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The Presbytery, Abbeydorney (066 7135146; 087 6807197)

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22nd January 2023, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.

In the 1960s, many young Irish priests and religious (Brothers and Sisters – Nuns) left their native land, as they answered the call to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the furthest end of the earth.  The first part of a long article in this ‘Dear Parishioner’ gives an account of the life of a North Kerry priest and three companions, who arrived in Brazil, South America, to start a new mission in August 1960.  Fr. James Collins had already got a lot of missionary experience, having spent 13 years in the Philippines.  When I try to cast my mind back to August 1960, I know that I would have been thinking a little about (and worrying) about starting secondary school in St. Brendan’s College, Killarney, in the following September.

 

One of Fr. Collins’s three companions, Fr. Sean Myers, was also a Kerry man – from Barleymount,

Killarney – from a parish that has been getting a good amount of publicity in recent times, because of the success of the Clifford brothers – Paudi and David – and the members of the Fossa Gaelic Football team, winners of the All-Ireland Junior Club Final in Croke Park last Sunday.  Fr. Myers is still alive and well in Brazil.  He was an unusual missionary, who worked in an isolated area of the country.  For those, who can recall the Radharc programmes, made by a team of priests from Dublin Diocese, Fr. Myers was the subject of one of them.  The progamme, with the title, ‘Padre Joao is a Kerry man’ was shown on RTE in 1977.

 

On another occasion, while he was at home on holidays from Brazil, Fr. Myers, with the help of some friends,  succeeded in finding old horse ploughs that were not being used and arranged for them to be transported to Brazil.  I am not sure did that happen before 1977 but I recall there was film footage of it, with, I think, Fr. Myers himself driving a truck carrying the ploughs.  A little bit on the internet that I found about Fr. Myers says ‘Fr. Seán Myers, Redemptorist missionary is, at once, priest, dentist, mechanic and guide to the 27,000 people, living in  a remote corner of the Brazilian interior.  There are some who think his approach to mission is outmoded.’  He says of himself, “I am just a cábóg from Barleymount, living and praying with cábógs in the Brazilian backwoods.”   ‘Cábóg’ in my Irish/English Dictionary is given to mean ‘Clown, Clodhopper and Migratory Labourer’.

(Fr. Denis O’Mahony)

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In an interview for Reality, Brazilian historian, Luciene Ribeiro, describes the life and ministry of Kerry-born Redemptorist Bishop, James Collins.

The story of Bishop Collins Cssr.

Luciene Ribeiro grew up on a farm about 250 kilometres from Pedro Afonso, a parish served by Redemptorists since establishing their mission in Brazil in 1960.  The farm was the last outpost on one of annual mule-back journeys the missionaries made to the vast hinterland of their parish.   Luciene later became Diocesan Secretary and worked with Bishop Collins for five years. Recently, she wrote a Master’s dissertation in the post-graduate ‘History of Amazonian Peoples Programme’ at the University of Tocantins, entitled ‘An historical analysis of the Episcopacy of Bishop Collins in the North of Goias (1960-1999)’.  She talks of her gratitude to the Redemptorists and Bishop Collins’ family for providing access to sources in places as far-flung as Moyvane, Co Kerry and Fortaleza, Brazil.   Anne Staunton and Pat O’Sullivan, who worked in Bishop Collins’ diocese, interviewed Luciene.

Tell us about Bishop Collins’ life before his arrival in Brazil. The first Irish Redemptorists, Frs. James Collins, Sean Myers, Michael Kirwan, and Jim McGrath, arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in May 1960.  The Redemptorists had been invited by Dom Alano du Noday, the French-born bishop of a vast region on the edge of the Amazon basin, with a backup letter from Dom Helder Camara, Secretary General of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference.  Fr Collins was leader of the new mission.  He was born in February 1921 in Moyvane, Co. Kerry, youngest son of Michael and Catherine Collins.  Sadly, James’ mother died in childbirth, when he was one year old.  Two of the eight Collins children became priests, and one became a religious sister. James attended two primary schools, St Michael’s in Moyvane and the CBS I in Tralee.  As a 12-year-old, he went to the Redemptorist Minor Seminary in Limerick, where he completed his secondary education.  On 3 September 1944, aged 23, he was ordained priest, after which he spent 18 months working on the Redemptorist Record.  From 1947 to 1960, he was part of the Redemptorist mission to the Philippines.  He was then recalled to Ireland to lead the Redemptorist’s new mission to Brazil, where he remained for 39 years.  In 1999, having retired as bishop, health reasons forced him to return to Ireland, where he died on 4 October 2002.

Describe life in the Brazilian mission in the early days. In August 1960, the four missionaries arrived in Pedro Afonso, where Fr. Collins was appointed parish priest.  According to the 1960 census, their parish covered an area of 37,000 kilometres – about half the size of Ireland - with a population of

 

34,279 or one inhabitant per square kilometre.  Eighty-five percent of the population lived in the sprawling countryside.  As they were far from Brazil’s political turmoil in the early sixties, the missionaries’ lives were largely unmarked by the intense polarisation between the political left and right, which eventually led to the 1964 military coup.  One memorable story of that time about Fr Collins and the military coup was a telegram he sent to the communities to “tóg an t-airgead amach, tá an banc briste,” as word spread of the currency’s collapse.  The pastoral praxis of the time was to celebrate Mass and hear confessions in the towns and villages on Sundays and feast days and visit the rural areas once a year in what was known as a ‘desobriga’ or helping the faithful fulfil their obligation to confess once a year.  They travelled on horseback or mules to get to know their parish.  After listening to the people’s expectations, they decided to increase the intake of students at the local secondary school in Pedro Afonso.  Fr Joe Hanrahan joined the mission as college headmaster and teacher.  An agricultural college was also built in the parish in partnership with the state government. Fr Collins was keen on living in a city with greater ease of communication with Ireland and where Redemptorist vocations could be fostered, so the vice provincial headquarters moved to Fortaleza in north-eastern Brazil, then considered the “breadbasket of religious vocations.”  The Vice Province of Fortaleza was founded with Fr Collins as its first vice provincial.

When was Fr Collins ordained bishop, and what were his priorities?  While still vice provincial, he was nominated Bishop of the Prelacy of Miracema by Pope Paul VI in October 1966.  In his inaugural sermon, he indicated that he planned to work to “promote a church in the image of Vatican II and put himself at the service of the people of the prelacy.” He already knew the region and was conscious of the problems it faced, so he pledged to strive for the spiritual and material welfare of its people.  Three Brazilian diocesan priests opted to remain in this new prelacy.  The Redemptorist parish of Pedro Afonso, with four priests, was also located within it, and there were two congregations of religious sisters. That year three more Irish Redemptorists, including Br Paschal Doherty, arrived in Brazil. The following year, Br. Paschal and Fr. Sean Lawlor were appointed to the new prelacy to collaborate directly with Bishop Collins.  Initially, they lived at the parish house, with few creature comforts as the region had no electricity, running water, or paved roads.  With the enormous pastoral challenge now facing him, Bishop Collins decided to try to expand his team.  (Contd. on back page)

 

He set about inviting Irish diocesan priests to join his prelacy.  He also wrote to superiors of religious congregations throughout Brazil, requesting priests and sisters to help in health, education, and pastoral care.  The presence of two indigenous tribes, the Xerente and the Krahô, presented a challenge in developing “indigenous pastoral care.” From 1970 onwards, two religious and some lay volunteers made up the Indigenous Pastoral team, with Sr Silvia ministering to the Xerente reservation and Fr Valber, a Brazilian Redemptorist, living with the Krahô. They reported to the annual diocesan assembly and presented the case for defending indigenous culture and the right of the indigenous to their ancestral lands. Other pastoral agents, including Bishop Collins, visited the reservations on special indigenous festive days.  He also began to think about formation for priests, seminarians, sisters, and laity.  The bishop’s house, the Centre for Leadership Formation (CTL), churches, parish houses, and community centres were built, through grant aid from German and Irish funding agencies and with the knowledge and skills of Br Paschal.  As regards Br Paschal’s role, Bishop Collins later wrote: “When Br Paschal began with ‘If I were you Dom Jaime, I’d…,’ I would sit up and listen, because it was always sound advice.”   ( Reality December 2022; To be continued next week.)

 

Seeing your life through the lens of the Gospel

(John Byrne OSA. Intercom magazine, December 2022/January 2023)

 

1.            ‘The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light’…Jesus applies this to himself and to his message.  Who have been the Jesus people, who have been a light to you?  Have you been such a light for others?

 

2.            His message was a call to repentance, to a change of attitude towards, from seeing God as one to be feared, to seeing God as a God of love.  When have you heard that call in your life?  What was it like for you?

 

3.            Jesus invited disciples to join him in his mission.  In responding, the disciples ‘left their nets’ to follow him.  Sometimes, we have to disentangle ourselves from other things to give ourselves freely  and wholeheartedly to a commitment.  Have you experienced being enmeshed and being free?  Where did you find life?

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(Continuation from last week of the story of Moyvane-born, Bishop James

Collins, Redemptorist Bishop in Brazil, in the latter half of the 20th century.)

What was the contribution of religious sisters to his diocese? In the

Prelacy of Miracema, religious sisters were protagonists in implementing

the Second Vatican Council’s decisions at a time when patriarchy was the

order of the day. Sisters ran parishes with liturgy, catechesis, baptism and

marriage preparation teams, bible groups, and Basic Christian

Communities, and celebrated the Sunday Liturgy of the Word with

communion. They took over parishes based on Canon Law 1112, which

states that “where there is a lack of priests and deacons, the diocesan

bishop ... can delegate lay people to preside at marriages.” On Holy

Thursdays, parishes run by sisters received the Holy Oils just like the priest-

led parishes. When asked about sisters administering the Sacrament of the

Sick, Bishop Collins replied: “You have the oils!” The sisters took him at his

word and were able to bring the comfort of the Sacrament of the Sick to

many parishioners. In 1981, the prelacy was elevated to the status of

diocese. By 1983, it had six diocesan priests, four Redemptorists, and six

congregations of sisters, and consisted of 15 parishes, eight run by priests

and seven by sisters. Before sisters were appointed as extraordinary

ministers, all parishes depended on the priests’ visits to administer the

sacraments. For marriages, they had to travel long distances to a priest-

run parish, incurring great expense. The new arrangement facilitated the

people’s lives, brought the church closer to them, and was readily

accepted by the faithful, who felt that the feminine touch considerably

enhanced their wedding celebrations. Sisters in charge of parishes have

always affirmed that their experience was a very significant moment in

their lives as they felt they were making an important contribution to the

life of the diocese. Most were from the south and southeast of Brazil. The

one exception were the St Louis Sisters from California and Ireland, who

ran two of the parishes.

Name some highlights of Bishop Collins’ time as bishop. Basic Christian

Communities (BCC) were a landmark in the history of the Catholic Church

in

Brazil, as they were a space for the participation of the poor. Through

them, poor lay people acquired a new sense of self and mission and

assumed their role as Christians in the struggle for common interests, such

as health, education, and political representation. BCCs provided a space

for the poor to grow as a community empowered by their faith to

transform unjust political and social structures. In 1979, the Latin

American Bishops’ Conference in Puebla underlined God’s preferential

option for the poor and insisted that the BCCs helped the church discover

‘the evangelising potential of the poor.’ In Miracema, from 1975 onwards,

a small BCC team helped organise the annual assembly of these

communities, always attended by Bishop Collins. The Redemptorist

diocesan missionary team also visited these communities throughout the

diocese and helped to animate and encourage them. While sectors of the

Church had supported the 1964 military coup, within nine years, the

attitude had changed. Nineteen bishops, in northeastern Brazil and six in

the Amazonian region, denounced the military dictatorship as acting

contrary to the Church’s social teaching. In the early seventies, the state of

Goias handed over the title deeds to huge tracts of land, occupied for

generations by squatter farmers, to powerful politicians and outside land

grabbers. When these land ‘owners’ arrived to evict those living on the

land, using violence when they met resistance, the cry of the poor

inevitably provoked a response from the church.

A Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) team was formed in each diocese,

including Miracema, which tried to respond to evictions with solidarity and

legal support. Bishop Collins was aware of the power of the people and

always tried to collect signatures for letters to draw attention to their

plight. One example was a letter signed by Bishop Collins and hundreds of

others in 1985, denouncing: i) the expulsion of 37 tenants from their land

in Colmeia and two beaten by police and forced to renounce their right to

their land, and 35 imprisoned by a force of 100 police; ii) the invasion by a

local rancher and the police of a chapel in Lizarda, when people had

gathered for prayer. They had come from the squatters’ houses, picked up

all their meagre belongings, and then deposited them at the chapel door;

iii) conflicts in Miracema, where tension was high because of evictions and

the presence of armed hitmen. On the feast of Corpus Christi 1987, in the

parish run by Fr Martin Murray, C.Ss.R., Bishop Collins called for land

reform and protection against land grabbers. Later he was accused of

backing Fr Martin and Frei Henrique of the CPT in their support for

squatters who supposedly had ‘invaded private land.’ The bishop

challenged these lies, and in 1988 with growing publicity and severe

pressure from the National Bishops’ Conference, the Supreme Court

ordered the cancelation of the false land titles in favour of the squatters.

This was one of the few victories the people of that region were able to

celebrate. (Continued on back page.)

CPT also argued for the formation of Rural Workers’ Unions and

Associations of Small Landholders in each municipality. Many of these

were formed and live on today, helping organise farmers and squatters.

The associations established cooperatives to help improve members living

conditions. Jose Edgar, a former director of the Agricultural College, saw

Bishop Collins as “a missionary who loved action. He didn’t just talk; he

practiced what he preached. He was obsessed with getting things done.”

He supported the CPTs as a new way of being church. In defending

smallholders, he revealed his own origins as a small farmer and felt

deeply the injustices heaped upon them by the state and judicial system.

Above all, he was committed to the formation of his pastoral agents and, in

his later years, could see the fruits of his labours in the fine team of highly

dedicated priests, sisters, and laity.

(The first part of this article in last weekend’s ‘Dear Parishioner’ stated that

Brazilian historian, Luciene Ribeiro, had studied the life and ministry of

Bishop Collins in Brazil, South America. Additional information in the

Intercom article was that Anne Staunton, a Mayo native, and Pat O’Sullivan

from Limerick, both retired teachers, translators and former missionaries in

Brazil had interviewed Luciene Riberio, which resulted in the two-part

article that was in Dear Parishioner last weekend and this weekend. (D.

O’M.))

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2022;

THURSDAY OCTOBER 13TH – 8.30 pm

 

GABRIEL FITZMAURICE & MICKEY McCONNELL – 8.30 pm

 

Deeply rooted in the literary tradition of North Kerry, Gabriel Fitzmaurice is a poet, broadcaster, writer, translator, singer and raconteur. He has been called “poetry’s answer to John B Keane” (Books Ireland) and his poems have been described as “comparable to Burns for their insight and lyricism” (The Irish Times).

 

Mickey McConnell is the youngest member of a musical family from Bellanaleck, Co. Fermanagh. He spent most of his working life as a journalist in Dublin with the Irish Press Group and The Irish Times. Despite the fact that he has been writing songs all his life – Only Our Rivers Run Free’ was written in 1965 – it was only when he moved to Kerry about 30 years ago that he seriously devoted himself to his music.

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Profile Moyvane Knockanure

 

 

 

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DEVELOPMENT PLAN:  Knockanure/Moyvane Area Profile: Brendan O’Caoimh, recently put together a profile of the Knockanure and Moyvane areas. Profile is to provide data that will help  to develop the 5-year development plan. Check out the video using this link: https://bit.ly/3nrzOin. To download the slides, use this link: https://bit.ly/3B9WmJE

 

See social media for details of further development meetings.

 

THANKS: Moyvane Development Association would like to thank all those people who came out and contributed to the community atmosphere for the festivities which took place on Sunday 24th October as part of the Village festival.  The Vintage Tractor and Car Run was a great success with 40 tractors and 20 cars taking part. It was a lovely to see people out and about enjoying themselves on a beautiful day.  Sunday also saw a very welcome return of the hugely popular Festival Fun Dog Show very generously sponsored by Betty and Jim Halpin of ‘Aughrim Mountain View Pet Hotel’.  Categories included the ‘waggiest tail’, ‘best costume’ and ‘cutest puppy’. Thanks also to Betty & Jim for judging on the day, no easy job. While rosettes were presented to 1st, 2nd and 3rd in eight categories, the winner of the overall cup on the day was ‘Teddy’ owned by Sean and Deborah Mahoney. The Kiddies Tractor Run also took place on Sunday in the Church Car Park and great fun was enjoyed by all.  All participants received medals for their efforts. The Fun Run/Walk scheduled for BH Monday was postponed and a new date will be announced soon. The Hunt was rescheduled to last Sunday October 31st. MDA would like to thank Fr Brendan and the Community Sports Hall Committee who kindly allowed us to use the two carparks on the day. Thanks to all who contributed to the bucket collection for local development activities and the Fuschia Dementia Centre in Listowel. Finally, we would like to thank all our sponsors of the Festival Weekend.  Your generosity helps fund our activities around the village throughout the year.

 

WORKSHOP: Moyvane & Knockanure Community Planning Survey and Workshop are holding the 2nd Community Development workshop on Tuesday 16th November at 8pm (sharp) in the Community Sports Hall. The workshop setting is very social, relaxed and is mostly about sharing ideas. There is no need to be worried about getting a job! These workshops are about building for our future in Moyvane & Knockanure so please come along and get involved. Any ideas are warmly welcomed. We are also encouraging as many as possible to complete a survey regarding future development which we have shared to different groups within the locality. Furthermore we encourage everyone to share this survey link with anyone who may not have received it. If anyone in our community or diaspora wants to receive it, it can be forwarded by emailing mda@outlook.ieor messaging 087 6761353. Hopefully see as many as possible at the next meeting!

 

THANKS: Moyvane Development Association wishes to acknowledge receipt of the following grant allocations from KCC: €2,500 from the Community Support Fund, which was used to part fund the upgrade of the flower beds on Church Road and €1,000 from the Community Enhancement Programme which was used to purchase a mulcher lawn mower.

 

 

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The months of April and May, 1921 saw a lot of bloodshed in the parish of Moyvane-Knockanure. On Thursday April 7, Mick Galvin, an IRA volunteer, was killed during an ambush at Kilmorna in Knockanure.

 

 

 

On April 14, 1921 Sir Arthur Vicars was shot in reprisal at Kilmorna House, his residence.

 

 

 

Then on May 12 Paddy Dalton, Paddy Walsh and Jerry Lyons were shot by the Black and Tans at Gortaglanna. Their comrade Con Dee made a miraculous escape.

 

 

 

On Thursday May 26 Jack Sheehan was shot in Moinvionlach bog as he attempted to escape capture by the Crown forces.

 

 

 

To commemorate these events, the North Kerry Republican Soldiers Memorial Committee are asking that each household light a candle on Wednesday, May 12, the centenary of the Gortaglanna tragedy, at 9 pm. Fr Kevin has very generously sponsored commemorative candles which can be collected by parishioners at all masses next weekend (8, 9 May).

 

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An Ode to St. Patrick

 

 

 

St Patrick’s Day 2020

 

By Mary Mc Elligott

 

 

 

 

 

Please come back St Patrick

 

 

 

And bring us loads of bleach,

 

 

 

Soap and disinfectant

 

 

 

And sanitizers, yes, one each.

 

 

 

Back then, we thought snakes were bad,

 

 

 

For the Irish, a pure curse

 

 

 

But now in the year we have

 

 

 

The story is much worse.

 

 

 

Corona is the reason,

 

 

 

A scary dangerous Virus.

 

 

 

It’s in all the Televisions,

 

 

 

The papers and the wireless.

 

 

 

It spreads with a cough or sneeze

 

 

 

Or even talking to a person

 

 

 

And forget about a handshake.

 

 

 

It will only make it worsen.

 

 

 

If you can bring supplies,

 

 

 

Include some kitchen rolls

 

 

 

Don’t bring any toilet paper

 

 

 

As we all have loads and loads.

 

 

 

Also to be safer,

 

 

 

Leave your cloak and staff at home.

 

 

 

We’ll provide a set of scrubs

 

 

 

‘You’d get destroyed in bleach and foam.

 

 

 

We’re not out this year

 

 

 

But we’re not too far away.

 

 

 

We’re indoors and we’re praying,

 

 

 

That you’ll kill the bugs with spray.

 

 

 

We’ve even closed our Pubs,

 

 

 

Paddy’s day, a disaster

 

 

 

But we’re willing and we’re able,

 

 

 

If the Virus goes much faster.

 

 

 

You saved us many moons ago.

 

 

 

You’re held in high esteem.

 

 

 

Irish eyes will all be smiling,

 

 

 

When we’re out of quarantine.

 

 

 

We’ll be dancing and a lepping,

 

 

 

Down the streets, with marching bands.

 

 

 

Oh, a little reminder when you’re coming,

 

 

 

Don’t forget to wash your hands.

 

 

 

 

 

By Peg Prendeville

 

Around the fire

 

 

 

Around the fire we sat each night

 

 

 

Chairs pulled together nice and tight

 

 

 

Dad made sure the turf was in

 

 

 

Mom sat knitting with a happy grin.

 

 

 

From a ball of wool in a wellington

 

 

 

A sock grew longer as the night went on.

 

 

 

The sound of the latch and in comes Mick

 

 

 

Tapping the flags with his blackthorn stick.

 

 

 

We make some room for another chair

 

 

 

Widening the circle gathered there.

 

 

 

Soon the stories would be told

 

 

 

Each one more daring, dark and bold.

 

 

 

Just when we thought we could take no more

 

 

 

Someone would stamp on the stone flagged floor.

 

 

 

The “Panny” mugs with the milky tea

 

 

 

Calmed the nerves and helped us see

 

 

 

That ‘twas all in fun, no need to fear

 

 

 

We were all family gathered here.

 

 

 

Soon cousin JohnJoe would lilt a reel

 

 

 

And we young children danced toe to heel

 

 

 

And Mick tapped the flags with his blackthorn stick

 

 

 

And Mom would raise the oil-lamp wick.

 

 

 

Thus we passed the winter nights

 

 

 

In semi darkness, no strong lights

 

 

 

And all too soon it was time for bed

 

 

 

But not until the prayers were said.

 

 

 

Mom tucked us up in our feather beds

 

 

 

With images of fairies in our heads.

 

 

 

We knew we were safe from hurt or harm

 

 

 

Cuddled up tight, all snug and warm.

 

 

 

HERITAGE ARDAGH; Saint Kieran’s Heritage Association held their March meeting in Ardagh Community Centre on Thursday, March 5, and 16 members were present. Chairman JP O’Sullivan welcomed all and Secretary Mary Kury read the minutes, and matters arising were dealt with. Cheques were presented to Ardagh/Carrigkerry Senior Citizens Association  and the Brothers of Charity  at the last meeting, and letters of thanks received from both  were read out. Participation in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parades in Rathkeale, and Newcastle West on Tuesday March 17 were discussed, and the theme will be a walking parade with the pike men performing. Permission to hold the annual church gate collections were received and the permit dates are Coolcappa/Kilcolman May 23/24, and Ardagh/Carrigkerry July 11/12.

 

 

 

The main body of the meeting concentrated on the calendar of events for 2020, and the following is a preliminary list: Friday,  March 27, Down Memory Lane talk in Ardagh Hall with three speakers. Friday, April 24, Down Memory Lane talk in Ardagh Hall with three speakers. Thursday, April  30, Ballylin Hill Walk for May Eve. Friday, June 26, Mary Kury will launch her next book In Loving Memory (Headstone Inscriptions of Coolcappa, Clonagh, Kilscannell, and Rathronan graveyards in Coolcappa Hall. Saturday, June 27,  Coolcappa walk and talks from various speakers from 11am, taking in Lisnaculla Castle, Clonagh Graveyard, Saint Kyran’s Well, Patrick O’Brien’s Memorial, and Mount Henry House.

 

 

 

Sunday, June 28 a special mass will be celebrated at 12 noon in Saint Kyran’s Church to mark the 50th anniversary of the church opening.  The heritage association will be involved in the events (TBC) later in the afternoon. Heritage Week  will be held this year from Friday August 15,to Sunday, August 23 and an event to be confirmed will be held to mark it. Friday, September 14, the annual weekend festival will commence with the launch of the Down Memory Lane Journal in Ardagh Hall. Sunday  an event will be held in the village (TBC). Sunday November 15, The Christmas Craft Fair will be held in Ardagh Hall. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, April 2 at 8pm in Ardagh Hall and all are welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Schools' Folklore Collection

 

 

 

 

 

Fr Harnett

 

 

 

 

 

Long ago there lived in the Parish of Newtownsandes and old woman. One morning she went to her dairy for a pan of milk. When she was returning from the dairy she slipped with the pan of milk and fell. Just as she was falling the pan struck her in the side, and injured her, and the milk was spilled. When she went in home she had a very bad pain in her side, and she had to go to bed.

 

 

 

 

 

She spent three weeks in bed, but after the three weeks she was as bad as ever, and her side was greatly swollen. When she saw no improvement coming on her she sent for the doctor. But when the doctor saw her he said that he could find nothing wrong with her. At last she sent for one of the neighbours.

 

 

 

 

 

The neighbour was an old woman who was supposed to be with the good people. When the old woman looked at her she shook her head and said, “When you were coming in from your dairy that morning a woman from a fort asked you for a cup of milk. Now you did not hear her and she threw the cup at you, and it went in through your side. So it is not in the power of any doctor to cure you”.

 

 

 

She spent about another week in bed. At that time she heard that there was a priest in Duagh named Father Harnett who used to cure a lot of sick people. Her friends took her to the priest soon after that. When the priest saw her he took a book from his pocket and he kept reading over her for about ten minutes. Then he told her to go home and that she would be better. The woman went home, and the pain was as bad as ever. The next day her side broke out and glass began coming out of it. The glass was coming out of it for about a week. After a week all the glass of a cup had come out of it. Then her side healed up as good as ever.

 

 

 

Joe Walsh

 

Told by

 

Mrs Mary Walsh, Leitrim East, Newtownsandes, 54 years

 

Collector- Joe Walsh. Informant- Mrs Mary Walsh, Age 54, Address, Leitrim East, Co. Kerry

 

Modern Wrenboys in Moyvane

 

by Aine Cronin

 

Over the past five years the Moyvane-Knockanure Wrenboy Group has become a regular fixture at the annual Wrenboys competition in Listowel. The group, which came together for the ’94 competition, consisted mainly of talented people of all ages from Moyvane-Knockanure, but we were also given a helping hand from neighbouring parishes.

 

 

 

Our aim was to achieve success in the competition within three years – our ‘3-year plan’. This was not as simple as it sounded! There was a lot of hard work involved in the run-up to the Races and commitment was essential. Many hours were spent getting the right measure of music, dance, song and prose into our show. Finally, we were satisfied with our contributions and became more relaxed and confident that we could give a performance that would be worthy of our parish. Moyvane-Knockanure Wrenboys Group was well on their way!

 

 

 

Up until our first dress rehearsal we were pretty relaxed and I don’t think the whole thing sunk in until the night of our first dress rehearsal. The hall was awash with colour. Tinsel glittered in the lights and there was a Christmas feeling between the group, even though it was only September! We began to count down the days to our performance in Listowel.

 

 

 

‘D-Day’ arrived and we travelled to the Plaza in Listowel on the Friday evening. The atmosphere in the hall had mixed tones of excitement and tension rolled into one. Steps were practised once again, harmonies checked and instruments tuned. It was not long before we were positioned on the street to begin the Wren march. When we got to the stage the nerves rolled away and everybody put on a flawless performance and enjoyed themselves completely, which is really the essence of a Wrenboy presentation.

 

 

 

The group did very well on the first outing by coming second in the placings and also winning the title of ‘King of the Wrenboys’, which was awarded to Gerard Donegan. The Moyvane-Knockanure Wren Group showed that they would be in there for the reckoning over the coming years.

 

 

 

Over the next two years the group made some minor changes, that being, in the content of the show and fresh talent joining the group. Sadly, this meant that many very gifted performers also left us. Since the group had been established we had been led by Gabriel Fitzmaurice, and we continued to achieve good results in the competitions. We were awarded 2nd and 3rd places and also another ‘King of the Wrenboys’ title, once again for Gerard Donegan. An ‘Overall Best Performance’ for Tom Moore for his story-telling was another coup for our group. Despite not obtaining 1st place during the three years, we had definitely made our mark.

 

 

 

The following year the group unfortunately disbanded, but a number of people who joined a group from Athea continued to compete in Listowel. The group has competed for the last two years and has a very large group that is split half and half between the stage and the ground. The group is led by Leo Finucane, who has incorporated new ideas into the concept of a Wren group.

 

 

 

In the last two years the Athea group has been awarded 2nd and 4th place, with Eileen Cronin from Moyvane awarded ‘Best Overall Performance’ in 1998.

 

 

 

Hopefully the tradition of Wrenboy groups from Moyvane-Knockanure will continue as it is a way of tapping in on all the talent in the parish. The feeling you experience on your way to the stage during the Wren march is hard to describe, but ’emotional’ is a word that could be used. Support is also important and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who go to cheer on the Wrenboys year after year.

 

 

 

    “Up with the kettle and down with the pan

 

    and give some money to bury the wren.”

 

 

 

From Moyvane.com

 

Fr Pat Aherne Interview | Founder of Siamsa Tíre

 

Jul 26, 2017

 

 

 

    Fergus Dennehy Fergus Writes Things

 

 

 

Fr Aherne 2Fergus Dennehy talks to North Kerry’s Fr Pat Aherne, a man credited with revitalising the traditional music and dance scene in both Kerry and Ireland, when he founded the famous Siamsa Tíre. Here, he talks to us about growing up in a different time, how Siamsa Tíre came about and his fondest memories from a truly incredible life.

 

 

 

FOR those of us of the untrained eye, there have no doubt been times when our eyes have passed over the charming and familiar stone brick exterior of Siamsa Tíre and not given a moments thought to the incredible story and history hidden inside its hallowed vaults of knowledge.

 

 

 

As a Tralee native and someone who has too often been guilty of the above crime of ignorance, I was on a quest to right this wrong and where better to start than sitting in the living room of its now 85-year-old founder, Father Pat Aherne.

 

 

 

A Moyvane native, Father Aherne grew up surrounded by music – his mother and brother Seán were talented fiddle players and singers respectively – and he says that if there is anything that growing up in the 30’s and 40’s, surrounded by music, singing, dancing and working on the farm taught him, it is the importance of tradition.

 

 

 

In the context of Siamsa Tíre and its founding then, it is this sense of the importance of tradition that he holds that was to become ‘the seed’ for what would eventually grow into Siamsa Tíre.

 

 

 

Fr Aherne was first sent to Tralee as a young curate back in 1957 where he was tasked with setting up a new choir in Tralee – a task that he still remembers fondly to this day and one which he took to with relish.

 

 

 

“Back then in 1957, there was very little happening with regards to music in town and because of this, without the choir, a lot of the people who joined who never have had another outlet to learn music,” said Fr Aherne, talking on Thursday.

 

 

 

Fr Aherne quote“It [setting up the choir] was a nice challenge for a young fella like myself but you have to remember, in those days, almost everything was in Latin, including the music!”

 

 

 

“A lot of the lads and ladies who joined originally, they wouldn’t have had it at all. That made the task of learning the music that little bit trickier for them,

 

 

 

“The choir just took off though, it was initially just boys and men – it was called St John’s Gregorian Choir. We had great times back then – we were all young and energetic and we worked hard. Everyone there learned to read music and these were people who would never have studied any bit of music, it was wonderful.”

 

 

 

The initial success of the choir led to them being asked to perform a short pageant to celebrate the centenary of the Lourdes apparitions, a pageant which the group called Massabielle and which was performed in the old CYMS hall in Tralee [now the KDYS].

 

 

 

This successful first outing was to prove to be a major stepping stone for Fr Aherne and his choir.

 

 

 

“Thanks to Massabielle and its success, this then led us on to do a more ambitious show later in 1963, the Passion Play in Tralee about the life of Christ. It went for a long run in the CYMS Hall.”

 

 

 

Again this performance by Fr Aherne’s choir was met with such acclaim that Dean Donal Reidy organised a special celebratory performance night in what was then the Manhattan Hotel [now Ballygarry House Hotel].

 

 

 

It was to be a performance that would serve as the impetus for the future Siamsa Tíre performances.

 

 

 

“I put on a little cabaret there, using the singers, dancers and musicians and it was went very well – it just skyrocketed and we

 

 

 

decided then and there that we wanted to do more things. This was then the little seed that started it all off for us,” he continued.

 

 

 

The rest, as they say is history. What followed was a period of great success both nationally and internationally for the group, which in 1974, was officially renamed as the Siamsa Tíre that we know today, with its founder Fr Aherne being named as Artistic Director, a position that he held until his retirement in 1998.

 

 

 

While he’s the first to admit that there has been too many good memories over the years to definitively pick out a favourite, he said that it was the words of a man called Brendan Regan that stand out as one of his proudest moments.

 

 

 

Fr Aherne 1“We were doing a week in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and a man came backstage to see us after the show and this man was Brendan O’ Regan. He was a big, big name at the time, a visionary if you like. He was the man who founded the Shannon Free Airport Development and he was the chairman of Bord Fáilte as well,” said Father Aherne, taking another sip of tea, his foot stretched out, relaxing on the chair in front of him.

 

 

 

“He said ‘I’ve been to New York, where I have seen the Russian ballet and when I watched it, I dreamt of a similar show in Ireland. Father, in your performance tonight, I’ve found that show.’ He was a man of clout and he said that we had to get all of this on a firm footing – this was not just an amazing appreciative moment of all of our hard work, this was the beginning of Siamsa Tíre. It was an excellent thing for us to hear, from someone so revered,” he continued.

 

 

 

A tour of America was to follow for Fr Aherne and his merry band of singers, musicians and dancers and for some of the group, a lot of whom were leaving Ireland for the first ever time, finding themselves in cities such as New York, Boston and Chicago was a magical, magical experience.

 

 

 

“I’ll always remember one man, Gerry Nolan, he was out of my own parish in Moyvane. He was a beautiful, beautiful step dancer and of course, he had never been out of the country and this man from Moyvane brought down the house in every city we went to!”

 

 

 

“It was amazing, the reaction to his performances. He was a simple and quiet man you know? Going to New York to him was the same as going to Dublin. Here we were in Broadway then, performing in the home of theatre and performance and he went out and the audience, they just clapped and clapped and clapped and even when he came off the stage, they were still clapping and he just turned to the fella next to him and says ‘jaysus, they must know me!’” Fr Aherne says, letting out a chuckle at the memory of his friend.

 

 

 

It was the success of this tour, Fr Aherne said, that gave great creedence to the idea of using Irish folklore and music and dance as a performance art an again cemented the need for Siamsa Tíre.

 

 

 

One man whose core message and style still permeates through Kerry today was a travelling dace teacher called Jeremiah Molyneaux, or ‘Munnix’ as Fr Aherne affectionately calls him.

 

 

 

Munnix was a man, that Fr Aherne credits with not just helping to bring through some of Siamsa’s most talented dancers, the supremely gifted Jimmy Smith being one of these, but also a man who first ‘wowed’ a young Fr Aherne into wanting to learn to dance.

 

 

 

“He was a beautiful, beautiful dancer. I had met when I was in school in Moyvane and he came to teach in the school. He said, ‘anyone who’s interested in dancing, head into the hall there’.”

 

 

 

“He went out on the floor and danced the hornpipe and my god, I’ll never forget it, the impact it had on me. What this man could do with his two feet, it was absolutely phenomenal, I’d never seen anything like it. It was amazing.”

 

 

 

Finally and fittingly, a man always with a sense of tradition at the back of his mind, Father Aherne, between sips of tea and an odd biscuit or two, tells me of how importantly he viewed the Irish language and all of the old stories and poems hidden within it in helping shape Siamsa’s work.

 

 

 

“The Irish language is one that enshrines all of our best traditions. Irish is the repository of all of our most important traditions. If you want to know the mindset of a people, you must first understand the language,” he finished.

 

 

 

Traditional to the last.

 

 

 

From fergusdennehy.com

 

 

 

 

 

by Gabriel Fitzmaurice

 

 

 

Like most youngsters of my generation (I was born in 1952), I came to music through Elvis Presley, the Beatles and the Stones. In college I discovered Leonard Cohen. So it was no surprise that when I began teaching (at 19 in Avoca, Co. Wicklow) I joined a rock group, Juniper Woode, the relief band at the Centre Ballroom in Arklow. We played pretty much standard fare, but we were writing our own songs too. Eventually we were invited by Tweed, a leading pop group at the time, to become their regular relief band touring the country with them. At the thought of it, we broke up! I had no intention of giving up my teaching job to go on the road. Tony Byrne, our drummer, had a steady job in Tyrell’s Shipyard and was intent on staying there. E. J. Cranny (who later gigged with Declan Synnot’s Gandydancer), Danny Kenny and Colin Manifold (who later went into the music wholesale business) were in favour of going with Tweed. So we broke up.

 

 

 

I returned to my native Moyvane, near Listowel, to teach in the local National School in 1975 and quickly discovered that the best music that was being played in the North Kerry/West Limerick area was Irish trad. I determined to learn it. Gerard Buckley, an All Ireland champion accordion player, took me on to gig with him as accompanist in Dónal O’Connor’s Sliabh Luachra Bar in Listowel, a Mecca for Irish traditional musicians and lovers of the music. Little by little, I was learning and was emboldened to take up the mandolin becoming three-times champion on it at Fleadh Cheoil Chiarraí (1975-78).

 

 

 

Irish music was becoming hip in the 1970s. Seán Ó Riada, Planxty and the Bothy Band had had a huge influence on youngsters like Gerard and me. I remember the night we really took off. It was at a concert in the Marian Hall, Moyvane. Gerard and I had put together a group consisting of Gerard on accordion, Donie Lyons on concert flute, Tony Dalton on banjo, John Buckley on bodhrán and myself on guitar and vocals. It was the first time anything like that had been heard in Moyvane and we brought the house down. The atmosphere was electric. I remember the standing ovation but, more especially, the late Dinny Mulvihill throwing his cap in the air in exhilaration and pure joy. In later years we would be joined by the great flute player, Donie O’Sullivan of Carrigkerry in West Limerick, and we played every Monday night in Mossie Browne’s Pub in Athea to huge and appreciative crowds.

 

 

 

That was our heyday. We were young, single, carefree and enthusiastic. We played as if our lives depended on it. We were so close musically that we could read each other’s thoughts while we were playing, anticipating our every twist and turn.

 

 

 

Now we’re in our sixties. John Buckley is dead; Donie Lyons is an All Ireland champion traditional singer and an esteemed adjudicator at Fleadhanna Cheoil; Donie O’Sullivan plays with Taylor’s Cross Céilí Band; Tony Dalton, having spent many years playing in Doolin, has retired to his native Athea; Gerard and I do the occasional night for charity at Flynn’s Bar in Knockanure and Máiréad’s Bar in Moyvane. We still get a kick out of playing the old tunes in the old way for, as Paddy (Offaly) O’Brien has pronounced: “There is no new way to play Irish traditional music”.

 

 

 

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Dowlin RIP

 

 

 

On May 10th 2011 a light went out in the cultural and traditional life of North Kerry with the passing of Michael Dowling, Listowel. Michael was a Tarbert native who moved to Derry, Listowel when he married his wife Maureen McCarthy in 1956. He had a deep appreciation for all things Irish; the language, the culture and most especially the music. He gave a lifetime of service to the Listowel branch of Comhaltas Ceoiltóiri Éireann, one of the longest established branches in County Kerry. Michael became chairman of the branch in 1968. The Listowel Branch of CCE is probably best known for hosting 14 All-Ireland Fleadhanna Ceoil between 1970 and 2002. Michael was chief steward for the first Fleadh Cheol in Listowel in 1970 which was a resounding success. He was chairman of the following 13 highly successful Fleadhanna Cheoil. In total he served as Chairperson of the branch for 40 years and served as President up until his passing in 2011. He gave a lifetime of commitment to the organization working tirelessly to promote and preserve the traditions and the music.

 

 

 

Aside from hosting the All-Ireland Fleadh, the branch also took part in many Scoraíocht Competitions as well as Listowel’s annual St. Patrick's Day parade. Michael was St Patrick in the parade for 30 years. He attended the St Patrick Day Parade two months before his passing and despite his illness he enjoyed the day tremendously and maintained his unbroken record of attendance. As chairman of CCE Listowel he was involved in the building of the Seanchaí Centre Listowel and took great pride in its completion. He dedicated himself to the very successful Seisiún Summer Show which began in St. John's Theatre in the 80’s, then moved to the Seanchaí Centre and eventually found a home in the Listowel Arms Hotel. He loved nothing more that to play the role of the fear an ti and to play his bodhran or the spoons, to sing songs and tell a few “yarns”. He loved to make people laugh and had an endless repertoire of stories and recitations which he was always happy to perform. He was even known to take to the floor for some old time sean nos dancing.

 

 

 

In his younger days himself and his wife Maureen, who herself was a beautiful traditional singer, loved to go to the "Irish Nights", to sing and to dance. A night was never complete without dancing a polka set with friends. A dairy farmer by occupation, he was often hampered in his exploits by having to milk the cows first and indeed he told many a funny story about rushed journeys to different Fleadhanna, concerts and competitions and the fun and craic that was had. There was a constant stream of visitors to our home among whom were talented musicians, singers and dancers, friends all, united by a love for the traditional music, song and dance. There was many an impromptu session and as children we were oblivious to the high profile of some of the visitors. Looking back now it is fair to say that some of the giants of the traditional music scene both nationally and locally performed in our kitchen. Maureen would make the tea and both body and soul would be satisfied.

 

 

 

Each year Michael organized a group of Wrenboys to go on the wren on St Stephens Day and collect for charity. Many of these wonderful people have also passed away but their names are well remembered by many in North Kerry for their dedication to the preservation of Irish music, culture, and tradition. Every September Michael organized the All Ireland Wrenboy Competition during Listowel Harvest Festival. He was the man who kept the audience entertained between the groups, singing "The Boys from Bar Na Sraide" or a humorous recitation or a few “yarns”. After his death a treasure trove of old envelopes with yarns handwritten on the back of them was discovered in his many different coats, all well worn from use but well preserved for the next outing.

 

 

 

Michael will be remembered by many for his highly infectious  hearty laugh that filled the room with joy. He will also be remembered by those who worked with him on committees, as a patient even-tempered, calm and hardworking person . He had a way of getting around people and getting things done. At his funeral, the Director General of Comhaltas, Senator Labhras O Murchu in a beautiful eulogy summed up the man well when he said that "not alone was Michael there to do the organizing but he was also there to do the clean up". A true leader and one who would never ask someone to do something he wouldn't do himself.

 

 

 

Sadly Michael’s passing has left a huge gap in all our lives and especially in the CCE family in listowel. So closes the book on a life well lived and as we celebrate this year the return of a Munster Fleadh to Listowel we remember Michael Dowling and the many others like him who are no longer with us but whose hard work and dedication has kept traditional Irish music, song and dance alive. No doubt they will be with us in spirit in July and the music will evoke in all of us the fondest of memories of those who have gone before. “Michael Dowling’s Reel”, composed and crafted by the Listowel native and wonderful fiddle player James Duggan, will hopefully play out as a celebration of all who served Irish music and tradition so well and for so long.   Ar dheis De go raibh a n-anama.

 

From

 

http://www.kerrycomhaltas.ie/contentPage/10012943/michael_dowling_r_i_p

 

Patrick (Paddy) FINUCANE, son of William (Bill) FINUCANE and Mary Anne (Mainanne) O'CONNOR, in 1920 in Listowel Church, Co. Kerry. Patrick was born on 5 Dec 1899 in Clounprohus, Moyvane, Co. Kerry. He died on 10 Apr 1984 in Listowel, Co. Kerry. He was buried in Listowel, Co. Kerry.

 

  Paddy was elected to Kerry County Council in 1942, and in 1943 he was elected as TD (Teachta Dála, meaning member of parliament) for Clann na Talún (the Farmers' Party). At a later stage he was elected to the Dáil as an Independent TD. He was never defeated at election time, and in 1969 he retired after 26 years in the Dáil. His main achievement as a TD was the implementation of the Brick and Cashen drainage scheme which proved vital in the prevention of flooding in north Kerry.

 

 

 

    During World War II, Paddy played a role in bringing evacuated German children to North Kerry. These children would stay initially in Glencree, Co. Wicklow from where they would be sent to live with Irish families for the duration of the war. Paddy found homes for over twenty of these children in North Kerry. Two of the children lived with Paddy and his family, and one lived with Paddy's brother Jack and his family in Clounprohus, Moyvane. The children attended the local schools and even learned Irish. 

 

http://www.helensfamilytrees.com/ha2g04.htm

 

April 11, 2016 at 8:16 pm from Moyvane.com

 

John Roche-Randall

 

 My father, Patrick Robert Roche, was born in Moyvane North on March 22, 1902. I am looking for any relatives that may still reside in Moyvane, as my wife, brother and I will be traveling to Ireland from Sep 1-11, this year and would love to meet up with them. Any help would be appreciated.

MOYVANE Information

WAR ; Speech of Mr M J Nolan at meeting in Tralee to relieve distress because of war, reported in Kerry Weekly Reporter 26-9 1914 P10. Speech of Mr M J Nolan, Chairman of meeting in Tralee to relieve distress.  Chairman said the met to discharge a twofold duty one of mercy and charity, the other a debt of honour to the wives and families of those who were fighting our battles against would be rulers and oppressors of not only England and Ireland, but of Europe. The Kaiser seemed determined to plant his iron heel not only on France and Belgium but also on England; and although we Irish had some old complaints against England which thank God are about to be remied. There was no use in thinking about or reopening old sores. Now that Home Rule is practically law. They were of a necessity called upon to protect themselves, their duty was now quite plain, they were bound to support England as far as they possibly could. They may in the past find serious reason to find fault with the English government, but for some time that has been altered and in the future when they had the management of their own affairs it would be their own fault if the laws were administered to their own satisfaction’ There is one regiment at the front, the Munster Fusiliers which is made up of their friends, relatives and neighbours and certainly after the glory they have won for themselves and for Ireland, they were not going to forget their wives and families. Some of these brave men  who went out full of heart and hope would alas never return others will come back maimed  and unable to support either themselves or their families and it was their duty to see that dependants would at least not want of necessities of life. There was one outrageous act which the Germans perpetrated without any justification, namely the burning of Louvain, which should stir up every Irishman to look for revenge. Louvain was dear to Ireland and the Irish hearts, as many of Irelands sons received their education there; and the burning of the noble university and library, with its priceless and valuable books; would he was sue, stimulate every Irishman to crush the perpetrators of that sacrilegious act.

Under the altered circumstances of affairs he called upon every Kerryman to do his duty to his country and help as best he could to crush German tyranny and spoliation. It was their duty to appoint a committee to help  to relieve any distress which might arise in consequence of the war. Mrs Fitzgerald said there is a committee at present appointed in Tralee, she also said that committees also existed in Killarney, Listowel and Dingle.

WAR !

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/06/world/feat-wwi-graffiti-found/

Gusky has noted 1,821 names of soldiers in a mine. About 40% are Australian, with most of the others identified as British. Fifty-five are Americans, and 662 have yet to be traced.

 

 

TONY OCONNOR

http://www.whitetreestudio.ie/

Tony O Connor artist and  Moyvane man

Tony studied Fine Art at Crawford College of Art & Design, also gaining his Higher Diploma in Art Education. Presently, Tony works at  his Cork-based White Tree Studio.

Tony received  two awards through the  Ex Arte Equinus International Art Competition.  Tony was also awarded Best Creative Equestrian 2013 in the Equestrian Social Media Awards (ESMAs) & Best Creative Equestrian 2014 - this time winning both the Judges’ Choice & People’s Choice.

Pre-arranged visits to White Tree Studio are more than welcome! Simply get in touch to organise a date & time.   White Tree Studio,  2nd Floor, Former Government Buildings,  Sullivan's Quay  Cork.

 

Billy O'Connell hails from our very own Lixnaw. He now lives in Huntingdon Beach in California. He is in the news because he has been recently elected to public office.

Billy O'Connell is the Founder and current Executive Director of Colette's Children's Home, an emergency shelter and transitional housing program for homeless women and women with children. Founded in 1998, Colette’s provides a safe home and nurturing environment where women and children receive the supportive services necessary to gain independence. Colette's is a hand up, not a hand out. Under Billy's dedicated leadership, Colette's has housed and served over 3,000 women and children helping them break the vicious cycle of homelessness.

 

http://www.ladiesgaelic.ie/news/newnews3851.html

Munster Junior Ladies Quarter Final Replay

 

Moyle Rovers 2-9 Listowel Emmetts 2-5

 

 

 

 

 

Listowel Team

 

 

Katie Wall,Rachel Stapleton,Rachel Keane,Heather O’Rourke(1-0),Rebbeca Stapleton,Mary Beades,Megan Galvin,Amanda O’Donnell,Breda Lane(0-1),Aoife Hannon,Aoife Gallagher,Norma O’Sullivan,Aoife Dilliane,Miriam O’Keefe(0-1),Laura Lavery(0-3)Subs: Caoimhe O’Sullivan (1-0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello, Jer!
I came across the following two entries on Ancestry.com in the Chicago
Irish Families database. Do you have any information on either of them?

1) Windle, James Husband of Nora (nee Dougherty), father of Harry Windle,
brother of Henry and Timothy, native of Newtown Fands [Newtownsands], Co.
Kerry. Funeral from his late residence, 3600 Union ave. to Nativity Church
thence to Mt. Olivet cemetery. --April 28, 1903 (1)

2) McAuliff, Lawrence At 625 W. 43rd st., husband of the late Ellen (nee
Curtin), brother of Patrick, John, Timothy, Michael, and Bridget, Mrs.
Catherine Dore, and Mrs. William Joyce, Mrs. Mary Dougherty. Native of
Knockshure [poss Knockanure], Co. Kerry. Funeral from St. Gabriel's church
to Mt. Olivet cemetery. --Oct. 7, 1902 (1) [note: thus, Mrs. Mary Dougherty
would have a maiden name of McAuliffe].


Collected by Lewis C1830

MURHIR, a parish, in the barony of IRAGHTICONNOR, county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER, 4 1/2 miles (S.) from Tarbert; containing 2978 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the river Gale, and on the confines of the county of Limerick; it comprises 7664 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, consisting chiefly of coarse "pasture land; there is a large portion of bog, also some arable land, producing tolerable corn crops. It chiefly belongs to Trinity College, Dublin. The principal residence is Moyvane, the property of Baron Foster, now occupied by Mr. Enright. The parish is in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe; the rectory is impropriate in Anthony Stoughton, Esq., and the vicarage forms part of the union of Aghavallin. The tithes amount to £143. 1. 7., of which £95. 7. 8. is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Newtown-Sandes, a village in this parish, (which see), where the chapel is situated.

From The Constitution or Cork Morning Post, 14 August 1822 -

Tralee, County Kerry
CONVICTIONS
Since the commencement of our Assizes

Michael Foley, Mathew Sullivan, Timothy Healy, and
Arthur O'Leary, for murder of Mr. Brereton, to be hanged
were executed this day.
Owen Sullivan, Lawrence Sullivan, and Cornelius Casey,
administering unlawful oaths, to be transported for life.
John Currane, sheep stealing, to be transported for life.
Mary Taugney, Larceny, no sentence.
Michael M'Mahon, tried for the murder of Edmond
Fitzgerald at Listowell, guilty of manslaughter, to be
transported for life.
Patrick Sullivan, and Denis Sullivan, administering unlawful
oaths, to be transported for life.
William Coffee, sheep stealing, like sentence.
Thomas Rourke, burglary, to be hanged, day not
mentioned.
William Shea, Goat stealing, no sentence.
James Mahony, Cow stealing, to be transported.
James Casey, Michael Hennessy, William Moore, and
Honora Moore, the prisoners were put on their trial for the
murder of Elizabeth Kelly, and the Prisoner Casey applied to
have the trial postponed until the next Assizes, on account of
the absence of material witnesses, grounded on an affidavit
sworn yesterday. Mr. Lloyd, Counsel for the Crown
opposing the application stated that the names of the
witnesses having been communicated to the Crown Solicitor
last night, he sent a carriage to the residence of the witnesses
and they were brought to town this morning, and were then
in attendance.
The prisoners said they had no money to fee Counsel or
Attorney, and the Court asked if there would be any
inconvenience in postponing the trial till the next Assizes, the
Counsel for the Crown, replied that there would probably be
a failure of justice, but that to avoid all objection the Crown
Solicitor would supply the prisoners with money to have
professional assistance, and this being answered the trial was
fixed for Monday next. William Moore who is deaf and
dumb was then put to plead, and a witness having been
examined to prove that he did not stand mute from
obstinacy, but by the conviction of GOD, and that he
understood signs, the nature of the charge was
communicated to him, and the Clerk of the Crown was
directed by the Court to record a plea of not guilty for him.

 

 

James Francis Moore Stack
December 21, 1889 - August 20, 1961

As mentioned, the Moore Stack branch began with the marriage of Patrick Stack of Cork to Hannah Moore whose father was Nicholas Moore, land agent for the Knight of Kerry and residing on the estate at Ballinruddery. The Moore Stack family alternated between Cork, where Patrick was a butter merchant, and Listowel, closer to Hannah's family. It is reported that they had 5 sons and 3 daughters, but there is background on just three - Nicholas Moore and Henry Moore, born in Listowel in 1798 and 1799 respectively, and Mary, born in Cork in 1802. (Apparently only males deserved the matronymic) After Patrick's death in 1808 the family resided in Listowel.

Nicholas became and actor and trod the boards far and wide, including here in the U.S. before settling down and teaching elocution in Irish and English academies. Mary was a nun and rose to become Mother Mary Augustine Stack of the Presentation Convent in Listowel. Henry Moore, (b.1799, d. ?) was a banker in Cork, but also lived in the United States for a time in New York before returning to Ireland where he married Anne Browne in 1841. Their only child, William Moore Stack (b.1842, d.1899) was born the following year in Carrueragh, Knockanure.

William Moore Stack settled in Tralee, Co. Kerry, where he was a barrister's clerk by profession, and a fervent member of the Fenians, the primary Irish freedom movement of the 19th century. The Moore Stack as he is known, despite his spending considerable time in prison for his revolutionary activities, was a highly prolific man. He married twice, first to Bridget Stack (a distant relative), by whom he had at least 3 children, Mary (Ciss) Moore Stack, John Henry Moore Stack, and Louis Moore Stack.

After Bridget's death, on October 28, 1877, The Moore Stack married Nannette (Nannie) O'Neill of Donnybrook, with whom he had 8 children, Austin, Bridget (Bea), Nannette, Teresa, Nora, Josephine, Nicholas and James. Six of these children emigrated to the United States to join their half-brother John and half-sister Mary, with all but Jo making it their permanent home. For our purposes here, the youngest of these children, James Frances Moore Stack, born in 1889, will be the focus of our family story.

Jim Stack's childhood was reportedly a difficult one. After seven previous children, his mother Nannette died of childbed fever shortly after his birth. His father, The Moore Stack, who reportedly was in jail at the time, was so distraught over the loss of his second wife he never spoke directly to Jim in the boy's life. In fact it was said by Jim's sisters that their father never even spoke Jim's name, referring to him simply as "the boy." The eldest of these sisters, Bea, was mother to Jim and to the others as they grew up. It was only after many had emigrated that Bea herself left Ireland to come to America.

 

The other important influence on young Jim growing up was that of his eldest brother Austin, who early on emulated their father and became an activist in Irish freedom movements, including the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a forerunner of the Irish Republican Army. Austin Augustine Mary Stack was Commandant of the Kerry Brigade of the IRA during the Easter Week Uprising in 1916, and was arrested along with Roger Casement when the ill fated arms ship Aud went astray. Today there is a sports facility, Austin Stack Park, in Tralee named in his honor.

By the time of the 1916 Rising Jim had long since left Ireland. The exact date and circumstances of his arrival here are not known, but in a September 6, 1918 letter to Austin from Dublin he mentions "having had 11 years of city life" so it appears to have been around 1907. Family tradition has it that he entered the country without papers. In the United States he obtained work through his half brother John Henry Moore Stack of Philadelphia. That city was for many years the center of the American branch of the Moore Stack's. Living in the area, in addition to John was his sister Mary (Ciss), also half sibling to Jim, and five of Jim's full sisters, Nannette and Theresa Galligan (the two sisters married brothers), Nora Bushong, and two maiden sisters, Bea and Jo Stack.

Jim's work here in America consisted of selling buttons and bows up and down the east coast and he was, reportedly, a "traveling salesman" in the picturesque sense, with many a ladyfriend. He was more though. In later years it came out that he was an intelligence officer in the IRA, operating underground here to the extent that the FBI saw him as a potential danger, and kept an eye on him for many years to come.

While the details of much of Jim's life here are not known, several facts have come to light from correspondence. He returned to Ireland in 1918, reportedly stoking coal to gain passage on an AEF troop ship, and using a brother-in-law's U.S. passport. While he longed for the Kerry air, under orders from Austin, who at the time was in a Belfast prison, for a time he stayed in Dublin with a family named Dixon. Other correspondence by his sister Bea to Austin indicates that back here in the U.S. he left a serious romantic relationship, Agatha by name, who died of consumption shortly thereafter.

 

Hi to all on the list. I have just not long joined and I would like to post
a message in hopes that someone can help me. I have a letter which was
dated 11 April 1892 CLONLEHARD The context was that grandfather ( Patrick
KIELY) died the 21st. August 1891 and his funeral went to KNOCKANURE he had
a hearse to take him there and a fine oak coffin etc, etc, I don't know
where this Cemetery is in relation to Knockanure or what. I managed to get a
picture of the are a on the internet but I am still in the "dark" as to whre
it is. Also another area was mentioned in the letter GLENDRAUGH. Where is
this place. I have a name of the family that lived in this place JAMES
DALTON he married Margaret K KIELY who is/ was the daughter of the person
who is buried at KNOCKANURE.
If there is someone out there who may be able to help me I would be very
pleased. Thankyou for any help

First Name: Margaret Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: British, Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland Date of Arrival: Nov 12, 1920 Age at Arrival: 29y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Baltic Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0012

First Name: Margaret Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: British, Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Ireland Date of Arrival: Nov 12, 1920 Age at Arrival: 34y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0030

First Name: Mary Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: British, Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Ireland Date of Arrival: Sep 24, 1913 Age at Arrival: 19y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Oceanic Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0019


First Name: Nora Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: British, Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Ireland Date of Arrival: Sep 28, 1912 Age at Arrival: 33y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Cedric Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0018

First Name: Nora Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: British, Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Ireland Date of Arrival: Sep 28, 1912 Age at Arrival: 40y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Cedric Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0013

First Name: Annie Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: British, Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Ireland Date of Arrival: Oct 29, 1908 Age at Arrival: 24y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Adriatic Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0010


First Name: J. Martin Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: Gt. Brit., Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Ireland Date of Arrival: Jun 12, 1923 Age at Arrival: 23y Gender: M Marital Status: Ship of Travel: City of Sparta Port of Departure: India Manifest Line Number: 0001

First Name: Edmond Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: British-Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Ireland Date of Arrival: May 30, 1912 Age at Arrival: 25y Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Majestic (1890) Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0018

First Name: Patrick Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: Irish Last Place of Residence: Listowel Date of Arrival: May 25, 1901 Age at Arrival: 27y Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Lucania Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0008


First Name: Eward Last Name: Kennelly Ethnicity: Grt Brit Irish English Last Place of Residence: Listowel, Ireland Date of Arrival: Mar 19, 1902 Age at Arrival: 19y Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Teutonic Port of Departure: Liverpool Manifest Line Number: 0015

 

Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony
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Pierce[1] Charles de Lacy O'Mahony (June 9, 1850 - October 31, 1930), known up to 1901 as Pierce Mahony, and from 1912 also as The O'Mahony of Kerry,[2] was an Irish Protestant nationalist philanthropist, politician and MP, in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He practised as a barrister from 1898 to 1900. He was remarkable in having had successively three names, two wives and three faiths. He was honoured by the Kings of two opposing countries in the Great War. He should not be confused with his grandfather Pierce Mahony (1792-1853), a close associate of Daniel O'Connell, who was elected as MP for Kinsale in 1837 but unseated on petition; or with his son Pierce Gun Mahony (1878-1914).

[edit] Early life
Born in Dublin to a Church of Ireland family, Mahony was the only surviving son of Peirce Kenifeck Mahony of Kilmorna, Duagh, Co. Kerry, and of Jane, daughter of Robert Gun Cuninghame, D.L., of Mount Kennedy, Co. Wicklow. His father died shortly after he was born. When he was six his mother married Col. William Henry Vicars, and the family moved to Leamington, Warwickshire. Mahony was educated at Rugby School and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he did not take a degree, but established an Irish Home Rule club and formed a friendship with his later Parliamentary colleague J. G. Swift MacNeill. Mahony went on to the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, where he won the Haygarth Gold Medal in 1875. In 1877 he married Helen Louise, only daughter of Maurice Collis, a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She died in 1899 and in 1901 he married a first cousin, Alice Johnstone, who died in her turn in 1906. In 1913, his son Dermot O'Mahony married Grace Hill.

Mahony was an Assistant Land Commissioner 1881-84, a magistrate in Co. Kerry and Co. Limerick, Poor Law Guardian at Listowel, a member of the Roads and Piers Commission under the Relief of Distress Act 1886, and a member of the Royal Commission on Market Rights and Tolls.

[edit] Irish nationalism
He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for North Meath in the July 1886 general election. When the Irish Parliamentary Party split over Parnell's leadership in 1890, Mahony was one of the four Protestant MPs who supported Parnell. He remained close to Parnell, entertaining him in Kerry shortly before he died.[3] At the general election of 1892, he was defeated in North Meath by the prominent land campaigner Michael Davitt, who had taken a particularly strong and clericalist line against Parnell from early in the crisis, by 54% to 46%. This general election was characterised by ferocious hostility to the Parnellites on the part of the Catholic Church. Mahony successfully petitioned the courts to set aside the result on the basis of clerical intimidation of the voters. In the re-run election in February 1893, Davitt did not stand, having been elected unopposed to a vacancy at Cork North East. However clerical Anti-Parnellite influence continued to be strong. The Times reported that ‘the priests...swarmed at all the polling stations, and kept the voters constantly in view'.[4] Mahony again lost, by the fractionally smaller margin of 53% to 47%.

Mahony remained active in the Nationalist movement, and made three further unsuccessful attempts to return to Parliament. He stood as Parnellite candidate for Dublin St Stephen's Green at a by-election in September 1895 but failed to unseat the Liberal Unionist member, William Kenny. He contested another by-election, for Dublin Harbour, in 1915 but came well short of election with 24% of the vote. In the general election of 1918 he fought West Wicklow for the Irish Parliamentary Party but lost to the Sinn Féin candidate Robert Barton by the particularly wide margin of more than four to one.

[edit] Later career
In 1898 Mahony was called to the Irish bar, and subsequently practised as a barrister. In 1900 he inherited an estate from an uncle and thereafter did not need paid work, instead devoting himself to philanthropy. In 1903 O'Mahony travelled to Bulgaria to undertake relief work among orphans who had fled from Turkish massacres, and in 1904 opened St Patrick's Orphanage in Sofia. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he unsuccessfully tried to prevent Bulgaria entering alliance with Germany, and after the war argued for Bulgaria to be exempted from war reparations. On Jan 20, 1915, he was awarded the Order of Civil Merit by Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.

In 1913, O'Mahony supported the workers led by James Larkin in the Dublin Lockout. During the First World War he served as a member of the Irish Recruiting Council for Irish regiments. For this work he was awarded a C.B.E. in 1920, but declined it. Later in the year and resigned as Deputy Lieutenant of County Wicklow and as a magistrate in protest against British policy in the Irish War of Independence then in progress.

While in Bulgaria, O'Mahony had joined the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, but he remained also a member of the Church of Ireland until 1927 when a new Rector forced him to choose between the religions. He then became a Catholic, in 1929, the year before his death.

His son Dermot O'Mahony (1881-1960) was a Cumann na nGaedhael member of the Dáil of the Irish Free State for County Wicklow in 1927-38.

 

IRISH Deserters in New Zealand.

John Danaher Rathkeale, was in Otengo 1863; John Daly Killarney a waiter wasat Bay Islands 1856; George Pickford was at Napier 1855; John Dunden was at Auckland in 1862;


Canada Company remittances 1844.

Tom O ConnorToronto £1-17-6 to his brother John O Connor Island Macloughra. P.O. Listowel

1843 remittances John McEllistrum to Mrs Julia McEllistrum of Tralee; John O Connor of Toronto to Mrs Ellen O Connor his mother Listowel, townland Island.

Free Settlers NSW 1832.
Kerry: Maurice Joy Ship Mangles 1826;
Margaret Sullivan Kelmore Kerry known to Oliver Mason J.P. near Tralee and to Maurice Fitzmaurice J.P. of Springmount near Listowel.

1828 list John Sheehy wife Hanora Carroll of Ballylongford.


Edward Kenny born Kilmoyley 1800 went to Halifax 1824, became a merchant and later became Mayor of the City in 1842.

The Listowel Ballybunion Railway opened on 1st March 1888; it ran the ten miles between the two towns and was remarkable because it was the first monorailway in the world. How two small towns in the south west of Ireland came to be linked by the world's first monorail is a fascinating story.

The monorail employed on the Listowel-Ballybunion line was invented and developed by a French Engineer by the name of Charles Lartigue, hence the name Lartigue Monorailway by which the line was best known. Lartigue had built a prototype monorail in Algeria, it was about 90Km in length and was used to carry esparto grass across the desert. The cargo was carried in pannier-like wagons slung on either side of a single rail, which was itself mounted on A-shaped trestles. The wagons were connected to bogies whose wheels ran along the rail. Lartigue is reputed to have got the inspiration for this design from watching camels serenely carrying large loads in panniers balanced either side of their backs. There is no doubt that the single raised rail was a distinct advantage in the desert where shifting sands would have made a conventional rail line virtually unusable.

In 1886 Lartigue brought a length of his line to an exhibition in London in the hope of selling his idea as a viable railway option. Coincidentally at this time the populace of North Kerry were lobbying for the railway system to be extended to include a link between Listowel and Ballybunion. This request was at that time lying on a minister's desk in Westminster, the rest as they say is history. It was decided that the Lartigue idea would be tried out on the Listowel-Ballybunion Railway.

The Listowel-Ballybunion Railway was opened in 1888 at a cost of £30,000 and it ran for 36 years until it was closed in 1924. The closure was hastened by the severe damage that was inflicted on the line during the civil war of 1921-23. The line was only barely financially viable for the whole of its existence, it is reputed never to have made a profit. The train carried freight, cattle, sand from the beaches and passengers. Among the passengers were Ballybunion school children going to the Listowel Secondary Schools, Kerry and Limerick people making their way to the beach resort of Ballybunion and golfers going to the fledgling golf course at Ballybunion which was to develop into one of the greatest golf courses in the world.

http://www.lartiguemonorail.com/Index.htm

 

 

 

Hi Anne, Margaret here from Cheshire, England. O'Connell on my fathers side of family. Grandfather Richard O'Connell (born 1872) Ahalahana (in Murhur) married to Nora Foley (born 1890) Aughrim.

G-grandfather John O'Connell (b.??) married to Mary Collins (b.??) siblings Richard, Daniel, (possibly Ellen, James, Patrick, William) no dates of birth. Have you tried contacting local church Newtown (now known as Moyvane) for baptismal records?

Best of luck Regards Margaret

 

 

a GGG GREAT GRAND AUNT OF MINE WAS MARRIED TO ONE OF THOSE HENNESSEYS. THE HENNESSEYS WERE HUGE LANDOWNERS IN LAHARDAN AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY. I HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION ON THEM AS I AM DOING MY FAMILY TREE AT PRESENT AND I LIVE IN BALLYBUNION....THEY OWNED MOST OF LAHARDAN THEN ......CAN U EXCHANGE SOME INFO WITH ME FIRST? where do u live and what hennessey exactly are you descended from

thanks talk soon

 

 

 

GOLDEN: y great great grandfather John William Golden came to the USA about 1849. One of his sons, Jeremiah was my great grandfather. His obituary says he was born in knockanure Kerry Co Ireland. He married Mary Adams, daughter of Patrick Adams and Catherine Stack, all from Kerry.

 

 

 

I just found this website and would like to find anything I can about my Irish ancestors.

 

 

 

One story that has come down in our family concerns the Golden’s arriving in New York City. In all the confusion they looked around and couldn't find one of the smaller children. A little boy who was never seen again.

 

 

 

My mother remembers her grandmother Mary Adams telling about the waves washing on the deck of the ship they came over on and how frightened she was.

 

 

 

I would like to find any information I can about he area my family came from. Did they leave any traces behind?

 

 

 

Sam Wright

 

Samiam1939

 

Friday 14th June 2013, 06:28PM

 

http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland/kerry/knockanure/message-board/looking-goldens

 

 

 

 

 

O'Connell

 

 

 

In Knockanure graveyard there is a Flagstone with the inscription;

 

 

 

Erected by the Very Rev. James Hennessy O'Connell, PP Melbourne, Australia

 

to the memory of his grandfather Edward O'Connell and his father James O'Connell, died June 3 1868,

 

who was also father of Chevalier Michael O'Connell, Knight of Pope Pius IX, died July 1864

 

and Sister Mary Brendan O'Connell, died Nov 4 1904, Presentation Convent Listowel RIP.

 

 

 

This is the resting place of Edward O'Connell of Gale Parish, husband of Fanny Wall of Kilnaughtin Parish. Rev. James Hennessy O'Connell was born in 1844 in Lahardane Townland to James O'Connell and Anna

 

Pope Hennessy, ordained, and emigrated to Australia in 1868. At Sister Mary Brendan O'Connell's funeral the following Cousins were present;

 

 

 

Mr T Kissane Lacca; (Thomas Kissane b.1837, Lacka West. Nephew of Morgan O'Connell)

 

M Byrnes Inch; (Michael Byrnes b.c.1827, Inch West near Ballyegan)

 

Mr and Mrs Maurice Keane Main Street, Listowel;

 

J O'Connor Coolkeragh; (John O'Connor b.1838, Coolkeragh. Son of Mary O'Connell)

 

Mr and Mrs W. Keane Ballygrennan;

 

Mrs O'Connor Lisselton;( Mary O'Connors mother, Mary O'Connor had an uncle a bishop)

 

Miss Keane Lisselton;

 

Maria Kissane Lacca; (Maria O'Connell b.1860 married Michael Kissane of Lacca. Her parents were Michael O'Connell and Julia Stack of Causeway)

 

Mrs O'Shea Tullamore;

 

P. Grady, Glouria,( Glin...Theresa says the Gradys are related to her Dillanes through the Connells) Lisselton;

 

Mrs Murphy, Cool Ballylongford; (Julia Enright b.1846 married Edmund Murphy, Ballylongford)

 

Miss Fitzgerald Greenville, Listowel.

 

Mrs Cremins nee Hennessy, Glin;

 

Mr E Hennessy, Lahard.

 

 

 

 

 

Sean O'Connell

 

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