Breen. Who is he? Founder and C.E.O. of Pulse Learning. He is well known as the Iron-man of marathons on bike and road and a former world inter-varsity boxing champion. But for most of his life the 42 year old star of Secret Millionaire has battled against crippling depression. He will talk about the destructive nature of the illness and the massive challenges surrounding this hidden illness at Lixnaw Church on 15th December at 7.30pm.

DEATH DRISCOLL: Timothy J Driscoll of Ringwood died on 8th April 2015 aged 94 years. Predeceased by his parents Timothy and Nora Mary Driscoll (Stack) and brothers William P., Richard F., Walter V., and by his beloved wife of forty five years Marie C Driscoll(Esposito). His education and employment were primary in the field of engineering. He retired from DRS Technology as a Logistics Administrator and became a consultant in the field of integrated logistic support. He was a member of the Standards Engineer Society and a senior member of the Society of Logistics Engineers where he was certified as a Certified Professional Logistician (CPL). U.S. Marine Corps, 1945-1946 active and 1946- 1948 reserve. He was trained and served as an Aerial Navigator with the first Marine Air Wing. He was a charter and life member of the Marine Corps League Lakeland Detachment #744. Funeral service at D’Agostino Funeral Home 881 Ringwood Avenue, Haskell on Saturday 9-30 AM, followed by interment at Holy cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.

There are several in the Driscoll & Stack family served their Country;- WWI - Army - William Timothy Driscoll and Timothy Driscoll, sons of Timothy & Mary McGlynn Driscoll and WWII - Marine - Timothy J. Driscoll and Walter Vincent Driscoll, WWII - Navy -William Patrick Driscoll WWII Navy, sons of Timothy & Nora Stack Driscoll; WWII - Army - Richard Stack, son of Richard (son of Richard & Margaret McCarthy Stack) & Jane Moore Sayer Stack, ; WWII - Navy - Mary O'Brien daughter of Edward J. & Bridget Driscoll (daughter of Timothy & Mary McGlynn Driscoll) O'Brien.

Driscoll Death in USA his family came from Moyvane. Jeannette tells me. You can add that Tim was a great person, loved his chocolate, had a great smile, and was determined to do things for himself even at 94 years of age. Drove a car up to a few months before he passed away. He was a thoughtful and caring person. He was proud of his heritage and his country. It was my pleasure to have met him and my sorrow that he never got to go to Ireland to meet family members. They would have definitely loved him.

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PEOPLE'S DEBATE; Broadcaster Vincent Browne due to host the People’s Debate in Limerick in the Strand Hotel in front of an audience on Monday, December 7th.

15 December 2 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

CHIROPODIST will be in the Marian Hall on Thursday Dec 3rd at 10am. Book with Eileen Quinn on 49472.

RAMBLING HOUSE on Thursday 3rd Dec at 9pm in Knockanure Community Centre. Music, song and dance. Admission free. Refreshments will be served. Contact Ann Flavin at 086/3090948.

ACTIVE RETIREMENT DAY AT KNOCKANURE COMMUNITY CENTRE: takes place on Monday 14th Dec. Mass at 12pm followed by meal at 1pm. Music by Stevie Donegan. All welcome. If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068/49799. New members especially welcome.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL COLLECTION: This special collection takes place on Dec 5th & 6^th

THE SENIOR CITIZENS COMMITTEE wish to thank all who attended their Christmas Party. Thanks to Fr. Kevin for saying Mass and our Main Sponsor’s Newtownsands Co-Op, Marian Hall Committee, I.C.A., Development Association and all the local business people who gave us such wonderful spot prizes. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas.

MOYVANE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCATION: on next Saturday Dec 5th after Mass at 8.30pm Santa Claus & some of his helpers will be in the village to switch on the Christmas Tree Lights. There will be Carol singing etc.

PARTY in Athea; The Christmas party will take place on Wednesday, December 9th. Dinner at 1.00pm with music after by Blue Rhythm, dinner and entertainment, numerous spot prizes on the day. Names to be handed in to Rose at Brouder’s Shop or Peggy Casey.

BLOOD DONOR CLINIC Mon. 30th & Tues. 1st Dec. 5pm. to 8pm. each evening please note time change.

SINGING: West Limerick Singing Club will hold their monthly session on Friday 4th December in the Ramble Inn Abbeyfeale, welcome to all singers and storytellers

DEATH as taken place of Bridie Robinson nee Walsh of Tralee and late of Aughrim, Moyvane. Bridie Died on 24th November 2015, daughter of the late Gus and Mary and sister of the late James. Survived by her daughter Roisin, grandchildren Tybat and Kaleed, brothers Thady, Vincent, Eddie and John Paul, Sisters, Kathleen, Noreen, Peggy and Ann, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces.Requiem Mass for Bridie Robinson was celebrated on Friday at Church of the Assumption, Moyvane and burial afterwards in Ahavoher Cemetery.

DEATH has taken place of Noreen Broderick nee Scanlon of Bunagara, on the 21st of November, 2015, wife of the late Danny. Survived by her son PJ and daughter-in-law Mai, grandchildren Norella and Pádraig, nephews Adrian, John, and Jeremiah and niece Mary Bridget,

Requiem mass for Noreen Broderick was celebrated at Listowel Church on Tuesday, the 24th of November, followed by burial in St. Michael's Cemetery, Listowel.

ANNIVERSARIES: Josie Lyons, Mark Flaherty, Fr. John Joe Walsh, Sr. Carmel Danaher, Finbar Carmody, Ellen Quinn, Mary Manning, Ellen Vaughan, Pat Hayes, Jim Brosnan, Julia McElligott, Rita Fitzmaurice, Sr. Marie Costelloe, Margaret Kennelly, Michael Fitzmaurice, Betty Coughlin, Ollie Leahy, Tommy Faley, Bridie Stack, Mikey Holly, Margaret Dillane, Kay Holloway, Peggy Sheehan, Jackie Healy Rae, Tim Kennelly. Mass in Moyvane: Mon 30th at 7.30pm for John & Catherine Moloney, (Anni). Wed 2nd Dec at 7.30pm for Kathleen O’Connor,(Anni). Fri 4th at 7.30pm for Kit & Edward Fitzmaurice (Anni). Sat 5th at 7.30pm for Margaret, Patrick & Oliver Carmody (Anni). Sun 6th at 11.00am for Peggy Sheehan and her husband Mick,

Knockanure Church: Tue 1^st Dec. at 7.30pm for Paddy & Bridie Flavin & Dec members. Sun 6^th at 10.00am for P.J. Nolan.

NIGHT VIGIL IN KNOCK: Monday December 7. A Coach will be leaving Listowel at 4.30pm, Abbeyfeale Church 5pm, Bookings 068 31232 or 087 3966399.

CAROL SERVICE BY ST. MARY’S PARISH CHOIR will take place Sunday 6th December in Listowel Church. At 7pm.

YEAR OF MERCY: Begins December 8th.No Christ, No Peace. Know Christ, Know Peace.

PADRE Pio Devotions is 15th December at 7.30pm at Lixnaw Church.

LISTOWEL BAZAAR On Friday next 4th & Saturday 5th December at the Boy’s School Hall at 8pm

IRISH WHEELCHAIR ASSOC. SHOP Willam St., Bumper Christmas Sale: toys, Novelties, Gift ideas etc. Thursday December 3rd starts 10.30am.

ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE PARENTS COUNCIL are hosting a Pub Quiz in aid of St. Michael’s College Football Teams Friday 4th December at 9pm. in Christy’s, The Square.

DOWNSYNDROME KERRY are holding a public meeting in the Family Resource Centre, John B Keane Rd, on the 3rd December from 8.30pm to 9.30pm. We want to say a heartfelt ‘thank you’ for all your support and to inform you of the services that we provide Tel: 085-7737008.

KNOCKANURE SACRISTIAN’S COLLECTION: The customary envelope collection for Margaret Carmody, will take place on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Margaret has very kindly placed envelopes at the back of the Church. Please take them home and return them with your contributions and place them in the box at the back of the Church before the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses. Very many thanks.

SECOND COLLECTION next weekend 5th & 6th December is for Diocesan Youth Service.

GIVING WITNESS: There will be a talk in St John’s Church, Tralee on Thursday 3rd Dec at 7.30pm. by Mr Phillip Ryan, “Giving witness to our Faith in this Year of Mercy”.

KERRY DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE: to Fatima will take place from 11th May to 18th May 2016 ( 066/7131328.

LISTOWEL FRC. The 'Kerrywide programme featuring Listowel Family Resource Centre can be heard on Sunday. December 6 at 9pm.

ST. JOHN’S PARISH BAZAAR: will take place from Friday – Sunday, December 4th – 6th at K.D.Y.S. Hall, Denny Street.

CONCERT: Tickets are still available for the High Kings who will perform in Glin Church on Thurs 17th of Dec. They can be purchased from Siobhan at 087 9944245.

SENIOR CITIZENS CHRISTMAS PARTY will be held at the Community Centre in Tarbert on Sunday 13th December, to book your place please contact Breda Lavery 087-1909880.

VISIT SANTA at TARBERT BRIDEWELL. On the 6th of December from 3-5pm. Face painting and more!

UL Hospitals Group Patient Council, please contact Catherine Hand, Patient Liaison Officer via email at patient.counciluhl@hse.ie or 061 482448.

THE CARERS ASSOCIATION are providing the QQI (FETAC) Level 5 Healthcare Support Award training in your area in January 2016. For more info contact the training unit on 0579370221.

CRAFT Fair All Tables booked. Sunday 6th December in the Community Centre Tarbert.

BOOK LAUNCH –“ A Commentary on the

Apocalypse of John” by Dan O Connor at Tarbert Community Centre on Saturday 29th November immediately after Mass. 50% of the proceeds are going to charity.

TARBERT COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES – Project Maths for Parents/Guardians, Just Cooking, Art, Nutritional Therapist, Mindfulness meditation for wellness. For further information please contact 068 36105 or www.tarbertcomprehensive.ie email: tarbert@iol.ie

ABBEYFEALE FOR AFRICA will hold Annual CAKE SALE on Sunday December 13^th in St Ita`s Hall .

THOUGHT

I have wept in the night

For the absence of sight

That made me to others' needs blind

But I never once yet

Felt a pang of regret

For being a little too kind.

HARTNETT: Biography of Rev. Jeffrey Hartnett, from: Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, 1892, p. 373.

REV. J. A. HARTNETT, Rector of St. Patrick's Church, Dallas, is a native of Erin's Isle, county of Limerick, Ireland and a son of Daniel T. and Hanora (Donough) Hartnett. The father died in Weatherford, Parker county, Texas, in July, 1890, aged seventy years, and the mother now resides at the homestead in that county, aged sixty-eight years. They were the parents of twelve children, eight of whom are still living:1. Thomas D. Hartnett, a railroad contractor through Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, and is now in Indiana on a contract for a railroad leading from Chicago East

2. Michael D. Hartnett, a hardware and farm implernent merchant of Graceville, Minnesota

3. Cornelius D. Hartnett, a wholesale grocer of Weatherford, being the senior member of the firm of C. D. Hartnett & Co.

4. Bridget Hartnett, wife of Charles Nolan, a farmer of Ankeny, Iowa

5. Margaret Hartnett, wife of John Hartnett, a railroad contractor and farmer near Weatherford

6. Augustine Hartnett, an Ursuline nun of Dallas, and known as Madam St. Mary Augustine

7. A. Hartnett8. Daniel D. Hartnett, a retail grocer of Weatherford.

Rev. J. A. Hartnett's father's half-brother, John F. Meagher, is ex-Governor of Minnesota. Daniel T. Hartnett was a man highly respected for his honesty and industry, and his children grew to mature years under the best parental influence, as is evinced by the business tact and high standing of each. They are all persons of prominence in their line, and are respected by a large circle of acquaintances. Rev. J. A. Hartnett came to America with his parents in 1863, and to Texas in 1871. He was educated at St. Mary's College, of St. Mary's Kansas, and his theological studies were pursued at St. Mary's Seminary, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was ordained July 5, 1891, and first served as assistant at the Pro-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, located at the corner of Bryant and Ervay streets, Dallas. Two months later be was appointed to his present position, which he has filled successfully and satisfactorily. His congregation is increasing rapidly, and in fact, has almost doubled since his pastorate began. Since early life Father Hartnett has taken kindly to theology, his reading and studies.

HARTNETT, JEFFREY ALOYSIUS (1859–1899). Jeffrey Hartnett, first priest ordained in and for the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, son of Daniel T. and Honora Hartnett, was born in Ireland on April 20, 1859. He was less than four years old when he came with his parents, brothers, and sisters to America. Apparently in heavy debt, the family lived for a while "in the North," moved south and west as Jeffrey's father became a levee and railroad contractor, and arrived in Texas about 1870. They stayed for a short time in Texarkana and Clarksville and finally settled in Weatherford. Jeffrey helped his father at work and eventually became his bookkeeper. He participated in the construction of several railroad lines in Texas-the Texas and Pacific, the Houston and Central Texas, and the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt).

Once the family was out of debt and firmly established, Hartnett felt free to pursue ecclesiastical studies. He attended St. Mary's College in Kansas and St. Mary's Seminary in Cincinnati, where he received a master of arts degree in 1891. He returned to Texas and was ordained at the procathedral in Dallas by Thomas F. Brennan, first bishop of the newly founded diocese, on July 5, 1891. He spent his first two years of ministry at Dallas and Paris, Texas. In 1893 he was sent to Ennis, where he built a church. In 1896 he was assigned to St. Patrick's parish, where he completed a large brick-and-stone church started by his predecessor. In late 1897 he was appointed rector of the procathedral in Dallas and immediately applied his building and managing skills to the construction of the present cathedral. In early 1899 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Dallas, and Hartnett took upon himself the duty of attending to the spiritual needs of the disease victims at the pesthouse six miles away.

On the night of February 11–12, 1899, an unprecedented blizzard hit Dallas. The upper Colorado, Brazos, and Trinity rivers froze solid, many cattle died in West Texas, and the Gulf region suffered a hard freeze. Answering the call of spiritual duty, Hartnett walked to the pesthouse at the peak of the blizzard to administer last rites to a dying woman. He contracted smallpox, and on March 7, 1899, he died. His death deeply affected many people in the Dallas area. Expressions of regret were sent to the newspapers by a wide variety of organizations, from the Dallas City Council to the Ancient Order of Hibernians to the Dallas Freethinkers Association. The Dallas Morning News remarked: "No death which has occurred in Dallas for many years, has occasioned more general regret than that of Rev. Father Hartnett." A true Christian folk hero, Hartnett soon became known as a "martyr to duty" and was the inspiration of poems, stories, and popular devotion.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Catholic Archives of Texas, Files, Austin. Dallas Morning News, February 12–14, 28, March 8–10, 1899. Southern Messenger, February 16, March 9, 16, 1899. Texas Catholic, July 11, 1891.

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POPE in Kenya:

Sr Mary Killeen rsm of the Mukuru Centre in Nairobi.

Pope Francis was due to meet Irish missionary nun Sr Mary Killeen in the Nairobi slum of Kangeme as part of his final day in Kenya before he travels on to Uganda.

The Mercy Sister is due to make a five minute presentation to the pontiff ahead of the announcement of financial assistance for a project selected as a memorial of the Pope’s visit.

Over half a million people live in the cardboard-and-tin slum in Nairobi, one of the city’s poorest and most densely populated, and lacking adequate sanitation and water services.

Most of these people have left their rural homes because of poverty and came to the city in the hope of finding work.

Some are successful but the majority, being unskilled and uneducated, remain jobless.

They live in very poor shacks made from cardboard or plastic material while those who are a little better off have houses made from corrugated iron sheets or similiar substances.

These one-roomed houses are approximately ten by ten feet and have no sanitation or running water. There is no waste collection and most of the waste, household and other, goes directly into the nearby river.

About 60% of Nairobi’s population live in slum conditions. Slum dwellers pay rent for their shacks to landlords who ‘own’ the land. The amount varies from US $12-25 per month depending on the location of the house.

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2015 November 25 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

PADRE PIO EVENING MASS will take place on Thursday26th Nov. at 7pm. incorporating the Rosary, Mass and Benediction.

SCOIL CHORP CHRIST PARENTS ASSOCIATION: Calendar Launch night in Flynn’s Bar Friday 27th Nov at 8.30pm, also on sale in Knockanure Church on Sunday Nov 29th. Please support.

SANTA: will visit the Marian Hall on Sun 29th November for our Family Fun Day.

NIGHT VIGIL IN KNOCK: Monday December 7. A Coach will be leaving Listowel at 4.30pm, Abbeyfeale Church 5pm, Bookings 068 31232 or 087 3966399.

THE CONSOLE CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION OF LIGHT TAKES places on Sunday, November 29th at 4pm at various locations around the country. The venue in Kerry for our service is - Saint Brendan’s Church, Rock street, Tralee, Co. Kerry Phone 066-7129700 for details.

TALK by Donal O Connor on salmon fishing on the Shannon at 7.30pm in Sheanchai on Nov 26th.

THE ANNUAL X FACTOR SHOW in St. Michael’s College takes place on Thursday next 26th November at 7.30pm. A night of entertainment, singing, dancing and comedy. All are welcome.

I.C.A. Annual Shopping Trip to Cork on Wednesday 2nd December.

OCCUPATIONAL FIRST AID with Fetac Level 5 certification will be held at Listowel Family Resource Centre on December 3, 4 and 7 from 9am-4.30pm daily. Further details from (068) 23584.

DEATH took place on 17th November 2015 of Rita Kelly (née Pirotta) 31 Bruach na Gaile, Moyvane. Survived by her husband Jim, brother Joe and his wife Maria, brother Godrey and his wife Rose, twin sister Kathy and her spouse Paul, sister-in-law Rose, nephews Edward and his wife Christine, and Jonathan, nieces Davina and Melanie and her spouse Mark and their children Daniel and Rachel, cousins Monica and her husband Charles. Removal on Monday morning, the 23rd of November at Noon to St. John's Church, Denny Street, Tralee, followed by private cremation.

DEATH took place on 14th November 2015 of Harold Sheahan of Beale East, Ballybunion.Survived by his niece Maryann, nephews, Harry, Denis and Brendan, nieces-in-law, Mary and Deirdre, nephew-in-law, James, grandniece, Laura and grandnephews, Darragh, Peter and Robert. relatives and friends. Following Requiem Mass at St. John's Church, Ballybunion on Tuesday Nov 17th, Harold was laid to rest in Kilconly Cemetery. Many the time he recalled his walk from Knockanure with a bull he purchased from his cousin.

DEATH occurred on 16th November 2015 of Mossie O'Halloran, Clorane, Adare and formally of Beenanaspig, Athea. Following Requiem mass on Thursday at Holy Trinity Abbey Church, Adare, Mossie O Halloran was laid to rest in St. Nicholas Cemetery, Adare.

ANNIVERSARIES: Con Riordan, Fr. John Horan, Mary Harnett, Mary OHanlon, Joan Mullane, John Timothy Soules, Fr. Leo Danaher, Joan Gaire, Donal Foley, Fr. Michael O Leary, Mairead Carmody, Maura Gallahue, John Buckley, Tom Woulfe, Sr. Baptist Kennelly, James Leahy, Ned Walsh, Pat Hanrahan, Michael Windle, Mattie Walsh, Con Bunce, Mary Carmody, Una Dore, Ann Maria De Bilde, Mikey Fitzgerald, Mass at Moyvane: Mon 23^rd at 7.30pm for Holy Souls – All on Parish List. Wed 25th at 7.30pm for John Buckley, Woodgrove (Anni). Fri 27th at 7.30pm, Mass For All Dec whose Funeral Masses have taken place in Moyvane Dec 2014 – Nov 2015. Sat 28th at 7.30pm for Johnny Quinn, Leitrim Middle (Anni).Sun 29th 11.00am for Michael Dore and daughter Kathleen, Woodgrove (Anni).Knockanure Mass; Tue 24^th at 7.30pm for Holy Souls - All on Parish List. Thurs 26^th at 7.30pm Holy Souls - All on Parish List. Sun 29th at 10.00am for Richard & Jeremiah Horgan & Eileen & Jerry O’Donoghue, Kilmorna. Tuesday 1^st Dec. Mass at 7.30pm, for Paddy & Bridie Flavin, Kilmeaney and all deceased Family Members.

SPECIAL MASS: to honour all the faithful departed whose Funeral Masses took place in Moyvane Church from Dec 2014 to Nov 2015 will be celebrated in Moyvane Church on Friday 27th at 7.30pm.

CAROL SERVICE BY ST. MARY’S PARISH CHOIR will take place Sunday 6th December in Listowel Church. At 7pm.

CEOL: The Limerick County Finals of Ceol an Gheimhridh, 2015 will be held in Shanagolden Community Hall on Sunday 29th November. Shanid Comhaltas branch will host the competition, which is confined to comhaltas members. The age categories are Under 13, and 13-17, and the relevant information, and entry forms, have been sent to all the Comhaltas branch secretaries.

PLAY; John B Keane play at the Glórach community theatre. Performances will take place on the 21/22/24/27/28/29 November. More details from 087 1383 940.

BEST WISHES to The Athea Set including Danny Brady, Laura Dalton, Eoin Sheahan, Sarah O’Connor, Michael Tierney, Aoife Sheahan, David O’Connor and Meadhbh Donovan who won the set dancing competition at the West Limerick Scór, recently.

Congrats are extended to Diarmuid and Áine of O’Riordan’s Pharmacy who celebrated 10 years in business in Athea recently.

YEAR OF MERCY: Begins December 8th.No Christ, No Peace. Know Christ, Know Peace.

MASS FOR DECEASED OF PAST YEAR: will take place on Friday November - 27th at 7.00 p.m at Listowel Church. View the List of 74 names (RIP) in the sacred space in front of Our Lady’s Altar. There will be ‘cuppa’ after the Mass in the Parish Meeting Room. All are welcome.

CHRISTMAS CARDS: Please send a few extra cards this year. Cards available after all Masses in both Churches and also in the Parish Office, Holly’s and the Post Office.

MASS CARDS: Please feel free to call into Jacqueline in our Parish Office to have a look at the very large varied selection of Mass Cards.

THE CONCERN CHURCH GATE COLLECTION: will be held in Tarbert, Ballylongford, Asdee, Moyvane and Listowel on Nov 28th & 29th.

ST. JOHN’S PARISH BAZAAR: will take place from Friday – Sunday, December 4th – 6th at K.D.Y.S. Hall, Denny Street.

REHABCARE BLENNERVILLE: Talk on Mental Health by Maeve Halpin. November 25th from 1.30—3pm in the Brandon Hotel. Special guest Dr. Edmond O’Flaherty speaking on Nutrient Therapy.

VOLUNTEER OVERSEAS: SERVE is a Cork based international development and volunteering organisation looking for volunteers for their 2016 programme. Information session, providing details of projects in Mozambique, The Philippines and India. on Wed Nov 25th, IT Tralee, North Campus, Room S114 at 1pm. Attendance at an information sessions is required in order to be eligible for an interview for the 2016 Overseas Volunteer Programme.

JOURNAL: The 35th edition of the Castlemahon/Feohanagh parish annual will be launched by Liam Irwin, Professor of Irish History at Mary Immaculate College Limerick, in the new hall in Castlemahon on Saturday 28th November at 8.30pm. All are welcome

CLASSES TARBERT: www.tarbertcomprehensive.ie email: tarbert@iol.ie

PARTY: Going Strong Christmas party will take place in Athea on Wednesday, December 9th. Dinner at 1.00pm with music after by Blue Rhythm.

PARTY: Glin ICA will hold the Senior Citizens' Christmas Party on Sunday the 29th November in Cloverfield Day Care Centre. Starting at 1.00 pm Fr Crawford and Fr Madigan will concelebrate mass, and this will be followed by Dinner,

ST JOHN’S; Tuesday 24^th Irish Movie called ‘59’.Wed. 25^th play, My Name is Saoirse, by Eva O Connor. Thurs. 26^th Ann Marie Riordan in Concert. Fri 27^th, Rackhouse Pilfer, Bluegrass. More details from 068 22566.

CONCERT: Tickets are still available for the High Kings who will perform in Glin Church on Thurs 17th of Dec. They can be purchased from Siobhan at 087 9944245.

SENIOR CITIZENS CHRISTMAS PARTY will be held at the Community Centre in Tarbert on Sunday 13th December, to book your place please contact Breda Lavery 087-1909880.

VISIT SANTA at TARBERT BRIDEWELL. On the 6th of December from 3-5pm.

Face painting and more!!! More details to follow closer to the date!

BE AWARE! PREVENT SUICIDE will launch a new and comprehensive guide to mental health support services throughout Kerry at the “Open Our Minds” Mental Wellness Exhibition in the Brandon Hotel, on Sunday, November 29th from 1pm to 6pm. VERY MANY THANKS: to Fr. Teddy Lenihan, Main Chaplin, Tralee Hospital. He very generously gave both Churches lovely memorable candelabras.

SERVICE: Kerry General Hospital hosts a service on Thursday 26th November in the Hospital Chapel. This service is dedicated to all the deceased members of staff of St Catherine’s Hospital and Kerry General Hospital at 7pm.

KNITTED: Over the past six years, 390,000 little hats have been knitted for the innocent Big Knit, raising more than €120,000.

WORK: Up to 30 per cent of staff now working in the older adult care sector in Ireland are from another country.

CHARISMATIC Nov 29: The loving mercy of our god has come to visit us! St Paul’s Church, Dooradoyle, Limerick. Sunday November 29th 2015.2.00pm -6pm Speaker: Bishop Donal Murray- Bishop Emeritus.

BECOME A FOSTER CARER: Contact TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency at 066 7195623 or fill in the form online at www.fostering.ie

ROSARY WILL BE PRAYED AT TEAMPALL BAN FAMINE GRAVEYARD, 3.00 p.m. each Sunday during the month of November.

THOUGHT: “Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best” Henry Van Dyke.

CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES: I am only too well aware that we will have many Parishioners returning to our Parish for Christmas. With joy and happiness we welcome all back home. We will have three Christmas Eve Masses: MOYVANE: 6.00PM CHILDREN & FAMILY MASS

KNOCKANURE: 7.30PM CHILDREN & FAMILY MASS

MOYVANE: 9.00PM MIDNIGHT CHRISTMAS EVE MASS

Please choose your Mass for this very special evening and be assured of a warm welcome.

CONFESSION CELEBRATION: On Monday Dec 21st, there will be a very special evening in St Mary’s Church, Listowel celebrating Confession. A large number of priests will be available for the beautiful Sacrament of Confession. This celebration is for the whole Pastoral Area and all are invited to come and receive God’s warm forgiveness. It will start @ 8pm. If any Parishioner needs transport to get to this celebration on 21st Dec please contact Jacqueline in the Parish Office 49308.

SKY: Nov.22 Uranus near Moon. Nov.25 Full Moon. Nov.26 Aldebaran near Moon (in Hyades!). Nov.30 Venus near Spica. Jupiter, Mars, Venus in morning skies.

PARISH CLERK: Bridie Daly (1942 - 2015) served the Irremore district as Parish Clerk with great pride and distinction. She came in Sept. 1988 and retired through ill health on Sunday, July 19th, 2015. Her 27 years of commitment to St. Senans Church was total and absolute, she was dependable and reliable served with Fr. Roger Kelliher, Fr. Dave McElligott, Fr. Pat Crean Lynch, Fr. Dick O’Connor, Fr. Pat Moore, Fr. Gerard O’Connell and Fr. Brick.

RELATIONS; Richard cotter (Saturday, 14 November 2015 08:32). I Am looking for relatives of family of Joseph & Bridget Shanahan of Tullamore, Listowel, please? Daughters married O'Donnell ,Cotter, Sullivan(Kerry)and Daley/Donoghue in Cook Co.Ill.

Vicki Hunt (Wednesday, 01 July 2015 13:16)

Hello,

I have been searching for information on a Herlihy family....who were from Kerry/Listowel. Ellen and Patrick Herlihy had 5 children.. Patrick, Cornelius Anne, Tim and Mary. Mary was born around 1929 and immigrated to Canada in 1950, landed in Nova Scotia, then made her way to Montreal where she stayed for a couple of years before moving on to Toronto. Any information would be gratefully appreciated......Mary's middle name was Theresa. There is no record of a marriage for her, but she had a significant other at one point whose name was Michael Kelly, who was also from Ireland. Thanks!

KEYLOD: I checked the Valuation Document for Keylod. At the time of Griffiths John Sandes was renting it along with Heffernans from William Sandes. John Healy took it on in 1867 and held it until 1892. Nobody then until 1898 when Bryan Galvin took it. He only held it for a year. Next up was a John Moloney. Then Maurice Corridon came along in 1912. He purchased it from Sandes in 1914. Maurice must have died young because his wife Nora became the owner in 1920. She died around 1944 and then it was in the name of James Corridon from 1946 until 1955. Then Michael Corridon until 1958 when Jeremiah Clancy took over.

Before Griffiths Primary Valuation was published there were a ISLANDANNY: Interim books. When they compiled the first book John Moloney hadn't yet come back from Monagay. Instead there were five Moloney households on the farm in Sluicequarter. The farm was shared by Thomas (jun.), Denis and Daniel. Then Thomas (sen.) and Michael were renting small plots from the three younger men. Thomas Sen. didn't pay any rent for his plot and he also had the "grass for one cow". He was obviously the father of the three men who shared the farm. I'm not sure about the exact relation of Michael to the others. He may have been a brother of Thomas (sen.) but maybe not. I knew of him already - he continued renting his plot until the 1870s. (The plot is basically what became Goulds later - also known as The Jury.)

When they revised this book a year or so later all the changes had been made. The names of the three brothers and their father are crossed out. And John Moloney's name has been added. So I think Thomas (jun.), Denis and Daniel must all have headed off to America. And Thomas (sen.) had presumably died. He is the Thomas whose name is on the old headstone in the Old Abbey cemetery in Abbeyfeale. It was probably his death that put all the other changes in motion. I have no doubt but that John from Monagay was an elder brother of these men who left.

War Memorial Listowel

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LISTOWEL PARISH WEB SITE LAUNCH

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2015 November 18 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

SENIOR CITIZENS CHRISTMAS PARTY: in the Marian Hall on Sun 22nd Nov, starting with Mass at 12.30 followed by dinner, music and dancing and afternoon tea. Book with Ita 49569 or Maureen 49365. Spot prizes from local business people would be appreciated.

HEALTH: Herbalife customer night with Maggie Large takes place on the 21st of November at 7 pm in Knockanure Community Centre. An evening of nutritional information and inspiration. Free ENTRY, free samples and raffle on the night. Bring your family and friends. For more information call Maggie on 0879866533.

LOCAL School Calendar and Parish Christmas Cards are now available.

I.C.A. Annual Shopping Trip to Cork on Wednesday 2nd December.

FOOTBALL: Ladies Football AGM on Nov 18^th at 8pm in Moyvane Community Centre.

SYMPATHY: At a recent meeting of the Board of Management of Scoil Chorp Chríost Knockanure the following votes of sympathy were passed: The Kennelly & Moran Families Knockanure and Keylod on the death of Margaret Daly. Pat O' Connor Keylod and the Kennelly family Knockanure Village on the death of Mary O' Connor.

The Holly Family, Tarmons Hill on the death of Paddy Holly, Tarmons Hill & Leicester, U.K. The O' Flaherty & Moore families, Tubertooreen and Kilmorna on the death of Sister Nuala, U.K. Anne O' Sullivan and Family, Trien on the death of Denis Lane, U.K.The O' Dowd Family Knockanure, U.S.A. on the death of Elizabeth O' Dowd, U.S.A.

The Clancy Family Knockanure on the death of Eileen Murphy, Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick.

OCCUPATIONAL FIRST AID with Fetac Level 5 certification will be held at Listowel Family Resource Centre on December 3, 4 and 7 from 9am-4.30pm daily. Further details from (068) 23584.

MASS: His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke will offer a Pontifical High Mass at Sacred Heart, Limerick at 10.30am on Sunday 22nd November.

TALK: Padraig O'Concubhair will be giving a talk on Kitchener in the Bridewell on Saturday 21st. At 8p.m. On Sat.19th.December singers and reciters night in Bridewell Tarbert.

SANTA: will visit the Marian Hall on Sun 29th November for our Family Fun Day.

DEATH: Margaret Forde nee Nolan, died in London late of Coilbee.

DEATHS: Death has taken place of Richard Cotter of Knocknagoshel, uncle of Mairead Moore. Death of Nuala O Flaherty of Kilflynn and Philomena McAuliffe of Lixnaw, aunts of Mike Galvin.

DEATH: Mr Helmut Kostal of Ludenscheid, Germany, passed away at the weekend.

Helmut Kostal opened a factory in Abbeyfeale in May 1981, at present the factory employs about 600.

ANNIVERSARIES: Paddy Hurley, Hannah Griffin, Tom Scanlon, Peter Lewis, Bridget O Connor, Agnes Fitzgerald, Mamie Kennelly, Norrie Brady, Mary Moloney, Mary O Mahony, Bridie Pace, Jeremiah Behan, Eileen O Donoghue, Tess Fitzgerald, Liam Flaherty, Fr. John Flaherty, David Hegarty, Sr. Gerard Sheehy, Maureen Scollard, Padraig Tydings, Noreen McElligott, Margaret Halpin, Ned Bunce, Liam Collins. Mass in Moyvane, Monday 16^th at 7.30pm for Holy Souls. Wed. 18^th for Richard Sheehan at 7.30pm. Friday 20^th at 9.30am for Margaret Breen Benson. Sat. 21^st at 7.30pm for Patrick Scanlon. Sunday 22^nd at 11am for Mikie Joe OFlaherty. Knockanure Mass Tue. 17^th at 7.30pm for Bridie Behan. Friday 20^th at 7.30pm, Mass for all whose funeral masses were celebrated in Knockanure over past year.

MEETING of Pastoral Council in Knockanure Community Centre on 16^th Nov, at 8.15pm.

RADIO LINK is about to be repaired.

QUIZ NIGHT IN AID OF LENAMORE NATIONAL SCHOOL On Friday 20th November in Brosnans Bar Market Street Listowel at 9pm Further Information Tel: 0863689061.

NIGHT VIGIL IN KNOCK: Monday December 7. A Coach will be leaving Listowel at 4.30pm, Abbeyfeale Church 5pm, Bookings 068 31232 or 087 3966399.

MASS FOR DECEASED MEMBERS OF LISTOWEL ACTIVE RETIRED Will take place in St. Patrick’s Hall on this Tuesday 17th November at 3.00 p.m.

FUNDRAISING dance for Ella Aherne of Garrygloss takes place on Saturday 21st at Top of the Town Athea, Joe O’Keeffe providing the music.

GAA GPA All Stars: Congratulations to Shane Enright on making the All Star football team for 2015.

LISTOWEL BAZAAR GROUP collectors will be doing their usual collection for their Bazaar over the next 2 weeks

MEMORIAL SERVICE KERRY GENERAL HOSPITAL A service will take place in Kerry General Hospital on Thursday 26th November in the Hospital Chapel. This service is dedicated to all the deceased members of staff of St Catherine’s Hospital and Kerry General Hospital. Any queries to Peggy Daly 0877750129.

LAUNCH of the Easter 1916 Kerry Centenary Calendar, Seanchaí- Kerry Writers Museum. The Square, Listowel, Sunday November 22nd 2015 at 7.00pm.

LAUNCH OF PASTORAL PLAN 2016-2020 You are all invited to the launch of Be Christ’s Joy, Diocese of Kerry Pastoral Plan in The Malton Conference Centre, Killarney on Monday Nov 23rd at 8.00pm, preceded by tea/coffee at 7.30pm. The evening will be a celebration of faith and Dr. Patricia Kieran of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick will offer her reflection, prior to Bishop Ray launching the Pastoral Plan. The evening will conclude by 9.30pm.

CEOL: The County Finals of Ceol an Gheimhridh, 2015 will be held in Shanagolden Community Hall on Sunday 29th November. Shanid Comhaltas branch will host the competition, which is confined to comhaltas members. The age categories are Under 13, and 13-17, and the relevant information, and entry forms, have been sent to all the Comhaltas branch secretaries.

PLAY; John B Keane play opening at the Glórach community theatre on Thursday, November 19 at 8 pm. further performances will take place on the 21/22/24/27/28/29 November. More details from 087 1383 940.

OLD PICTURES of Limerick from the Hewson collection will be published on the diocesan Facebook page to coincide with the ‘Explore Your Archives’ initiative, 14 -22 November 2015.

TALK- Pádraig Ó Concubhair of Tarbert Historical Society will give a talk entitled “He never wore the Green and Gold – the story of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum” in the Bridewell on Saturday 21st November at 8pm. Everybody welcome.

TALKS: There is an open invitation to three nights at the Devon Inn, which will help all to prepare for next April’s Synod – which will be a “huge event”. The times are from 7.30-9.30pm each night November 16th, 23rd & 30th respectively. The speakers will be Brenda O’Keeffe, Donal & Eamon Fitzgibbon & Lorraine Buckley.

TALK by Donal O Connor on salmon fishing on the Shannon at 7.30pm in Sheanchai on Nov 26th.

ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE:

"More than Believing. “The reality of Faith in Paul, Mark and Luke" by Fr. Seamus O Connell , Professor of Sacred Scripture, Director of Postgraduate Studies. Faculty of Theology in Maynooth. Sat 14th and Sat 28th November from 10.30am to 12.30pm

Historical Lecture: Memoirs of Olive Trench - daughter of an Ardfert land agent on Thursday, November 19th at 8pm.

RETREAT DAYS AT GLENSTAL ABBEY –email events@glenstal.com or phone 061 621005.

BECOME A FOSTER CARER: Contact TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency at 066 7195623 or fill in the form online at www.fostering.ie

ROSARY WILL BE PRAYED AT TEAMPALL BAN FAMINE GRAVEYARD, 3.00 p.m. each Sunday during the month of November.

STARS: Nov. 17 Leonid Meteor Shower and Uranus is also close to the Moon.

STAMPS: From Peg Prendeville . An interesting incident happened last week in the library. A reader, originally from the UK, but now living in Glin has taken up stamp collecting and bought a large batch of old stamps from some other collector. He came in to me with an envelope dated 21st November 1933 addressed to a Mr Tom Kit Culhane, Ballygiltenane ( sic) and was wondering if that family was still in the area. It turns out that he was Tom Connolly’s grandfather. It was an interesting find even if the envelope was empty! I do not know where it has been all these 82 years.

CLERGY: New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 25, 15 Oct. 1886, Page 19.

The annual examination of students for admission into Maynooth College were conducted at St. Brendon's Seminary, Killarney, by the Very Rev.J. Coffey, Dean of Kerry, etc. The Venerable Archdeacon Irwin, P.P.,Castleisland, and the Rev. John O'Leary, P.P., Ballymacelligott. Ten students of the head class were presented for these examinations, andplaces were awarded as follows Messrs. Thos. Mulvihill, Tarbert, Ist. Michael Scanlan, Killarney, 2nd Joseph O'Sullivan, do, 3rd T. D.O'Sullivan, Kenmare, 4th Patrick Brown, Listowel, 5th Henry O'Carroll, do, 6th. Messrs. Michael O'Leary, Cahirdaniel, and Michael O'Donoghue, Cahirciveen, obtained nominations. The places at Maynooth allotted to Kerry students have for some years been kept under ten in number, but several students have been prepared at Listowel and elsewhere as candidates for the foreign missions.

New Zealand Tablet , Issue 43, 26 October 1899, Page 9

KERRY.— Death of a Venerable Nun.— The death of Sister Mary Gertrude O'Connor (known for upwards of a generation as Mother Gertrude), of the Presentation Convent. Listowel, is an event deserving of more than local or ordinary notice (says the Daily Nation.) For nearly 51 years this truly excellent lady occupied a prominent and honoured place in the religious life of her native county. Entering the Listowel Convent on the 15th of August, 1849, her religious life may be said to have synchronised with the life of that distinguished branch of the great Presentation Community, and the remarkable growth of that Convent, both in usefulness as an educational institution and in size, is in no small measure due to her influence and labours. Mother Gertrude was born in Tralee about 76 years ago. Her father held a commission in the British Army, served with distinction under Moore and Wellington, and the hero of Corunna is said to have died in his arms. The Very Rev. John O'Connor. D.D., who, for many years occupied a prominent place in the clerical life of his native diocese, and was one of the organisers of that brave band of Irishmen who went to the assistance of Pope Pius the Ninth in the early stage of his struggle with the infidel makers of modern Italy, and who, led by his fiery missionary zeal went abroad while yet a young curate, where he died some years ago, was a brother of Mother Gertrude. Another distinguished brother was Dr. Morgan O'Connor who died universally respected and regretted a few years ago in Wagga, New South Wales.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 16, 26 August 1898, Page 9

Deaths Amongst the Clergy.— Death has been particularly busy among the priests of Kerry latterly. Following closely on the demise of Canon O'Sullivan, of Dingle the Very Rev. T. Sullivan, Administrator of Tralee the Rev. J. Fuller of Castlegregory the Very Rev. J. Quille, of Bonane the Rev. J. Kielik of Ballyferriter, comes that of the Rev. Michael Godley, pastor of Glenbeigh. The deceased was 55 years of age, and was about 28 years on the mission. He was a native of Ballyheigue, and received his education in the Irish College, Rome, where he had a very distinguished career. He has been stationed at Lixnaw, Listowel, Ballybunnion, and Dingle. From the latter parish he was transferred about 12 months ago to the pastoral charge of Glenbeigh, in the room of the late Rev. T. Quilter.

Discovery "of Human Remains in an Ulster bog.— An extraordinary discovery was made in Clonmacfeliny bog about two miles from Lisnaskea, by a man named John Todd. Todd was engaged cutting turf, and under the fifth floor he came on a very peculiar looking object and also some bones. The discovery was at once reported to the Lisnaskea Police. The remains were afterwards conveyed to the Lisnaskea Workhouse, and an inquest held by Major Winslow, coroner for the district. Dr. Knox said he had examined the remains, and he believed them to be human. He was of opinion that they must have been in the bog for a great number of years, as the bones were almost all disintegrated, the skin remaining intact, owing, he would say, to the preservative qualities of the stratum in which it was found. The jury returned the following verdict That the said remains found in Clonmacfeliny bog on the 4th June, 1898, are human, and as they are supposed to have been there for a great many years we have no means of ascertaining the cause of death.

THOUGHT: The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally. François Fenelon.

Words to the Wise

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living”

2015 November 11 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre on Monday 09th November 2015.Mass at 12.00 pm followed by meal at 1.00 pm. All Welcome. If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.

ST PIO November prayer meeting held at Lixnaw on 3rd Tuesday, Nov. 17th at 7.30pm.

THE BORO BRIGADE RUNNING/WALKING CLUB MOYVANE: join us on Monday evenings at 7.30pm to 9.00pm. Venue Moyvane Sportsfield. All new and old members welcome.

NEWS:Listowel Military weekend will be featured on Nationwide on Friday 13th November.

RETURNING: Fr. Pat Moore of Duagh parish, great to hear he is returning.

WAR1 remembrance ceremony in Listowel is put back until Sunday 15/11/2015.

LEARN ABOUT DIABETES: Community Education Centre, Abbeyfeale on Thursday, November 12 from 11am-1pm. Events include: Diabetes Ireland: Information stand and free blood sugar testing, HSE Public Health Nurse: General health information, Limerick Sports Partnership: Taster fitness class, National Screening Service. For more information, contact West Limerick Resources on 069 61316.

SYMPATHY to Fr. Gerard O’Leary on the recent death of his father, Arthur O’Leary. To Mairead Culhane, Glenalappa and the Culhane Family on the death of Michael Culhane, Ballyguiltenane, and to Joanne Clancy and Family, Knockanure on the death of their aunt Eileen Murphy, Pallasgreen. Died recently Ita O Gorman, sister of Mossy Browne.

ANNIVERSARIES: Mary Dillane, James Walsh, Mary Ahern, Mary Langford, Mai Lane, John Eymard O Connor, Mary Rose Carrig, Mary Kennelly, Mary Ellen Houlihan, Bett Histon, Peg Reidy, Grace Mary Brosnan, Paddy Flavin, Christina Scanlon, Sr. Veronica O Neill, Billy Barry, Sr. Maria Kissane, Joe Scanlon, Sr. Eithne Finucane, Sr. Mary Tarrant, Billy Heffernan, Maureen White, Bridie Meade, Johnny Collins, Gus Cremin, Nora McMahon, Kitty O Connor, Michael Scanlon, Eileen Connell, Michael Lucid, Tom Stack, Tom Meehan, Ann Looney, Mary O Sullivan, Eugene Sullivan, Robert Corridan.

MASS at Moyvane: Mon 9th at 7.30pm for Holy Souls All in Parish List.Fri 13^th at 7.30pm for Maimie Kennelly, Kilbaha.

Sat. 14th at 7.30pm for Maurice, Mary Dowling & Son Hillary & Sean Larkin. Sun 15th 11.00am for Daniel & Julia Mulvihill and Mίcheάl &

Margaret Mulvihill.

Knockanure Masses: Tue 10th at 7.30pm for Nora Fitzgerald, Birthday Blessings. Thurs 12th at 7.30pm for Holy Souls All in Parish List. Fri 13^th at 7.30pm for Michael Lane, Sun 15th at 10.00am for Jack Carmody & Dec Family members.

ROSARY WILL BE PRAYED AT TEAMPALL BAN FAMINE GRAVEYARD, 3.00 p.m. each Sunday during the month of November.

CHOIR WORKSHOP WITH DR. JOHN O’KEEFFE On Monday, November 16th, there will be a choir workshop in St. John’s Parish Centre in Tralee from 7.00pm to 9.00pm. Choir members from all parishes invited to attend. Dr. John O’Keeffe, a native of Portmagee, Co. Kerry, Director of Sacred Music at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth.

VIGIL IN KNOCK: Monday December 7, Bookings 068 31232.

THE IRISH PILGRIMAGE TRUST are now accepting applications for their Easter Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Further information can be found on the website: http:// www.irishpilgrimagetrust.com or from Ashley on 086 1030740 .

MASS: will be celebrated in the Bon Secours Hospital Chapel at 7.30pm on Wednesday, 11th November for Patients who died in the Hospital during the past year, and for their loved ones. All family members, relatives and friends are welcome.

I.C.A. meeting Tuesday 10th at 8pm - Annual Shopping Trip to Cork on Wednesday 2nd December.

PARISH CHRISTMAS CARDS: Our Parish Christmas cards are available after all Masses this weekend and from the Parish Office. The proceeds from the sale of these cards will go towards our new Parish Office. We also have Christmas Mass Bouquet cards in stock.

TREE OF REMEMBRANCE: You are invited to write the names of family members and friends, who have died, and then place the card on the tree.

ST. JOHN’S THEATRE: is presenting John B. Keane’s play, THE FIELD beginning on this Monday Nov. 9th to Sunday 15th Nov. Booking: 068-22566.

OCCUPATIONAL FIRST AID with Fetac Level 5 certification will be held at Listowel Family Resource Centre on December 3, 4 and 7 from 9am-4.30pm daily. Further details from (068) 23584.

THE ALZHEIMER CARERS SUPPORT GROUP hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday November 10 at 12.30 in Listowel Family Resource Centre.

ST COLUMBANUS 1400 & KERRY COLUMBAN MISSION A lecture entitled 'St. Columbanus 1400 - and Kerry Columban Mission' by Fr Charles Meagher, S.S.C. Far East Missionary, will take place in Killarney Library this Tuesday evening (10th November) at 7.30pm. All welcome.

SINGERS MARK LEEN & D.J. CURTIN AT THE I.N.E.C KILLARNEY ON NOV. 15th. Free buses from Tralee.

Concert in INEC in aid of LiveLife Foundation on Nov. 25^th.

ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE:

"More than Believing. “The reality of Faith in Paul, Mark and Luke" by Fr Seamus O Connell , Professor of Sacred Scripture, Director of Postgraduate Studies. Faculty of Theology in Maynooth. Sat 14th and Sat 28th November from 10.30am to 12.30pm

Historical Lecture: Memoirs of Olive Trench - daughter of an Ardfert land agent on Thursday, November 19th at 8pm.

THE LATIN MASS (1962 Missal) will be offered in Holy Cross Dominican Church, Tralee at 1.30pm on Sunday 15th November. More information from LatinMassTralee@gmail.com. Also, His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke will offer a Pontifical High Mass at Sacred Heart, Limerick at 10.30am on Sunday 22nd November.

TALK: Padraig O'Concubhair will be giving a talk on Kitchener in the Bridewell on Saturday 21st. At 8p.m. On Sat.19th.December singers and reciters night in Bridewel Tarbert.

TALK by Donal O Connor on salmon fishing on the Shannon at 7.30pm in Sheanchai on Nov 26^th.

THOUGHT: You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

John Bunyan.

WEDDING BELLS – Congratulations to Aidan Holly son of Tom Holly and the late Josephine, Tarmons who married Siobhan Murphy in Longford.

IT'S GOOD TO TALK; Jerry Kiernan in conversation with Joe Stack at Seanchaí Listowel 8pm Friday 13th November; Tomás Ó Sé in conversation with Billy Keane 8pm Seanchaí Listowel Saturday 14th November. Admission free.

REMEMBRANCE DAY at the War Memorial on Wednesday 11th November at 11am to commemorate the fourteen young men from Tarbert who died in two World Wars.

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO WORLD YOUTH DAY 2016 for young adults (18 – 35 years) in Krakow, Poland from July 25th to Aug 1st 2016. For further information, contact Tomás Kenny, Diocesan Pastoral Team on (086) 3683778 or visit www.dioceseofkerry.ie

ROBERT BARRY FUND. Robert Barry of Leam, Kilflynn was involved in an accident last August while felling trees with a chainsaw. Robert received very serious spinal injuries. As a consequence Robert is now wheelchair bound. Since the early ‘70’s Robert has given a lifetime of service to this community particularly to the G.A.A. with St. Senans, St. Senans/Finuge, Feale Rangers & The Kerry Minors. As a selector with the Kerry Minors in ’87 & ’88 Robert helped Kerry capture the Minor title. His contribution was recognised when he was declared Clubman of the Year for Kerry in 1984. Locally he was instrumental in the purchase & development of the St. Senans GAA grounds and facilities which benefit all the community. For the past 30 years Robert has worked as a porter at the Listowel Community Hospital.

COOKERY CLASSES FOR MEN. Names are being taken for a new men's cookery class to commence shortly at Listowel Family Resource Centre. The classes will be aimed at men who want to learn and develop new cooking skills. The course runs for 13 weeks and is run by Listowel Men Shed on Friday mornings from 10am-1pm. Further details from Denis on (068 23584).

IRISH WHEELCHAIR SHOP WILLIAM STREET Monster Jig-saw Puzzle sale Thursday 12th 10am.

MARRIAGE Encounter Weekend will be from 13th to 15th November 2015 (8:00 pm Friday to 4:30 pm Sunday) at the Lake Hotel, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Details of our weekends and lots more information are provided on our website www.marriageencounter.ie or phone 086-8334382 or 064-6644319

SANTA: will visit the Marian Hall on Sun 29th November for our Family Fun Day.

NIGHT VIGIL IN KNOCK: Monday December 7. A Coach will be leaving Listowel at 4.30pm, Abbeyfeale Church 5pm, Devon Inn 5.10pm, NCW 5.20pm, Regional Hospital 6pm, Jury’s Inn 6.10pm, Union X 6.15pm, West County Ennis 6.50pm, Gort 7.20pm. Vigil programme Confessions 10pm, Vigil in Basilica 12am, Mass 4am. Bookings 068 31232 or 087 3966399.

BOOK LAUNCH: The long awaited launch of Séamus Ó'Súilleabháin's History of the Great Hunger in County Limerick will be launched in the Desmond Hall the Square Newcastle West on Friday November 13 at 8.00 pm. Ruan O'Donnell from the History Department of the University of Limerick will do the launch and John Cussen Newcastle West will chair the proceedings. Killeedy Comhaltas group will provide the entertainment. There will be refreshments served after the launch at Cronin's Bar. Everyone is welcome.

SINGING CLUB: West Limerick Singing Club are now holding their monthly singing session on the first Friday of each month at the Ramble Inn, Church St., Abbeyfeale from 9pm.

MAUREEN O Hara died 24th October 2015; Charlie Blair, Maureen always told the story, flew the last scheduled seaplane out of Foynes in October 1945 and two days later, October 24, 1945, he flew the first DC4 into Rinneanna, now Shannon Airport. Following Charlie Blair’s death in 1978, Maureen became the chief executive of an aviation company, Antilles Air Boats and edited the Virgin Islands magazine.

LETTER FROM THE LIBERATOR.

Kilkenny, 25th October, 1846.

My dear Ray—It was at a late hour in the afternoon of yesterday that I was able to leave Fermoy, and, therefore, only reached Clonmel ; I left that town after the last Maas to-day, and remain here for to-night, and consequently cannot possibly attend the Association tomorrow, which I regret not a little. " Among other things I am apprehensive lest any mistake should occur respecting what are called the Cork Resolutions.

" On that subject there has appeared, I presume, in the Southern Reporter of yesterday evening a letter of mine, and I should be exceedingly sorry if that letter was considered: my answer to the resolutions. It was intended to be little more than a complaint against the indefinite and indistinct nature of the resolutions themselves.

" My answer to the unwise request contained in those resolutions will, I trust, be ready on Monday week, the 2d November.

"I have not leisure to enter into any other topic' though even if I had time I should scarcely be able to do so. My mind ought to be entirely absorbed with the pitiable and deplorable state of the people—aggravated as that state is by the inexplicable negligence of the Board of Works.

" What that Board is justly condemned for is this— that in many instances where the special sessions have acted under the Labour Rate Bill, and cheerfully passed presentments to a very considerable amount, in some instances no work, and in many instances very little of the works have been commenced. It would really be better if there had been no special sessions at all, because, by holding these sessions, immediate expectation of wages was held out to the people, and in their hunger they are irritated almost to madness by the delay and disappointment. "My mind is so full of this subject, that I cannot help adding that there is no excuse on the part of the Board of Works for this delay and disappointment. I must say it is a most gross neglect of duty on the part of that Board.

"I repeat, the conduct of the Board is quite inexcusable in reference to the baronies that have cheerfully passed presentments, because, in the first place, the Labour Rate Act gives unlimited credit for money to carry on such works. And in the second place, there is no danger of any money being lost, as the repayment is secured upon the entire property in the barony, the amount sought being in general one year's poor law valuation, and the fee simple of the barony, worth forty years' purchase at that rate, is pledged for the repayment of any monies to be expended by the Board under the Labour rate Act.

"I can scarcely restrain myself on this subject, and will say no more for the present than that things are in the most deplorable state that was ever yet even imagined.—Believe me to be, very faithfully yours,

"DANIEL O'Connell. " T. M. Ray, Esq."

FROM,House of Commons; CIVIL AVIATION. HL Deb 26 November 1946 vol 144 cc332-412

LORD STRABOLGI; I have flown with my wife for upwards of 50,000 miles. I made a voyage by Springbok Air Line to South Africa and back at the beginning of the year. I have been on several excursions to the Continent of Europe by air. I have flown across the Atlantic, across the North American Continent to Mexico, down Central America, right down the west coast of South America, across the Andes to Argentina, then back on the South Atlantic route to London by the British airline, by way of Rio de Janeiro, Port Natal, Dakar, and Lisbon. I have flown on American, Mexican, Czech, Dutch and British airlines. I want to say—and I am sure that this is the experience of everyone who has flown in foreign planes as well as our own—that in such matters as working efficiency, care of passengers, general excellence of equipment and accommodation, the British airlines are streets ahead of every other.

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1946/nov/26/civil-aviation#S5LV0144P0_19461126_HOL_54

15 November 4 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

RAMBLING HOUSE; on Thursday 5th Nov. at 9pm in Knockanure Community Centre. Everyone is welcome. Please come along and enjoy a great night of music, song and dance. Admission free. Contact Ann Flavn at 086/3090948.

SENIOR CITIZENS: meeting on Wed 4th Nov at 7.30pm in the Marian Hall.

ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre on Monday 09th November 2015.Mass at 12.00 pm followed by meal at 1.00 pm. Music by Stevie Donegan .All Welcome.

If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome

I.C.A. ANNUAL MASS: in Marian Hall on Tuesday 3rd Nov. at 8pm for deceased members of the I.C.A. and their families. All welcome.

THE BORO BRIGADE RUNNING/WALKING CLUB MOYVANE: join us on Monday evenings at 7.30pm to 9.00pm. Venue Moyvane Sportsfield. All new and old members welcome.

THE NORTH KERRY EAGLES SPECIAL OLYMPICS CLUB: would like to thank all who supported their recent Church Gate Collection both in Moyvane and Knockanure. The amount collected was €720.00. The Club wish to thank their collectors too.

NIGHT VIGIL IN KNOCK: Monday December 7. Coach leaving Listowel 4.30pm. Bookings 068 31232 or 087 3966399.

FAIR Athea will take place on Saturday, November 7th.

DUAGH SPORTS. The Duagh Sports and Leisure Complex will be holding a fund raising night with Joan Cashman on the 6th of November at 7:30pm.

IRISH RED CROSS TRALEE are holding CFR courses over the next 6 weeks, call us now for further details. 087 708 8395.

DEATHS which occurred recently; Sympathy to Mary and Noel Stack and the Leen family on the death of Mary’s Dad Denis. Also to Kitty Kissane & Family, Tarmons, on the death of her brother Jimmy Mulvihill, Islinton, London and late of Aughrim. Elizabeth O’Dowd, Lissaniskea, Kilmorna and USA who died in the States on Oct 25th.2015.

ANNIVERSARIES: Peggy Mulvihill, Mary Agnes Barrett, Sr. Eucharia Leahy, Geoffrey Harnett, Canon John Sheehy, Tim O Connor, Donal Riordan, Peter O Connell, John Shanahan, Eamon Dunlea, Paddy O Hanlon, Fr. John Shine, Bridie Mason, Liam Lynch, Bridget Mary Desmarois, Nan Sullivan, Nora Dillon, Austin Stack, Jerry O Carroll, Mick Lane, Nora Moloney, Margaret Deenihan, Liam O Connor, Peg Stack. Weekday Masses Monday 2nd Moyvane: 10.00am, All Saints of Ireland. 7.30pm Joe O’Connor, (Months Mind).Tues 3rd at 8.00pm for Dec ICA Members (Marian Hall).Thurs 5th at 7.30pm for Dan & Mary Nolan, (Anni). Fri 6th at 9.30am Holy Souls. Sat 7th at 7.30pm for Tim O’Connor. Sun 8th at 11.00am for Denis McEvoy & Dec Family members. Knockanure: Wed 4^th at 7.30pm Holy Souls. Fri 6th at 7.30pm,Special Intention.

LISTOWEL List of 74 names (RIP) in the sacred space in front of Our Lady’s Altar.

ROSARY WILL BE PRAYED AT TEAMPALL BAN FAMINE GRAVEYARD, 3.00 p.m. each Sunday during the month of November.

REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR WORLD WAR 1 will take place at the memorial at the rear of St. John’s, The Square after 11am. Mass on Sunday (Nov. 8th ). The service will take 30/40 mins max. All are welcome to attend.

PRACTICAL GARDENING COURSE: at the Abbeyfeale Community Education Centre. Running two days a week on Mondays and Tuesdays, for further enquiries ring 068 31198.

AFTERNOON TEA DANCING: Sunday, November 8 at Fr. Casey’s Clubhouse with dancing to Noel Cronin from 3-6pm. All proceeds to West Limerick 102fm community radio.

BOXING CLUB FOR ABBEYFEALE: A public meeting will take place to discuss the development of a new Boxing Club in Abbeyfeale on Wednesday November 4 in The Education Centre (The Old Tech) Mountmahon at 7pm. All those interested in hearing more or being involved should attend this important meeting.

MOYVANE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: would like to say a special thank you to everyone who took part and supported the various events over the Holiday weekend. Thanks to the sponsors, those who helped organize the activities, the venues etc., the RSS and the FÁS, volunteers and committee members.

THE IRISH PILGRIMAGE TRUST are now accepting applications for their Easter Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Young people aged 11-30 years with a variety of special needs. The closing date for application is Thursday, Nov. 12th Places are available. Further information can be found at 086 1030740

TRÓCAIRE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS to work at parish level. Are you interested in supporting the work of Trócaire? Further information from Fr. Michael Moynihan (Trócaire Representative, Diocese of Kerry) 0876551902

PIETA HOUSE, SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM CRISIS CENTRE 28 Moyderwell, Tralee, County Kerry (066) 7163660 www.pieta.ie/contact-us

ANAM CARA is holding a Bereavement Information Evening on Tuesday 10th of November 2015 from 19:30 to 21:30 in Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee, Co. Kerry. The guest speaker for the evening is Kathleen O Connor, call us on 01 4045378.

West Limerick 102 FM Radio are holding a fundraising concert/dance night at the Ballintemple Inn Newcastle West on Friday 6th November at 8.30pm.

CELEBRATE: On Saturday 7th November from 1pm to 3pm there will be an 'Open House' at the Desmond Complex, Gortboy, Newcastle West to celebrate 25 years of achievement by the GST.

NEWS:Listowel Military weekend will be featured on Nationwide on Friday 13th November.

MEENKILLY N.S. CARD GAME: The annual weekly card game will commence on Tuesday, November 3 at 9pm. All proceeds on the first night will be donated to the Breast care Unit, Regional Hospital, Limerick.

NOONAN’S CHRISTMAS LIGHTS EXTRAVAGANZA: A fundraiser will be held at the Top of the Town, Athea on Saturday, November 7 with music by Paddy Quillagan,

VOTE FOR BACK2NEW:

. Back2New Community Upcycling was established by West limerick Resources under the TUS work placement programme. The initiative provides opportunities for work experiences and skills development for long term unemployed individuals. You can view the video and vote at: http://2015.bettertogether.ie/video/back2new-community-upcycling. One vote per device is permitted over a 24 hour period from now until November 20th.

INDULGENCES FOR ALL THE HOLY SOULS:

From 12 noon on 1st Nov. until midnight on 2nd Nov., all who have confessed, received Holy Communion, and prayed for the Pope’s intentions (one Our Father and Hail Mary or any other prayer of one’s choice) can gain one plenary indulgence by visiting a Church or Oratory, and reciting one Our Father and the Apostles’ Creed. This indulgence is applicable only to the souls of the departed. Confessions may be made at any time within the week preceding or the week following 1st Nov. Holy Communion may be received on any day from the 1st Nov to 8th Nov. The Faithful who visit a cemetery and pray for the dead may gain a plenary indulgence applicable only to the Holy Souls on the usual conditions once per day from the 1st to 8th Nov. The conditions mentioned above apply also for this.

BUS: adults there are increases of between 5% and 7% for monthly tickets, and 1.9% - 5% on single-journey tickets.

RECORD FLIGHT, LONDON TO BERLIN AND BACK

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 86, 13 April 1931, Page 10

ACHIEVED IN ONE DAY

(Received 13th April, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 12th'April. Captain Neville -Stack,, regarded-as Britain's ablest civilian' pilot, accompanied by Mr. J. R. Chaplin, to-day established a record by flying from London to Berlin and back in one day, a distance of 1250 miles. The flying time; was 628 minutes; He used a Vickers-Napier air-mail carrier in, which he will shortly attempt a record: flight from London to Australia, and back.

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA, OUT AND HOME IN 21 DAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1931, Page 11

CAPTAIN STACK'S AIM

United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, 29th April. Captain Neville Stack, with Mr. J. H. Chaplin, in an open two-seater machine, left Lympne at daybreak in an endeavour to fly to Australia and back in 21 days.

Interviewed, Captain Stack said Commander Kidston has shown the Post Office how the air mail services to South Africa may be improved.

"We hope to point the same lesson, and even go a stage further; we may beat Mr. Anderson Scott's magnificent record on the outward flight, but that is not out object. Our motive really is to demonstrate the urgent necessity for a regular fast service to the eastern -portions of the Empire.

"It is useless to use comparatively slow machines for mails. It is possible to run a regular mail service to Australia in ten days instead of the present fifteen. "Our experimental schedule is what a single machine can accomplish. Relays of men and machines could outdo this easily." Mr. Chaplin was aide-de-camp to Lord Byng when the latter was Governor- General of Canada. He comes from a millionaire Vancouver family.

Commander Kidston flew from England to Cape Town in 6 days 10 hours. Anderson Scott completed his England- Australia flight in 10 days and a few hours. A previous message stated that Messrs’ Stack and Chaplin would fly in a Vickers-Napier 135 mile-an-hour mail carrier.

NOTE: It was recently reported that, in order to demonstrate the practicability of .a fast air mail service within the Empire, Captain Neville Stack proposed to make an experimental flight with mails to Australia.

The airman hopes to fly to Darwin and back in 21 days, only one of which would be spent at Darwin. He intended to use a Vickers bomber, converted as a mail carrier, with a top speed of 150 miles an hour. The Associated Chambers of Commerce proposed to send letters to all the Australian Chambers of Commerce, and efforts were being made to induce the Post Office to frank the letters as air mail.

NOTE: Parents of Neville Stack came from Knockanure.

2015 October 28 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

PARISH RADIO LINK: If there is anyone who is still not getting reception on the Mass Radio Link please contact Eileen Collins at 087/9313912 or the Parish Office at 068/49308 (office hours).

HALLOWEEN PARTY: at Knockanure C. C. Fri 30th Oct from 7-9 pm. . Accompanying adults Free. Refreshments served on the night.

GREAT to see Donie Lyons honoured at Fr. Casey Hall in Abbeyfeale on 18^th October 2015, Hundreds of his friends from all parts of the country were there to pay him tribute.

ARDFERT: The Joy of being a Grandparent with Joan Barrett. Thurs 29th Oct from 10am to12pm. Bookings 0863583120.

ANNIVERSARIES: Fr. Michael Stack, Teresa O Sullivan, Mary O Carroll, Fr. Sean Ryle, Denis Foley, Tony Mason, Hannah Connelly, Node Guiney, Nuala Doige, Sr. Bridget McMahon, Kathleen Scully, Hannah Scanlon, Joan Keane, Marie Buckley, James O Connor, Denis McEvoy, Kathy Moran, Billy Mockler, Sr. Nuala O Leary, Bub Flavin,

Weekday Masses Monday 26^th to Sunday 1st November, Moyvane;

Mon 26th at 11.00am for Mary McMahon (Rec Dec).Wed 28th at 7.30pm for Mike Lynch. Thurs 29th at 7.30pm for Jeremiah & Elizabeth Buckley & loving sons John & Timmy, New Houses & all the Dec of Buckley & Kiely Families. Fri 30th at 7.30pm for Sr. Nuala (Peg) O’Flaherty, Rec Dec England & late of Tubbertoureen (Months Mind) Sat 31st at 7.30pm for John O’Connor. Sun 1st Nov. (All Saints) 11am Our 1st Mass for our Holy Souls. Knockanure Church, Tues 27th at 7.30pm for Dick Clark (Rec Dec). Sun 1st (All Saints) 10am Our 1st Mass for our Holy Souls.

MASS in Kerry General Hospital will be celebrated in the hospital chapel on Monday 2nd November at 7.00pm, for those who died during the year.

SISTER Nuala (Peig) Flaherty was born in Tubbertoureen, Moyvane, Co Kerry on 9/1/1920.She was the 12th of 14 children born to Ned and Catherine Flaherty. She died on 30/9/2015 in Lytham St Anne’s Lancashire.

Sr. Nuala left Moyvane following completing national school in 1935 and joined the order of The Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary.

She first went to Hollymount Convent in Lancashire for a few years. Before the outbreak of World War 11, she was transferred to Belgium, where the order was founded.

DO THIS IN MEMORY PROGRAMME: We are delighted to welcome and introduce our 19 First Holy Communicants and their families to their Do This In Memory programme both in Knockanure and Moyvane. At the 10am Mass in Knockanure we welcome Rachel O’Connor, Niamh O’Sullivan, Evelyn Broderick, Brona O’Connor, Chloe Moore, Jack Buckley and Tommy Clancy. At the 11am Mass in Moyvane we welcome Aoife Scanlon, Caoimhe O’Connor, Rebecca Roche, Meave Ahern, Mikala Mulvihill, David Brassil, Eamonn Bowler, Muiris Kearney, Kiegan Moloney, James Kissane, Conor Mulvihill and Seάn Scanlon. The programme is run by the parents and many thanks to them.

RELIGIOUS ITEMS: Items such as Holy Water Fonts, Crosses, Statues, Prayers, Rosary beads, Key Rings and Candles, plus more are on display inside the Presbytery front door next to the Office. Feel free to have a look; we also have got a wider variety of Mass Cards for every occasion.

FAIR Athea will take place on Saturday, November 7th.

SPACES FOR JOB SEEKERS IN NOVEMBER: Come along every Monday and Tuesday morning from 10am in the Old Tech Abbeyfeale, New members welcome. Call Finn at West Limerick Resources on 087 759 1951 or 069 61316 for more.

HALLOWEEN; Visit the Haunted Writers’ Hall at the Seanchaí Centre, Listowel from Thursday, October 29th to Saturday, October 31st from 3pm to 5pm. Booking essential to (068) 22212,

RAMBLING HOUSE Listowel will take place in the Seanchaí Centre on Thursday, October 29th from 9.15pm. Admission is free to this informal evening of traditional music, song, dance & storytelling.

MONEY: Athea GAA Club will receive €35,000 under the Sports Capital Programme. This brings to €65,000 the amount of funding allocated to the club since last year.

BEST WISHES to the Athea U16s footballers who were victorious on Friday 16 October 2015 in the Shield Co. Final against Ahane.

DUAGH SPORTS. The Duagh Sports and Leisure Complex will be holding a fund raising night with Joan Cashman on the 6th of November at 7:30pm.

STITCHING CRAFT FAIR at RDS Sun Nov 15th. Bus. Contact Marie 0861032436.

IRISH RED CROSS TRALEE are holding CFR courses over the next 6 weeks, call us now for further details. 087 708 8395.

FUNDRAISER: A vintage bring and buy sale will be held in Dromcollogher Mart Yard on Sunday 1st November at 10am. For more details call 087-1018228 or086-8837828

West Limerick 102 FM Radio are holding a fundraising concert/dance night at the Ballintemple Inn Newcastle West on Friday 6th November at 8.30pm.

CELEBRATE: On Saturday 7th November from 1pm to 3pm there will be an 'Open House' at the Desmond Complex, Gortboy, Newcastle West to celebrate 25 years of achievement by the GST.

UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION - EXPLORING OUR RESPONSIBILITY

A workshop exploring the issue of migration will be held in St. John’s Parish Centre, Tralee on Wednesday, October 28th from 8.00pm to 9.30pm. Sr. Joan Roddy, Outreach Worker with the Jesuit Refugee Service, will address the workshop.

RESTORING A CULTURE OF LIFE: Pro Life Campaign public information evening. Malton Hotel, Killarney Wednesday October 28th at 7.30pm. All welcome.

BARN DANCE AND BBQ FUNDRAISER

A great evening is assured at the upcoming Barn Dance and BBQ being held at Browne's Farm Mountcoal, Listowel. Proceeds will be used to support the work of Masinyusane, a non-profit organisation which was started by Fr Jerry Browne and which helps educate some of the impoverished students in the township of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. For tickets please call Marina on 087 0556565 or Fr Jerry on 087 368 8922. For more information on Masinyusane please visit their page. www.masinyusane.org

NOVEMBER PLEDGE – Be alcohol free for the month – for the benefit of the Holy Souls and to help an alcohol friend – Join Pioneers Association by contacting 01-874 -9464 or online: www.pioneersassociation.ie

GLÓRACH NEWS: Rehearsals are well underway for new play, ‘The Rain at the end of the summer’ is one of John B. Keane's lesser known plays, having been rarely staged.

HALLOWEEN AT TARBERT BRIDEWELL SATURDAY 31ST OCTOBER -Puppet Show/Face painting/Treats, Scary, Hairy, Ghostly Tales. Contact number 068 36500.

NEWS:Listowel Military weekend will be featured on Nationwide on Friday 13th November.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/letters-written-front-line-sent-9956429

HOSPITAL: Survey on September 11 2015 by the University Hospital Limerick found 171 patients who came to the emergency department only 17 % of patients needed to be there, the others could have been seen at another assessment units.

MUSEUN: Jim Kemmy municipal museum is moving to the Franciscan Friary in Henry Street, Limerick. The museum’s 55,000 item collection includes a meteorite which fell in Adare over 100 years ago, axes which date back to the Neolithic period, and items from 4000BC up to the present.

STARS: The Planet Mercury making its best morning appearance of the year this week, and Venus and Jupiter getting closer and closer together for their conjunction on Sunday and Monday. Mars is nearby too and Venus passes it in November.

LECTURE: At Mary I at 2pm with Sir Harry Burns in Limerick, Wednesday 28th October. Limerick and its People – an exploration of key issues by Sir Harry Burns, Dr Brendan O’Keeffe of the Geography Department in Mary Immaculate College and Dr Eileen Humphreys of the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick.

THOUGHT: Give until you feel like it; then keep on giving until you don't feel it. D L Moody.

SHOW LISTOWEL

Kerry Sentinel 1878-1916, Saturday, 07 September, 1901; Page: 4

KERRY AGRICULTURAL SHOW. EXHIBITION IN LISTOWEL.

OFFICIALS:

President—The Right Hon Lord Ventry. Vice-presidents—The Right Hon the Earl of Kenmare, Right Hon the Earl of Listowel, Falkiner Collis-Sandes, Sir T G Esmonde, Bart, M.P ; St J H Donovan, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Right Hon Viscount Castlerosse, Captain MacGillicuddy_, T W Sandes. S M Hussey. Stewards (Horses)—Messrs J D Crosbie, Ed O'Connor, Peter Burke, Geo. Rice, Wm M'Mahon. Stewards (Cattle)—Messrs Wm Bradshaw, G W Elligott, James O'Callaghan, J M'Kenna. Stewards (Kerry Cows and Bulls)—Messrs J Latchford, R Roche, S Mullins, Thomas Healy, J P Enright, E Moran. Sheep and Pigs—Messrs P Sweetman, P Mangan, T Beary, M O'Brien, J Latchford, J Galvin, R Roche. Fowl—Mr TF Cronin. Butter and Honey—Messrs D J Flavin, Ml Dillon. Press Steward—Mr S Magill.

JUDGES:

Horses' Judges—Major Kiggel and Mr J Evans. Cattle Judges—Messrs W Roberts and W M'Donald. Judges of Kerries—Messrs J Butler and H M'Clure. Judge of Butter—Mr R Gibson. Judge of Honey—M W Boxwell, Patrickswell, Co Limerick. The County of Kerry Agricultural Show was held in Listowel on Tuesday, and taking all circumstances into consideration must be regarded as a successful exhibition. The weather was favourable, and the attendance of the public, particularly in the evening, was extremely large. All the arrangements were well attended to and left very little to be desired. Mr M W M'Elligott, hon sec, with the capable assistance of Mr E J Gleeson, was responsible for the management and discharged his duties in a highly satisfactory manner. The same observation applies to the other officials, all of whom appeared to give general satisfaction. With regard to the exhibits, the entries in the horse section were large, and some of the animals were of an excellent class, while numbers were not up to the mark. The entries in the cattle department were not so large, but the quality of the exhibits showed an improvement on last year. The sheep entered were fairly good, and the pigs exhibited, though not large in number, were of a particularly good class. The butter section afforded some first class exhibits, the fowl and honey departments very little interest was taken though some of the exhibits were of a good quality. Of the exhibitors Messrs Philip Healy, G Mullins, and J F Shea were most successful. Mr Healy won a number of prizes, while Mr Mullins bud Silver Beam, retained his title as champion of the county for three years in succession. Mr Shea , Glenbeigh got first prize for his handsome black filly, Biddy, and would have been awarded first prize for his bay gelding, Tommy, in the remount class but for the fact that he was disqualified for being " docked " They are both by his own horse, Hampton Moor, a sire that is sure to make his mark. The fily should distinguish herself in the hunting field or between the flags. Mr J J Galvin, Listowel, offered a number of special prizes for which there was keen competition. The number of industrial exhibits in connection with the Show, though not numerous, were interesting. Messrs McKenna and Kennelly, Listowel, and M MCowen, Tralee, had an imposing display of agricultural machinery, while the Derrymore Tweed Mills were also well represented, and their exhibits attracted considerable attention.

Awards:—Edited some local awards

Class 2—Section 5. Ponies 13.5 hands high and under. 1st prize, £1 ; 2nd, 10s—Pierce Wall, Kilmorna, Crotta black, foaled 1898; pedigree unknown, 1st. Michl O'Connor, Listowel, Lily, grey, born May, 1894 , 2nd.

Class 1 Section 8; Best gelding four years old or under, First P O Sullivan, Ardfert.2nd, Ed Horgan, Ballybunion. 3rd, T Leahy, Beenanaspig horse born 1898, pedigree unknown, good class.

Class 2 Section 16; 3rd Timothy Scanlon, Kilmorna- Dark Bay. Reserved.

BULLS: Class 1 section 24. Best bull calved in 1899, George Gunn Mahony, Kilmorna, Pride of Bishop’s Court, 1st.

Class 1 section 27. George Gunn Mahony, Kilmorna, Gort Prince, 2nd.

Class 1 section 35, Best Polled Angus Heifer calved 1899. Philip Healy, Ballygrennan, Black , 1st and second M J Nolan, Moyvane.

Best Kerry Cow in milk or in calf. G G Mahony, Kilmorna 1st; 2nd and 3rd. M J Nolan, reserved.

Class 1 section 38; Miss Jessie Key, Ballybunion, Dromin Maid. 1st. George Gun Mahony, Daisy 1V, 2nd and same reserved.

Class 1 section 39. George Gun Mahony, 1st and 2nd.

PIGS: Class 1 section 61, best boar of white breed under 12 months. Pat Galvin, Abbeydorney 1st. Con Connor, Newtownsandes 2nd.

Class 1 section 62. Best breeding sow, white. G R Browne, Lixnaw, 1st. Timothy Leahy, Athea, 2nd.

SHEEP; Best long wolled, ram any age, Class 1 section 50, Caleb Smith, Tarbert, 1st. J Vesey Fitzgerald, Newtownsandes, 2nd.

Class 1 section 54, Best Shrop or Down ram any age. George R Browne, Rattoo, 1st. George Gun Mahony, 2nd.

Class 1 section 55, best pen of five Shrop or Down ewes, having reared lambs. George Gun Mahony, 1st.

BUTTER

Class 1—section 65. For best firkin or package of butter (mild cured), 56lbs. 1st prize, £1 10s; 2nd. 15s—Thomas G Hill and Son, Tarbert, 1st; Tim Leehy, Athea 2nd ; Mrs K Gallivan, Lyrecrompane, highly commended; and Patrick Trant, do, and reserved.

Class 1—section 66. For best firkin or package of butter (heavy salt), 56'lbs. 1st, £1-10s; 2nd, 15s—Thomas G Hill and Son, Tarbert, 1st; Timothy Leahy, Athea, 2nd; Mrs Gallivan, highly commended; Patrick Trant, do, and reserved.

Class 1—section 67. For the best 6 one lb roll fresh butter. 1st prize, 10s ; 2nd, 5s —Thomas G Hill, 1st. Mr Hill was disqualified as be was not entitled to compete in these sections, which were confined to farmers.

Section 69—Case or package of not less than 56, 2 per cent of salt, to be competed for by the creameries in the county—Thomas Hill and Son, Tarbert Creamery, 1st; the Newtownsandes creamery, 2nd. A number of other creameries were highly commended.

Class 1—section 71. For 6 one lb fresh butter rolls. Prize, silver medal. Won by Newtownsandes creamery. Other creameries were highly commended, and the Crotto creamery reserved.

Section 73. Keeping butter in any marketable package, not less than 25 lb, 3 per cent salt. Exhibit to be handed to secretary on Saturday, 27th August. Prize, small silver medal—The Newtownsandes Co-Operative Dairy Society, Limited, Newtownsandes, 1st; very highly commended, the Abbeydorney Co-Operative Wholesale Society, Abbeydorney, and Thomas G Hill and Son, Tarbert Creamery.

Section 74. Fresh butter, 12 2lb rolls free from salt. Packages not returnable; rolls not to be separately wrapped, but exhibited as suitable for London market. Prize, silver medal—Thomas G Hill and Son, Tarbert, 1st; very highly commended, the Co-Operative Creamery, Dromclough and Newtownsandes Creamery.

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Tribute to Donie Lyons

2015 October 21 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

PADRE PIO MASS takes place in Listowel on Thursday (22nd Oct.) at 7pm. incorporating the Rosary, Mass and Benediction.

Padre Pio Prayer meeting in Lixnaw on Oct. 20^th, commencing at 7.30pm. The witness will be given by Brendan & Terry King from Bruff Co. Limerick.

ICA: Meeting in the Marian Hall on Tuesday night at 8pm.

MOYVANE VILLAGE FESTIVAL taking place on the Bank Holiday Weekend Oct 23rd till 26th.

TARBERT PARENTS’ ASSOC: Fashion Show Fri. 23rd Oct at 8pm in School PE hall. Free shuttle bus from Tarbert village to facilitate parking. Brenda Kennelly 087/2729215.

ATHEA Journal please have material in by Friday October 23rd at the latest.

The A.G.M. of Athea Comhaltas Branch will take place at the Top of the Town on Monday, October 19th at 7.30 pm.

BEST wishes to Mary McGrath of Lower Athea who recently retired from teaching at Killocrim N.S.

BLOOD DONOR CLINIC: Community Centre, Ballybunion on Wednesday 21st from 6 to 9 p.m. Also–holding a Blood Donor Clinic in Ceol Corbraí Hall, Glin, on Thursday 22nd October 2015 from 6.00pm to 9.00pm.

DEATH took place recently of Pauline Quinn, who died in England. Family are of Leitrim Middle.

ANNIVERSARIES: Mary Kennelly, John Somers, Mary Ellen Deenihan, Sr. Ambrose Buckley, Ellen McMahon, John Connell, Norrie Donegan, Paddy Faley, Sean Broderick, Moriah Nash, Mick Reidy, Jack Dunne, Nora Stack, Michael T Flaherty, Paddy Keane, Ita Vaughan, Willie Harnett, Michael O Donovan, Sr. Thomas McCafferty, Paddy O Sullivan, Fr. James O Keeffe, Fr Sean Dillon, Br. Dan Hayes, Matt O Connor, Darragh Hennessy, Brendan Harnett, Weekday Masses

Mass Moyvane: Wed 21st at 7.30pm for Lorraine Hartnett (Special Intention) Fri 23rd at 7.30pm for Nora Guiney & Dec members of Guiney Family. Sat. 24th at 7.30pm for Parents Brendan & Eileen Galvin, & their sons Gerry and Pat. Sun 25th at 11.00am for Sean Broderick. Knockanure: Tues 20th at 7.30pm for Mary Doherty (Special Intention). Thurs 22nd at 7.30pm for Mary O’Connor (Rec Dec).Sun 25th at 10.00am for Michael & Julia O’Sullivan, Trien.

MISSION SUNDAY: There are over 1,300 Irish born missionaries working throughout the world.

HISTORY LECTURE: A lecture entitled 'Ardfert Witnesses at the Trial of Roger Casement' by Helen O'Carroll, Curator of Kerry County Museum, will take place in Tralee Library at 7.30pm on Tuesday 20th October. All are welcome.

TRALEE DIABETIC SUPPORT GROUP: info night will be held in Fels Point Hotel Tralee on Tues Oct. 20th at 8pm. Guest speaker: Pauline Dunne Dietician. Contact 0874368235

NEWSLETTER: Items for inclusion in the newsletter can be e-mailed to moyvane@dioceseofkerry.ie or dropped through the letter-box in the Presbytery not later 10am on Thursdays.

ST JOHN’S; Wed 21st, Emma. A play based on Jane Austen’s most perfect novel presented by Hotbuckle Theatre, England - masters of stage adaptation. “Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, rich and has never been in love. She is also a bit of a matchmaker. Thursday 22nd, The Best of Traditional. With Steve Cooney-guitar, Dermot Byrne - accordion and Trevor Hutchinson- bass. A celebration of Dermot’s twenty years of traditional Irish music. Friday 23^rd Variety Concert with Sonny Egan as MC, More from 086 22566.

NORTH KERRY ALZHEIMER, A Variety concert in aid of Listowel and North Kerry Alzheimer day care service on Friday October 23rd at St John's Theatre, commencing at 8pm. Contact 23584 for more.

THE LATIN MASS will be offered in Holy Cross Dominican Church, Tralee on Sunday 25th October, at 1.30pm.

WIN: Fleadh Cheoil Na hÉireann Sligeach 2015 have won the Best Green Festival Award in the Responsible Travel & Tourism Awards 2015.

MONUMENT will be unveiled at Con Colbert Hall, Athea, on Saturday 24th October at 4pm in memory of Con Colbert who was born on October, 19th 1888 in Monalena, Castlemahon. The family went to Gale View house in Athea when he was three years old. He attended Kilcolman National School while staying with his relations in Coolcappa/Kilcolman parish. Con was shot by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail on May 8th 1916. The unveiling will be performed by his grandniece Aide Colbert Lennon.

CELEBRATE: On Saturday 7th November from 1pm to 3pm there will be an 'Open House' at the Desmond Complex, Gortboy, Newcastle West to celebrate 25 years of achievement by the GST. A DVD will be launched which provides a pictorial compilation of the many stages in the campaign which resulted in the old railway being converted into a greenway in Co. Limerick (with the effort still ongoing in Co. Kerry).

FAIR Athea will take place on Saturday, November 7th.

FAMILY AND LIFE: 'Abortion and the Challenge of Upholding a Culture of Life' speaker: David Quinn Wednesday, October 21st at 8pm in The Mangerton Suite, The Malton, Hotel, Killarney.

KERRY GENERAL HOSPITAL CHAPEL OF CHRIST THE HEALER - the annual November mass for patients including those who died by stillbirth and miscarriage, who died in Kerry General Hospital during the year will be celebrated in the hospital chapel on Monday 2nd November at 7.00pm.

THOUGHT: If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. Augustine.

DAY TRIP: Thursday 22nd October, Oktoberfest Beag @ King johns Castle, Limerick. Contact Marie: 086 1032436.

OPENHOUSE in Limerick which was held recently was a great success,

Many saw places which are inaccessible to the public.

CEILI: charity céilí organised by SCOLA, to help the poor in the Philippines, will take place in the Devon Inn, Templeglantine on Sunday 25th October. Music by the Mountain Road Ceilí Band.

ARDFERT: The Joy of being a Grandparent with Joan Barrett. Thurs 29th Oct from 10am to12pm. Bookings 0863583120. email:joan@joanbarrett.ie

SURVEY: Dyslexia Association Ireland (DAI) has released the findings of its first ever research survey into dyslexia in Ireland to mark Dyslexia Awareness Week – a week-long public awareness campaign focused on World Dyslexia Day was on Thursday October 8th.

SPACE: Leo Enright announced that a crater on Pluto will be named after Irishman, Kenneth Edgeworth

FOUND Recently; In an apparently empty field, covered by grass and just a few inches of soil that had accumulated over the years, lie approximately 600-900 gravestones marking the second resting place of bodies previously disinterred from the Irish Catholic Cemetery in Waltham, Massachusetts.

MISSION Sunday we remember some of our Sisters.

Goretti Ahern. Shelia Behan Coilagurteen Franciscan, died JAN 1995 USA.Paul Bunce died Tralee 2002.Emelian Bunce died 2004.

Costelloe Trien and AUS. Mary Ellen Cunningham Kilbaha and Kansas, died 1989.Cunningham, Kilbaha. Ignatius Cunningham. Estelle Cunningham Kilbaha, died 1987,Aged 89 yrs.

Mary Carmody. Mary Theophane Collins Prof 1938.Hannah Carmody Gortdromosillihy. Cyril Jane Doherty Provincial Loreto, died 1927.David Doherty pres Tralee, died 1871,aged 29 yrs.

Austin Doherty Presentation Tralee, died 1919,born Ahalanna.

Anastasia Enright Aughrim died 2002.Debora Flaherty AUS and Murhur. Theresa Flaherty Belfast and Murhur. Berchmans Flaherty London and Murhur. Mary Andrew Flaherty London and Murhur. Flaherty's of Tubbertureen Nuala, Peg, Lancashire, Margaret, Mary Baltimore, Maryland, Loreto, Bridie, England. Majella Hannie.

Michael Flaherty, Glenalappa. Nora Flaherty Glenalappa.

Magdalene Foran Presentation Millstreet and Moyvane.

Gabrielle Galvan, Bauragoogeen .Margaret Galvin, worked in Wales.

Phil Goulding Knockanure. Goulding Knockanure.

Nora Enright Aughrim. Mgt Hanrahan.

Mary Hanrahan, Kilbaha and England.

Veronica Hanrahan, Kilbaha Prof 1965 Holy Ghost Sisters.

Stanislaus Kennelly Pres Cork Gortdromagowna, Died 1957.Magdalene Kennelly Pres. Cork, died 1989.Regis Kennelly, Presentation Listowel, died 1933,age 51 yrs

St Ann Kennelly, Presentation Listowel, died 1926,age 37.Gerard Kennelly pres Tralee, died 1965

Kennelly England, daughter of Dan and Mary Stack.

Sarah Kearney Moyvane.Lydia de Eugene Kearney in France of Moyvane Village. Kissane Bauragoogeen .Mai Looney Kilmorna.

Mary of the Sacred Heart Leahy Lisaniska and Galway died 5th 4th 1994. Josephine Leahy N Z.Imelda Leahy India died aged c90 yrs c1950.Nora Leahy India died aged c24 yrs.

Josephine Leahy sister of Tim of Beenanasbig. Entered Lady's of Mary , Forest Hill 1937. Johanna Leahy daughter of Tim and Johanna Cummane. Declan Murphy Knockanure and Ferbane Prof 1945.Mary McMahon Listowel Pres. McMahon Gortaglanna and England. Maria Moore Keylod Joseph Moore born C1900 Presentation and Kilmorna. Francis Teresa Moore Wexford and Keylod, died 1975.

Mary Ellen Moore RSM, born 1912 Aughrim, died 1996.Hanora Mc Elligott. Mary Rita Mulvihill Good Shepherd Waterford. Elaine Mc Elligott NTS Village. Anastasia Moloney Coilagurteen, died June 1992 age 95 years. Josephine Mulvihill NTS village.Ellen Mulvihill NTS village. Bride Mulvihill NTS village.

Kathleen Nolan NTS daughter of Tom and Liz Stack born c1920.

Anthony O'Carroll of Gortdromagowna and Aus. Rose Carroll of Knockanure and Cork died 25th July 1993 aged 87 yrs.Brendan Carroll Knockanure.Augustine and Cornelius O Connor Inchamore. Theresa O Connor Keylod and Fresno died 1997.

Sr. Conception O Connor Keylod. born 1911, Presentation Sister died Dungarvan 4 May 2014.O Connor Keylod. Patricia O Connor (Hannah) Kilbaha and Cork.Patricia O Connor Barr Convent Kill 1943,born Gortdromosillihy. Mary O Connor Gortdromagowna and Cork Died Dec 1993.Euphrasia O Connor and her sister Annie of Gortdromagowna. Kathleen O Keeffe Kilmorna.

Mary Teresa Quinn. Margaret Sullivan Trien and USA. Mina Sullivan Kilbaha. Sullivan Kilbaha.Br Leo Sullivan Trien had two sisters Nuns.

Dympna Stack Moyvane South , and Galway .Stella Stack Carrueragh .

Bob Stack had two aunts nuns of Carrueragh. Martina Scanlon Kilmeaney and Claremorris. Scanlon Kilmeaney and Wexford died1943.Sheehy Lisaniska and India died aged 96 yrs.

Claude Sheehy Aughrim and Pres Tralee. Ann Sheehy Mercy Bristol .

Josie Shanahan Presentation Castleisland died 1971 aged 86 yrs .

Marie Shanahan Inchamore and California .Entered Ardfert .

Kathleen Shanahan a sister of above entered Ardfert .

Veronica Sheehan Kilbaha , Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy

Bernadette Sheehan Kilbaha, Golden Jubilee 2003.

Hannah Walsh Barragogeen. Sheila Walsh NTS Village.

Ida Walsh died 2006. Leitrim East, Dau. of Moss Walsh and Mary Hanrahan. Nora Walsh NTS Village .Mary, Nora and Peg Walsh Leitrim . Their father a postman .

Mary Teresa Windle , Mercy Newcastle upon tyne.

Bridget Windle born 1920 .Nora Windle Indiana died 1984 .Margaret Windle, Surrey. Catherine Sr. Conrad Windle Mercy Tralee .

2015 October 14 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre, was on Monday 12th October 2015, If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.

KNOCKANURE CENTRE: "Dancing Classes", started on Wed 7th Oct from 8pm, Waltz, Jiving, Foxtrot etc. All age groups and beginners welcome. For more information ring 087 6809249 or 068 49799.

KEEP FIT with Maggie every Thurs at 7.30pm,details 087/9866533.

YOUTH CLUB A new season of Moyvane Youth Club began on Oct 2nd. Welcome to our nine new Leaders who are: Kathleen Ambrose, Helen Culhane, James Fogarty, Eileen Haugh, Brendan Hogan, Tom McEnery, Dermot Mulvihill, Yvonne Shine, Mark Thompson. TARBERT PARENTS’ ASSOC: Fashion Show Fri. 23rd Oct at 8pm in School PE hall. Free shuttle bus from Tarbert village to facilitate parking. Brenda Kennelly 087/2729215.

SPORTS FUTSAL returns to Moyvane on Fridays. Classes 1st – 3^rd, 4pm & classes 4th - 6^th, 5pm. new players welcome. Fast paced indoor soccer game open to both boys & girls.

PARISH MAGAZINE: One of the many positive suggestions from our recent Parish meeting was the setting up of a Parish magazine which would be published three to four times yearly. The first issue is planned for this coming Christmas. I invite people to write articles and give me suggestions before Friday Oct 15th, as I plan to send it to the printers to have it published. Photographs old and new would be most welcome.

HARVEST MASS was celebrated on Sunday 4^th October, nice to see such a fine display of produce.

FARM SAFETY SEMINAR: A seminar entitled ‘How safe is your farm’ will take place at the Devon Inn on Thursday, October 15 at 7pm, All welcome.

SINGING: The seventh Garry McMahon Singing Weekend will be held from Friday, October 16 to Sunday, October 18 in Abbeyfeale. On the Sunday afternoon in Fr Casey’s GAA Clubhouse, a special tribute will be paid to Donie Lyons from Dromreask, Glin.

TALK: Wether’s Well and other North Kerry Holy Wells, with Donal Stack on 15^th October at 8pm at Ardfert Retreat Centre, all welcome.

DEATH took place on 6^th October 2015 of Joe O'Connor, Kilbaha, Moyvane. Grand Father of the late David Foley. Survived by his wife Mary, daughter Bridie, (Foley) granddaughter Linda, great-grandchildren, Katelyn, Rachel and Laythan, son-in-law Jimmy, sister Nora Harney, nieces and nephews. Requiem Mass for Joe O Connor was celebrated on Friday in Moyvane Church. Burial afterwards to Ahavoher Cemetery.

DEATH: The Funeral Mass for Paddy Holly, Leicester and late of Tarmons, Tarbert will take place at St. Mary’s Church, Tarbert on Sat 17th Oct., at 12noon. Our sympathy to his nieces Emma, Teresa, Helen and Anne.

ANNIVERSARIES: Maurice Leahy, Marguerite Clancy, Ned Connell, John Mahony, Pat Stack, Michael O Connor, Mary O Connor, Martin O Connell, Jack Dore, Paddy Faley, Patie Wren,

Masses Moyvane: Mon 12th at 7.30pm for Kitty Curtin (Special Intention).Wed 14th at 7.30pm for Collins Family (Special Intention). Fri 16^th at 9.30am for Ann Rothery (Special Intention).Sat 17th at 7.30pm for Michael (Mick) & Nora Roche, Glin Rd (Anni). Sun 18th at 11.00am for James & Annie O’Callaghan.

Masses Knockanure, Tues 13th at 7.30pm for Dora Ahern (Rec Dec)

Sun 11th at 10.00am for Liam Sexton (Anni)

DIOCESAN COLLECTION: Will be taken up at all Masses next weekend 17th /18th Oct., for the Propagation of the Faith.

PASTORAL COUNCIL: Meeting Mon 12th Oct., at 8pm in the Presbytery. Any parishioners that would like issues discussed at this meeting can give their suggestions to PPC members or Fr. Kevin.

PARISH OFFICE: Wonderful response to the signed Mass Cards in the Parish Office. Shortly we hope to have religious items to suit all ages plus a selection of Christmas Cribs. It is hoped to have our own Parish Christmas Cards available from mid Nov, these may prove very special to our loved ones living away from our Parish in other countries. We are also making our Parish Office bigger.

LISTOWEL BRIDGE CLUB: Bridge lessons commencing Thurs 15th Oct. for 8 weeks, those interested, please contact: Marie Galvin 086 0817407 or Maria O’Connor 087 7554996.

CHOIR WORKSHOP; at Church of the Resurrection, Park Road, Killarney Monday October 19th at 8.00pm with Fr. Liam Lawton. This workshop is open to all choirs, folk groups, school choirs and musicians. Bookings taken before October 14th, for further information 064 6632644.

CHOIR: Adult Choir each Wednesday evening at 8pm in the Parish Church, Abbeyfeale. New members welcome.

MEDJUGORJE MONTHLY PRAYER MEETING will take place in the Parish Meeting Room Listowel on Monday October 12th at 7.30pm.

LISTOWEL PARISH FOLK GROUP would love new members. Come and join us! Thursdays from 8 to 9pm. KDYS (upstairs) Contact 086-8847708 for more info.

DROMTRASNA CHALLEGE 2015: The Dromtrasna Challenge 2015 will take place on Saturday, October 17 starting at Dromtrasna National School. ALL proceeds go directly to Milford Hospice.

CARD GAME: A card game will be held at Fr. Casey's GAA club house on Friday night October 16 at 9pm sharp, in aid of Scoil Naomh Pádraig, Knocknasna, Parents Association. All support greatly appreciated.

ATHEA Journal please have material in by Friday October 23rd at the latest.

LIVING LINKS KERRY: Ceremony of Remembrance. A Prayer Service for all those who have been touched by Suicide will be held at the Church of the Resurrection, Park Road, Killarney on Thursday, 15th October at 7.30 p.m. All Welcome. Refreshments afterwards in the Pastoral Centre

CORK AND KERRY CHARISMATIC RENEWAL CONFERENCE will take place in the Cork International Airport Hotel on Saturday/Sunday, Oct 17th and 18th. Theme “Eucharistic Amazement”. Main Speakers: Fr Jim McManus, CSsR, & Marie Beirne.

BALLYBUNION COMMUNITY CENTRE: annual Food and Craft Fair on Sunday 18th October from 12 – 5 p.m. Showing a variety of local produce, art works and unique crafts.

DAY TRIP: Thursday 22nd October, Oktoberfest Beag @ King johns Castle, Limerick. Contact Marie: 086 1032436

CEILI: charity céilí organised by SCOLA, to help the poor in the Philippines, will take place in the Devon Inn, Templeglantine on Sunday 25th October. Music by the Mountain Road Ceilí Band.

ST JOHN’S: Tues 13th at 10.30am, Breaking Ground.The story of the London Irish Women’s Centre. A Film by Michelle Deignan which traces the twenty nine year history of the centre when Irish women made up 10% of London’s female population. In association with Access Cinema. Thur. 15^th Lady Gregory. A play by Phil Mason presented by The London Irish Theatre and directed by John Dunne. Dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager, Lady Gregory lived at Coole Park, Galway and with Yeats and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre. Fri 16^th Stride and the Diva, Colm “Stride” O Brien and Cathy Nugent will be joined by special guests Sean Ahern and Cara O’Brien. Wed 21^st, Emma. A play based on Jane Austen’s most perfect novel presented by Hotbuckle Theatre, England - masters of stage adaptation. “Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, rich and has never been in love. She is also a bit of a matchmaker. Thursday 22^nd, The Best of Traditional. With Steve Cooney-guitar, Dermot Byrne - accordion and Trevor Hutchinson- bass. A celebration of Dermot’s twenty years of traditional Irish music. More from 086 22566.

CELEBRATING OUR FAITH’S BELIEFS: Following up on the classes which Fr. Sean O’ Sheehy did last Spring on the New Catechism - he has kindly offered to do 6 more classes on next chapter focusing on Liturgy and each of the Sacraments. Classes are free and begin on Thursday 15th October to 19th November from 7.30pm to 9pm each evening at the Parish Meeting Room. If interested contact the Parish Office before Tuesday next.

MISSION SUNDAY: In October 2014, Irish Catholic contributed more than €1.78 million on Mission Sunday. View a lovely short film narrated by Charlie Bird on www.wmi.ie to view the current up-date on the work of our Missionaries.

LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE As part of the national Breast Cancer Campaign, Listowel Family Resource Centre hosts a breast awareness day on Thursday October 15 from 10.30am-12.30pm. Nutritional advice will be provided on how introduce changes to your daily diet to maintain your health and vitality. Catherine O'Carroll will attend. All welcome, further details from Bridie on 068 23584.

NORTH KERRY ALZHEIMER A Variety concert in aid of Listowel and North Kerry Alzheimer day care service on Friday October 23rd at St John's Theatre, commencing at 8pm. Contact 23584 for more

THE LATIN MASS will be offered in Holy Cross Dominican Church, Tralee on Sunday 25th October, at 1.30pm. More info from: LatinMassTralee@gmail.com

Fiontar, DCU, and the National Folklore Collection in UCD have been working for some time on a project digitising the 1937-39 Schools Collection on a county-by-county basis, see www.duchas.ie. The project is funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. This gives an insight into life in schools and local communities during 1937 – 1939.

ENTERPRISE Town: Askeaton has been selected to be one of Bank of Irelands Enterprise Towns for 2015. Contact Brenda Enright for further details on 086 6095722.

OPEN House Limerick held on Friday 9th to Sunday 11th October

The doors of some of Limerick's most intriguing and historic buildings were open to the public free during OpenHouseLimerick 2015.Sarsfield Barracks, Limerick Circuit Courthouse, the Quaker Meeting House in Ballinacurra, St. John’s Church in Knockainey and Glin Castle - the ancestral home of the FitzGerald clan - are amongst more than 20 buildings opening to the public

Open House was established in London in 1992 as an initiative to show first-rate architecture to the public, stirring an interest for urban built heritage. Limerick is a member organisation of the Open House Worldwide Family, which also includes London, New York, Helsinki, Melbourne and Rome, as well as the Irish cities of Belfast, Dublin and Cork.

DRONE: Limerick Fire and Rescue Service hope to use drone technology when tackling major emergency incidents. The DJI Phantom Vision 2+ cost about €1,100 to buy.

BANNED: Brazil's health regulator Anvisa said it has suspended the production, sale and use of products made by Brazilian medical-implant maker Silimed after an inspection found the company failed production standards. Anvisa acted a week after European regulators banned the sale of silicone implants made by Silimed.

THOUGHT: The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. John C. Maxwell.

SANDES FAMILY.

http://sandesancestry.net/sites/default/files/documents/Sandes%20Ped%202.pdf

(0705) of Cloonbrane, pronounced ‘Clonbran’, who must have been born by 1668, married his first cousin Mary, daughter of Thomas Blennerhasset of Ballyseedy and Littor, Co. Kerry, and his wife Ellen, another daughter of Anthony Stoughton Of Ballyhorgan . John and Mary had six children. In 1699Johnwas named by the Commissioners of Co. Kerry, together with his brother William, in connection with raising £120,000 on all lands, hereditaments and tenements in the kingdom, and in 1727 he witnessed the deed by his mother and brother Lancelot, mentioned above. In 1732 he was party to a lease concerning lands in Co. Kerry and a marriage settlement for his son Thomas and Bridget Fitzgerald. In 1727 and 1732 he was living in Limerick. Ballyseedy is 2 miles south-east of Tralee, and Littor some 6 miles west of Ballylongford, but the location of Cloonbrane is not entirely clear. There is a village of that name south-west of Carrigafoyle near Ballybunion, and letters were addressed to Cloonbrane ‘near Tralee’ at least once. But it is more likely to have been, as shown on Petty’s Map of Kerry in 1655, in the parish of Moyvane - Knockanure close to the north-east of Moyvane, which is about five miles north-east of Listowel, and near Glenalappa, another Sandes landholding. Cloonbrane means ‘Meadow of Evil Odour’which comes from the steeping of flax. The village of Moyvane is now known as Newtown Sandes, and in 1992 I found a farm a few hundred yards south of the centre of the village, which the occupant, Mr Stack, said was Cloonbrane. The farmhouse probably dated from the early 20th century, and Stack pointed out where the old house had stood,close between his house and a massive old stone barn towards the road. He also mentioned that his brother had ridden Red Rum, the famous horse.

BOOK: Ballylongford - A Photographic Memoir Volume 2; [9780957020177]

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Ballylongford - A Photographic Memoir Volume Two is a continuation and expansion of volume one, in which a panoramic yet intimate view of one of the most historically rich villages in county Kerry was outlined. Volume two, which includes photographs from the late 1890s up to the 1980s, moves out from the centre of Ballylongford village to encompass Ahanagran, Ballyline, Ballymackessy, Killelton, Lenamore, Lislaughtin, Mortara, Pulleen, Rusheen, Saleen, and Tullahinell. Families that have long been associated with these areas, and those that are now gone, are represented in photographs that depict the changing lives and times of Ballylongford natives and visitors. The early history of Lislaughtin Friary - or the ‘Abbey’ as it is fondly known - is outlined by Dr Mary McAuliffe, whose essay shows that Lislaughtin was of central importance to the people of the area from its very first days. Also highlighted is Saleen Quay and its role in the commercial and social life of the village. Images of Communion and Confirmation days - special times in the lives of the children of the parish - not only feature the children themselves, but also reflect the fashion and customs of the times. The heart of each parish is its people, and Ballylongford - A Photographic Memoir Volume Two brings to life Ballylongford over the past 100 years or so in its depiction of families, friends, neighbours, weddings, sports, teachers, and schooldays.

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2015 October 7 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre, takes place on Monday 12th October 2015.Music by Stevie Donegan. All Welcome, If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.

KNOCKANURE CENTRE: "Dancing Classes", starting on Wed 7th Oct from 8pm, Waltz, Jiving, Foxtrot etc. All age groups and beginners welcome. For more information ring 087 6809249 or 068 49799. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to last weekend’s Church gate collection.

MISSION APPEAL: The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary will have Sr. Nuala Glynn speaking at all Masses on the weekend of Oct. 10th & 11th. There will be a door collection after all Masses in aid of The Franciscan Missionaries.

THE CHIROPODIST: Marian Hall on Thurs 8th Oct at 10.30am, to book phone Eileen Quinn at 49472.

THE NORTH KERRY EAGLES: are holding their annual Church Gate Collection on Saturday 10^th October and Sunday 11th October.

CONGRATULATIONS to the local u14 girls who beat Castlegregory recently 4-6 to 2-2 in the North Kerry League. Congratulations also to Karena Shanahan who won €100 prize for Best Dressed Lady at Moyvane GAA Race Night.

DEATH has occurred on the 28th of September, 2015 of Mike Lynch of Moyvane Village And formerly of Leitrim Middle, Moyvane. Survived by his daughter Mary, sister Mary, brothers George, John, James, Denis, and Tom, sisters-in-law, brother-in-law, nephews and nieces. Requiem Mass for Mike Lynch was celebrated in Moyvane Church on Thursday, the 1st of October, followed by burial in Ahavoher Cemetery, Knockanure, Moyvane.

DEATH of Gerard Relihan of Kilmihill, Kilmallock & late of Knockadireen, Duagh, on September 30th 2015. Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Brigid’s Church, Duagh, burial afterwards in Springmount Cemetery, Duagh.

DEATH has taken place of sister Nuala (Peg) O’Flaherty, Tubbertoureen and Lancashire, her requiem Mass will be on Friday 9^th October 2015. Also in the same order was Sr. Loretto Flaherty who joined Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary in 1937. She spent a lifetime working at Holymount Lancashire died in 2000 in Lancashire. Sister Loretto Flaherty born 1918 daughter of Ned and Catherine Flaherty of Tubbertureen.

ANNIVERSARIES: James Moore, Sr. Ann Doyle, Sr. Dympna Noonan, Joan Mulvihill, Mary Ellen Flaherty, Paudie Shanahan, Michael Moloney, Pat Nolan, Fr. Michael Leahy, Kathleen Fuller, Hannah Hyland, Murt Downes, Harry Stackpoole, Annie Flynn, Paddy Horgan.

MASS Moyvane: Mon 5th at 7.30pm, Special Intention, Billy Kiely. Wed 7^th at 7.30pm, Special Intention, Helen Buckley. Fri 9th at 9.30am for Josephine Stack (Anni). Sat 10th at 7.30pm Mary Ellen Flaherty, Keylod, (1st Anni). Sun 11th 11.00am for Joan Mulvihill, Moher, (1st Anni).

Mon 12th at 7.30pm, Special Intention, Kitty Curtin. Knockanure Tues 6th at 7.30pm for Tim O’Mahony, Rec Dec. Thurs 8th at 7.30pm for Sheila Burke, RIP. Sun 11th at 10.00am for Mary O’Connor nee Kennelly, Keylod, Month’s Mind and onTues 13th at 7.30pm for Dora Aherne, Rec Dec.

MOYVANE BADMINTON CLUB: Registration in Community Centre on Monday 5th Oct at 5.30pm. Price €50 1st child, €80 2nd child, €95 3rd child. Training will be Monday 3rd – 4th class at 6pm, Wednesday– 5th - 6th Class at 5pm, Secondary at 6pm. A parent must be present with their child for Registration.

CONGRATULATIONS to Listowel for winning Ireland’s tidiest small town in the Tidy Towns competition, great credit is due to all involved over the last 22 years. Knockanure and Moyvane increased their marks slightly in their section of the competition.

LISTOWEL CLUSTER AREA PASTORAL COUNCIL were due to meet on Monday 5th October in Knockanure Community Centre at 8.00 p.m...

KNOCK SUNDAY OCTOBER 11th. Names to Margaret Griffin on (066) 7132515.

TOASTMASTERS meet at Desmond Complex NCW, Next meeting takes place on Wednesday, October 7^th, Further information from Charles 087 7972855.

FASHION SHOW in aid of Limerick Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will be held in the Devon Inn Hotel, Templeglantine on Wednesday 7th October. Show starts at 8.00pm

FARM SAFETY SEMINAR: A seminar entitled ‘How safe is your farm’ will take place at the Devon Inn on Thursday, October 15 at 7pm. It is organised by Abbeyfeale and District Initiative and will feature the National Chairperson of IFA’s Farm Family Committee Maura Canning, the Development Officer with Muintir na Tire, Diarmuid Cronin and James Clarke from Adare who survived a farm accident. This is a free event and refreshments will be served. All welcome.

WRITING: Children’s Creative Writing Classes at the Seanchai Centre, Listowel began on Saturday October 3rd at 9.30 am. The class will run for 8 weeks and is suitable for children age 7 to 12 years. To book tel. (068) 22212.

PRESENTATION SECONDARY SCHOOL Opening evening and enrolment for the incoming Students for 2016-2017 will take place on this Wednesday 7th October from 5 to 8pm. All are Welcome.

TRADITIONAL MUSIC LESSONS with Anne McAuliffe resuming in the Seanchai Centre, The Square, on Wed., 7th Oct., 2015. Contact 0876736337.

LISTOWEL BRIDGE CLUB: Bridge lessons commencing Thurs 15th Oct. for 8 weeks, those interested, please contact: Marie Galvin 086 0817407 or Maria O’Connor 087 7554996.

ANAM CARA is holding its Parent Evening on Tues 13th Oct, from 19.30 to 21.00 in Recovery Haven 5 Haig’s Terrace, Killerisk, Tralee. All services are available free of charge to bereaved parents.

NORTH KERRY PASTORAL AREA Pilgrimage to Rome for the special year of mercy Oct. 9th to 14th.

YOUTH Ministry Initiative in the Diocese. It is faith based parish programme

A workshop for adult volunteers to familiarise themselves with the Resource Pack will be held on Thursday 22nd October at 7.30 p.m. in John Paul II Pastoral. For bookings call: Bernie McCaffrey on 087 6484367.

ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE: Self Care Day Sat October 10th 9.45 to 4 p.m. facilitated by Anna O’Donoghue and Betty Garnett. Booking: 0879447105 or 087 2498061.

THANKS: On Saturday October 3rd 2015 the contribution of the Mercy Sisters in Tralee since 1858 was acknowledged with gratitude and thanksgiving at their parish Vigil Mass.

POST: An Post has advised customers not to post any items with immediate effect due to industrial action.

UN summit on climate change set to run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, known in shorthand as Cop21 because it’s the 21st yearly session of the “Conference of the Parties” to a 1992 UN framework convention on climate change.

CHOIR: Adult Choir each Wednesday evening at 8pm in the Parish Church, Abbeyfeale. New members welcome.

ST JOHN’S: Wed. 7^th ,Rue Du Canal, included many styles including French. Friday and Saturday 9^th and 10^th , Audacity a play presented by Abbeyfeale Players. Sunday 11^th ,The Furey’s. Tuesday 13^th Breaking Ground, at 10.30am, the story of the London Irish Women’s Centre, more from 066 22566.

NORTH KERRY ALZHEIMER A Variety concert in aid of Listowel and North Kerry Alzheimer day care service on Friday October 23rd at St John's Theatre, commencing at 8pm. Contact 23584 for more.

RADIO: West Limerick Community Radio is running a Level 3 FETAC/QQI Course for members aged over 55. Over 10 classes. Participants will gain a QQI/FETAC Level 3 accredited qualification. Training takes place at West Limerick Community Radio’s Station in Newcastle West, Co. Limerick Contact Connie Broderick at 069 66200 to find out more.

TALK: “Creating Space for Community; A conversation with Niall McLaughlin”

A lunchtime seminar (from 1p.m. to 3.00p.) in The Strand Hotel, Limerick on October 7th. Booking essential - 061 315856.

AWARD: Loretta Brennan Glucksman was recently presented with the 2015 Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Award by the Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Jimmy Deenihan, TD.

MISSION Sunday will be celebrated globally on the 18th October 2015.

THOUGHT: Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways. I will do somebody a good turn, and not get found out; if anybody knows of it, it will not count. I will do at least two things I don’t want to

Do-just for exercise. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.

HISTORY: Kerry Weekly Reporter 1883-1920, Saturday, 19 July, 1913; Page: 5

The following engagements are announced to take place in the near future:—Bridget Enright, of Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, to Timothy Driscoll, of Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry. John Barry, of Tullahinnell, County Kerry, to Delia Hannan, of Ballyduhig, Co. Kerry; Katherine O'Connor, of Co Antrim to John Sullivan, of Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry; Hannah Cox, of Ballylongford, County Kerry, to P. Stack, of Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry; M.Sullivan, of Tullamore, Co. Kerry, to Miss Kennedy, of Co. Limerick; Thomas Hennessy, of Larba, County Kerry, to Catherine Callahan, of No. 2649 Harrison street.

Cheered by 50,000 enthusiastic spectators, Kerry on Sunday last at Jones' Road won the Croke Memorial Medal from Louth, the present holders of the All-Ireland football -championship. Greater enthusiasm was never displayed than when the gold and green sweaters of the Kingdom (Gaels emerged victorious from historic Jones Road. J. McCarthy, of Cork, was referee.

The cablegram "reached me at exactly 12.30 p.m. Sunday, and the thousands who attended the Claremen's games at Celtic Park were delighted to hear the result that afternoon.- A full report of the great contest will appear in these columns! next week from Daniel McCarthy, ex-captain of the Kerry football team of Now York.

The weather was rather threatening during the past week. Though no great quantity of rain fell, the atmospheric conditions in Tralee district were not altogether favourable, The bright sunshine of this day was an agreeable change.

Farmers require fine weather now to carry on the hay saving operations. A great deal of hay is cut down at present in every part of the country. We understand that Mr. R. D. Murphy, Auctioneer, Tralee, has disposed of the residential holding at Glenduff, near Tralee , for the trustees of Mr. John Conway Hurly, at a large figure, to Mr. H. Walsh , solr., in trust;

Among those who have sailed for Ireland are:—Miss Josephine Shea and Miss Ellen Curran. to Cahirciveen; Mr. Maurice Boland, to Dingle; Miss Bridget Browne and Miss Katherine Leahy, Miss Nora Dowling and Miss Margaret O'Connor, to Listowel; Miss Julia Noonan and Miss Mary Noonan, to Rathmore; Miss Margaret Keane and her sister, Julia to Kilmorna. Co. Kerry; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene O'Connor, and Eugene junr to Tarbert: Miss Catherine O'Shea to Kenmare; Miss Nellie Walsh. Chicago to-Listowel: Miss Ellen Mangan to Listowel; Miss Catherine Sullivan to Tralee.

The Derry County Insurance Committee, at a meeting in Coleraine, temporarily appointed Dr. Adams , Jr., Garvagh , their medical officer, at a salary of £200 yearly. !

The Derry people are not as liberal as we are in Kerry. They think £200 a year is enough for a Tuberculosis Officer; but we have fixed the figure at £650.

INTERNET: GM wheat that may improve the quality of life for celiac patients has faced opposition from anti-GMO. Norero then quotes from blog post by Jose Miguel Mulet, a Spanish plant scientist from CSIC: "How can it be that a technology created with Spanish public funds end up in the hands of a private American company? Because of the aberrant anti-GMO European law. No European or Spanish company is interested in commercially developing this wheat due to obstacles in the authorization process…The result: licensing rights have been acquired by the…Dow Agrosciences, given that the authorization process in the United States is much easier."

DOCTOR on the internet; DirectLabs, based in Mandeville, Louisiana, offers more routine tests like a $29 metabolic panel -- glucose, kidney, fluids, electrolytes, calcium and liver -- and a $49 measure of Prostate Specific Antigen, which the company says can be used to detect cancer.

STUDY: University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer on Sept. 30, 2015, announces a $100 million donation from the Pearson family to form the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts.

The world’s first nuclear submarine, The Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, a Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946. Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955.

Data from the World Cancer Research Fund suggests that 20,000 cases of breast cancer and about 19,000 cases of bowel cancer could be stopped each year with small changes in lifestyle in UK.

2015 September 30 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

RAMBLING House on Thursday 01st October 2015 at 9 pm in Knockanure Community Centre. Everyone is welcome. Please come along and enjoy a great night of music, song and dance. Admission free. Refreshment will be served. Contact Ann Flavin at 086 3090948.

CONGRATULATIONS to Jack Goulding of Ballyduff on winning a Minor All

Ireland medal with Kerry, Jack is son of Rita Grourke and Matt

Goulding, both natives of the Parish.

SENIOR CITIZEN MEETING: Marian Hall this Wed. 30th at 7.30pm. New members welcome.

SET DANCING: Adult set dancing classes with Timmy Woulfe will begin this Monday 28th Sept. in the Marian Hall. Beginners at 8pm, all other dancers at 8.30pm sharp

ALL IRELAND: Margaret Carmody tells me that this is her 60th All Ireland, her first when she went with her parents and uncle with Jackie Enright to Croke Park from Knockanure.

DEATH of Bridie Behan nee Stack of Ballyegan, Lisselton and formally of Moyvane South on 19th September 2015. Predeceased by her husband Bob and son Dermot. Survived by sons Seamus in New York, and Martin at home. Daughter Mairead (Cork), Sister Sr. Dympna (Mountbellew),

Brother Tom in Ennis. Daughter in Law Mary and Tanya, Son- in –Law Colm. Grandchildren Kieran, Dermot, Nicole, Oisin and Fionn. Sister in Law Eileen Hennessey and Sheila Stack. Nephews and Nieces. Requiem Mass for Bridie Behan was celebrated in Ballydonoghue Church on 22nd

September, burial afterwards in St Michaels Churchyard, Listowel. Bridie was predeceased by siblings Mai McCarthy in 2007 and Dick in 2008, they were children of Jim Stack and Molly Cunningham of Moyvane South.

DEATH has taken place of Bridger O’Connor, nee Quinn, No 7 Markievicz Park, Athea, on September 24th 2015, wife of the late Michael. Survived by daughters Mary, Nora and Tricia, sons John and Michael, sisters, daughter-in-law Catherine, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, grandchildren Peter, Chloe, Rachel and Nial, cousins, nephews, nieces, relatives, very kind neighbours and her many friends. Requiem mass for Bridger O Connor was celebrated on Sunday at St Bartholomew's Church, Athea, burial afterwards at Holy Cross Cemetery, Athea. Both her sisters Mary Leahy and Nora Dore live in Moyvane.

DEATH: Connie McMahon of Knockanebrack, Lyreacrompane and late of Meenanare, Duagh. Survived by his wife Kate, daughter Cara, son Conor, parents Tom ( of Gortaglanna) and Peg, sister Noreen, brothers Dan, Johnny, Thomas, Seamus, Timmy, and Terence, father-in-law Tom, mother-in-law Noreen, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, uncles and aunts, nephews and nieces, cousins, relatives, neighbours, and many friends.. Requiem Mass on Sunday, the 27th of September at St. Brigid's Church, Duagh, followed by burial in Springmount Cemetery, Duagh. Mass was celebrated by Fr Jack O Donnell assisted by Fr’s. Paul, Liam and Tom. Hymns and music was provided by Mr McAuliffe and Leonard.

DEATH: Maighread McCarthy (née O'Connell), (late of Mount Merrion and formerly Moyvane, died on September 24, 2015. Wife of the late Paddy, predeceased by her daughter Mary, mother to Ann (Reid), Brendan, Desmond and Niamh (Scollard), grandma to Grainne, Robert, Daire, Eoghan, Aoife, Cliodhna, Mareit, Ruth, Rebecca, Cormac, Conall and Saidhbhe, great-grandma to Maria, David, Dylan, Jorge, Maighread and Ilse. Also survived by her brother Maurice and sisters Mazie, Joe, Bess and Dympna, relatives, friends and neighbours. Following Mass at the Church of St. Therese, Mount Merrion, Maighread McCarthy was laid to rest in Deans Grange Cemetery. She was daughter of Tom Connell and Mary McMahon and predeceased by siblings Kitty and Anna.

ANNIVERSARIES: Jim Hudson, Brendan O Carroll, Catherine Mullvihill, Paddy Leahy, Tom Fitzgerald, Mossie Culhane, Bridger Dillane, Mikey Joe Enright, Patsy Byne, Rosaleen Galvin, Jackie Hassett, Fr Tim Buckley, Bridie Pelican, Joan McEnery, Jay Kennelly, Patsy Fogarty, Eddie Langford, Jerry O Regan, Gerard F Horgan, Willie Stack, Fr Sean Danaher, Pat Furlong, Mary E Carpenter, Mai Mullan, Ellen Dowling, Tom Connolly, Jim McCarthy, Pat Stanley. Mass at Moyvane on Mon. 28th at 7.30pm for Joan O’Keeffe, Rec Dec, Kent, l/o Leitrim Middle. Mass on Wed. 30th at 7.30pm for Mikey Joe Enright & Dec Enright Family.Mass on Fri. 2nd at 7.30pm for Willie Stack & Dec Stack Family.

Mass at Knockanure: Tues. 29th at 7.30pm for Bill Buckley (Rec Dec) and on Thurs. 1st Mass at 7.30pm for Jennifer Cagney (Special Intention).

SECRETARY of Parish: Jacqueline is our new Parish Secretary contact 068 49308 during office hours. Notices for Newsletter to be sent or handed in for 10.00am Thursday. Office hours, Monday 10.00am – 12.00 noon. Tue 10.00am – 1.00pm. WED Closed. Thursday 10.00am –

12.00noon. Fri. 10.00am – 1.00pm.

CONFIRMATION RETREAT IN ARDFERT: The 29 candidates, who are making Confirmation, will have the opportunity to attend a retreat in Ardfert Retreat Centre. This will be held during Mid-Term in February, dates to be finalized within the next week. We will need some adults to accompany us.

PASTORAL MINISTRY COURSE: Starting 30th Sept contact John Corbett at 087/1256975.

ICA: Meeting will be held on Tues. 29th Sept. at 8pm in the Marian Hall.

SENIOR BADMINTON CLUB MOYVANE: Are holding an Irish night in Mairead’s Bar on Sat 3rd Oct., music by Gabriel Fitzmaurice and friends. Raffle and spot prizes. Great night assured.

JUVENILLE BADMINTON CLUB MOYVANE: Will hold their AGM on Wed. 30th Sept. at 8pm in the Community Centre. Parents wishing their children to play Badminton in the year ahead please attend.

KNOCK SUNDAY OCTOBER 11th. Names to Margaret Griffin on (066) 7132515.

LISTOWEL BRANCH OF KERRY HOSPICE are hosting a Coffee Morning on Friday 2nd Oct. from 10.30am. to 12pm. at “Christy’s”, The Square. Please come along and show your support. Anyone wishing to hold a coffee/tea advent in their own home please contact Jenny 08/63934134 or any committee member.

DATES: Mon. 28th Sept at 8pm Knockanure Community Centre First Holy Communion Parents; 8.45pm Presbytery, Moyvane Liturgy Group Meeting.

Fri 2nd Oct 8pm Presbytery Parish Finance Meeting. Mon 12th Oct at 8pm at Presbytery Parish Pastoral Council Meeting.

A DAY FOR LIFE: is celebrated annually by the Catholic Church in Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales. It is a day dedicated to celebrating and upholding the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. This year’s Day for Life will be celebrated in Ireland on Sunday 4th October on the theme ‘Cherishing Life, Accepting Death’.

PARISH MEETING, From our Parish Priest; I was totally overjoyed at the very large attendance at the Marian Hall on Tuesday night. Your attendance put down a very positive statement to me that we have great potential and generosity in our Parish. Thanks to one and all who attended. Also many thanks to those who have come forward since to volunteer for the various Ministries in our Parish. God’s kindest blessings to you all. Glad that you accepted my invitation to come hungry to the meeting. Food added to the atmosphere!!

AUDACITY; A play by Simon Mawdsley, Directed by Merce Hobson. In this comedy thriller, three men make an audacious plan to rob a large Department Store. The unlikely trio meet in a run-down basement flat to devise the most exciting thing they’ve ever done in their lives! But when the wives get involved things start to go badly wrong…Glorach Theatre Abbeyfeale. 8pm on Wednesday 30th September, Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th October 2015. St. John’s Theatre

Listowel, 8pm on Friday 9th & Saturday 10th October 2015.

DANCING: Sets and social dance classes for beginners started on Monday, September 21st from 8-30 to 10-30pm. at the Top of the Town, Athea and will continue on Monday nights for the winter. Set dancing for advanced dancers at the GAA Clubhouse, Abbeyfeale on Wednesday nights starting September 23 from 8-30 to 10-30pm.Social dance classes at The Railway Bar, Abbeyfeale on Tuesday nights starting September 29 from 8-30 to 10-30pm. For further information contact 087 9267037/087-6101936.

SINGING: West Limerick Singing Club are now holding their monthly singing session on the first Friday of each month at the Ramble Inn,Church St., Abbeyfeale from 9pm.

INTERNET for farmers , details from 066 712087.

MUSIC: Minister for the Arts is providing E181,350 for purchase of

Musical instruments. Jack Lyons and Jimmy Fitzgerald Weekend set for 10th and 11th October

at Kilcooley’s, Country House, Ballybunion.

CLASSES: Note from Stephen Goulding Principal of North Kerry College of Further Education Listowel. The College is still taking applications for its programmes at level 5 & 6. These courses include Business & Childcare at levels 5 & 6. Other courses include Art portfolio preparation, Sports & Recreation, Healthcare and Nursing Engineering & Hairdressing. Supports are in place for students to ensure success and excellent progression to other third level colleges for our learners. Check out our website www.northkerrycollege.ie and also you can find more on Facebook.

FASHION SHOW in aid of Limerick Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will be held in the Devon Inn Hotel, Templeglantine on Wednesday 7th October. Show starts at 8.00pm

HISTORY TALK: 'NEW INSIGHTS INTO SKELLIG MICHAEL' A lecture by Maggie Prendiville, Archaeologist about Skellig Michael, Kerry's UNESCO World Heritage Site will take place in Killarney Library on Tuesday 6th October at 7.30pm. Admission free. All welcome. Organised by the Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society.

MISSION Sunday 2015 on Sunday, 18th October.

MEETING: Samaritans are inviting collectors to a get together in their centre in Tralee. It is on Sunday 4th October at 3pm.

NORTH KERRY ALZHEIMER A Variety concert in aid of Listowel and North Kerry Alzheimer daycare service on Friday October 23rd at St John's Theatre, commencing at 8pm. Contact 23584 for more info -tickets 10 euro.

DYSLEXIA & DYSPRAXIA PARENT SUPPORT GROUP meet on the first Friday of each month September to June at 8 p.m. in the Listowel Family Resource Centre. New members are always welcome. For more information please contact the centre on 06823584 or email Mary Collins at nkdyslexiadyspraxia@gmail.com

LISTOWEL COMMUNITY CENTRE Three New Fitness Courses starting Week Sept 28th TRX Level 1 Course (4wks Mon+ Wed) Kettlebell Level 1 Course (4wks Mon+ Wed)

Total Core Training Level 1 (4wks Tues+ Thurs) Full list of Courses and Fitness Classes on Facebook page Listowel Community Centre/Tel 068-22244.

TOASTMASTERS: Meetings take place on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday at the Desmond Complex in NCW from 8.30pm – 10.30pm.

FARM SAFETY SEMINAR: A seminar entitled ‘How safe is your farm’ will take place at the Devon Inn on Thursday, October 15 at 7pm. It is organised by Abbeyfeale and District Initiative and will feature the National Chairperson of IFA’s Farm Family Committee Maura Canning, the Development Officer with Muintir na Tire Diarmuid Cronin and James Clarke from Adare who survived a farm accident. This is a free event and refreshments will be served. All welcome.

CAR BOOT SALE ;The monthly car boot sale and indoor market in NCW run by West Limerick community radio to help keep them on air takes place on Sunday, October 4 at the community centre, NCW. Gates open 7.30am.

THOUGHT: "Your goals must always be beyond your ability but within your faith." Moody Adams

LISTOWEL AREA. Kerryman 30 7 1927 page 13. Labourers Cottage repairs contract.

Name, Townland and Electoral Division. Rural, Margaret Walsh, Derra,

Listowel . Patrick Mangan, Bedford, Listowel Rural. John Barrett,

Knockane, Listowel Rural. Michael Fitzmaurice, Farranstack, Lisselton.

John Murray, Tieraclea, Tarbert. John Heffernan, Doonard, Tarbert.

Richard Stack, Glannalappa, Leitrim. Edward Fitzgerald, Aughrim,

Leitrim. Thomas Power, Aughrim, Leitrim. James Kennelly Glannalappa,

Leitrim. Patrick Mulvihill, Glennalappa, Leitrim. James Reidy,

Garrynagore, Ballinclogher. Bridget Quinlan, Killaspictarvin,

Ballinclogher. Thomas Connor, Ballinclogher, Ballinclogher. Michael

Brosnan, Ballinclogher, Ballinclogher. James McCarthy (junr.),

Ballinclogher , Ballinclogher Margaret Mannix, Ballinclogher,

Ballinclogher. Daniel Leen, Garrynagore, Ballinclogher. Denis Moloney,

Aughacoora, Ballinclogher. Maurice Jeremiah Carroll, Clogher, Lixnaw.

Maurice J. Carroll, Lixnaw West, Lixnaw. Michael Keane, Lixnaw,

Lixnaw. Eugene Fitzgerald, Deerpark, Lixnaw. Denis Keane, Gurtinare,

Lixnaw. Mary Sullivan, Deerpark, Lixnaw. Patrick Keane, Kiltomey,

Kiltomey. William Meehan, Knockane, Listowel Rural. Mary Pelican,

Derra, Listowel Rural. William Canavan, Derra West, Gunsboro. John

Duggan, Derra West, Gunsboro Maurice Downes, Farranstack, Lisselton.

Mary Martin, Farranstack, Lisselton. Johanna Lyons, Astee, Astee John

Keane, Dooncaha, Tarbert. Elizabeth McGee, Tieraclea, Tarbert. William

McCarthy, Clogher, Lixnaw. Edmond Griffin, Balhnvoher, Kiltomey.

Thomas Connor, Pallas, . Kilfeighney. John Diggin, Clahane, Ballyduff.

Humphrey O'Connor, Droumclough, Ennismore. James Dillane. Dromerin,

Ennismore. John Murphy, Dromerin, Ennismore. James Stack, Gortnaminch, Ennismore.

Jeremiah Hayes, Ennismore, Ennismore. William Hennessy, Lehanes,

Urlee. James Mulvihill, Knockreigh, Ballyhorgan Sarah Mulvihill,

Kilsinan, Ballyhorgan. Denis Buckley, Ahanagran, Carrig. John Flynn,

Foxfort, Causeway. John Flaherty, Foxfort, Causeway. Catherine Dee,

Carhoonaknock, Gunsboro. Denis Lynch, Carhoonaknock, Gunsboro. Denis

McElligott, Pallas, Kilfeighney. William Fuller, Pallas, Kilfeighney.

Julia Mackey, Martara, Carrig. Timothy Leahy, Curraghderrig, Astee.

Patrick Breen, Derra, Gullane.

POPE and visit to American Ship

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Mass of Canonization of Fr. Junipero Serra at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC,

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Old Pictures

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2015 September 23 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

PARISH Meeting in the Marian Hall on 22^nd September at 8pm all welcome.

LOCAL schools are all decorated in the green and gold. Students have expressed their pride in a host of artistic pictures.

CHOIR: Dursey Male Choir will sing at 11am Mass in Listowel on Sunday 27^th Septmber.

PADRE PIO Night Listowel on Thursday 24th at 7pm and St. Padre Pio Mass Lixnaw Wed Sept 23^rd at 7.30pm Anniv. of his death. He died at 2.30am, 1968 with the words “Jesus and Mary” on his lips. The witness on the night will be given by Fr. Kevin McNamara The novena continues for 10 sessions until June 2016.

WET Weather is causing much anxiety to stock owners. When the Island in listowel is waterlogged it’s a bad sign, wetland with heavy stocking is in poor condition.

BLOOD Donations at the Brandon Hotel from 21^st to 24^th, details from 1850 731137.

DEATH took place on 13^th September 2015 of Margaret Mullins nee Stack of Dunganville, Ardagh and Moyvane. Predeceased by her husband Johnny, survived by her brother Eddie Stack of Moyvane Village, sisters in law, brother in law, nephews and nieces. Requiem Mass for Margaret Mullins was celebrated in Ardagh Church on 16^th September, Margaret was laid to rest in the nearby cemetery, Ardagh after mass.

DEATH of Brendan Daly on 13^th September 2015, secretary of Listowel race committee, he always worked in the background, but everybody knew he was a key figure in the success of Listowel Races.

DEATH of Joan O’Keeffe, late of Leitrim Middle, who died in Kent recently.

DEATH of Billy Buckley of Tarmons, Tarbert on 12^th September 2015, he was predeceasaed by his wife Elizabeth. Survived by son Tom, daughters Maureen, Bridget Ann and Elizabeth, brother Arthur and sisters Mary and Kitty. Billy Buckley was a great supported of the Monthly Social Day in Knockanure.

DEATH of Margaret Daly, Knockane, Listowel, daughter of the late John and Mary Daly Knockane, Listowel, died, September 16th, 2015 at Fatima Nursing home, Tralee.

Srvived by her sister Noreen Moran, Keylod Moyvane, Joan OKeeffe ,Moybella Lisselton. Sister in law. Mary Daly, Listowel, Nieces , nephews, cousins grandnieces and grandnephews, the community of the Cross and Passion sisters. Pre - deceased by Mort , Donal , Fr. Pat, John Fr. Tom and sister Mary. Requiem mass for Margaret Daly was celebrated on Friday September 18th at St Mary's church, Listowel and burial afterwards in St. Michaels cemetery, Listowel.

DEATH occured on 17^th September 2015 of Moira (Cis) Griffin nee Sheehan, Coolagowan, Listowel and late of Bunglasha, Duagh and Carrueragh, Kilmorna. Pre-deceased by her husband, Tim and brother Jackie. Survived by her daughters Kathleen and Maria, sons Timothy and Seamus, sister Betty, sister-in-law Mary, nieces, nephews,

Requiem Mass for Cis Griffin was celebrated on Sunday the 20th of September in St. Mary's Church, Listowel. Burial afterwards in St. Michael's Cemetery, Listowel.

ANNIVERSARIES: Bridget O Connor, Kevin O Donovan, Mary Fitzelle Soder,Mary J Cronin, Maurice McKenna, Donie Relihan, Richard V Cantillon, Tim McElligott, Alphonsus O Kane, John Joe Kennelly, Anna Buckley, Dan Joy, Maeve Goulding, Michael Kiely, Tom Dillon, Jim Hudson, Brendan O Carroll, Catherine Mulvihill, Paddy Leahy, Tom Fitzgerald. Mass at Moyvane on Mon. 21st at 7.30pm for Nellie O’Connor,

Mass on Fri. 25th at 7.30pm for Joan McEnery. Mass at Knockanure Thurs. 24th 7.30pm, Thanksgiving Mass.

MASS: Special memorial/funeral mass for the late Benny Collins (son of Mary Ellen & Denis) of Churchtown, Athea, will be celebrated here in St Bartholomew’s Church, Athea on Saturday, Sept 26th at 2pm. Benny died in Wales a few weeks ago.

MASS: Our Harvest Festival Masses in both Churches will be on Sunday, October 4th – 10am Knockanure and 11am Moyvane.

READERS: Moyvane, Sat 7.30pm Eileen Collins & Annie Coulson; Sun. 11am Philip Kiely. Knockanure, Sun. 10am Mary O’Flaherty & Cian Rogan

COLLECTORS October, Moyvane: Sat. 7.30pm Noreen O’Flaherty & Margaret Mulvihill. Sun. 11amTom Walsh & Mike Walsh. Knockanure: Sun. 10am Liam Nolan

ARAS MHUIRE Charity concert at Tintean, where the Dursey Male Voice Choir will perform at 7.30pm on 25^th September.

GLORACH Theatre in Abbeyfeale, new play opening on September 30^th.

ACTING: Conor McGrath whose ancestors came from Gortdromasillihy and Athea recently got a lead role in his first professional theatre show according to his mother who goes by the name Bridget Brightfire on Facebook.

RAMBLING House at Seanchai on September 24^th.

RACING at Ballylongford on September 27^th.

DANCING: dance classes for beginners at Top of the Town Athea on Monday nights starting Monday, September 21 from 8-30 to 10-30pm. Set dancing for advanced dancers at the GAA Clubhouse, Abbeyfeale on Wednesday nights starting September 23 from 8-30 to 10-30pm.Social dance classes at The Railway Bar Abbeyfeale on Tuesday nights starting September 29 from 8-30 to 10-30pm, contact 087-9267037 or 087-6101936.

ECLIPSE of the Moon can be seen on 28^th Sept. from 2am to 5.30am.

BUS to Listowel from Knockanure every Wednesday c 10.15 am, book at 1890 528 528.

PLOUGHING Match in Laois from 22^nd to 24^th September. Owen Stack, Duagh will be running a bus to the Poughing Contact 087 2522402. Tom O’Connor, Cratloe will also take a bus, contact 087 2632096, 086 1032436. See local notice boards for more buses.

SINGING: 7th annual Garry McMahon singing weekend which takes place this year from October 16-18.

West Limerick Singing Club are now holding their monthly singing session on the first Friday of each month at the Ramble Inn, Church St., Abbeyfeale from 9pm.

INTERNET for farmers , details from 066 712087.

SET DANCINNG Clounmcon began on 2^nd of Setember.

SHANNONSIDE WOMENS GROUP will hold a used clothes collection on Thursday 24th Sept from 8am to 10am in the Church carpark, Tarbert. Proceeds of this collection will go to the Leah Carmody Fund and your support will be greatly appreciated. All clean ladies, gents & children’s clothes, shoes, bags, sheets, curtains etc are acceptable.

REFUGEES: Donate clothes/shoes to the Moyvane Youth Club. You can drop them into the collection kiosk in front of Denis Mulvihill’s Garage opposite Moyvane Church. The Youth Club are donating all they collect between now and Wednesday 30th to the Refugee Trust going directly to Refugees.

FORUM: The Global Irish Economic Forum will take place from November 19 to 21 and will bring together more than 300 leading Irish and Irish-connected figures from across the globe in Dublin to play their part in building on Ireland’s recovery.

ST JOHN’S: Thursday 24^th, The Best of Traditional with Niamh Dunne and Sean Og Gragham. Fri. 25^th, Jack L in Concert. Wed. 30^th, The Singing Harp- A Yeats Celebration, more from 068 22566.

NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS 2015 (KNOCK) The National Eucharistic Congress will be held in Knock on Sat 26th and Sun 27th of September. Full programme of talks, workshops and prayer. Dedicated Youth Programme, Children's Programme and events for Families. Admission free. All welcome. For full details visit: www.nec2015.ie

MUSIC: Cherish the Ladies 10/10 in Killarney, at The INEC, Nathan Carter Weekend.

COURSE IN PASTORAL MINISTRY-There are still a few places available!! If you would like to learn more about your faith and to develop your skills in ministry, this is the course for you. Our aim is to nourish and develop the faith and skill of adults so that their experience of being involved in parish is enriched, and share their talents and gifts more effectively. The course will take place in Listowel on Wednesday nights, 8-10pm. For more information, check out www.dioceseofkerry.ie or phone Diocesan Pastoral Centre @064 6632644 or email

CORK & KERRY CHARISMATIC RENEWAL CONFERENCE will take place in the Cork International Airport Hotel on Saturday/Sunday, Oct 17th & 18th. Theme “Eucharistic Amazement”. Main Speakers: Fr Jim McManus, CSsR, & Marie Beirne.

MEN AND WOMEN new beginning for who have suffered the loss of a loved one through death, separation or divorce. This support takes place at Ennismore Retreat Centre, Cork from Fri, Oct 2nd to Sun. Oct. 4th. It helps people to work through the grief process and to discover for themselves that merely “existing” in life can be transformed into “living” a new life, though a different one. For info (087) 9886480

WIND FARM: Airtricity would like to invite applications from community based projects, in the locality of their Athea, Dromada, Tournafulla and Rathcahill wind farms in County Limerick. Applications will be accepted within a 20km radius of the wind farms for projects that have an energy efficiency or sustainability theme, however preference will be given to projects within 5km of the wind farms. To find out more about how to apply, please contact Community Development Officer Anne Reynolds, Tel 01 655 6556 Email anne.reynolds@sse.com The closing date for the 2015 Community Fund is Friday 25th September.

PAVED: Michelin paves the way at Yellowstone National Park

Greenville, SC - Old Faithful, one of the world's most iconic natural wonders, now has an even more ecofriendly surrounding thanks to the installation of a newly paved walkway that creates a porous, clean and flexible surface that uses recycled Michelin tires along with other materials. Unlike asphalt, the new pavement, called Flexi-Pave.

COLUMBAN Newsletter extract; The French film Des Hommes e Des Dieux (Of Gods and Men) depicts the last days of a Trappist monastic community in Tibhirine, Algeria, where seven of its nine monks were kidnapped and assassinated in 1966, during the Algerian War. The monks lived in a predominantly Muslim environment, and while living a life of contemplative prayer, also offered medical and other services to the peaceful neighbouring village community. The film depicts a dialogue and discernment among the members of the monastic community as to whether they should stay or leave when their lives were threatened by a fundamentalist group operating in that area.

That film gives us some idea of what Columban and his monks experienced when they were in conflict with the local Frankish kings. Those conflicts finally resulted in the expulsion of Columban and the surviving Irish members of his community. Columban did not want to leave; he had lived more than twenty years in that area. However the king’s soldiers forced him and his companions to journey as far as Nantes, and to be placed on board ship for the return voyage to Ireland. However, as his biographer relates, the ship ran into a sandbank and the captain eventually refused to sail with the monks on board. So Columban was able to journey again by a different route across northern Europe, to the Rhine and further south to Italy

THOUGHT. And each one should confidently make known his need to the other, so that he might find what he needs and minister it to him. Francis of Assisi

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PARISH Meeting in the Marian Hall on 22^nd September at 8pm all welcome.

LAUNCH: Johnny Lane of Kilmorna tells me he has launched a CD , called Wrapped in Green and Gold, proceeds in aid of Cúnamh Cancer Support Group in the Cork Bons in thanks for all the help they have given to Mairead and many more over the past year. Available locally.

BEST Wishes to all the Junior Cert students who recently received their results. Best wishes also to Stephen Goulding the new principal of Listowel Community College, his ancestors came from Knockanure.

RACING continues in Listowel till Sept. 19^th. The All Ireland Wrenboys competition is on Friday 18^th always a night to remember.

AUTUMN: Swallows are flocking preparing to leave us. The blackberry and wild plum are ripe. The recent fine weather has enabled harvesting to be almost completed, then we had dreadful downpour on Friday last, causing flooding in many places..

CONGRATULATIONS to Moyvane U10 footballers who won in Listowel on September 6^th.

BUS to Listowel from Knockanure every Wednesday c 10.15 am, book at 1890 528 528.

PLOUGHING Match in Laois from 22^nd to 24^th September. See local notice boards for buses.

DEATH: Mary O'Connor (née Kennelly) Keylod, Moyvane, died on the 4th of September, 2015 surrounded by her loving family, daughter of the late Bill and Theresa. Survived by her Husband Pat, son Jamie, and partner Lisa, daughter Therese and husband Jeff, grandchildren Robbie and Riley, brothers Paddy, Mike, and Billy, sister Margie, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, nephews and nieces and relatives

. Requiem Mass for Mary was celebrated on Monday, the 7th of September at the Church of Corpus Christi, Knockanure and burial afterwards in Ahavoher Cemetery, Mass was celebrated by Fr. McNamara PP assisted by Fr McMahon and Fr O Callaghan. Hymns and music was provided by Mickey O Connell and Wane Taren. Mary will be remembered by all who knew her. She was very involved in establishing the Monthly Social Day in Kockanure.

DEATH took place recently of Liam Taylor of Athea and Birmingham and John O Keeffe a member of Listowel Choir.

DEATH of Hugh Courtenay the eighteenth Earl of Devon on 18^th August 2015, his ancestor Sir William Courtenay was granted 1,000s of acres in West Limerick in the 1580s following the fall of the Earl of Desmond.

ANNIVERSARIES: Br. William Kelly, Nora Galvin, Eamonn Riordan, Mary Vaughan, John Sheahan, Joan Teresa Stack, Desmond Fitzgerald, Bridie Moloney, Sr Annunciata Curtin, Fr Theo O Sullivan, Bridget Brosnan, Geraldine Daly, Ned Moran, Michael J Nunan, Mai McMahon, Sr. Johanna Leahy, James Dower, Mai Costelloe, Mai Broderick, Tom Kennelly, Bill O Donnell, Mass in Moyvane on Tuesday 15^th at 7.30 pm for Hanora & Michael Galvin and deceased members of Galvin Family. Mass on Sunday 20^th for Paddy Fitzmaurice at 11am.Mass on Monday 21^st at 7.30pm for Nellie O Connor.

MASS in Knockanure Sunday 20^th at 10am for Ester and Dan Fitzgerald, special intention. Mass in Moyvane on Friday 18^th at 9.30am special intention Mary Pender.

READERS: Moyvane Vigil, Michelle Corridan, 11am Amanda Coulson & Aine OConnor; Knockanure 10am Patricia and Andrew Rogan.

SAMARITANS open evening at Manor West Hotel on September 16^th.

ARAS MHUIRE Charity concert at Tintean, where the Dursey Male Voice Choir will perform at 7.30pm on 25^th September.

ALL IRELAND September 20^th, people from home and abroad are searching every avenue in the hope a finding a ticket.

PATTERN DAY in Ballyheigue attracted a great crowd in glorious weather, many locals present.

BOOK: Kay Moloney Caball who has many relations in the parish, recently launched her new book called, Finding your Ancestors in Kerry.

TOASTMASTERS Meetings take place on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday at the Desmond Complex in NCW from 8.30pm – 10.30pm.Further information Charles 087 7972855.

LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE are offering a wide range of courses to suit all interests and tastes during the current academic term including the following; Parents Plus for 0-6. 6-11 and teens respectively, beginners computers. Intermediate computers, cooking on a budget,

Fetac certified courses include: Occupational First Aid, craft textiles. Horticulture, digital, internet skills and Microsoft Word. Contact (068) 23584 for further details.

GLORACH Theatre in Abbeyfeale, new play opening on September 30^th.

THOUGHT: You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience

A.B. Simpson

NEWSPAPERS: Kerry Sentinel 25-2-1899 page 4 reports on the selection of a candidate for the Tarbert district of Kerry County Council. This is an edited version.

The Chairman G B Fitzgibbon proposed the following resolution, which was seconded by Mr. John Moran, Leanmore, Ballylongford, and adopted : That as Mr. M. J. Nolan publicly stated at Leanmore that he would not submit to the decision of a convention held in Tarbert for the purpose of selecting a representative on the County Council, we now adopt Mr. T. M. O'Connor as candidate, and call on the Nationalists of the seven divisions of the Council district to give their united support against the jobbery so strongly and justly condemned by Judge Shaw and the people, and which has made the name of the Listowel Board of Guardians a bye word throughout Munster (cheers).

Mr. T. M. O'Connor, who on coming forward was received with cheers, said that his name had been submitted for their acceptance, and it was necessary for him to say a few words (you're welcome). When the Local Government Act had been passed he stated that he would not come forward as a candidate for the County Council, but having been pressed by a number of electors, some of whom were voters in Kilcolgan and Tarmons who had voted against him at previous elections, he consented to allow his name be brought forward, and relied on all classes of the electorate for their support. If they considered that he would not faithfully and diligently promote their interests they had the remedy in their own hands, and no matter what the result of the contest which was being forced on the division would be they would not be the worse friends (cheers). He had nothing to gain, but something to lose, by contesting the division. He did not want to force himself on the people. He had been a guardian for a few years, and during that period endeavored to perform his duty honestly. His experience of public business was by no means pleasant. He fought many a hard battle with the ruling ring, and was howled down by the force of the majority. Still he endeavored to do his duty against odds of which the outside public could form no idea. People reading the newspaper reports of the meetings of the Board of Guardians believed that the members whose names appeared were present during the transaction of the whole business of the Board. Some guardians were credited with being connected with the jobs which were from time to time perpetrated, though, as a matter of fact, they might have left the meeting hours before the job came on, which was usually at the tail end of the proceedings, when the jobbers were in a large majority. He had in his hand a list showing a few of the most flagrant and glaring abuses of public funds accomplished by the ruling ring of the Listowel Board of Guardians, such as the medicine contract, the Ballyduhig cottage, and the seed supply, the abuses connected with which had been so severely criticized by Judge Shaw directly at the Listowel Quarter Sessions and indirectly at Killarney. By the medicine job the ratepayers had to pay 20s for drugs which could be procured from other respectable druggists for about I6s. The public were familiar with the details of the Ballyduhig cottage. They knew how a man, the father of six children, handed in a representation for a labourer's cottage in '92, and how, when the cottage was built in '97, he was ousted by a beardless boy in the employment of Mrs. Browne. Was that doing justice to the labourer whose cause the chairman of the ring and his senior lieutenant, Mr. E. Walsh, V.C., who piloted the cause of the beardless boy with more bluster than intelligence, were now so vigorously advocating. The Local Government had asserted that the action of the " ring" in the matter of the Ballyduhig cottage was a proposition of the powers vested in the guardians under the Labourers' Acts. With regard to the seed supply, the senior lieutenant of the " ring" was voted £18 by his pals, but Judge Shaw considered that £5 would handsomely remunerate him for the wear and tear of his body and mind (laughter and cheers). Mr. Nolan, who championed the ratepayers at Presentment Sessions, was instrumental in throwing out a piece of flagging in Tarbert which would cost about £5, but three months afterwards —also, of course, in the interests of the ratepayers—he was instrumental in getting one of the largest ratepayers in Tarbert to propose an expenditure for the flagging of Newtowndillon, amounting to £95. That action might be regarded as inconsistent in another man, but it was in keeping with Mr Nolan's whole record, which was a catalogue of inconsistencies (laughter and cheers). They were all familiar with Mr. Nolan's action with regard to the proposed railway from Tarbert to Listowel via Ballylongford. He publicly solicited subscriptions for the purpose of opposing a grant of £100 at four per cent to enable the promoters to compulsorily acquire land. He stated at the Assizes that he would not oppose the railway if the line ran close to Gale Bridge —a route which would entail an additional outlay of £15,000 on the original estimate. The additional outlay was light when they considered the personal advantages which Mr. Nolan's would enjoy by the deviation from the original plan. There was another matter of serious importance to the ratepayers. He referred to the striking of the rate of '97, by which the ratepayers of the Listowel Union lost about l.75d in the £ perhaps for ever owing to the bungling of the " ring." He (Mr. O'Connor) strongly advocated the necessity of adopting the clerk's estimate without alteration, as he was aware that the rate of '97 would be taken as the standard year under the Local Government Act. Mr. M. S. O'Connell also favoured the adoption of the Clerk's estimate and seconded his motion, which the chairman refused to accept, and thus deprived the ratepayers of £500 annually. It looked as if there was an object in the chairman's action, as the " ring" reduced the rate of Newtowndillon by 11d in the £, while they refused to reduce a single penny in the Tarbert division at the following meeting. He would not enumerate other jobs and blunders. In conclusion be thanked the meeting for the cordiality of their reception, and promised, if elected-, to act as a consistent Nationalist, to expose jobbery wherever it came under his notice, to cut down expenditure and promote all projects tending to develop their industries, and to afford employment, and would never act the flunkey (cheers).

A hearty vote of thanks having been passed to the chairman, the proceedings terminat

Knockanure Notes for September 9th 2015

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RAMBLING House on Thursday 03th September 2015 in Knockanure Community Centre, Was a great night with a big crowd, even though there was also a full house in St John’s at another Irish Night.

ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre, was on Monday 07th September 2015, If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome

PART TIME PARISH SECRETARY: She is Jacqueline Stackpoole, Aughrim. Times, Front office in Presbytery are as follows; from this Monday 7th September, Mondays 10 - 12 noon, Tuesday 10 - 1pm, Wednesday closed, Thursdays 10 - 12 noon, Fridays 10 – 1pm.

CLOUNMACON CALLING! Present and Former Residents of the Clounmacon School catchment area and past-pupils of the school are invited to attend the Community Gathering and Past-Pupils Re-Union next weekend (11th -12th Sept), commencing with Community Mass on Friday 11th at 7pm in the Community Centre. Fáilte Isteach.

MOYVANE SENIOR BADMINTON CLUB Play resumes in the Community Centre on Mon.7th Sept. at 8pm and will continue on Mon. & Wed night at 8pm. New members, beginners or experienced of any level always welcome.

DEATH took place on 3rd September 2015 of Charles Gullin, Leitrim West Moyvane, late of Tarbert and Killocrim, Listowel. Survived by his wife Annette Gullin nee Beasley and family Tony, Neil, Wendy and Ricky. Requiem mass for Charles Gullin on Sunday 6th September in St. Mary's Church, Listowel. Burial afterwards in St. John Paul II cemetery.

DEATH has taken place of Henry Brosnan Ballinclogher, Lixnaw and late of Knockreagh, Listowel, on 30th of Augest 2015. Survived by nephews, nieces, grandnephews, grandnieces, relatives and friends.

Requiem Mass for Henry Brosnan was celebrated at Our Lady of Fatima Church Irremore on Wednesday and burial afterwards in Kilshinane Cemetery.

DEATH took place on 31st August 2015 of Margaret Kenelly (née Hudson),Coolaclarig, Listowel And late of Kilbaha, Moyvane. Wife of the late Mikey and mother of the late Tim, Maurice, and Geraldine. Survived by daughters Mary, Joan, Colette, and Breda, sons Eamon and Mike, sisters Nora and Breda, brother William at Kilbaha, sons and daughters-in-law, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Requiem Mass on Thursday the 3rd of September at 11.30am in St. Mary's Church, Listowel. Burial afterwards to Lislaughtin Abbey, Ballylongford.

ANNIVERSARIES. Ned Stack,Nell Tydings,Catherine Lynch, Tony O Callaghan, Sheila Barry, Ciss and Jimmy McCarthy, John P Ryan, Ando Brosnan, Hugh Goulding, Fr. Michael Maher, Paddy Brosnan, Michael Mulvihill, Fr. Joe Walsh, Sr. Mercedes O Connor, Sr. Anthony O Connor, Mary Broderick. MASS CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION, MOYVANE

Mon.7th at7.30pm for Ned & Mary Ellen Stack, Dec Members of the Stack

Family & Ned Scanlon, whose (Anni) occures at this time

Fri.11th at7.30pm for John & Philomena Hanrahan (Anni). Sat. Vigil 12th at 7.30pm for Patrick Brosnan. Sun.13th at11.00am for Margo Kennedy CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI, KNOCKANURE,

Mass onTues.8th at 7.30pm for Stephen Foran, Rec. Dec.

BALLYLONGFORD/TARBERT C.C.E.: registration night for beginners and advanced students for this year’s music classes has been set for Friday 11th September from 7 to 8 p.m. St. Oliver’s N.S.

ALZHEIMER’S CARERS -The September meeting of the Alzheimer's Carers support group takes place at Listowel Family Resource Centre on Tuesday September 8 at 12.30pm. New members welcome.

LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE are offering a wide range of courses to suit all interests and tastes during the current academic term including the following;Parents Plus for 0-6. 6-11 and teens respectively, beginners computers. Intermediate computers, cooking on a budget,

Fetac certified courses include: Occupational First Aid, craft textiles. Horticulture, digital, internet skills and Microsoft Word. Contact (068) 23584 for further details.

PARISH MEETING TUESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER

will take place in the Marian Hall on Tues. 22nd Sept.at 8pm. a representive from all organisation and groups who contribute to the life of our Parish welcome. The meeting will start at 8pm.

THE ANNUAL MASS AT OUR LADY’S WELL AND GROTTO IN BALLYHEIGUE takes place next Tuesday at 11.00am sharp on the feast of the birthday of Our Lady. Chief Celebrant is Bishop Ray Browne, people are advised to come early to avoid traffic build up. All are Welcome.

OUR LADY’S BIRTHDAY ON TUESDAY NEXT: September 8th – To mark the occasion Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will take place at Our Lady’s Altar here at St. Mary’s Church from 11.00 a.m. to 12 noon. Adoration continues in the Adoration Chapel afterwards. Failte!

MEDJUGORJE MONTHLY PRAYER MEETING at St Mary’s Church Listowel on Monday 7th September at 7.30pm in the Parish Meeting room.

LECTIO DIVINA (SACRED READING) GROUP will meet in the Parish Meeting Room Listowel every Tuesday after 10.30am Mass for approx 1 hour. All are welcome.

SHANNONSIDE WOMENS GROUP will hold a used clothes collection on Thursday 24th Sept from 8am to 10am in the Church carpark. Proceeds of this collection will go to the Leah Carmody Fund and your support will be greatly appreciated. All clean ladies, gents & children’s clothes, shoes, bags, sheets, curtains etc are acceptable.

ST JOHN’S. Wed. 9th ,Three Lovely Lassies, more from 068 22566.

AFTERNOON TEA DANCE: at Fr. Casey Clubhouse when they hold the monthly tea dances on the second Sunday of the month from September to June. The season kicks off on Sunday September 13 with music by Stevie Donegan and dancing from 3-6pm. All funds go to St. Mary’s Graveyard.

TOASTMASTERS Meetings take place on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday at the Desmond Complex in NCW from 8.30pm – 10.30pm.Further information Charles 087 7972855.

HOCKEY: Ireland beat ENGLAND 4-2 to take the bronze medal at the Euro Hockey Championships for the first time recently.

GRANDPARENTS PILGRIMAGE TO KNOCK: Sunday 13th September. Coach departs Killarney 7.00am, (Cathedral), Tralee 7.30am (Bus Station), Listowel 8.00am (The Square), Abbeyfeale 8:15am (The Church). Contact O’Shea’s on 066 7180123.

AGM of Athea Drama Group will take place on Monday night September 7th in the kitchen in the Memorial Hall, Athea at 8.30pm. Everyone welcome .

NOMINATIONS are being sought at present for the People of the Year Awards, which will be presented live on RTE One television on Saturday 5th December. Each year the awards, which are organised by Rehab, recognise the work done by the many unsung heroes within communities around Ireland. The nominations are needed for the following categories: Young Person of the Year, International Person of the Year, Sports Person of the Year and Community Group of the Year. To nominate a person fill in the short nomination form, on www.peopleoftheyear.com or call the people of the year awards office for a nomination form on 01 2057397. The closing date for entries is Monday 14th September.

LAUNCH: Johnny Lane tells me he has launched a CD for Cúnamh Cancer Support Group in the Cork Bons for all the help they have given to Mairead and many more over the past year. The Song was launched on Tues evening at Christys The Well in Listowel.

THOUGHT ; Courage! Open your hearts and judge not those around you who would appear weak or poor by human standards. Make no distinctions in the way you treat people. Do not turn yourselves into judges. Instead let your eyes and ears be open to the Word of God telling you that each and every one of us is a beloved child of his. The Kingdom of God is open to all. It is a place free of distinctions or favorites....

KIllarney Echo and South Kerry Chronicle 1899-1920, Saturday, 06 May, 1911; Page: 14

1911 Local Elections candidates

TARBERT.

Timothy McCarthy-O'Connor, Tarbert. Proposed by Robert Keating, Moyvane; seconded by Patrick Healy, Tieraclea. Michael J. Nolan, Moyvane (sitting member). Proposed by Patrick O'Connor, Kealid; seconded by Myles Kearney, Moyvane North.

TARBERT DIVISION.

Mr. T. M. O'Connor was nominated in six nomination papers for the County Council division of Tarbert. In the first paper he was proposed by Rev. P. Garvey, P.P., Newtownsandes, seconded by William Stack, Gurtamagowna; (Should be Gortdromasillihy) in the second paper he was proposed by Robert Keating, Newtownsandes, and seconded by Patrick Healy, Tarbert; he was proposed in the third paper by Patrick Kennelly, Knockanure, and seconded by David Walsh, Ballylongford; in the fourth he was proposed by, P. Kelly, Ballylongford, seconded by J Carrig, do. ; James O Keeffe, Tarbert : was the proposer in the fifth nomination and John Houlihan, Coolnamonagh, was the seconder; and in the sixth paper he was proposed by David Meskell, Tarbert, seconded by Daniel O Connor, Coolnanooagh. Mr. M J. Nolan, who has represented Tarbert Co. Council Division since the establishment of the Local Government Act, and who has also been Vice-Chairman of the County Council during that time, has been now nominated by the ; following: Proposed by Revd. P. Garvey, P.P., Newtownsandes , seconded by Michael Enright. Proposed by Thomas R. Hill, Esq., J.P., Tarbert, seconded by Robert Smyth Moyvane, Newtownsandes. Proposed by John Downey, Tarbert Island, Tarbert, seconded by Captain D. McCarthy, Tarbert. Proposed by John M'Grath, Glencullare, Tarbert , seconded by Timothy Ahem, do. Proposed by Patrick O'Connor, R.D.C, Kealid, Newtownsandes, seconded by M. P Kearney, Newtownsandes. Proposed by P. Connor, Lenamore, Ballylongford, seconded by John Moran, Lenamore, Ballylongford. Proposed by Jeremiah Ahern, Ballylongford, seconded by Michael McEllistram, Ballylongford. Proposed by Timothy Scanlon, Leitrim, Newtownsandes , seconded by Michael Kennelly, do. Proposed by James Lynch, Gortdromagouna, seconded by Daniel Keane , Carueragh. . Proposed by James Barrett, Carueragh; Kilmeany, seconded by P. Lane , Shronebeirn,, do .

Proposed by Thos. McMahon, Lisaniska Knockanure , seconded by Thomas Leahy, do. Proposed by E. Walsh, R.D.C, Clountubrid, Listowel, seconded by Jeremiah Galvin: do. .

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RAMBLING House on Thursday 03th September 2015 at 9 pm in Knockanure Community Centre. Everyone is welcome. Please come along and enjoy a great night of music, song and dance. Admission free. Refreshment will be served. Contact Ann Flavin at 0863090948.

ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre, takes place on Monday 07th September 2015.Music by Stevie Donegan. All Welcome, If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome

THANK you to everyone to donated cakes, buns, etc for our Cake Sale on Vintage Day.

BALLYHEIGUE PATTERN DAY: falls this year on Tuesday 8th September, feast of the birthday of Our Lady. Mass begins at the Grotto at 11.00am celebrated by Bishop Ray Browne and fellow concelebrants.

FIRST FRIDAY CALLS: Knockanure calls on Thursday 3rd and Moyvane on Friday 4th . Starting both days, God willing at 11.00am.

DEATH occurred on 16th August 2015 of Bridget Hayes, Ballinagree, Borris, Carlow. Survived by sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nephews, nieces and in-laws. Removal on Wednesday 19th August to Rathanna Church arriving for Funeral Mass at 11am followed by burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Bridget was daughter Denny Lane of Kilmeaney and Ellen Ahern who was a native of Athea. Survived by brothers Bill (London), Eanus (Dublin), Joe (USA), sisters Nora (London), Mary (Mayo), and Eileen (Kilmorna).

DEATH took place recently of Paddy Holly of Leicester and Tarmonshill, he is survived by his sister Mary in Ballylongford, his sister in-law Tessie, nephews and nieces.

DEATH has taken place of Robert Moloney, The Square, Listowel on August 21st 2015. Predeceased by his wife Betty Buckley (died July 2014), survived by daughters Caramel & Mary, son Dominic, sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren Sean, Senan, Robert, Grace, Patrick, great-grandson Sean Og, nephews and nieces.

Requiem Mass for Robert Moloney on Tuesday morning at St. Mary's Church, Listowel. Burial afterwards in St. Michael's Cemetery, Listowel. Robert was born 1934 to Robert Moloney and Margaret O Mahony. Went to secondary school in Roscrea only recently I met an old chum of his who recalled their school days. Despite being a busy shopkeeper working early and late, he was interested in fishing, gardening, honey bees and loved the seaside at Ballybunion where you were sure to find himself and Betty sitting in the front lawn.

DEATH has taken place of Anne Browne (nee Kearney) Mountcoal, Listowel and late of Cordal, Castleisland, 21 of August 2015. Survived by her husband Jimmy daughter Joan, sons Jim, Jerry, Jack and Donal, sister Betty, brothers Nick and Jimmy, sisters-in-law, son-in-law, daughters-in-law, nieces, nephews and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Requiem Mass for Anne Browne on Monday at Our Lady of Fatima Church, Irremore. Burial afterwards in Kilshinane Cemetery.

ANNIVERSARIES: Michael Griffin, Madeline Moloney, Mai Scanlon, Liam Nolan, Michael Joe Daly, Moss McGrath, Jim Barry, Dick O Connor, Bob Murphy, Tom Ned Fitzgerald, Dan Foley, Paul Collins, Mass Moyvane Church; Mon. 31^st at 7.30pm for Murt O’Shea, Killarney, (requested by Moyvane G.A.A. Club). Thurs. 3rd at 7.30pm, Deceased of the Lynch Family, Gortdromagouna. Fri. 4th at 7.30pm Deceased of the Flavin & Mulvihill Family, Aughrim. Sat. Vigil, 5th at 7.30pm for Jackie Enright. Sun. 6th at 11.00am for Dora Ahern, Kilbaha, Months Mind. Tues. 8th at 7.30pm for Margo Kennedy.

Knockanure Church Masses, Tues. 1st Sept. at 7.30pm for Joan Barrett, Recently Deceased. Wed. 2nd at 7.30pm for Mossie Kennelly. Sun. 6th at 10.00am for David O’Connor, (Anni.).

SCHOOL mass Friday 4^th at 10.00am at Murhur National School, Opening Mass to begin The New School Year. All welcome.

THOUGHT: Helping people takes time, and free time is a commodity most of us have in scant supply. It is probably, at least partly true, for that reason that the time we give to others is such a treasure to God.

Stephen Fortosis.

BEST WISHES to Fr Madden who is retiring, many of us met him regularly when he was Parish Priest in Athea.

WELL DONE to the Pierse family of Gortnagross who represented Athea in Athlone at the Community Games finals recently. Emily competed in the 7k and 50m backstroke as did Anne-Marie also in the swimming with Dermot taking part in the 1200m cross country. Gymnastics, Katie Byrne competed in the U11 competition, Clodagh Ahern in the U9 event came 2nd winning a silver medal.

PRAYER MEETING IN KNOCKNAGOSHEL: Moss and Janice Carrig have a prayer meeting in St. Mary’s Church, Knocknagoshel at 3pm on Sunday, September 6. All are welcome.

LISTOWEL ACTIVE RETIREMENT GROUP will resume their meetings on Tuesday 1st September at 2.30pm in St Patrick’s Hall. New members are welcome.

BLOOD donation clinic will be held at Abbeyfeale secondary school on 7^th and 8^th September from 6 to 9pm.

READERS, Vigil, Elaine Hudson & Catriona Farrelly. 11am Kevin Hudson & Karina Stack. Knockanure 10am Margaret Carmody & Mary Fitzgerald.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR CARE OF CREATION: Pope Francis has designated Sept 1st World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.

LOURDES PILGRIMAGE: Our prayerful good wishes to all from our Parish and our Pastoral Area who are travelling to Lourdes this week on the Diocesan Pilgrimage. We will keep you in our Prayers, please pray for us at the Grotto. A safe and enjoyable Pilgrimage to all. On Friday 4th, 7.30pm Irish Time Kerry Pilgrimage Grotto Mass can be viewed live by logging on to “Lourdes Live” on Internet.

SEPTEMBER 22ND: A meet and greet gathering in the Marian Hall on Tuesday September 22nd with Fr McNamara. All welcome. It will commence at 8.00pm

CAR BOOT SALE in aid of WL102fm ( our local community Radio) will take place at the community centre, NCW (beside the GAA pitch) on Sunday, September 6 from 7.30am, ring 069 66200.

TOASTMASTERS meet in the Desmond Complex, Newcastle West on Wednesday 2nd September from 8.30pm to 10.30pm, further information from Charles on 087-7972855.

KERRY CHORAL UNION Junior Choir Auditions open to boys and girls age 7-15 years old. Auditions will be held on Saturday 5th September 11am-1pm in Our Lady & St. Brendan’s Church, Upper Rock Street, Tralee. Telephone : 087-4412700.

CEILI will be held in Halla Tadhg Gaelach, Tournafulla, on Friday 4th September. Music by the Johnny Reidy band and all are welcome.

SINGING: West Limerick Singing Club monthly singing session in the Ramble Inn, Abbeyfeale on Friday 4thSeptember at 9pm and all are welcome.

MASS in Abbeyfeale

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CONFESSIONS: Saturday Moyvane 6.30pm till 7.20pm, Sunday Knockanure 9.00am - 9.50am.

ADORATION:CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION, MOYVANE Sun.4pm to 5pm, Wed. 10am to 7pm

CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI, KNOCKANURE Tuesdays 10.00am to 6.00pm.

DAY TRIP TO LISDOONVARNA Friday 11th September. Bus Lunch and Dinner €55. Departs Wednesday 2nd September: Contact Marie 086 1032436.

LEAH CARMODY FUNDRAISER the next meeting will take place in the Community Centre, Tarbert, on Tuesday 1st of September at 8pm.

ST JOHN’S: Tuesday 1st Sept. Comedy film called My Accomplice. Thursday 3rd Breaking Trad with Donal Murphy and friends. Fri 4th Tomatoes a short pay written and performed by Eimer Sheehy, Tralee. Exhibition by Annascaul Artists group at 6.30pm on Sunday 6th Sept. Wed. 9th ,Three Lovely Lassies, more from 068 22566.

BOOK Launch: On Thu. 3rd September at 6.30pm in O'Mahony's Bookshop, O'Connell St. The book of short stories is by Mike Mac Domhnaill.

GLIN Library will be ten years old this September.

RUGBY: Women’s Squad train at the Town Park Listowel on Thursdays from 6.30pm to 8pm.

WALK on Sunday 30th August 3pm from the Mens Shed [Old Vocational School, Abbeyfeale]. The walk included a visit to the old Church of Ireland Cemetery before continuing along the Great Southern Trail Greenway to the ruin of the historic Purt Castle.

PAPERS: Killarney Echo and South Kerry Chronicle 1899-1920, Saturday, November 29, 1902; Page: 2

RECENT DINGLE LICENSING SESSIONS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Moyvane House, Newtownsandes,

25th November, 1902. DEAR. SIR,—On the day after seeing Canon O'Leary's letter on the above—Thursday last—I wrote him explaining my presence at the Dingle Sessions, and asking him to set the matter right on my behalf with respect to the licensing taxes. He invites me to make my explanation through the Press. The facts of which I have made Canon O'Leary aware are these: I had promised a clergyman in the district for some time past to spend a few days with him. I went out to his place on Thursday evening, and went into Dingle on Friday to see a gentleman on business. I took a seat on the Bench as I was entitled to do and to vote if I choose to do so. When the magistrates retired to their room I went with them with a view of getting the benefit of their deliberations in some cases where special legal points had arisen, but I at once intimated I did not come to the Sessions to vote, and I would not vote, as can be proved by the records of the court, I did not vote. I hope this letter will get the same publicity that Canon O'Leary's letter has got.—Yours faithfully,

M. J. NOLAN

CULTURE NIGHT Limerick

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MONTHLY PADRE PIO PRAYER NIGHT August meeting at St Mary’s Church Listowel on Thursday night August 27th at 7pm including Rosary, Mass, Prayers & Benediction. All are welcome.

PILGRIMAGE TO HOLY CROSS: Sunday August 30th Bus leaving Causeway. If you wish to travel please contact: 066-7131328 or 087-2426580

BLOOD DONOR CLINIC due to be held in the Listowel Arms Hotel on Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th August from 6pm to 9pm each evening.

THANKS: The Moyvane / Knockanure Graveyard Committee would like to thank all those who attended the masses, our parishioners and all who travelled from surrounding parishes to be with us. Thanks to all who contributed so generously to the collections for the upkeep and maintenance of the graveyards, it is much appreciated.

VINTAGE Run and Vintage Day in Knockanure was another occasion for all of us to meet and chat and admire the work and skill of exhibitors, it was also a chance for the young athletes to display their abilities.

HERITAGE WEEK continues till August 30^th, details at library.

ANNIVERSARIES: Bridget McCarthy, Mary Olive Relihan, Jim Stack, Bridie O Connor, Madge Fitzgerald, Fr James Leahy, Sr. Agatha Stack, Edward Joe Nash, Mick Barrett, Shane Courtney, Peggy Grego, William J Hudson, Sr. Evangelist Cantillon, Mary McLoughlin, Tom Begley, Dan Ahern, Geraldine Hegarty, Denis McGrath. Mass in Moyvane Sat.29th at 7.30pm for Liam Lynch & deceased members of the Byrne & Lynch Families. Mass on Mon. 31st at 7.30pm for Murt Shea. Mass in Knockanure, Fri. 28th at 7.30pm for Mossie & Hannie Fitzgerald, their son Paddy and Hannie’s sister Maureen Moore.

Tues. 1st Sept. at 7.30pm for Joan Barrett, Recently Deceased.

MASS in Moyvane on Wed. 26^th at 7.30pm for Robert Barry (Special Intention).

READERS: Vigil, Eileen Collins & Annie Coulson, 11am Philip Kiely;

Knockanure 10am Mary O’Flaherty & Cian Rogan

COLLECTORS for September: Vigil, Noreen O’Connell & Michael Liston. 11am Mary Lynch & Kitty Windle. Knockanure 10am Maurice Dowling.

KINGDOM CARE who care for the elderly in their homes in Kerry, will hold a collection for good, old, worn and torn clothes, shoes, belts, bags etc. in the Church Car Par, Moyvane on Saturday 29th August, 10am - 4pm. No pillows, duvets or bric-a-brac as they can’t be recycled. Kingdom Care would like to thank everyone for their support over the years.

HERITAGE WEEK events Tarbert, a short walk around Tarbert accompanied by local enthusiasts who will focus on the industrial heritage of Tarbert. Starts from the Bridewell at 7 pm on Friday 28th Aug. On Sunday 30th enjoy an afternoon of music, song and stories in Tarbert House, courtesy of Mrs Leslie and family, from 3 to 4 pm. Both events are free.

SINGING: West Limerick Singing Club are performing at Poets Corner in Castleisland on Friday 28^th August at 9.30pm.

THE LISTOWEL RACE WEEK ACCOMMODATION OFFICE is open from Monday- Friday 11:00- 13:00 and 14:00-16:00 in the Seanchaí Centre, contact on 068- 23036 or 068- 23037.

MARY KEANE: Minister of State with Responsibility for the Diaspora, Jimmy Deenihan. In a statement he said: "Mary was a great support to John B throughout his career and he often credited her with being his greatest inspiration."Since John B's death Mary has continued to promote his work by attending new productions of plays all over the country. "Mary was also a leader in the establishment of Áras Mhuire, a community nursing home in Listowel. “Today we lost a wonderful woman." 15th August 2015. Listowel Choir sang for about three hours, before, during and after the Requiem Mass. They deserve our appreciation.

SILVER SURFER AWARDS: Age Action is searching for Ireland’s top Silver Surfers celebrating and showcasing older peoples’ use of the internet and technology. The five award categories are: Silver Surfer Award, New to IT Award, Hobbies on the Net Award,. IT Tutor(s) of the Year, Golden IT Award; You can nominate someone for an award at www.ageaction.ie/silversurfer or by phoning 01 475 6989. Nominations close on Sun 4th Oct.

LAST WORD: An optimist is one who makes the best of what they get the worst of.

ST JOHN’S; The Importance of being Honest, presented by the City Theatre, Dublin on 26^th August.

LIXNAW COMHALTAS, performed so well at the All Ireland Fleadh, six young people won medals.

HOSPICE: Milford Fair Funday, in aid of Milford Hospice, will take place on Sunday 30th August. The day will begin with a walk at the UL Arena at 12.30pm. This will be followed by a number of other activities up to 5pm. Further information and sponsorship cards available from the Milford Fundraising Department on 061-485860 or 061-485859.

CO. LIMERICK DRUG AND ALCOHOL DROP IN CENTRE: If drugs or alcohol are a problem and you are over 18 then free help is available with no appointment necessary at the Hospital Family Resource Centre, Knockainey Road, Hospital. The service which is staffed by HSE Drug and Alcohol Outreach workers will be available on Wednesday, August 19 and every second Wednesday thereafter from 10am – 12 noon. For further information contact Geraldine on 086 6076573 or Deirdre on 086 3840526.

KATRINA: On August 29, 2005, Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, washing a path of death and destruction in its wake.

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HISTORICAL OUTING TO FIRIES: A Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society field outing to Firies led by Tom Kelliher will take place on Sunday, 30th August. Meet at Firies Parish Church at 2.30pm. All are welcome.

CAMINO DE SANTIAGO. The journey starts out at St. Jean in France with a trek of 566 miles to be covered over a 5 week period. Maria Conway of Derrevrin will be part of the trek this year.

MILITARY COURTS: The Galway Observer, 30th September, 1922

Steps to secure the public — ministry's plans — powers for dealing with present position The government has sanctioned the setting up of Military Courts or Committees to deal with persons charged with interfering with the restoration of order or endangering the public safety.Every such Tribunal is to include one member certified by the Law Officer to be a person of legal knowledge and experience.

The offences which these courts are to try include attacks on the National forces, arson, looting, destruction, and possession of arms, ammunition or certain explosives, without authority.

Tribunal Powers. There courts are empowered to inflict the death penalty in extreme cases. The punishment in other instances is cited as imprisonment or a fine, with or without authority imprisonment.

Dail Eireann Approves of Government Motion.

There was a long discussion at Dail Eireann on Wednesday on the Government motion authorising the creation of Military Courts, and investing the Army with other powers to deal with the present situation.The motion, on a division, was approved of in principle.

Vigorous speeches were delivered by members of the Ministry. President Cosgrave declared that if murderous attacks took place, those participating in them must learn that they would have to pay the penalty.

Mr Desmond Fitzgerald, Minister for Foreign Affairs, said the reign of law was going to be enforced.

Dealing with a suggestion by Mr Fitzgibbon, K.C., the President said that neither he nor the Minister of Defence would object, in cases where the death penalty was imposed, to having the papers laid on the table of the House, the sentence to take effect within four days unless the Dail passed a resolution disallowing it.

From Tom Aherne

The past few weeks saw the passing of a number of well-known figures in the entertainment World. Lynn Anderson, the country singer was best known for her song, I never promised you a Rose Garden. She had numerous other hit songs and was only 67 years old. Cilla Black was a singer and a TV host who was much loved in this country as well as in the UK. Her big hits were Anyone who had a Heart and You are my World. Cilla presented Surprise, Surprise and Blind Date on TV and was 72 years old. Peter O’Sullivan, the legendary Racing Commentator, was a native of Kenmare in Kerry and he was 97 years old. George Cole, the actor is best remembered for his role in the series Minder which was on TV for many years.

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BLOOD DONOR CLINIC: The Irish Blood Transfusion Service will be holding a blood donor clinic in the Listowel Arms Hotel on Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th August from 6pm to 9pm each evening.

ANNIVERSARIES: Sean Neligan, Jim Flaherty, Jeff Eager, John Sheahan, Peg Keane, Geraldine Dillon, John Hudson, Sr. Patrick Tarrant, Brenda Daly, Willie Finucane, Catherine Broderick, Margaret Crowley, Bridie O Connor, Con McSweeney, Fr Micheal Galvin, Fr Billy O Gorman. Church of the Assumption, Mass, Tues. 18th at 7.30pm, for Dan & Tessie O’Connor, Wed. 19th at 7.30pm for Margaret Murphy, Sat. 22nd Vigil at 7.30pm for Michael Kennelly. Church of Corpus Christi, Mass on 17th at 7.30pm for Deceased of the Cronin Family, Thurs. 20th at 7.30pm for Patrick Casey, Recently Deceased. Sun. 23rd at 10.00am for Pat Madigan (ill).

PARISH SECRETARY, 12 applicants who submitted their Curriculum Vitates for the Post.

SECOND COLLECTION; A Second Collection will be taken up at all Masses this weekend in aid of The Pastoral Centre, Killarney and Ardfert Retreat Centre.

MEMORIAL to Brendan Kennelly unveiling at Ballylongford church car park, 7.30pm on Friday 21^st August 2015.

BURIAL OF ASHES AND PRAYER SERVICE for the late Dr Martin C. Sheehy, Main Street Listowel and Phoenix will take place in St Michael’s Cemetery, Wednesday 19th August 2015 at 2pm.

BEST WISHES to Canon Kelly who now resides in St. Catherine’s in Newcastle West.

KERRY PARENTS AND FRIENDS: Sincere thanks to those who helped at last weekends Church Gate Collection in Moyvane and Knockanure. Total of €763.30 was collected.

MASS at Kilnaughtin Churchyard on 21^st Aug. at 7.30pm.

RACING at Killarney from 19^th to 22^nd.

MATCH: Republic of Ireland U19 play Scotland at Listowel Celtic Park on August 18^th 2015.

HELENA is gone again to Sudan again to do some teaching in local school, wishing her a safe term there.

DEFIBRILLATOR; Margaret Carmody, Knockanure is a Trainer with IHF and will provide training to interested people in CPR–AD.

THE LISTOWEL RACE WEEK ACCOMMODATION OFFICE is open from Monday- Friday 11:00- 13:00 and 14:00-16:00. Let us know if you are available to provide accommodation for Listowel Race week, Located in the Seanchaí Centre, contact us on 068- 23036 or 068- 23037.

BOOK: Flyleaf Press has published a ‘Guide to Finding your Ancestors in Kerry’ by Kay Caball. The book will be formally launched by Jimmy Deenihan T.D., Minister for Diaspora Affairs, on Monday Sept 7^th 2015 at 2.30pm in the Library Headquarters, Tralee.

ST JOHN’S: Tuesday 18th The Morgan O Kane Trio. Wed. 19^th , My Bedsit Widow, a play by David Gilna. Fri. 21^st The Whistling Girl, an evening of music and song inspired by the lyrics of Dorothy Parker, full details from 068 22566.

DRAW; Canon Linnane won the Kerry Parents and Friends prize for July valued at E1.250.

DEALING WITH BEREAVMENT & LOSS: A one day Seminar will be taking place in Listowel on Saturday, September 26th on Bereavement & Loss. Further details and booking from Pauline Flavin 086-8649484.

THE LATIN MASS (1962 Missal) will be offered in Holy Cross Dominican Church, Tralee on Sunday 23 August, at 1.30pm.

TARBERT BRIDEWELL SATURDAY 22ND AUGUST 2015

11am:- An exploration of Architectural Design Heritage of Tarbert Bridewell Built in 1831. 1pm to 5pm:-Family Friendly Event, Wander freely through the exhibition and follow the fate of The Prisoner Thomas Dillon. Events are Free of Charge.

RISH HEART FOUNDATION: Nominations are now open for the annual Irish Heart Foundation “Life after Stroke” Awards, To nominate someone, contact Emma-Jane 01 6346925 or go to www.stroke.ie . Closing date is Friday 11th September.

YOUTH: World Youth Day Cracow 2016

World Youth day is a catholic youth festival which takes place

roughly every three years and is attended by 3-5 million young people. contact your Parish Priest or Tel Aoife/ Chris in the Limerick Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Limerick 061/400133. awalsh@ldp.ie

STARS: Perseid meteors 20 times more meteors than a 'normal night' were expected, but 40 and 50 times have been reported in Irish skies.

PLANS FOR NEW RECONCILIATION WINDOW IN ST JOHN’S, Tralee. St. John’s Parish Pastoral Council are planning a new Stained Glass Window in the church on the theme of Reconciliation and are seeking the support of parishioners and friends of Tralee at home and abroad. The window is being commissioned to coincide with the Tralee 800 celebrations in 2016. The artist is Tom Denny, of Tralee Denny family and a famous stained glass artist, who is giving his services as a contribution to the project. The central themes are Reconciliation, Healing and Renewal. It will be the first stained glass window to be installed in St. Johns in over 60 years. A fundraising drive seeking to raise €20,000 is being launched over the weekend of August 14-16th. Donations from individuals and businesses are welcome.

TRIP: Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society trip takes place to Northern Ireland on Monday 14th September & returning Thursday 17th September. Details contact Pat O’Donovan, Tel: 087 9977340.

KENNEDY: When John F. Kennedy got married in 1953, he presented each of his groomsmen with an engraved Brooks Brothers umbrella. He also gave his presidential salary to charity.

CASTLE: The Desmond Castle, Newcastle West, building with a lot of history attached to it. The banqueting hall, courtyard and the view from the roof are all included. A number of events will be held there during Heritage Week at the end of August. They include free guided tours, pipe recital by David Power, concertina recital by Tim Collins, lecture on the Desmond Rebellion by John Dorney and the Irish Revolution by Brian Hanley. See the Heritage Week website,www.heritageweek.ie

Kerryman 17-9-1966 page 4

New School opened in Knockanure. Each room self-contained with toilet and hand basin. Coat racks for 120 pupils. Opened by Fr D Mangan PP. assisted by Fr Tom Hickey CC. Also present were Mr Patrick McAuliffe of Board of Works. Mr Matt Broderick contractor. Mr C O Leary Principal. Miss Mairead O Callaghan NT and Miss Mai O Callaghan NT.

Irish Press 15-2-1990 page 69

North and East Kerry Regional Water Supply Scheme. Tender for sludge dewatering plant at Dromin, Listowel.

Limerick Leader 8 September 1911 page 3.

Limerick County Board of AOH meeting at Foynes on 17th Sept.1911, parade at 3pm. Mr D J Madden of Rathkeale will address meeting at Newtownsandes on Sunday and another in Tarbert on the 21st.

Connaught Tribune 6-3-1943 P10.

Boxing, National Champion defeated in Galway. Colbert and Naughton no fight. Welter, Pte Feeney (army) v M Kennelly (Galway BC), Feeney won on points.

ROSE of Tralee

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SOCIAL day for the Active Retirement Knockanure was on Monday 10th August, 2015. Music by Stevie Donegan, All Welcome. If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.

VINTAGE Day will be held on Sunday the 16th of August, 2015 in the GAA Ground. A cake sale will be held on the day, proceeds going to Knockanure Community Centre. Donations of bread, cakes, etc. will be appreciated. These can be handed in on the day. Watch out also for the charity tractor run.

MEETING of Altar Servers and their Parents was on Monday night 10th August in the Church at 8pm. Any new altar servers very welcome.

WISHING all the best to the Leaving Cert class and a safe weekend.

WEDDING, took place recently of Una Nolan, daughter of Marian and Willie, Upper Athea, to Kevin Sheehy, son of Ann and Eamon, Abbeyfeale, at the Church of the Holy Spirit, Muckross.

BEST WISHES to Shane McEnery of Moyvane and Maireád Tierney of Templeathea, who got engaged recently

DEATH has occurred of Deborah Dora Ahern (née O'Connell)

Kilbaha, Moyvane on Thursday, 6th August, 2015, wife of the late Mossie. Survived by her daughters, Eileen and Maria, grandchildren Tomasina, Darren and Aidan, brother John and his wife Pat, sons-in-law, nieces and nephews. Requiem Mass on Monday 10th at 12 noon at Church of the Assumption, Moyvane. Burial afterwards at Ahavoher Cemetery.

DEATH took place recently of Nellie McManus (nee O’Sullivan a native of Lixnaw and sister of Hannah Leahy of Trien). Coolruane & Dromore, Co. Tyrone. She was born over 90 years ago and died unexpectedly.

DEATH has taken place of Benny Collins son Mary Ellen and Denis Collins, Templeathea , he was living in Swansea, Wales and died on the 28th of July 2015. Survived by his wife Mel, son Harry, parents and brothers Denis, John, and Leo, sisters Catherine and Helena. He was a near relation of the Hudson Family of Kilbaha.

ANNIVERSARIES: William O Sullivan, Michael O Donnell, Madeline Mulvihill, Mick Finucane, Jim Hartnett, Pat Carmody, Tom Begley, George O Connell, Sr. Hanora Moriarty, Nuala Gould, Josie Loftus. Mass on Tues. 11th at 7.30pm for James Duggan, Month’s Mind. Mass on Wed.12^th at 7.30pm for Jackie Lyons. Mass on Thurs. 13th 7.30pm for Mossie O’Connor. Mass on Fri. 14th at 7.30pm for Sr. Carmelita Murphy. Mass on Sat. 15th at 7.30pm for Sean Nelligan. Mass on Sun. 16th 11.00am for Patie & John Collins & their Parents. At Knockanure Church Mass on Sat.15th at 10.00am for Ellen & Laurence Collins (Feast of Assumption). Mass on Sun. 16th 10.00am for Dick, Peggy, Miley, John & Mary Sheehan.

MASS was on Mon. 10th at 7.30pm for an improvement in the weather.

FEAST: Saturday 15th is a Holy Day of Obligation. Feast of Assumption ( a special day in our Parish as our Church in Moyvane is dedicated to our Lady’s Assumption). Mass times same as Sunday.

READERS: Readers: Vigil, Eileen Collins & Annie Coulson, 11am Philip Kiely; Knockanure 10am Margaret Carmody & Mary Fitzgerald.

KISSANE Gathering was held at the Arms Hotel Listowel on August 7^th, more from 087 981 7053.

BEST wishes to Fr Jimmy O Hanlon on his Golden Jubilee, over the past fifty years Fr Jimmy has served in eight parishes in the Nottingham Diocese.

BAPTISM: Kathleen Adeline Saccard, Woodgrove, Sive Christina Lyons Dromurhur and Sadhbh Kennelly, Leitrim West. Bless them and their parents & families.

GRAVEYARD Masses for Knockanure and Ahavoher were celebrated in the church. The Choir showed their dedication by being at Mass three nights in succession. Last Wednesday evening just at consecration at the Graveyard Mass in Murhur Churchyard, Moyvane, the sun shone out and lit up the congregation who were standing in a heart shaped circle around the altar. It was symbolic. We all appreciate all the backroom work that goes into preparing for the masses and keeping the graveyards in pristine condition all year round. Masses were celebrated by Fr McNamara PP assisted by Fr McMahon and Fr O Callaghan.

MUSEUM; North Kerry Museum in Ballyduff was recently opened by Bishop Browne.

GUIDEBOOK on North and West Kerry will be launched at Seanchai on Friday evening August 14^th.

ROSE of Tralee runs from 14^th to 18^th August.

LIXNAW COMHALTAS. 24 young people who will represent the branch in the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Sligo over the weekend of Aug. 14th/15th. 20 make up the U18 Grupa Cheoil and four individual competitors

HERITAGE WEEK from 22^nd to 30^th August.

CYCLE: The 5th annual Glin Knights Charity Cycle in association with the Nano Nagle School and Glin GAA will be taking place on August 15th this year. We will have two routes again in 2015.

The 70 k route is as follows: starting in Glin, Tarbert, Moyvane, Knockanure, Athea, Ardagh, Shanagolden, Foynes, Loughill and finishing in Glin. The 120 k cycle route is as follows: starting in Glin, Tarbert, Moyvane, Knockanure, Athea, Abbeyfeale, Killaughteen, Old Mill, Ardagh, Rathkeale, Askeaton, Foynes, Loughill and finishing in Glin.

SECOND COLLECTION: Diocesan Collection will be taken up at all Masses on the weekend of 15th /16th in aid of the Pastoral & Retreat Centres.

MEDJUGORJE MONTHLY PRAY MEETING will meet in the Parish meeting room Listowel on Monday 10th August at 7.30pm. All are welcome.

COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Listowel MASS & ANNOINTING: Wednesday next, 12th August at 2.00 p.m.

SINGING: The West Limerick Singing Club held their monthly singing session on Friday 7th August, in Philip Enright’s Ramble Inn, Church Street, Abbeyfeale. They meet on the first Friday of each month and all are welcome.

DUAGH ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO KNOCK: Saturday August 22^nd.

Historical Outing to Lyreacrompane & Duagh

Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society will be visiting

Lyreacrompane and Duagh on Sunday 16th August. Meet

at Roche's, The Four Elms Bar, Lyre, at 2.30 pm. All welcome.

ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICE Tarbert Saturday 15th August ( immediately after 11.30am Mass) the annual Memorial service takes place at the Monument for the 17 local people who were lost on the Shannon river on the 15th August 1893) and will be followed by a quiet walk to Mullally's birth and site visit to the Memorial stone. Everybody Welcome. Many of us in Moyvane are related to the 17.

BOOK LAUNCH “ An Architectural Tour of North and West Kerry” an illustrated guide by Nesta Fitzgerald and Declan M Downey will be launched by Minister Jimmy Deenihan T.D in the Seanchaí Cultural Centre, Listowel on Friday 14th August at 7pm.

MASS Tarbert, Friday 21st August at 7.30pm the annual Cemetery Mass will take place at Kilnaughtin Church and Graveyard, Everybody Welcome

ST JOHN’S: 10^th and 11^th August, Tiny Plays for Ireland, directed by Chris Fitzgerald. Wed. 12^th Marty O Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra. Fri. 14^th , Voice di Donna, featuring Fiona O’Reilly, Christina Flynn and Bethan Lee. Sat 15^th Theatrix Stage School, Presented by Jo Jordan. Tuesday 18^th The Morgan O Kane Trio, full details from 068 22566.

KERRY DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES Limited number of seats available on the Kerry Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2nd – 7th Sept. led by Bishop Ray Browne ex Kerry Airport. Contact: Janice 064 7758219 /

E-mail: joskdp@eircom.net More information from Patricia O Donoghue 087 9048659

PADRE PIO PILGRIMAGE TO SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO & ROME Date -16th – 23rd October 2015. 7 Nights from Dublin. €1,199pps. For more information contact Bernadette Hanrahan 087 6019474.

FUNDRAISER FOR LEAH CARMODY, Leah daughter of Mike(Tarbert) and Aileen who reside in New York has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. A public meeting to organise various fundraising events takes place at Tarbert Community Centre on Tuesday 11th of August at 8pm. All Welcome.

UPHELD BY THE LOVE AND COMPASSION OF JESUS

At some time or another, every follower of Jesus is faced with trying circumstances, very difficult decisions, very great sorrows, very powerful tempations. Here are a few examples of the kind of things that the modern follower of Jesus might have to cope with in daily living:

JOHN IS A YOUNG PERSON LIVING AWAY FROM HIS FAMILY HOME. It is Sunday morning and he is in a warm bed. It is raining and very cold outside. Should he leave his bed and go to Mass? He knows he will have to face the laughter of his mates as they take their “LITURGY OF THE WORD” straight out of the tabloids. Will John be able to obey the gentle voice of Jesus calling him to come to Church and listen to the uplifting and encouring Word of God?

MARY IS SINGLE, WHO HAS BECOME PREGNANT: She is heading into a storm of protest from her parents and awful gossip for her nieghbours as soon as the news breaks. Then she is offered a way out - a quiet abortion. No one ever will know, but then she hears the gentle voice of Jesus saying that abortion is wrong. Will she have the courage to listen to Jesus?

EILEEN - A YOUNG MUN WITH FOUR CHILDREN: Suddenly her husband leaves her for another woman. She feels hurt and betrayed, lonely and very angry. Then she hears the gentle voice of Jesus inviting her to trust. Will she have the courage to allow the presence and touch of Jesus to guide and bless her and her four children through this awful time?

TIMMY IS A GARDA: A drug dealer offers him a very large amount of money, if he would turn a blind eye to his activities. It is very tempting. But then he hears the gentle voice of Jesus saying, “Do not participate in corruption”. Will Timmy be able to heed the gentle voice of Jesus?

PAUL IS A COMMERICAL TRAVELLER: His work takes him away from home a lot. One night he meets a very attractive woman. He hasn’t been getting on of late with his wife. No one will know if he is unfaithful to her. He hears the gentle voice of Jesus reminding him of his marriage vows. Will Paul have the strength to listen to Jesus who tells him that adultery is wrong?

The examples are endless, but the point has been made at some time or another, all of us face very trying circumstances. At those times Jesus will remind us that He is there to help, guide, and protect us. May we ever be attentive to His gentle voice, always inviting and calling us to do what is right and good. May His love and compassion continue to uphold us today and always.

THREE NEW SPECIAL MEMBERS: This is my third Sunday with you as your new Parish Priest and each Sunday to date I’ve had the joy of having a Baptism, welcome a baby in our Christian Family here in our Parish. Please pray in thanksgiving for Kathleen Adeline Saccard, Woodgrove, Sive Christina Lyons Dromurhur and Sadhbh Kennelly, Leitrim West. Bless them and their parents & families. Welcome Sive, Kathleen and Sadhbh.

SACRED SPACE: As our Church in Moyvane is dedicated to our Blessed Lady we have a special sacred space erected for the month of August. A petition box will be placed in front of the ‘sacred space’ for your prayers & petitions to Our Blessed Lady. May Mary continue to guide, bless and protect our Parish.

WAR: 60 million died in World War 11. the first atomic bomb attack, took place on 6 August 1945, 70 years ago.

OCONNELL Summer School in Cahersiveen 28^th and 29^th August. Padraig O Conchubhair will speak on morning of the 29^th.

HOLY YEAR dedicated to Mercy begins on 8^th Dec. 2015.

MEN overcome violence, details from 086 020 5856.

LONGAIN Conference at UCC, details from 021 4902 607.

DICTIONARY LIST: Subscribers to O Neill Lane Irish English Dictionary. Just a sample of hundreds.

Rev Michael Browne SJ, Gardiner St, Dublin.Fr J Beasley, Duagh. Rt. Honourable A. J Balfour. Sir Roger Casement. Canon Cregan, Athea. R Flower, British Museum. J. P. Flemming, Kilcummin. Sir Thomas Grattan Esmond MP. Lord Dunraven. R N Griffin Manager Provincial Bank, Newcastle West. G Gavin Duffy, London. Rev P. Garvey Newtownsandes. P Jordan, Islandeady, NS. Dr Douglas Hyde. Tom Hurley, JP, Newcastlewest. Canon Hayes, Ballylongford. Mary A Hartnett, Abbeyfeale. Dr. S. R. Lysaght, Somerset. T W Lane Templeglantine. John J Mc Gee, Ottawa. Rev M Mac Carvill, Pettigo. James Moore President All Hollows. Professor Kuno Mayer, Liverpool. Bishop Mangan, Kerry. Charles A O Connor, Master of the Rolls. Mrs Mary O Connor, Knocknagoshel. Tom O Connell, Clash, Abbeyfeale. Dermot O Brien, Ardagh. Duke of Norfolk. Miss Selena O Neill, Chicago. Tim O Neill, Chicago. John O Neill, Chicago. Aeneas O Nneill, London. Brother Mullane, Greenmount. Lord O Neill, Slane Castle. O Mahony, Grangecon. Kelly’s of Tournafulla include, D;J;P and PJ. Fr Allman, Clare. Bishop Dwyer, Limerick. Brother T A Rahilly, Presentation, Cork. W M Redmond MP, Wicklow. J Purcell, Ellen Street, Limerick. Rev Leo Sheehan, OFM, Ennis. Rev O Quigley OP, Tralee. D Stack, Midleton, Cork. Brother Shanahan, Glin. Archbishop Walsh, Dublin.

2015 August 5 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

WELCOME to all who visit us for the Bank Holiday Weekend.

GRAVEYARD: Ahavoher Mass at 8pm on 3rd August; Knockanure Graveyard at 8pm on 4th August; Murhur Graveyard at 8pm on 5th August. Lislaughtin Graveyard Mass will be held on Friday 7th August at 7.30pm.

FR KEVIN McNamara a native of Cooraclare Village in West Clare. In fact those of you who use the Ferry Crossing over to Clare and you are going to the “Willie Clancy”or going up the Cliffs of Moher will pass my home in Cooraclare. I was ordained to priesthood in 1981 as a Missionary of the Sacred Heart and ministered for 25 years with that congregation; in Parish Work, Vocation Work, Parish Missions & Retreats both in Ireland, England and the United States. I joined the Kerry Diocese in 2001 and served as Curate in Kenmare, Killarney and for the last 3 years in the Parish of Rathmore which encompassed the Churches of Rathmore, Shrone, Gneeveguilla, and Knocknagree.

I thank all of you for your warm welcome and for so many kindnesses shown to me since my arrival on July 23rd. May the Lord be kind in blessing & guiding all of us at this time of new beginners. Fr. Kevin.

JOB: Parish Secretary Required: part time hours, apply with CV to Fr. Kevin, The Presbytery, Moyvane before Friday 7th August.

DEATH has occurred of Fr Denis Dwyer,Banemore, Listowel and late of St.Philips Parish, Padiham Burnley, England on 25th July 2015.

Predeceased by his brother John. Survived by his sister Delia (Courtney), brother Michael (Moneygall, Roscrea), nephews, nieces, grandnephews, grandnieces, the St. Philip's Community, Padiham, Burnley, England, relatives and friends.

ANNIVERSARIES: Martin Sheehy, Paddy Rochford, John P Walsh, John Purtill, James O Brien, John McGrath, Maureen Beasley, Sr. Benedict Cotter,Neilus O Connell, Pat Sheehy, Fr Kieran O Shea, John Carmody, Nan Sullivan, Sean Hanrahan, Tessie O Connor, Sr. Barbara Murphy, Jack Dalton, Patrick Wren, Sr. Rosaria Enright, Mary Flaherty, Eileen McNamara, Molly Mahony, Sr. Brendan Sheehy, Jerry Mulvihill, Eileen Ahern. Mass on Fri. 7^th (First Fri.) 7.30pm for Peg Brouder, Months Mind Mass on Sat. 8th Vigil 7.30pm for Mary O’Flaherty (1st anni.) Tubbertoueen. Mass on Sun. 2nd at 10.00am for Jerry Clancy & Deceased of the Clancy.

FIRST Friday; Mass in Knockanure Thurs 6th at 7.30pm and Moyvane on Friday at 7.30pm. First Friday of the month. Fr. Kevin will do his Communion Calls in Knockanure on Thursday 6th August from 11am onwards and in Moyvane on Friday 7th August from 11am onwards.

READERS, Vigil, Michelle Corridan, 11am Amanda Coulson & Aine O’Connor; Knockanure 10.00am, Mary O’Flaherty & Cian Rogan.

CYCLE: The 5th annual Glin Knights Charity Cycle in association with the Nano Nagle School and Glin GAA will be taking place on August 15th this year. We will have two routes again in 2015.

The 70 k route is as follows: starting in Glin, Tarbert, Moyvane, Knockanure, Athea, Ardagh, Shanagolden, Foynes, Loughill and finishing in Glin.

The 120 k cycle route is as follows: starting in Glin, Tarbert, Moyvane, Knockanure, Athea, Abbeyfeale, Killaughteen, Old Mill, Ardagh, Rathkeale, Askeaton, Foynes, Loughill and finishing in Glin.

HERITAGE WEEK, a great number of events are taking place all over the Country, local events are in the Heritage Guide at various outlets locally.

CATHOLIC YOUNG ADULTS CONFERENCE

"Mary went in haste", this is the title of a Catholic Young Adults Conference being held in All Hallows College, Dublin

on the 29th & 30th August. It is open to young adults aged between 18 and 40. The Legion of Mary in the Kerry Diocese wish to sponsor 2 young people to attend. More information from Patricia O Donoghue 087 9048659.

PUCK FAIR is on from 10^th of August.

HISTORICAL OUTING TO LYRECROMPANE & DUAGH

Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society will be visiting on Sunday 16th August. Meet at Roche's, The Four Elms Bar, Lyre, at 2.30 pm. All welcome!

PRAYER Meeting in the Desmond Complex, Newcastle West on Sunday 9th August at 3pm. All are welcome.

COLLECTION: Kerry Parents & Friends: Their Annual Church Gate Collection will be taken up on Sat. 8th & Sun. 9th August. The proceeds of this collection will help to provide services for people with an intellectual disability.

ST JOHN’S: Exhibition of ceramics and drawings by Marjorie Cunningham, now on; The Tailor and Ansty, is on from 6^th to 8^th Aug. Tiny Plays from Ireland produced on 10^th and 11th Aug, more from 068 22566.

KNOCK: The annual national novena to our lady of Knock 14^th to 22^nd Aug. 2015.

LISTOWEL TOWN NOMINATED FOR PRIDE OF PLACE 2015. Adjudication on 1st September 2015. Calling all voluntary groups to help plan for this showcase event. Next meeting is at 6.30pm on Wednesday 5th August 2015 at the Seanchai Centre,

CAR BOOT SALE and Indoor Market in aid of WL102fm community radio station takes place on Sunday, August 9 at the Community Centre, NCW.

KERRY DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES 2nd – 7th Sept. led by Bishop Ray Browne ex Kerry Airport. Contact: Janice 064 7758219.

MEAL FOR VISITING CLERGY ON HOLIDAYS: Bishop Ray would like to invite priests who are home for vacation to gather for a meal on Tuesday, August 4th at 6.30pm at the Parish Centre, the Church of the Resurrection, Park Road, Killarney. So if there are any priests from our parish interested – Please contact the Diocesan Office at 064-6631168

WL102FM COMMUNITY RADIO: tickets for a summer holiday raffle in conjunction with ACE Travel South Quay NCW are on sale from the station. To purchase a ticket ring 06966200.

PATTERN DAY CROSS ROADS DANCING: at Ahafona, Ballybunion Mike Horgan’s Garage on Saturday 15th August from 7 to 9 p.m.

AWARE DEPRESSION SUPPORT GROUP MEETS: Killarney – Mondays, KDYS at 8pm, in Tralee – Tuesdays, meeting room at rear of St. John’s Church at 8pm. Aware Support Groups are free to attend, no referral necessary. www.aware.ie

SILENCE: July 2015; Twenty thousand people of Haitian descent stripped of their citizenship in the Dominican Republic and no outcry from our Press.

INDIA Rubber prices have fallen from Rs250/kg about two years ago to less than half today.

FLEADH: Sligo Champion will publish a Fleadh Cheoil Souvenir Supplement on August 4th. Fleadh from 9th-16th August 2015.

Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann

SUNCREAM: High-factor sun cream cannot…protect against the deadliest form of skin cancer,” The Guardian reports.

THOUGHT: When I go down to the grave I can say, like many others, 'I have finished my day's work!' But I cannot say, 'I have finished my life.' My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare! It closes on the twilight, it opens on the dawn!

Victor Hugo.

PARISH Moyvane; Last Year: In 2014 our Parish, welcomed 21 children in the Sacrament of Baptism, 14 children received their First Holy Communion, 26 were Confirmed. There were 8 marriages and our Parish handed back 29 parishioners to the Lord.

Tralee Mercury 1829-1839, Wednesday, May 09, 1838; Page: 3

STEPHEN CREAGH SANDES ESQ. We recollect not when we had received a letter for publication, which has given us such pleasure as we felt, upon reading that which regards this excellent gentleman, earnestly would we call public attention to that important document and more especially would we engage 'for it the attentive perusal of the landlords of Kerry. Let our landlords only imitate the tender-heartedness of Mr. SANDES to the poor whom he has generously raised to comparative happiness and our state of society will not be inferior to any in Europe.

Murhur, May the 6th,1838. TO THE PROPRIETER OF THE TRALEE MERCURY.

Sir—As your patriotic and independent Journal is the only medium through which every liberal act is promulgated, may I beg the insertion of the following lines in your columns.

In the village of Newtownsandes, there are upwards of a hundred poor families who, for a series' of years past, had not a rood of ground to support themselves, but depending on the adjacent farmers, who generally charged them from £5 to £6 per acre, for the most barren and impoverished part of their farms and that only for one or two crops.

To rescue these poor creatures from their debased and impoverished state, a scion of Sallyglin House, Stephen Creagh Sandes, Esq., has given them a farm of thirty acres, immediately adjoining the village, in lots of from half to two acres each, at the moderate- rent of £1 10s per acre. The farm was hitherto held by one of the most respectable and independent tenants in this part of the country, who offered the same rent and a deposit of £300, which offer, to his immortal honour he refused to accept. We cannot too highly appreciate the benevolent disposition of this young gentleman but when we reflect on the noble character of his family in general, but especially that of the amiable and venerable Bishop of Killaloe we cannot express surprise at any good act emanating from his nephew. If every landed proprietor in Ireland acted similarly thre would be little necessity For poor laws or for our present Constabulary force. Peace, happiness and contentment would be substituted for the anarchy confusion and misery that now prevails.

To behold the joy beamed in aspect of these poor creatures, expressing their gratitude and imploring the Deity to shower down his blessings on this amiable and benevolent gentleman, would soften the marble hearted gentry Who are indifferent, to the suffering's and privations of the poor.

MAURICE O'CONNELL.

Stephen Creagh Sandes (1778-1842), F.T.C.D., was elected a life member of the Dublin Society in 1815. His proposers were John Crosbie Graves and Thomas Ellis. He was a member of the R.D.S. natural philosophy committee 1824-31. Sandes was born in Sallow Glen, County Kerry, and married Mary Dickson in 1819. He stood out as a principled liberal in the conservative milieu of Trinity College, of which he became a senior fellow and bursar. Early in 1835 he seconded the candidacy of Reverend Daniel Murray, catholic archbishop of Dublin, for membership of the R.D.S. In the recriminations following the failure of Murray’s candidacy Sandes was dignified and restrained. Well regarded by Daniel O’Connell, he advanced arguments to him by letter of 5 April 1836 opposing the regulation of T.C.D.’s income by parliament. He was consecrated bishop of Killaloe on 12 June 1836 and moved to Clarisford House. Three years later he was appointed bishop of Cashel, where he served until his death in 1842.

- See more at: http://www.rds.ie/cat_historic_member_detail.jsp?itemID=1101964&item_name=#sthash.dN3IXZDl.dpuf

2015 July 29 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

GRAVEYARD: Ahavoher Mass at 8pm on 3rd August; Knockanure Graveyard at 8pm on 4th August; Murhur Graveyard at 8pm on 5th August. St Marys Church graveyard Tarbert, Mass will be held on Friday 31st July at 7.30pm.

CHIROPODIST will be in the Marian Hall on Thursday 30th July at 10.30am. For bookings, please phone Eileen Quinn on 49472.

MEETING: Moyvane Liturgy Group meeting on Tuesday 28th July at 8pm in the Presbytery.

FAREWELL Functions, Fr. John Lucid statement, on Monday night in Knockanure and in Moyvane on Tuesday night, I felt overwhelmed by your generosity and kindness. During my stay in your parish I have frequently been the recipient of these qualities, but nothing could have prepared me for the spontaneous outpouring of good will which was evident at the Knockanure Community Centre on Monday and in the Marian Hall in Moyvane on Tuesday. I feel humbled by the experience to know that you took the opportunity to express your Christian Faith in a vibrant, positive and joyful manner. It has reaffirmed my belief in the innate goodness of people and I will treasure, the experience long into the future. Sincere gratitude to everybody involved. With every good wish and all God’s Blessing.

ANNIVERSARIES: Paddy Scanlon, Kit Dee, Eileen Hegarty, Catriona O Connor, Jer Mulvihill, Ann Maria Houlihan, Bridie Stackpool, Tom Leahy, Paddy A Kearney, Mary O Sullivan, Mick Buckley, Fr Michael Sheehy, Pat Stack, Tom Geohegan, John Guiney, Maureen Beasley, Michael O Keeffe. Mass Wed. on 29th at 7.30pm, Dan O’Callaghan.

Mass on Fri. 31st at 7.30pm for John, Ellen and Patrick Walsh. Mass on Sat.1st at 7.30pm for Denis Nolan, his mother Bridie & deceased Nolan Family members, Kilmeaney. Mass on Sun. 2nd at 11.00am for Martin Sheehy.

READERS: Vigil Elaine Hudson & Catriona Farrelly, 11am Philip Kiely;

Knockanure 10am Gerard Leahy & Brenda Clancy.

COLLECTORS for August: Vigil Eileen Collins & Julia Fitzmaurice. 11am Gerard Scanlon & Chris Flahavan. Knockanure 10am Margaret Carmody.

THANKS to all for the support in making Fr. John’s send off a success. The generous donations were greatly appreciated. Especially thanks to the collectors, musicians and dancers and those who did the catering. While in the parish Fr John, baptised 255, conducted 238 funerals and married 42. Fr. Kevin says, A huge thanks to all of you for your lovely warm welcome.

SEANCHAI, Living Literature Tours, begin at noon every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

KNOCK; annual pilgrimage to Knock, will leave The Hall, Athea at 7.30am on Thursday, July 30th.

ATHEA festival will take place from 30th July to Monday, 3rd August.

CHINA: Butterfly Troupe a traditional orchestra from China put on a marvellous display at Siamsa in Tralee on 25^th July 2015, the Chinese ambassador and Vice Premier from a China Provence also attended. Early 1900 we had a great Chinese linguist Fr M Kennelly SJ. of Listowel.

ST JOHN’S: 29th , Face the Short Kick Out. 30th , Katie O Connor- Live in Listowel, details from 068 22566.

ATHEA DRAMA GROUP comedy 'It's the Real McCoy' by Tommy Marren. the play will be performed for two nights during the Athea Village Festival on August 1 and 2 at Con Colbert Hall Athea at 8pm.

BEST WISHES to Mary Cogan who reached A Big Milestone with her Listowel Blog, her 1,000th. post.

CYCLE: The 5th annual Glin Knights Charity Cycle in association with the Nano Nagle School and Glin GAA will be taking place on August 15th this year. We will have two routes again in 2015.

The 70 k route is as follows: starting in Glin, Tarbert, Moyvane, Knockanure, Athea, Ardagh, Shanagolden, Foynes, Loughill and finishing in Glin.

The 120 k cycle route is as follows: starting in Glin, Tarbert, Moyvane, Knockanure, Athea, Abbeyfeale, Killaughteen, Old Mill, Ardagh, Rathkeale, Askeaton, Foynes, Loughill and finishing in Glin.

HERITAGE WEEK 22^nd to 30^th August, see library for local events.

GAA race night on August 15th in Tralee Greyhound Stadium, for Athea.

CATHOLIC YOUNG ADULTS CONFERENCE

"Mary went in haste", this is the title of a Catholic Young Adults Conference being held in All Hallows College, Dublin

VOCATIONS “Every individual person has a vocation, their calling in life. Every person’s life is unique, irreplaceable and precious. Priesthood, the ordained ministry, is one vocation and a vital one for the church communities, for our parishes, our Diocese, and our world.” +Ray Browne. Bishop of Kerry.

If you feel called to be a Priest in the Diocese of Kerry contact Fr. Michael Moynihan, Vocations Director, 087 6551902 or email glengarriff@dioceseofkerry.ie

GAMES: Special Olympics World Games, from July 25th to August 2nd in Los Angeles. Team Ireland consists of 128 members, made up of 88 athletes and 40 coaches and managers. There are 6,500 athletes and 2,000 coaches representing 165 countries.

THOUGHT: The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it. D.L. Moody.

CANCER: Petition, the women of Ireland who want a fighting chance with Ovarian Cancer. Ovarian Cancer whispers, we want to catch it before it roars. Please click here and take 5 minutes to see how many want this and read some of their reasons why.

https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-the-hse-to-include-ovarian-cancer-blood-test-ca125-in-a-free-cancer-screening-program

HISTORY: Irish Independent 1905-current, Wednesday, May 08, 1907; Page: 8

Dr. Douglas Hyde's campaign in County Kerry is being attended with most successful results, his reception in Tralee on Monday, night was of a very encouraging, character and when, he came to Killarney last afternoon the whole town turned out to welcome him. At the Town Hall, he was presented -with a number of addresses, and in an eloquent speech, in reply, he outlined, what the present policy and aims of the Gaelic League are. He was very impressive when he, referred to the struggle for the revival of the Irish Language and Irish customs as a life and death struggle. The Gaelic League had opened the eyes of the Irish, people, to the awful precipice which was before them, that the yawning chasm below of Anglicisation, which he said, was only another name for national extinction. The Anglicisation, which was being attempted in Ireland was a fourth-rate imitation of England. and everybody knew that the man who imitated was behind the person whom-he set up as his standard even the organ of the Independent. Orangemen had of late many favourable notices of what the League was doing., and Protestant ecclesiastics in high positions had spoken favourably of it. Their movement offended nobody except the anti-Irishman.

The philosophy of the Gaelic League, Dr. Hyde said is that in every , race there are certain racial distinctions, very subtle, but none the less very real, and the attempt to force one race into the grove cut out by another had never been a success in Europe, and never would be. No two, races in, Europe is there, in temperament and racial nature so wide, real, and far-reaching a difference as between the Irish and the English nations, and for Irishmen-to attempt to compete with Englishmen on the lines that come naturally and instinctively to Englishmen. but the reverse in us, is folly and madness (applause). They were now recovering in Ireland for the first time since the Battle of the Boyne the soil of their own country, and thankful they ought to be to the men who had made that possible.

Now came the question as to what kind of people they were going to plant, on that soil. It would either' be a question of making Ireland a Shire of England, or of saying So, England I have no quarrel with you, but I refuse to take my ideas of civilisation from you. (.Loud, applause.) At present, Dr. Hyde said, he believed to going through the country gathering together every relic of the past as if they were the bones of their fathers, and thus building up, tier after tier, an edifice which would, yet, please God, enshrine the soul of an Irish nation. Dr. Hyde- paid a compliment to the Kerry Co, Council for the manner in which they had endeavoured to forward the cause of the Irish Language and appealed to the people to aid the good cause. The proceedings were presided over by Mr. D. Moriarty, Chairman Kerry Co. Council. Addresses were read from, Killarney Urban Council, Killarney District Council and Board of Guardian, Killarney Gaelic League, Killarney National Teachers Association, Killarney Sinn Fein Society, Killarney U. I. L, the pupils of the Presentation Monastery School and the Presentation Convent School. The audience in the Town Hall included most of the representative men of the district. Last night Dr Hyde was entertained at a, banquet in the Victoria Hotel.

CENSUS: can't find your great-granny in the Census returns she was probably a Women's Libber. http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/exhibition/dublin/census_day.html

Fr John in Knockanure

https://youtu.be/sQHOva9YtgA

Moyvane Fr John

https://youtu.be/62jOoYZEzRA

https://youtu.be/ZPRZ6qSRmt8

Shannon July 18 2015 Air Show

https://youtu.be/enMCUjDcNiE

PRESENTATION to Fr John in Knockanure on Monday 20th at 8pm and Moyvane on Tuesday 21st also at 8pm.

GRAVEYARD: Meeting of Committee at the Marian Hall on 24th July at 9pm.

2015 July 22 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

AGM of Knockanure Development Association takes place on Friday the 24th July 2015 at 8.00 pm in the Community Centre. All welcome.

SORRY to hear that Fr. John is leaving us, thanks from your parishioners for your dedication and many kindnesses. We wish you every happiness in Kilcummin. Rath Dé Ort I gcónai.

MASS: Wed. 22nd at 7.30pm, Fr. Kevin’s opening Mass for Parishioners. Thurs. 23rd at Knockanure 7.30pm, Fr. Kevin’s opening Mass for Parishioners. Fri. 24^th, 10.00am Thanksgiving Mass for Fr. John. Fri. 24th in Knockanure 7.30pm Thanksgiving Mass for Fr. John.

ST PIO Evening Mass in Listowel on Thursday 23^rd at 7pm.

GRAVEYARD: Ahavoher Mass at 8pm on 3rd August; Knockanure Graveyard at 8pm on 4th August; Murhur Graveyard at 8pm on 5th August. Duagh Mass will take place on Thursday 23rd July at 8p.m. in Springmount. St Marys Church graveyard Tarbert, Mass will be held on Friday 31st July at 7.30pm.

SEANCHAI, Living Literature Tours, begin at noon every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

RECENT DEATHS: Sr. Nora Carmody, Upper William St, died in Ealing, London. Funeral arrangements later.

DEATH occurred of Dan Flynn Coolaneelig, Duagh on July 13th. 2015. Survived by his wife Kitty, son Kevin, daughters Helen, Mary and Frances, daughter-in-law Katie, sons-in-law, Tom and Billy, grandchildren Emma, Shannon, Danielle, Shane and Emily, sisters Sr. Rose (Mary), Celia and Peg, sisters-in-law Hannah and Mary-Jo and nephews. Requiem Mass on Thursday at St. Brigid’s Church Duagh. Funeral afterwards to Springmount Cemetery.

DEATH of Peg Brouder (née Flynn), Kilbaha, Moyvane on the 13th of July 2015. Wife of the late Tom and loving mother-in-law of Bríd. Survived by her son Willie, daughter Rita, sisters Maureen and Nell, son-in-law, grandson Johnny, sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces. Requiem Mass for Peg Brouder was celebrated in Moyvane Church, the 15th of July, followed by burial in Ahavoher Cemetery, Moyvane.

ANNIVERSARIES: Fr. Tim Gunn. Joe O Connell, Kathleen King, Peg McCarthy, John Griffin, James Godley, Jackie Lyons, Willie Dowd, Tom Lynch, Ellie Scanlon, Maurice Stack, Bridget Dewsaap, Margaret Twohig. Mass on Sat.25th at 7.30pm for Denis Corridan. Mass on

Sun. 26th at 10.00am for Edward Carmody.

READERS: Vigil John Corbett & Jimmy Collins.11am Amanda Coulson & Aine O’Connor; Knockanure 10am, Gerald Leahy & Brenda Clancy.

PARTY: senior citizens afternoon tea party will take place in the Top of the Town on Thursday, July 30th from 3 to 6pm. This party is free of charge but if you wish to attend you must give your name to Rose at Brouder’s Shop.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE BLIND would like to sincerely thank all who helped and supported their recent Church Gate Collection. We appreciate the help of our collectors and subscribers.

THE NATIONAL COLLECTION OF THE IRISH CANCER SOCIETY takes place in Listowel on Sat 25th | Sun 26th July.

IRISH WHEELCHAIR SHOP: The Irish Wheelchair Shop, Listowel present their re-launch on Thursday 23rd July at 11am. All welcome.

KNOCK; annual pilgrimage to Knock, will leave The Hall, Athea at 7.30am on Thursday, July 30th.

ATHEA festival will take place from 30th July to Monday, 3rd August.

BIRTHDAY: Margaret O’Connor of Lower Athea celebrated 89th birthday recently.

WALK: Historical Walk Date Change, Please note the date for the historical walk around the village of Moyvane has been changed to Sunday, July 26 at 7.00pm All are welcome to attend. We will notify people via the Moyvane facebook page if the walk has to be cancelled due to weather.

MEAL FOR VISITING CLERGY ON HOLIDAYS: on Tuesday, August 4th at 6.30pm at the Parish Centre, the Church of the Resurrection, Park Road, Killarney. So if there are any priests from our parish interested please contact the Parish Office at 068-21188 or Diocesan Office at 064-6631168

LATIN MASS: will be offered in Holy Cross Dominican Church Tralee on Sunday 26th July at 1.30 p.m.

KNOCK, local pilgrims saw the work of Róisín de Buitléar has been working in the medium of glass as a primary material since 1983. She has been commissioned to work on the Basilica of Knock Co Mayo as part of the refurbishment of the Basilica for 2015. Her work is one of the main visible changes, as the visitor approaches the Cathedral.

WAR PICTURES: Father Browne’s War Photographs from the Front opened in the Hunt Museum recently. I am told he has relations in the parish.

LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE SUMMER FAMILY PICINIC You are invited to our Annual Picnic Celebration on Sunday 26th July. From 2pm to 5 pm. Please bring a picnic blanket goodies will be provided. Everyone welcome on the day. For further information please contact, Denis on 068-23584.

COLUMBANUS; Bishop Ray Browne will be the chief celebrant at a mass (as Gaeilge) at Gallarus Oratory, Friday, 24 July at 7.30 p.m. This mass will celebrate the 1400 anniversary of the death of St. Columbanus who died in Bobbio, Italy in 615.

CHOIR: Killarney Cathedral on Friday 24th July, Visit of Roskilde Cathedral Choir who will lead the singing at the 6.15pm Mass, followed by a short recital immediately after Mass.

ST JOHN’S: 21^st, Finghin Collins and Elizabeth Cooney. 23^rd ,Kieran Goss Solo. 29^th , Face the Short Kick Out. 30^th , Katie O Connor- Live in Listowel, details from 068 22566.

ATHEA DRAMA GROUP comedy 'It's the Real McCoy' by Tommy Marren. the play will be performed for two nights during the Athea Village Festival on August 1 and 2 at Con Colbert Hall Athea at 8pm.

FAMILY Fun Day at the Listowel Resource Centre on Sunday 26th July, 2015 from 2pm - 5pm. Activities include Arts and Crafts, Bric and Brac Sale, Dancing and Music. Everyone welcome on the day. For further information, please contact Denis at 068 23584.

SIGN: John Patrick Doherty will be teaching Irish Sign Language Classes for 2 nights weekly until end of August. Phone 087 9062947 (Text only).

REEK SUNDAY: National Pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick 2015

Garland Friday - July 24th (Local pilgrimage)

Mass on the summit at 10:00am. Mass in Croagh Patrick car park at 7:30pm. Reek Sunday – 26 July.

Confessions on the summit from 7:30am - 2:00pm

Mass on the summit every half hour from 8:00am - 2:00pm.

Reek Sunday is an annual day of pilgrimage in Ireland. On the last Sunday in July, pilgrims climb Ireland’s “holiest mountain”, Croagh Patrick (764 metres) in County Mayo,

CYCLE: The 5th annual Glin Knights Charity Cycle in association with the Nano Nagle School and Glin GAA will be taking place on August 15th this year. We will have two routes again in 2015.

The 70 k route is as follows: starting in Glin, Tarbert, Moyvane, Knockanure, Athea, Ardagh, Shanagolden, Foynes, Loughill and finishing in Glin.

The 120 k cycle route is as follows: starting in Glin, Tarbert, Moyvane, Knockanure, Athea, Abbeyfeale, Killaughteen, Old Mill, Ardagh, Rathkeale, Askeaton, Foynes, Loughill and finishing in Glin.

THOUGHT: God's great men are not sitting on top of lesser men, but bearing lesser men on their backs. R.C.H. Lenski.

SLAVERY: When slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833, the government handed out the equivalent of around £17 billion in today’s money to owners for loss of their ‘property’.

KENYA Volunteers, further details on the fundraising initiatives, log onto https://care4kenya.wordpress.com/

NEWSPAPERS: Kerry Sentinel 1878-1916, Wednesday, August 25, 1897; Page: 2

WANTED—TENDERS for the BUILDING of a CREAMERY for the Cork

and Kerry Creamery Co., Ltd., at KILMORNA, County Kerry, close to Railway Station. Plans and Specifications can be seen at Company's Office, 15 George's Quay, Cork ; or at the Office of the Architect, E. T. Conyers, Esq., B.E, Ashburo, Ballingarry, Limerick; or at Mr. Maurice Moynihan's, Staughton's Row, Tralee. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. 15 George's Quay, Cork.

Examiner 8-7-1912

A boy named M. Dillane while on the premises of the Cork and Kerry Creamery Company at Turraree, Glin, climbed onto a flywheel which was resting against a wall, upturning it, fracturing his right leg. Dr. M’Donnell attended him and sent him to Listowel Hospital.

Irish Examiner 1841-1979, Thursday, February 04, 1915

The premises of the Cork and Kerry Creamery Co at Galebridge near Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry were broken into-on last Sunday morning, and flitches of bacon, tobacco, and hardware taken away, _while flour in sacks was, left untouched This would show that the robbery, was not committed by those in want of food

Freemans Journal 25-3-1918 page2

The Cork and Kerry Creamery Co.,. withdrew- a claim for £1,500 at Listowel Quarter Sessions for the malicious destruction by fire of their creamery at Gale Bridge, Newtownsandes. An application by the R and D Council for expenses against the company was granted.

2015 July 15 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

SOCIAL day for the Active Retirement was on Monday 13th July, 2015 at Knockanure. If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.

CAMP: Listowel Family Resource Centre is hosting their annual summer camp. For further details, contact Pat Lyons on (068) 23584.

STEP and tone with Maggie Large every Thursday from 7.30-8.30 pm at Knockanure Community Centre. All levels welcome. Booking is essential. Spaces limited. Call Maggie at 0879866533

WALK around the village of Moyvane on Friday, July 17 at 7.00pm. The walk led by Gabriel Fitzmaurice will start at the site of Horan's forge on the Tarbert Road.

MUSIC: Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann sponsored traditional entertainment programme for the Summer season at more than forty 40 centres throughout the country. The Devon Inn Templeglantine night is every Thursday at 8.45pm.

DEATH took place on June 24th 2015 of Denis Lane, Kilmorna, Listowel And late of London. Born 84 years ago to Denny Lane of Kilmeaney and Ellen Ahern who was a native of Athea. Survived by brothers Bill (London), Eanus (Dublin), Joe (USA), sisters Nora (London), Bridie (Carlow), Mary (Mayo), and Eileen (Kilmorna), sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, nephews and nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces. Requiem Mass for Denis Lane was celebrated at Corpus Christi Church, Knockanure on Thursday, the 9th of July followed by burial with his parents in old Knockanure Cemetery. Celebrants at Mass were Fr Lucid, and old school friends of Denis, Fr McMahon and Fr O Callaghan assisted. His sister Nora, brothers Jack, Pat and Mick predeceased him. When Denis was going to school in Knockanure there was seven Lane and seven Broderick boys at school. Family and friends met after funeral at the Old School.

ANNIVERSARIES: Pat Joe Stack, Jim Sullivan, Sean Sheehan, Julia Walsh, Nan Flavin, Aidan Holly, Sr. Consuela Moloney, Ted McElligott, Martin McGrath, Pat Sweeney, Patrick O Flaherty, Paudie Scanlon, Mary Dee, Johnny McEnery, Margaret Flaherty, Sean O Connor, John Murphy, Sr. Declan Murphy, Bridie Mai Moore. Mass Wed. 15th at 7.30pm for Maurice Ahern. Mass on Thurs.16th at 7.30pm for Jeremiah Mulvihill & the deceased members of the Mulvihill Family, Glenalappa. Mass on Fri. 17th at Knockanure at 7.30pm for Matt & Bridget Costelloe. Mass on Sat. 18^th at 7.30pm for John Stack. Mass on Sun. 19^th, 10.00am For the People of the Parish and 11.00am for Bridie Mai Moore. Mass on Tues. 21st at 7.30pm for Kate Flaherty.

READERS: Readers: Vigil, Eileen Collins, 11am Karina Stack & Kevin Hudson; Knockanure 10am Margaret Carmody & Mary Fitzgerald.

ALL IRELAND: Michelle and Noelle Curtin and Clare Carmody represented Athea on the Limerick U14 team who won the All Ireland U14C Championship on 4^th July 2015, they beat Derry in Ballymahon in Longford.

GRAVEYARD: Ahavoher Graveyard at 8pm on 3rd August

Knockanure Graveyard at 8pm on 4th August

Murhur Graveyard at 8pm on 5th August.

CREAMERIES: Information wanted on Creameries at Gale Bridge, Kilmorna and Turraree, ring Michael at 068 21596.

EVENTS: The Festival in Abbeyfeale will take place from Thursday, July 16 to Sunday, July 20.

TRIP: Athea Day trip to Kilkenny takes place on Tuesday July14th. For full details contact Marie Wrenn, on 087-7674832 or Joan Fitzgibbon, on 087-9865005.

CLIMB Mount Brandon in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and celebrating the 500th anniversary of St. Teresa of Avilla. 8am July 16th.

TRIP by Tarbert History Society to Dublin takes place on Saturday 18th July – Details at the Bridewell, Tarbert.

SEANCHAI, Living Literature Tours, begin at noon every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

ST. MICHAEL’S GRAVEYARD New members are urgently needed and if you would like to become involved come to next meeting on Wednesday. 15th July at 7.30 in St. Patrick’s Hall.

MOMENTS an afternoon of music, drama readings from Tommy Frank O’Connor ‘s collection, Thoughts as broadcast on Radio Kerry in Meadowlands Hotel Tralee Sunday 19th July from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m., all welcome.

DUAGH GRAVEYARD ANNUAL MASS: will take place on Thursday 23rd July at 8p.m. in Springmount to remember all those who have been buried there. St Marys Church graveyard Tarbert, Mass will be held on Friday 31st July at 7.30pm.

MEALS: Glin Homes for the Elderly Ltd are proposing to start a “Meals on Wheels” service in the locality. If you are aware of any elderly person in your locality who would like to avail of this service please contact Una, Glin Daycare Centre, Cloverfield, Glin, 068-26033.

SPORTS AND FITNESS COURSE: National Learning Tralee are currently recruiting for our QQI Level 5 Sporting Chance programme. Training allowance provided. For further information, please contact Kevin Smith at 066 7122533/ 086 0404270

CELEBRATING: Johnny Cronin School of Dancing recently celebrated their success at the World, European, All Ireland and Irish Open Dancing competitions.

ST JOHN’S: Tuesday 14^th The Best of American Country and Bluegrass. Wed. 15^th Flann’s Yer only Man, by Val O Donnell. Sat.18^th Recent work of Listowel born artist Micheal Kelliher. Tuesday 21^st Finghin Collins and Elizabeth Cooney, more details from 068 22566.

DAY TRIP TO VALENTIA: All Day Trip on Sunday, July 26, to Valentia Island, More from Maureen Finnegan 087 9845102.

WALK: St Columban Pilgrim Walk in Killarney

To celebrate the 1,400th anniversary of the death of St Columban, the Columbans are organising a Pilgrim Walk in Killarney from Aghadoe via Botharín na Marbh to St Columbanus's Home on July 18th. The walk will take approx 4 hours. It will be led by Columban missionary Fr Michael Howe. Assemble at Aghadoe at 9.30am on Saturday 18th July.

KILLARNEY Racing Festival runs from 13^th to 16^th July.

U.S. CIVIL War, lecture at Benner’s Hotel Dingle on 16^th July at 8pm.

YOUTH 2000 SUMMER FESTIVAL 13-16 Aug 2015. Cistercian College, Roscrea, Co Tipperary/Donation only/ Free Buses, Catholic youth event ages 16-35. Book online at www.youth2000.ie or phone 01 675 3690.

NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE TO CROAGH PATRICK

Garland Friday - July 24th 2015 (Local pilgrimage)

Mass on the summit at 10:00am. Mass in Croagh Patrick car park at 7:30pm.

REEK SUNDAY – 26 July 2015

Confessions on the summit from 7:30am - 2:00pm

Mass on the summit every half hour from 8:00am - 2:00pm.

LOUGH DERG 2015

Last day of the Three Day Pilgrimage is Thursday 13th August. Pilgrims can begin their pilgrimage any day up until then. No need to book. Information available at www.loughderg.org or phone 071 9861518.

MEDJUGORJE PRAYER MEETING: The monthly Medjugorje Prayer Meeting due on Monday, July 13th at 7.30pm in the Parish Meeting Room, Listowel. All welcome.

OUTINGS: Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society activities. Half day outing Sunday July 12th. Bruree/Athlacca. Organiser: Charlotte Murphy Tel. 086 8690094 Evening outing Wednesday July 22nd. “In the footsteps of Old Limerick Cinemas” with Joe Coleman. Organiser: Mary Kenehan Tel. 061 312592 Half day outing Sunday July 26th. Abington /Glenstal. Organiser: Cian O’Carroll Tel. 061 326022 Half day outing Sunday August 16th. Tulla, Co. Clare Organiser: Tom O’Farrell Tel. 087 9054841 Full day outing Sunday August 30th. Galway. Organiser: Elsie O’Connell Tel. 087 6115212 Mid-week excursion September 14th. – 17th. To Northern Ireland. Organiser Pat O’Donovan Tel. 087 9977340

LATIN MASS: will be offered in Holy Cross Dominican Church Tralee on Sunday 26th July at 1.30 p.m.

UK: Government officials raised the idea of resettling the entire five and a half million residents of Hong Kong in Northern Ireland in 1983.

THOUGHT: There are no unknown Christians, no insignificant sons of God. Each one signifies, each is a “sign” drawing the attention of the Triune God day and night upon him. The faceless man has a face, the nameless man a name, when Jesus picks him out of the multitude and calls him to Himself. A W Tozer.

WATERLOO: Irish Examiner 1841-1969, Saturday, March 12, 1892; Page: 5

Sherbrooke, Quo., Canada. February 9.1892, The funeral of the last survivor of the battle of Waterloo, Sunday, was unique in point of pomp, and also in the immense concourse of people that attended. The citizens of Sherbrook of all classes united to pay the last tribute of honor and respect to the good and brave old man who had done his duty to his sovereign and his country, who had lived through the vicissitudes of a century and seen dynasties of king and many generations of nun pans into eternal rest. At 2 p.m. the open funeral car draped with the Union Jack and drawn by four prancing grey steeds hold by 113 many postillions in military uniform, drove up to the veteran's Into residence, immediately followed by the 53rd Battalion and their band under the direction of Prof. F Cline. The rich casket, covered with magnificent floral tributes, was carried from the residence between the files of the military and deposited on the car in the presence of a silent multitude Among the many floral tributes sent by friends and relatives was to be remarked a beautiful wreath presented by Col. Morehouse and the officers of the 53rd Battalion, and another from the Veteran’s grandchildren with the inscription ' Grandpa,' The funeral cortege, consisting of thousands, was under the direction of Captain A L Grindrod and proceeded to the Roman Catholic Cathedral, marching to the military dirge rendered by the 53rd Battallion's band, in imposing requiem was chanted by a very large choir with Prof T K Doherty at the organ. Rev Father Charles E C Fissett, of St Patrick's Church, assisted by Fathers Tanguay and Lemioux, were the celebrants Thousands of men, women and children lined the sidewalks and galleries the whole length of Market and Wellington streets as the cortege passed to the cemetery. At the cemetery a filing party of 20 rifles of volunteers , under the command of Captain Addie, fired three volleys over the remains as they were laid in their last resting place. A number of friends and military men had come from _Quebec, Montreal, Richmond and other places to pay the last tribute to the gallant veteran and to sympathize with the bereaved relatives. very many letters of condolence were received from afar.

Deceased was born in the County of Cork, Ireland, on the 1st of August, 1791, and in 1812 joined the Kerry Militia, thence entering into the 73rd Regiment of Foot in the following year. From the depot he went on to Holland, where his battalion was at that time serving thence he saw a good deal of service with the army under Genaral Lyndoh and was there when the whole world was startled with the news that Napoleon had escaped from Elba, and all the British troops were ordered into Belgium.

The battle of Waterloo soon followed and the 73rd took an active part in that terrible day of pounding, losing heavily, but young Shea came through untouched, though men were killed all round him. On the day after the battle the army marched on to Paris, and, on their arrival there, encamped outside the walls, and Mr Shea mentioned in a recent interview that he frequently saw King Louis XVIII and his party pass by the camp on the way to St Cloud.

In December the Regiment was ordered home, and landed on English soil at Ramsgate, and marching to Canterbury where they were received with unbounded enthusiasm the mayor and corporation, having no fear of temperance newspapers before their eyes, threw open the public houses to the men at the civic expense. The 73rd were not long permitted to enjoy the comforts of home life. After recruiting in Canterbury, they were sent off to India, where they remained for four years, during which Mr Shea saw a great deal of active service in field operations against the native tribes. After four years of this duty the corps were ordered home by way of St Helena, When that famous Island was reached they heard of the death of its occupant, and twelve men of the regulars were allowed to go ashore to see his tomb, and of this party Mr Shea was lucky to form one. The battalion proceeded to England and arrived safely. Shortly afterwards Mr Shea, then holding the rank of corporal, was honorably discharged from the service, and celebrated the event by taking to himself a wife.

After leaving the army he entered on civil pursuits until 1835, when the formation of a British legion to the aid of the Queen of Spain in her struggle against Don Carlos, revived his military ardor and he joined as quartermaster sergeant of the 10th regiment. The legion sailed for Spain, and on arrival there were pushed out to the front and soon became actively engaged with the enemy. Shea took part in no fewer than twenty-six engagements during the progress of the campaign and relates many stirring incidents that came under his knowledge. Don Carlists were men of bravery and resolution but their valour was marred by gross acts of butchery, their leaders acting on the barbarous rule of giving no quarter to prisoners.

he held two valuable mementos of his service in the Legion, one of which is the Order of Isabella II., with the following certificate

Conferred on Lieut. Maurice 0 Shea, for meritorious conduct before the enemy and particularly for gallantry at the attack on the enemy lines in front of San Sebastian on the 5th May, 1836. [Signed], DeLacy Evans. Commander-in-chief of the British auxiliary legion of Spain, at his headquarters, Sansebastian, 11th June, 1836 ¬

After the war lieut. Shea returned to Ireland and remained there until 1847, when he came to Canada. It was the trying time of with ship fever epidemic and contagion raged terribly in the vessel which carried him and his family. He lost four children and was himself very near to death. He served for some time in Captain Forfara troop of Constabulary raised in Montreal and on its disbandment obtained a position in the Montreal goal which he retained until recent date. A few years ago he removed to the city of Sherbrook where he has since resided in the upper portion of a little brick building on Market street, owned by him, the other portion being rented. Since then he has not been following any particular vocation but has been lending a quiet retired life receiving and visiting good old friends of whom he has a great number. Lieutenant Shea was twice wounded in action the first time in the campaign in Belgium and again in India, where he received a ball through the leg. Of all ths.t ho owned he probably valued highest the Waterloo medal with its rod and blue ribbon, having on one side Wellington and Waterloo, June 18, 1815 and on the reverse George Regent.' On the edge is inscribed Maurice Shea, 73rd Regiment. Montreal Star, February 9th.

RESEARCH. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/irish-catholics-can-now-trace-ancestry-online-back-to-1740s-1.2276916

2015 July 8 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

SENIOR Citizens Afternoon Tea Party will take place in the Marian Hall on Sunday 12th July, from 3pm - 5.30pm. Music supplied by local musicians P.J. and Lisa Mulvihill. Refreshments served.

Senior Citizens Meeting in the Marian Hall on Tuesday 7th July at 8pm. We would also like to express our thanks to all those who so generously supported our Church Gate Collection.

SOCIAL day for the Active Retirement takes place on Monday 13th July, 2015 at Knockanure. Music by Stevie Donegan. All Welcome. If attending it’s important to please ring office on 068 49799. New members especially welcome.

SCHOOL Clothing & Footware Allowance Forms available at Knockanure Community Centre every Monday (except every second Monday of the month) from 1.00pm to 3.30pm.

CAMP: Listowel Family Resource Centre is hosting their annual summer camp. For further details, contact Pat Lyons on (068) 23584.

FLAG: Knockanure Flies The Flag Again !Thursday last was a very special day for all in Scoil Chorp Chríost Knockanure as they unveiled their Third Green Flag for Water Conservation. Special guest on the day was Marc O Sé who did the honours and even played a game of football with the students much to their delight ! Principal Mrs Julienne Donegan welcomed everybody and commended Miss Noirín Buckley Green Flag Co- Ordinator, the hard working committee and all staff and students for their hard work. The pupils sang "Kingdom Green And Gold" in honour of Marc and his great achievements in the Kerry Jersey.

SYMPATHY: At a recent meeting of the Board of Management of Scoil Chorp Chríost Knockanure the following votes of sympathy were passed: The Clancy Family on the death of Peg Joy, Duagh & Abbeyfeale. The Enright Family Lissaniskea on death of Ellen. The Rogan Family, Lissaniskea on death of Francis Diggins, Ballyduff. The McDermott Family Listowel & Donegal on death of Jackie , Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. The Walsh Family on death of Nora. The O' Flaherty Family on death of Heidi Deegan. The Goulding Family, Knockanure on death of Sister Eleana. The Horan Family on the death of Patsy.

DEATH has taken place of Tom Moore of Kilconlea Lower, Abbeyfeale and Moyvane on July 3rd. 2015. Survived by his wife Anne, daughters Eileen, Maria and Bridget, sons Tom and Mike, sister Bridie, 15 grandchildren, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces. Requiem Mass at Church of the Assumption Abbeyfeale on Monday. Funeral afterwards to Reilig Íde Naofa Abbeyfeale.

DEATH took place on 1st July 2015 of Dan O Callaghan of Upper Aughrim, Moyvane and

Late of Tinakilla, Ballyhahill. Survived by his wife Noreen, son Jimmy, brother Pat, sister Eileen, nephew, nieces, sister-in-law Colette. Requiem mass on Friday, 3rd of July at Church of the Assumption, Moyvane, followed by burial in Ahavoher Cemetery, Moyvane.

DEATH of John Joe Barrett, Lr. Athea, on the 30th June, 2015, Survived by his wife Kitty, sons Tommy, Johnny & Patrick, daughters, Cathy, Mary, Loretta, Bernie, Josephine, Agatha & Esther, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sisters Mary & Josie, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces. Requiem Mass for John Joe Barrett was celebrated at St. Bartholomew's Church, Athea, on 4th July, Burial afterwards in Holy Cross Cemetery, Athea. John Joe was a gifted tradesman and voluntary worker; he had many memories of the Korean War.

ANNIVERSARIES: Joseph O Keeffe, Johnny Horgan, Betty Moloney, Catherine Kilkelly, Jeremiah Carmody, Kit Windle, Joe Woods McConville, Breda Walsh, Tom Sullivan, Jim Reilly, Maureen Leech, Bridie Reilly, Peg Vaughan, John Stack, Bridie Sheehy. Mass on Sat. 11th at 12 noon for Jim Groarke. Mass on Sun. 12th at 10.00am in Knockanure for Timothy & Mary Murphy.

READERS, Vigil, Michelle Corridan & Annie Coulson, 11am Paul & Anthony Kiely; Knockanure 10am Mary O’Flaherty & Cian Rogan.

THANKS to Fr. John for his devotion to duty and his great work in the Parish and Pastoral Area and we welcome Fr. Kevin. Three priests have retired in Kerry. As many as 19 priests are involved in appointments. The only one which effects Listowel Pastoral Area, where Fr. John Lucid P.P. is appointed as P.P. of Kilcummin. He is being replaced by Fr. Kevin McNamara,(Clare man). The changes take effect on Wednesday, July 22nd . There were 34 priests Sick and retired in the dioce BEST WISHES: Canon Pat Horgan marks 60 years of Priesthood, being ordained in 1955, he was a curate in Moyvane in his young days. Fr. Pat Horgan, celebrating his Diamond Jubilee of service to church and community, and continues to do so. He has been a very active member of the Hugh O' Flaherty Memorial Society since its formation in 2008.

FR GERARD FINUCANE , appointed Parish Priest of Waterville from Wednesday July 22nd. We wish him every blessing and joy in his new ministry.

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND will hold its Annual Church Gate Collection next weekend 11th & 12th July at all masses.

MUSIC: Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann sponsored traditional entertainment programme for the Summer season commences this week at more than forty 40 centres throughout the country. The Devon Inn Templeglantine night is every Thursday at 8.45pm.

WALK: St Columban Pilgrim Walk in Killarney

To celebrate the 1,400th anniversary of the death of St Columban, the Columbans are organising a Pilgrim Walk in Killarney from Aghadoe via Botharín na Marbh to St Columbanus's Home on July 18th. The walk will include visits to sites of spiritual significance and will take approx 4 hours. It will be led by Columban missionary Fr Michael Howe. Assemble at Aghadoe at 9.30am on Saturday 18th July.

SWIM: Swimming Classes & Water Safety: Two weeks of swimming and water safety classes in Glin this summer starting: Sunday July 5, Monday August 3. Register on the day at 9am at the pier. Contact Iosla 087 120 9965

OPEN: The Palatine Heritage Centre, in Rathkeale is open to visitors over the summer months. It is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, from 2pm to 5pm.

AUCTION of the lifetime collection of vintage, old farmyard & farmyard kitchen contents on behalf of Josie McCreesh at her famous Rambling House in Brosna, Co. Kerry on Saturday 11th. July at /11am. For further details contact Pat O’Donovan on 087 9977340.

ST JOHN’S: Thursday 9^th, The Ben Reel Band. Fri. 10^th 44 Sackville Place, written and performed by Peter Sheridan. Sunday 12^th, A Comic drama by Tommy Marren, presented by Camp Drama Group. Tuesday 14^th, the best of American Country and Bluegrass, details from 068 22566.

EVENTS: The Festival in Abbeyfeale will take place from Thursday, July 16 to Sunday, July 20.

CLIMB Mount Brandon in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and celebrating the 500th anniversary of St. Teresa of Avilla. 8am July 16th. Trip by Tarbert History Society to Dublin takes place on Saturday 18th July – Details at the Bridewell, Tarbert.

MEAL FOR VISITING CLERGY ON HOLIDAYS:

As is usual, Bishop Ray would like to invite priests who are home for vacation to gather for a meal on Tuesday, August 4th at 6.30pm at the Parish Centre, the Church of the Resurrection, Park Road, Killarney. So if there are any priests from our parish interested - please contact the Parish Office at 068-21188 or Diocesan Office at 064-6631168

MEALS: Glin Homes for the Elderly Ltd are proposing to start a “Meals on Wheels” service in the locality. Meals would be delivered to the homes of elderly citizens during the week. This service would cover the parish of Glin and could include certain areas of the surrounding parishes of Loughill, Ballyhahill, Athea, Moyvane and Tarbert. If you are aware of any elderly person in your locality who would like to avail of this service please contact Una, Glin Daycare Centre, Cloverfield, Glin, 068-26033.

MUSIC: Glin Comhaltas are looking for ‘preloved’ traditional musical instruments. Do you, or someone you know have any instrument that is no longer wanted or needed and are willing to donate to a good home…… Glin Comhaltas ? If you can help in anyway with any instrument please contact Angela Culhane 086.367.3957 or John Healy 087.123.7950 – thank you.

IRISH CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER: Reminder that the Irish Catholic is available at the Parish Office Listowel every Thursday morning immediately after the 10.30 a.m. mass – giving up an up-date on the happenings in the Irish Church.

THE GLENSTAL LADIES RETREAT – Tue 7th July or Wed 8th July. 10am to 5pm. Enjoy some time for reflection, prayer, conversation and fellowship. Enquiries 061 621005 guestmaster@glenstal.org

YOUTH 2000 SUMMER FESTIVAL 13-16 Aug 2015. Cistercian College, Roscrea, Co Tipperary/Donation only/ Free Buses, Catholic youth event ages 16-35. Book online at www.youth2000.ie or phone 01 675 3690.

MASS: Abbeyfeale parish church Mass at www.churchservices.tv/abbeyfealeparish

THOUGHT: Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed. George Macdonald.

STARS: In July is an event not be better till 2122, the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus when they will be so close, they will almost merge into a double-planet' as viewed from Earth

KYOTO PRIZE: The Inamori Foundation has announced Michel Mayor as one of the laureates of the 2015 Kyoto Prize. The other laureates are chemist Toyoki Kunitake and choreographer John Neumeier. The lasting impact of Michel Mayor discovery is illustrated in recent observations of 51 Pegasi b made using ESO’s HARPS instrument. Michel Mayor was the leader of the group that developed and exploited the power of HARPS, the world’s leading planet-hunting machine.

The Kyoto Prize Presentation Ceremony will be held in Kyoto, Japan, on 10 November 2015. Each laureate will receive a diploma, the Kyoto Prize medal and prize money of 50 million yen (€360 000).

http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann15047/

FAMINE: The Irish Famine and the Atlantic Migration to Canada; The Irish Ecclesiastical Record 5th Ser. Vol.69 October, 1947, pp. 870-882.; CMSIED 305023

The Great Irish Famine of 1847 and the Atlantic Migration

which it set in motion mark a turning point of paramount

importance in the history of the Catholic Church in Canada. The

distinguished historian J. H. Hammond in his monumental work,

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/ied/records/29620?s=

On leaving the quarantine station at Grosse Isle the fever ships

proceeded up the St Lawrence River into Lake Ontario. Whenever

they stopped to unload their passengers, typhus and dysentery

appeared in alarming proportions. It is true to say that not a

single rural district, village, farm or city in Upper and Lower

Canada escaped the ravages. Deaths in Quebec City numbered

1,137, including many of the inhabitants. Through the zeal of

the local clergy, Fathers McMahon, Cazeau and Baillaragean,

later Archbishop of Quebec, homes were found for 800 orphans.

Some were placed in St. Brigid's Home which for more than a

century has been a haven for the indigent. Montreal was a

second Grosse Isle. Here, at Point St. Charles, 11,000 lay sick

with fever. Terror spread throughout the populace. At Bytown,

now Ottawa, 1,000 were stricken; of these 200 died. At

Kingston, 4,326 were admitted to the hospitals and feversheds;

of these 1,400 died. At Toronto, where the authorities had time

to make preparations, the sick received better care.

Nevertheless, 863 died from the epidemic. At Hamilton, and at

St Catherines in the Niagara Peninsula, at London and Sarnia in

western Ontario, events followed the same course, though numbers

were smaller. Partridge Island, at the entrance to the harbour

of St. John, New Brunswick was a third Grosse Isle but with a

much lower death-rate. Of the 17,074 immigrants who entered

here, including 2,000 from Lord Palmerston's estates, 600 died

on the Island and 595 died in the city s fever-sheds.

Ancestors

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15 July 1 Knockanure

KNOCKANURE

FREE BUS to Listowel from the locality every Wednesday, leaving c 10am, details from 1890 528 528.

CAMP: Knockanure Community Centre Art Drama & Sports Summer Camp, runs from Wednesday 1st to Friday the 3rd July from 10.00 am to 2 pm each day. Camp is open to children aged 4 to 12 years. Places are limited please ring Ann on 0879673269 for any queries.

RAMBLING House on Thursday 02th July 2015 at 9 pm in Knockanure Community Centre. Everyone is welcome. Please come along and enjoy a great night of music, song and dance. Admission free. Refreshment will be served. Contact Ann Flavin at 0863090948.

SENIOR Citizens Afternoon Tea Party will take place in the Marian Hall on Sunday 12th July, from 3pm - 5.30pm. Music supplied by local musicians P.J. and Lisa Mulvihill. Refreshments served.

GRAVEYARD Mass in Listowel St Michael’s Cemetery on June 30th at 8pm and Mass in John Paul Cemetery on July 1st also at 8pm. Thursday, July 2nd Finuge Cemetery at 8.00 p.m.

BLOOD DONOR : Thursday 2nd July from 6 to 9 p.m. in Ballybunion Community Centre.

THANKS to everybody who gave so generously to The M.S. collection last Sunday, It amounted to €736.89.

FETE: The annual Rathfredragh Cheshire Home Fete will take place on Sunday 5th July.

DEATH: Tom Scanlon of Tarmons West and formerly of Leitrim West, Moyvane, died on the 23rd of June, 2015, son John and Kit Scanlon, survived by his wife Anne, daughters Bridget-Anne and Elizabeth and son Adrian, brother Timmy and his wife Eileen, sisters, Noreen, Betty, Peggy and Rena and brother Pat, sister-in-law and brothers-in-law, nephews and nieces. Requiem Mass on Saturday, the 27th of June for Tom Scanlon at St. Mary's Church, Tarbert, followed by burial in St. Mary's new cemetery, Tarbert.

DEATH has taken place of James Duggan, Murhur, Moyvane. Survived by parents Jimmy and Mary, brothers Timmy and Jerry, sister Maria, uncles Christy and Joe and aunt Kathleen. Requiem Mass for James was celebrated on Sunday 28^th June 2015 at The Church of the Assumption, Moyvane. Burial afterwards at Ahavoher Cemetery.

R.I.P David Kelly of Syracuse New York, & late of Tarmons. R.I.P Joan McLoughlin, Onorato, nee Healy late of Leitrim East Moyvane, who died in New York on 22 June, Sister of Noreen Dowling Cockhill, & Con Healy, Moyvane.

ANNIVERSARIES: Tom Sullivan, Maureen Broderick, Julie O Connor, John Sheehan, Jim Galvin, Maureen Nolan, Peg Horgan, Kathleen O Connor, Seamus Vaughan, William Quirke, Paddy Maher, Paddy Flavin, Sr. Nora Benchman O Flaherty, Joyce Mannix, Kate Foley, Kathy O Donovan, Patrick Dowd, Dan Donoghue, John Joe O Donnell, Eileen Stack. Mass on Thurs. 2nd Knockanure at 7.30pm. Mass on

Fri. 3rd at 7.30pm for Bridie Reilly nee Fitzmaurice. Mass on

Sat. 4th at 7.30pm for Seamus O’Flaherty & the deceased members of the O’Flaherty Family. Mass on Sun. 5th at 11.00am for Fr. Jimmy Kissane & the deceased members of the Kissane Family.

CHURCH NEWS: Tues. 7th at 7.30pm, Thanksgiving Mass on behalf of Francis Leahy. First Friday of the Month. Usual Communion Rounds, Knockanure in the morning and Moyvane in the afternoon.

Confessions every Saturday before the Vigil Mass at 7.10pm and on request. Adoration: Moyvane Sun. 4.00pm to 5.00pm, Wed. 10.00am to 7.00pm and Knockanure Tues. 10.00am to 6.00pm

Readers, Vigil, Elaine Hudson & Catriona Farrelly, 11am Philip Kiely & Maureen Walsh; Knockanure 10am Patricia & Andrew Rogan.

SPORTS: Multi Sports Camp @ Moyvane Community Centre 10am till 2pm. 5-13 yrs .As some school break up next Tuesday, kids welcome Wednesday-Friday also. Please txt Brendan 087 1515627 to book.

CAO change of mind deadline July 1^st.

CLIMB MOUNT BRANDON: in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and celebrating the 500th anniversary of St. Teresa of Avilla. 8am July 16th.

LATIN MASS will be offered in Holy Cross Dominican Church, Tralee on Sunday 5th July, and Sunday 26th July, at 1.30pm.

RALLY FOR LIFE: in Dublin on July 4th. Bus transport available from Tralee. To book a place please phone 085 142 2512.

ST JOHN’S: Fri 3^rd, The Gallant John Joe

Written by Tom Mac Intyre, the play features Tom Hickey who plays the part of a Cavan widower. The characters in his life feature Boss man – his well to do patronising friend, The Hitmatist, The Chinee; John –Joe O’ Reilly, Captain of the conquering Cavan team of the late 1940’s and Jacinta, his teenage daughter. Presented by Pangur Bán Theatre ,Dub

WALK on the Great Southern Trail Greenway(GST).The 22 mile challenge along the old railway route (www.southerntrail.net) Leisure walking from Abbeyfeale-Rathkeale direction .The route takes about a leisurely 8 hours. (Abbeyfeale to Templeglantine 2hrs; Templeglantine to Newcastle West 3 hrs; Newcastle West to Rathkeale 3 hrs with food being available all day at these locations). Return to Abbeyfeale from Rathkeale by Bus is possible until 10pm.

ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE: Preached Retreat: July 6th - 12th 'The Human Journey - a way of relating to oneself, other and God' with Fr Michael Rodgers. Cost €420 residential or €40 day rate.

IRISH Dresden is back in operation again, set up in Dromcollogher in 1962, the factory employed up to 70 workers, when it closed in 2009 it had only a dozen.

THOUGHT: All wants are satisfied, all disorders of nature are removed, no life is any longer a burden, every day is a day of peace, everything you meet becomes a help to you, because everything you see or do is all done in the sweet, gentle element of Love. (William Law)

BOOK launch; Monsignor Padraig O Fiannachta recently launched a book on poet Piaras Mac Gearailt, written by Breandan O Croinin.

HISTORY SOCIETY Tarbert, Dublin Tour takes place on Saturday 18th July – Details at the Bridewell, Tarbert.

COLUMBAN: Taken from Irish Catholic.

On November 23, 2015, many Christian communities right across Europe will celebrate the 1,400th anniversary of the death of St Columban in Bobbio, Northern Italy, in 615AD. The name Columban is derived from Columba, the Latin word for dove. Columban is often called Columbanus and he is sometimes mistaken for Columba or Colmcille, who founded a monastery on the island of Iona, in Scotland. ---------------

Fr Aidan Larkin in his book St Columbanus: A Pilgrim for Christ gives a thumbnail biographical sketch: “The child would grow to manhood and become first a monk, then a priest, a distinguished scripture teacher, a master of Latin prose style and rhetoric, a competent versifier, an abbot, a founder of monasteries and monastic lawgiver, notably in Annegray, Luxeuil and Fontaines, in Burgundy, France, from where he would be expelled, and then in Bregenz, Austria, and finally in Bobbio.

The monasteries he founded had such a profound impact on early Medieval Europe that Robert Schuman, one of the architects of the EU, said in 1950 that St Columban was the patron of all those who were working for a united Europe...Unfortunately, while St Columbanus is the best known and best loved of the Irish saints in continental Europe, especially in France, Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland… sadly, he is less well known in Ireland.”

- See more at: http://www.irishcatholic.ie/article/celebrating-st-columban#sthash.nOWkfNrn.dpuf

WELLESLEY ; Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG,KP,GCB,GCH,PC,FRS (1769-1852) who was an important supporter of the Rideau Canal as a military necessity in the event of another American invasion. Wellesley was one of the leading military figures of the 19th century. He was commissioned in the British Army in 1787. A colonel by 1796, he saw action in the Netherlands and later India.

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WELLESLEY rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French in 1813. He served as the ambassador to France and was granted a Dukedom. Wellesley commanded the allied army which defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. He fought in some 60 battles throughout his military career and remained Commander-in-Chief of the British Army until his death in 1852.

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