Listowel Thread

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FLOODS
THE FLOODS IN CORK, (From the Cork Reporter.) The appearance presented by the city this (Thursday) morning was of the most melancholy character-the streets at most parts were completely torn up; and Great George's- Street seemed more like the dried up course of a mountain current.
05 November 1853 - Freeman's Journal - Dublin, Dublin,

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 150, 22 December 1945
FLOODING IN CORK HEAVY DAMAGE CAUSED
Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 21.1945, The worst floods Cork City has experienced for 50 years destroyed thousands of pounds' worth of goods, most of which are irreplaceable. The entire centre of the city and the principal shopping districts are flooded to a depth of two to four feet at high tide and for two hours afterwards.

Grey River Argus , 20 January 1913
NEWS OF THE WORLD
STORM-SWEPT PORT. ATLANTIC LINERS DELAYED. SHIPPING BADLY KNOCKED ABOUT. DAMAGE BY FLOODS. , Queenstown, in Cork harbour, the Irish port ,of call for the American mail boats, was swept by a hurricane to-day. The storm raged with such fierceness that none of the big Atlantic liners would risk an attempt to enter the port. The storm' is described as the worst on record. It extended the entire length of the southern coast, and all the largest steamers that were caught in it were badly knocked about.- In the neighbourhood of Cork the country was inundated the abnormally high tide, in conjunction with a great fall of rain, choking the sewers on the higher levels and causing floods. Stores and residences of the poorer classes were invaded by-the flood waters, which also- tore up a number of the principal streets, which had only recently been paved, with wood blocks.

18 July 1889 Mercury and Weekly Courier Vic.


SOME FAMOUS FLOODS. From the town of Inverness, in the High lands of Scotland, we have a report, on the 25th January, 1849, of another serious-flood. This inundation is said to have been caused mainly by an unprecedented accumulation of water in Loch Ness, and partly by the bank of the Caledonian Canal giving way at Dockgarrock Loch. The account proceeds: " The river Ness came down with alarming force, spreading desolation along its course, and sweeping away the old stone bridge which had withstood the floods of a century and a-half. A great many streets of the town on both side of the river were sub merged, and the inhabitants, to the number of about 500, escaped with difficulty in open boats. A number of small bridges at Glen moriston and Glengarry, were also carried away." On the 2nd November, 1853, we read of disastrous floods in Cork, St. Patrick's bridge, over the Lee, being swept' away with all the people on it at the moment. On the 7th October, 1847, we have reports of a flood in the river Tay, which inundated a portion of the city of Perth, and com mitted considerable damage along the course the river. One of the most appalling floods on record is reported from France, under date of 30th May, 1856. From Paris to Lyons large tracts of land were laid under water. " Roads and railways were rendered impassable. Human bodies, cattle, furniture, and agricultural produce were borne along the flood, and the- streets of many towns were only passable in boats. ,When the Emperor visited Lyons, he had to give, up his horse, and was rowed from place to place. At the Orleans railway station the water reached the fourth story, and at Tours it was ten feet deep. At Angiers the immense slate quarries were inundated, and 10,000 men thrown out of employment. Public subscriptions for the sufferers from the floods were set on foot in all directions, one raised in England amounting to £46,000.

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Photo of the damage done to the millennium arch after todays storm. Crazy!

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MAGNETISM: LONDON, June 16. 1893.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/25659591?searchTerm=kennelly%20Ireland&searchLimits=

German theorists claimed recently that magnetism increased the resistance to conduction in motor nerves and caused paralysis. To test this theory Mr. A. C. Kennelly, of the Edison laboratory, and Dr. Frederick Peterson, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, made some very interesting experiments, and their report to the American Electro-Therapeutic Association embodying the results of these experiments, which seem to have been very exhaustive, is against the German scientists. According to the Americans electro-magnetism has no influence upon the human body, or upon goats, dogs, or frogs. In the case of live frogs no influence of the magnet on blood cells or the movement of the blood could be found, and when a small dog was placed in a cylinder between large field magnets and kept there for five hours under the influence of a strong magnetic current, the animal when released betrayed none of the symptoms he should have exhibited according to the German theory. He came out, in fact, just as lively as he went in. Then a boy was placed between the magnets and a magnetic current turned on. The current was strong enough to balance a heavy bolt in the air, and to contract wires of iron, and to hold chains co firmly that it required the efforts of several men to detach them, yet it had no visible effect on the lad. Finally the experimenters themselves took turns in lying down upon a board placed between the poles of a huge magnet with the current alternately turned on and off. One observer held the wrist of each subject and took sphygmograpbic tracings of the pulse, another observer noted the respiration, and a third turned the current on and off. The result of a long series of tests caused the experimenters to conclude that the human organisation is in no way affected by the most powerful magnets known, and that the brain and nerves get no sensations or impulses from the magneto. They seem to think it possible, however, that some day magnets may be invented where the number of reversals to the second are high enough and the force strong enough to produce effects on the nervous system.

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6th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY 16th FEB. 2014
ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL

PARISH OFFICE is open Mon–Fri from 10am–5pm (excluding 1pm–2pm).
Canon Declan O’Connor P.P. Phone: 068 21188 / Parish Mobile: 087 0908949 (strictly for emergencies only).
Email: listowel@dioceseofkerry.ie. Notices for Parish Newsletter have to be in by 2.00pm on Thursdays. Funerals take place on weekdays at 11.30am and Sundays and Holy Days at 11.00am. Baptisms are at pre-arranged times and must be booked through the Parish Office. Confessions: every Saturday after 10.30am Mass. Check out our web page and all Diocesan news on: www.dioceseofkerry.ie

RECENT DEATHS: Bridie Mulvihill (nee Broderick), Coilbee.
Bridie Walsh (nee Ross), Convent St.
Cecilia Doyle (nee Chute), Lartigue Village.
Noreen McGrath ( nee Shine), Cahirdown.
Patrick Foran (Senior), Bedford, late of Shrounown, Tullamore.

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE John Joe Carey, Rathea & Wales.


MASSES THIS WEEK
Saturday
15th Paudie Horan, Cherry Tree Drive, Months Mind /
Robert McElligott, Convent St. /
Sarah Clancy, St. Brendan’s Tce. /
William McMahon, Gortaglanna, Kilmorna /
Ian McCarthy, Derrindaff, Duagh Vigil
Sunday
16th Bryan, Kitty & Gary McMahon & Deceased Family, Church St 9.00am
Jack Carmody, William St, 1st Anniversary /
Jack Nolan, Avation Drive 11.00am
Monday 17th Maureen Lyons, Ballybunion & Clounmacon 1st Anniversary 10.30am
Tuesday 18th Elizabeth Barrett, Golf View, Birthday Remembrance /
John O Halloran, The Meadows, Birthday Remembrance /
Dave Barry, Woodlawn 10.30am
Wed. 19th Eily O Donoghue, died in London late of Dirha East Recently Deceased & Lizzie McWeeney , Recently Deceased 10.30am
Thur. 20th Peggy Hartnett, Ennismore 10.30am
Friday 21st Daniel & Catherine Flaherty, Cahirdown 10.30am
Saturday 22nd Agnes Buckley, Denis O Sullivan, Kathleen Daly & Denis B. O’Sullivan, William Street 10.30am
Margaret Enright, Courthouse Lawn, 1st Anniversary /
Patrick & Ellen Lyons, Clieveragh /
John & Peg Gunn, O’Connell’s Ave. /
Lil Horgan, Charles Street /
Mossie Walsh, The Square /
Mary Flavin, Church St. /
Denis & Julia Herlihy, Killarney & Listowel Vigil
Sunday 23rd Ellen, Nell, Molly, Hannah & Anne Maire Enright, Ballyhadigue /
Hannah & Joseph Walsh, Church Street 9.00am
John Holly, O’Connell’s Ave. & Paddy (Hoe) Roche, Ballybunion Rd. 11.00am

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on Sunday, 16th, Fr. Lucid 087-9283336.

6th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY 16th FEB.

CHURCH NOTICES

PROPOSED RENOVATION TO ST. MARY’S CHURCH FLOOR
The Parish Finance Council wish to bring to your attention, the literature of Mr. Richard McElligott, Architectural Engineer, Lixnaw - on the special Notice Board in front of Our Lady’s Altar - proposing to replace the floor tiles of our church during the month of July of this summer. The floor tiles as you can see have served us well with time, since the mid 60’s when they were last renovated. However they have become worn, unlevel, they are unsightly and now need to be up-dated if only for safety reasons alone. Please view the proposals - and if you have any observations please let us know. Because our church is a listed building we have to keep the floor as close as possible to the way it was built originally. That is why the new tiles will be as similar as possible to the old and will match the tiles in the Sanctuary which are not being touched. We have already made a ‘Request for Section 57 Declaration’ to the Planning and Economic Development Department of Listowel Town Council and permission has been approved by the Kerry Diocesan Property Committee. This is a once in a generation project and now is as good a time as any to do it. It will mean inconvenience during the works as alternative accommodation will have to be sought. When we have more details about the project we will keep you informed. Thank you for your interest in keeping our church as beautiful as it is.

STORM DAMAGE TO ROOF OF CHURCH. The severe storm that took place on Wednesday last did considerable damage to the roof of the church. There are two big holes and many slates missing at the western side of the church. The Presbytery roof has also been damage.
CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES LITURGY COMMITMENT SERVICE: which was cancelled due the weather has been re-scheduled to take place on Wednesday 26th February at 8.00pm. More details later.
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL BINGO LISTOWEL on this Sunday night February 16th has been cancelled due to storm damaged at the Plaza Hall.

COMMUNITY NOTICES
SCOIL RÉALTA NA MAIDINE, Listowel Boys School open Day on Wednesday 19th Feb. 2014 from 11a.m. – 12.15 p.m.. Parents and prospective students are invited to view our school during school hours.
NORTH KERRY BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND Needs a Volunteer to act as secretary for that cause. Contact Noreen 068-21690.
SVDP SENIOR CITIZEN PARTY Sunday 23rd Feb @ 1pm. in the Listowel Arms Hotel. All welcome please contact committee members.
CARERS MONTHLY MEETING Centre takes place on Monday Next February 17 at 12 noon. at Listowel Family Resource Centre.
CONVENT PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLMENT for September 2014 takes place Mon – Wed. Feb. 17th - 19th. Forms available from the School (068) 22294 9am - 3pm. Open day Wed. 19th 2 - 3pm.
LISTOWEL WHEELCHAIR ASSOCIATION Wishes to thank everyone who contributed and help with their recent collection the amount raised was €1,486.00.

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http://irishvolunteers.org/2013/01/noel-lemass/
Had Knocknagoshel Mother ;Dr. J.P. Brennan – Coroner
Joseph Patrick Brennan (10 September 1889 – 4 May 1968) was an Irish Clann na Poblachta politician and medical doctor.
Dr J.P. Brennan, He was born in 1889 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, U.S. He was the son of Patrick Brennan and Julia O’Connor who married in Boston in 1888. He moved back from the US to his mother’s native Knocknagoshel, County Kerry at around the age of six years. His father had received communication from his brothers in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia regarding the Gold Rush and decided to join them in Australia and made his fortune with his brothers in the drapery business. The Brennan Building still stands today in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie. On his father’s return to Ireland in either 1908 or 1912 he brought an estate called Delbrook Park in Dublin.
He was educated at Blackrock College and Rockwell College. He qualified as a doctor in 1917. He married Anne Elizabeth Bulloch in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1914. He entered the British Army in 1917 as a Medical officer serving in Egypt and Turkey.
He returned to Ireland around 1918 and became a General practitioner in Blackrock, County Dublin. He also became Coroner for South County Dublin. Brennan was also involved in the Republican movement sometime in 1918. He was Head of Medical Services during the Irish Civil War. During the civil war, a group of insurgents that included Brennan occupied part of the Gresham Hotel in O’Connell Street and were holding out against the Free State army. Their position became untenable and the group decided to surrender. The surrender was underway but Cathal Brugha refused to surrender himself came out brandishing a revolver and was shot by the Free State troops. Brennan attended his wounds but Brugha died two days later.
He was Vice President of the Irish Christian Front which held its inaugural meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin on 22 August 1936. The Irish Independent invited the formation of a committee to make a decision to support pro-Franco citizens of Spain in their war effort. Support was also given by the Catholic Church.
Brennan was a founding member of Clann na Poblachta. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1948 general election as a Clann na Poblachta Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown constituency.1 He stood as a Labour Party candidate at the 1951 general election but was not re-elected. He also stood unsuccessfully as a Labour Party candidate at the 1954 general election.2
He presided over the International Congress of Catholic Doctors which took place at University College Dublin in 1954. He was President of the Irish Bridge Union in 1955. He was elected as the first President of the Medico Legal Society of Ireland in 1956.
He died in 1968 at the age of 78 and is buried at Deansgrange Cemetery in Dublin.
1 “Mr. Joseph Brennan”. Oireachtas Members Database. 2 “Joseph Brennan”. ElectionsIreland.org.

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http://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=BOSTONSH19080523-01.2.25


Who would have thought, writes Dr. J. C. McWalter in the Dublin Leader, that, in the seventeenth century, a Catholic Kerryman could have become a Professor at Oxford and Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Chief Physician to the King of Poland r Yet, this is the true romantic history of Bernard Connor (1666-1698), as told in the lately published and fascinating history of Dr. John Knott—himself one of the few survivors of that series of scholarly physicians who made the Dublin school famous. Now, that the question of Universities is in the air, it is of added interest to hear the sympathetic account of a cultured Protestant like Dr. Knott of his hero, of whom he says that—" being of the Popish religion, he was not educated regularly in the grammar schools and university of that island ; nevertheless, he had all proper learning given him"; and who managed to find his way to the University of Montpellier at the age of twenty, where he passed through a brilliant medical curriculum ; thence, to Rheims, where he graduated as Doctor of Physic ; thence to Paris, where he rapidly distinguished himself in the practise of the profession of his choice; thence, after a curvilinear course of travel and sojourn through southern and central Europe, to Warsaw, where his previous reputation and personal magnetism so strongly and favourably impressed John Sobieski as to induce that celebrated monarch to request him to accept the office of court physician before he had completed his twenty-eighth year. He was assuredly an individual of whom his countrymen, and more especially those of his own profession, should not allow the memory to fade from their annals. One never tires of hearing of the history of the Irish on the Continent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—how they founded colleges at Salamanca 1 and Paris, at Valladolid and Louvain and Rome,

at Bordeaux and Tournai, but even before the time of Scotus Erigena, their fame as logicians was well established . . . Dr. Knott claims that Ireland educated Alfred the Great, and that it was an Irishman who founded Oxford. " When Alfred the Great felt that the elevation of his Kingdom and subjects depended on the enlightenment of the latter, he acted on the patriotic inspiration, very much as did Peter the Great of Russia, more than eight centuries later; he came over to Ireland to be educated himself, and imported an Irishman who founded England's first University." It is pleasant to think that, amongst the greatest names of the University of Oxford are John Scotus, the Irishman who founded it; Duns Scotus, who was educated there, and John Henry Newman j the Rector of the Irish Catholic University. To these Dr. Knott adds the name of Bernard Connor as "the brilliant young countryman of Scotus Erigena, whom we find delivering a series of special lectures to the English representatives of light and leading." Himself, one of the most distinguished Trinity College men of hi* day, Dr. Knott speaks thus of his hero—" Born and reared in one of the most unhappy localities of an oppressed and distracted country, and brought up in the bosom of a tabooed faith ; excluded from the privilege of a possible university education in his own country, and driven forth to glean in the harvest fields of learning in foreign lands—in all the loneliness of banishment, and bitterness of exclusion from his natural birth right—Bernard Connor had, at an age at which the aristocrat of the rising generation at home had but just exchanged a worthless and fruitless university career for the still more contemptible culture of the stable and the tavern, the hunting-field, the race-course, and the gambling-house—with all the unmentionable etc extra’s thereunto adherent already made himself, by sheer force of perseverance and brilliancy of genius, the intellectual equal of the foremost scientific leaders of his time; and became the trusted medical adviser of some of the most intelligent and critical members of the royalty and nobility of Western Europe during the few short years of his professional career. That he was able to establish such a record in the course of a life-pilgrimage of so brief duration surely offers another brilliant link in the continuous chain of testimony to the fact that Ireland has never, even in the darkest days of her history, been once found wanting in the possession of genius of the brightest and purest luminosity." Of the amazingly great repute of Bernard Connor, who was scarcely more than forty at his death, proof is furnished by the requests Lo him to lecture at London. This he did with such phenomenal success that he was at once elected to the Fellowships of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians, and received a special invitation from the University of Cambridge, asking in the most gushing terms, that the illustrious recipient—whose fame had already dazzled the most critical of his contemporaries, and whose transcendent attainments had fascinated and illuminated the leading intellects of Paris, Germany, Poland, and Belgium—should give the representatives of that institution alto an opportunity of listening to the teacher of whose parts and acquirements they had heard opinions so surpassingly favourable, delivered from all directions and sources. The original preliminary form of this request was contained in a letter which was printed with some of Connor's works in a small volume published two years later ; and, coming as it does from the University of Cambridge, constitutes by itself ample proof of the colossal proportions which the fame of our medical " Exile of Erin " had attained at the early age of twenty-nine.

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ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL Newsletter 23 February 2014

PARISH OFFICE is open Mon–Fri from 10am–5pm (excluding 1pm–2pm).
Canon Declan O’Connor P.P. Phone: 068 21188 / Parish Mobile: 087 0908949 (strictly for emergencies only).
Email: listowel@dioceseofkerry.ie. Notices for Parish Newsletter have to be in by 2.00pm on Thursdays. Funerals take place on weekdays at 11.30am and Sundays and Holy Days at 11.00am. Baptisms are at pre-arranged times and must be booked through the Parish Office. Confessions: every Saturday after 10.30am Mass. Check out our web page and all Diocesan news on: www.dioceseofkerry.ie

RECENT DEATHS: Tom Relihan, Bedford.
Seamus McDermott, Bedford.
Dan Green, Bruach na Gaile, Moyvane & also Church St. Listowel
ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE John Joe Carey, Rathea & Wales, Ned White, Bedford, William O’Carroll, O’Connell’s Ave, Anne O’Sullivan, Charles St, Jimmy Deveraux,


MASSES THIS WEEK
Saturday
22nd Margaret Enright, Courthouse Lawn, 1st Anniversary /
Patrick & Ellen Lyons, Clieveragh /
John & Peg Gunn, O’Connell’s Ave. /
Lil Horgan, Charles Street /
Mossie Walsh, The Square /
Mary Flavin, Church St. /
Denis & Julia Herlihy, Killarney & Listowel Vigil
Sunday
23rd Ellen, Nell, Molly, Hannah & Anne Maire Enright, Ballyhadigue /
Hannah & Joseph Walsh, Church Street 9.00am
John Holly, O’Connell’s Ave. / Paddy Roche, Ballybunion Rd. 11.00am
Monday 24th Mass of thanks given 10.30am
Tuesday 25th Special Intention 10.30am
Wed. 26th Finola Leane, The Square 10.30am
Thur. 27th Ted Keane, Slievecahill 10.30am
Padre Pio Evening Mass 7.00pm
Friday 28th Bridget James & Deceased Family Members, O’Connell’s Ave. /
Paddy Joe & Mary Kelly & Deceased Members of the Kelly & Stack Families, Coolkeragh 10.30am
Saturday 1st Special Intention 10.30am
Nora & Jene Moriarty, Charles Street /
Michael & Mary O Connor, Patrick Street /
Nora & Paddy Carmody, Skehenerin /
Kathleen Whelan, Finuge /
Dan O Sullivan, Skehenerin /
Justin, Damien & Stuart Stack, William St. Vigil
Sunday 2nd Christopher Myles Porter, Fourhane, 1st Anniversary /
Special Intention 9.00am
Michael & Mollie Kissane /
Noreen & Pat Joe Browne, O’Connell’s Ave. 11.00am

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on Sunday, 23rd, Fr .Pat Moore 0876751706.
Lourdes Helpers €1,080.00. May God reward you. Thanks.
7th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY 23rd FEB. 2014

CHURCH NOTICES
CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES LITURGY COMMITMENT SERVICE: which was cancelled due the severe storm has been re-scheduled to take place on Wednesday night next 26th February at 8.00pm. in the church. Mr. Mark Leen, Tralee will be our guest speaker.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY OF THE WORD The next children's liturgy will be held on Saturday March 1st at 7pm Mass. The children's liturgy happens during the mass while the readings are being read. The children will gather before the liturgy of the word and returning during the notices. The leaders will take the children to the meeting room which is located at the side of the church. The actual mass is also transmitted on the screen in this room. The leaders will read the gospel with the children and the parents who wish to accompany them at a level they will understand. They then discuss the meaning of the gospel and do an activity to further help them to reflect on it. It is pitched to suit primary school children.
MASS & ANNOINTING OF THE SICK: will take place at the Community Hospital on Wednesday next (Feb. 26th ) at 2.00 p.m.
FIRST CONFESSIONS: will take place on Thursday next 27th February for An Gael Scoil at 1pm. and Scoil Realta na Maidne at 8.00pm. Both ceremonies are taking place in their schools.
PADRE PIO EVENING MASS: will take place next Thursday evening at 7.00p.m. Beginning with the Rosary followed by mass and Benediction.
THE IRISH CATHOLIC have been informed that the price of printing the paper has increase globally from January 2014 and have already increased the printing costs. As are result the Irish catholic have been forced to make a small increased on the paper from 1st March it will cost. €1.60.
THE SOCIAL GOSPEL OF POPE FRANCIS - Livestream - Tues 25th Feb at 8pm. This live half hour panel discussion will feature Eamonn Meehan (Trocaire) Dr Suzanne Mulligan (Maynooth College) Michelle Murphy (Social Justice Ireland) and John-Mark McCafferty (Society of St Vincent de Paul). Presenter will be Cathal Barry (The Irish Catholic). Watch live at 8pm next Tuesday at www.iCatholic.ie/live or later on demand

COMMUNITY NOTICES
ADVICE FROM AN GARDA SIOCHANA TO PEDESTRIANS Be Safe Be Seen Arrive Alive.
• Wear bright clothing during hours of darkness/consider carrying a torch.
• Where there is no footpath walk facing traffic (on the right).
• Stop and listen before you cross the road.
Please take care on the roads. For free high visibility jackets call to your nearest Garda Station.
THE IRISH CANCER SOCIETY’S FREE VOLUNTEER DELIVERED TRANSPORT SERVICE, Care to Drive, is available to patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment who are attending Kerry General Hospital. For more information contact your healthcare professional at the hospital or call Gail on 01 2310 566.
GAEL SCOIL LIOS TUATHAIL Pub Quiz Friday Feb 28th at Flanagan’s Bar. Registration 9pm. All welcome.
SVP Old Folks Party, at the Listowel Arms Hotel this Sunday 23rd Feb at 12.30. Dinner & Dancing all welcome. Due t the recent storm and server damage to our Plaza Hall and Day Centre. Our Weekly Bingo will be held at The Community Centre, Bridge Road from this Sunday 23rd Feb. until further notice. We apologise to our patrons for this but assure you of the same Bingo and lots of surprises.
LISTOWEL BRANCH KERRY HOSPICE A.G.M. is been held on Tuesday night next 25th February at 7pm. in St. Patrick ‘s Hall. Volunteers always welcome please come along and help this very worthy cause. Thank you to everyone for on going support.
SPAR, MARKET STREET COFFEE MORNING Monday 24th Feb. 2014 from 9.30am to 12pm. All funds raised for St. Vincent de Paul – Listowel Branch.

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Lisselton Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=lisselton

Courior Mail Brisbane 2 March 1942
FATHER FINNERTY DEAD

The Rev. Father Patrick Finnerty , 60, parish priest of Esk, died at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital yesterday after a brief illness. Father Finnerty was born at Lisselton, County Kerry, Ireland. After his secondary education he studied in France, and was ordained priest on September 6, 1904. He went to New Zealand, where he worked with. the Marist Fathers until 1915. For health reasons he transferred to Queensland, and was received by Archbishop Duhig into the arch diocese, being stationed first at Maryborough, then at Kangaroo Point. His other appointments were to Goondiwindi, Boonah. and finally to Esk. After solemn requiem mass at St. Stephen's Cathedral at 10 a.m. to-day the funeral will take place at the Nudgee Cemetery.

West Australia Perth 19 Jan 1952
O'SULLIVAN--HARNETT: Mr. and Mrs. J. J. O'Sullivan, of Bentley Park, wish to announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Margaret Josephine, to John Martin, third son of Mr. and the late Mrs. D. M. Harnett. Lisselton, County, Kerry, Eire.

Argus Melbourne 25 Sept 1909
LYNCH—McGLONE. —On the 17th August, 1909,
at Mary's Star of the Sea, West Melbourne, "Nuptial Mass", by the Rev. T. P. Lynch (brother of bridegroom), assisted by the Very Rev. M. Carey, P.P., Patrick B., fourth son of the late Patrick Lynch, Lisselton, Co. Kerry, Ire land, to Mary A.(Sis), only daughter of John McGlone, Parkville.

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Bakhita From Slave to Saint
By: Roberto Italo Zanini
When she was about nine years old, Josephine Bakhita was kidnapped near Darfur, Sudan, by Arab slave traders. For several years she was subjected to brutal and humiliating treatment until she was ransomed and taken to Venice, Italy, where she became a Catholic and a nun. Joyfully and serenely Bakhita served in a convent, school and infirmary run by Canossian sisters until her death in 1947. Then something remarkable happened.
From Slave to Priest, The Inspirational Story of Fr. Augustine Tolton
By: Sr. Caroline Hemesath "Few stories are as moving and exciting as that of Father Augustus Tolton, who rose from the chains of slavery to become the first recognize Black priest in the United States. Everyone will be moved by his story, and I especially urge young Catholics to read the book, and learn from Father Tolton, just how much a life can mean, and how much God can accomplish through us, if we are willing." Wilton D. Gregory, Archbishop of Atlanta.

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ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL March 2nd 2014


FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS John Behan, Bunagara. Arriving to the Church this Saturday night after the Vigil Mass. Requiem Mass on Sunday at 11am. Mass . Burial in St. Michael’s Cemetery.

RECENT DEATHS Kevin Lucey, Knockroe Drive, late of Charles Street.
Maurice O Brien, died in England late of Tanavalla.

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Mary Wixted, Andrew Hartnett, Charles Street.


MASSES THIS WEEK
Saturday
1st Nora & Jene Moriarty, Charles Street /
Michael & Mary O Connor, Patrick Street /
Nora & Paddy Carmody, Skehenerin /
Kathleen Whelan, Finuge /
Dan O Sullivan, Skehenerin /
Justin, Damien & Stuart Stack, William St. /
Kathleen Heffernan, Clieveragh & Mary Sheehan, Hawthorn Drive /
Joseph Stack, Tanavalla / Elizabeth Freyne, Cork Vigil
Sunday
2nd Christopher Myles Porter, Fourhane, 1st Anniversary /
Special Intention / Patrick Horgan, Skehenerin /
Timothy O’Flaherty, Athea & Newcastle /
Michael & Mollie Kissane 9.00am
Funeral Mass – John Behan, Bunagara 11.00am
Monday 3rd Dr. Louis O’Carroll, Clieveragh 10.30am
Tuesday 4th Wulf Sobieralski, Ballygologue Pk. & Germany 10.30am
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Wednesday
5th March Betty Sheehy, Duagh, Birthday Remembrance 10.30am
Sidney Snow, St. Brendan’s Tce 1.10pm
Agnes Buckley, Denis O Sullivan, Kathleen Daly & Denis B. O’Sullivan, William Street 7.00pm
Thur. 6th Tom, Jack & Mai O’Connor, Shrone 10.30am
Friday 7th Michael Leahy, Birmingham & Shrone, Months Mind 10.30am
Pat Foran, Bedford, Months Mind /
Sheila Painter nee Keating, Dirha Cottages, Months Mind 7.00pm
Saturday 8th James & Anne O’Sullivan & Voureen & Nora, Charles Street 10.30am
Bridie Walsh, Convent St, Months Mind /
Cecilia Doyle, Lartigue Village, Month Mind /
Anna Hartnett Potten, England & Clieveragh, Recently Deceased /
Sr. Pius O’Farrell & Deceased Family Members, Church Street /
Kathleen Heffernan nee Duggan & Willie Walsh, Dirha West /
Olivia & Thomas Murphy, William Street /
Michael Stacky O’Connor, Convent Street Vigil
Sunday 9th Helen O Keeffe, Charles St. & London, Recently Deceased & Birthday Remembrance /
Bertie Sheehan, Ballygrennan 9.00am
Noreen & Pat Joe Browne, O’Connell’s Ave. 11.00am

8th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY 2nd MARCH

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on Sunday, 2nd, Fr .Tarrant 068-41152


CHURCH NOTICES

CHILDREN'S LITURGY OF THE WORD will take place on this Saturday night at the Vigil Mass.
COMMUNION CALLS TO THE SICK & THE HOUSEBOUND As Friday next is the First Friday of the Month, Canon Declan will be doing his usual calls to the Sick & Housebound on this Tuesday and Wednesday. Please note that for this month his usual Thursday calls are taking place on this Tuesday afternoon at the usual times. The Parish Office will make contact as to the time of his arrival. Should anybody new wish a visit from the priest, contact the Parish Office.
ASH WEDNESDAY: Wednesday next - 5th February is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. It is a day of fast and abstinence. Ashes will be blessed and distributed at three Masses - 10.30am morning Mass & 1.10pm. Lunch time & at 7.00pm evening Mass.
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL Will meet on Thursday 6th March at 8pm. in the presbytery.
FIRST FRIDAY: Friday next is First Friday of the Month of March. Masses: 10.30am. and 7pm. Confessions: Thursday immediately after 10.30am. Mass. & again on Saturday after 10.30am. Mass
LISTOWEL PASTORAL AREA LENTEN TALKS 2014: To mark the season of Lent - Listowel Pastoral Area which includes - the parishes of Listowel, Moyvane/Knockanure, Lixnaw/Irremore & Duagh/Lyreacrompane - are hosting two Lenten talks on various aspects of Christian life -. at St. John’s Theatre & Arts Centre, Listowel. The first is on Monday night March 10th by Canon Bob Fyffe. This year his topic is : “How baptism invites us to live Community in a Christian Way”.
The second talk is given by Philip Cremin on Wednesday 19th March - Philip lectures in Theology in Waterford IT will continue that theme. Cannon Bob Fyffe is from Scotland and an Episcopalian Priest & Philip Cremin is a Layman & a Kerry Catholic. Everyone is welcome to these talks, admission is free & it’s a great opportunity to discuss and listen to what it means to be a Christian to-day.
ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE in association with MiracleHill Theatre invite you to a preview of "JESUS: WOUNDED, EMPOWERING HEALER - the Drama of Mark's Gospel." Tuesday 25th February in Ardfert Retreat Centre at 8pm. Contribution on the night EURO 15 with refreshments. It will then be presented every Friday of Lent @ 8pm and each night (Mon-Sat) of Holy Week and Easter Week. Booking 066-713-4276; email: ardfertretreat@eircom.net



COMMUNITY NOTICES

FURTHER ADULT EDUCATION OPEN DAY, at Listowel Community College, March 12th , 2pm-7pm, 068 21023. All welcome
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS open public meeting in the Parish Hall, Ballylongford, Wednesday 5th March at 8.30pm. All welcome.
LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE has re-opened its doors after the recent flood and storm damage the centre plan to run a variety of interesting courses for adults commencing in the coming weeks. For more information on course contact the centre on 068-23584.
IRISH CANCER SOCIETY NATIONAL DAFFODIL DAY COLLECTION takes place on Friday 28th March.
Volunteers would be gratefully appreciated, hopefully we will not have a repeat of last years Torrential rain. Contact / Noreen Queally (087) 1946936. Launch of Daffodil Day takes place in Listowel Arms Hotel on 12th March at 8 pm, Distribution of daffodils for the various areas.

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BALLYLONGFORD
Goulburn Evening Penny Post 12 Oct 1889
MARRIED, AT Sts. Peter and Paul's Cathedral, by the Rev. P. J. Clune, on the 2nd October, 1889, MAURICE, youngest son of THOMAS and ANN FRANCIS LYNCH, of Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland, to BRIDGET FRANCIS, second eldest daughter of DAVID and MARGARET RYAN, Goulburn.
23 Oct 1933
MRS. M. CALLACHOR.
The death occurred on Saturday at her home at Randwick of Mrs. Mary Callachor widow of Mr. Philip Callachor, of Emerald] Vale and Flinton stations, Yetman. She was a member of the Firm of Callachor Brothers! woolbrokers. of Sydney, Mrs. Callachor was! a native of Stonehill, Ballylongford, County, Limerick, Ireland, where her family, the Desmond-Fitzgeralds, were neighbours of the late Earl. Kitchener's family. She had a clear recollection of Earl Kitchener as a boy, with whom she attended school. She came to Australla at the age of 17 years, and was for a time associated as a teacher with St. Benedict's Convent, Sydney. Her husband was one of the pioneers of the north-west. The deceased is survived by five sons and three daughters.
Argus Melbourne 3 Aug 1874
Friends of the late Mr. MICHAEL WALSH (formerly of Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland), are respectfully Invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, Melbourne General Cemetery.

Obituary. Freeman’s Journal 1 Sept 1927
MR. D. TIERNEY, ORANGE.
On the 17th August, Mr. Daniel Tierney, a -resident of the Orange dis ;- trict for more than half a century, passed away at North Sydney. Born at Lenamore, Ballylongford, North Kerry, in 1849, he was for several years en gaged in farming pursuits in his native land before coming to Australia. Owing ; to the blight of landlordism he could not see much prospect in the future , decided to come to Australia and arrived here in 1873. Like many young Irishmen at this and an earlier period, he was the victim of government which cared little for the people's welfare. The Home Rule movement, which afterwards accomplished so much under the leadership of Parnell, was just then attracting notice, and the late Mr. Tierney used to relate the famous Kerry election of February, 1872, when the Protestant Home Rule candidate, Mr. Hassett, defeated the Catholic Tory Dease in a district almost exclusively Catholic. This election was the last conducted in Ireland under the old system of open voting. Arriving in Orange in 1874, he remained in and about the district until last May, when he came to Sydney for health reasons. During that long period he established a .reputation for sincerity and upright ness, and was highly respected by the whole community. Always a devout Catholic, his was a familiar personality on Sundays to two generations going to Mass. As. a true Irishman he took an active 'interest in Irish affairs and always nailed' his colours to the mast. The delegations to Australia in the 'eighties and again' after the Irish party united under the leadership of John Redmond, found an ardent supporter in the de . ceased. Though no way aggressive, he would not allow aspersions to be cast on Ireland, and he died, as he lived, true to faith and fatherland. The interment took place on the 18th prox. at Orange. 'Monsignor O'Donnell recited the last prayers. The chief mourners were Rev. Bro. Joseph (Patrician Brothers, Sydney),Mr. Patrick Tierney, Sydney (sons), Mrs. J. Fitzgerald (sister) and -Mr. j; Fitzgerald, North Sydney (brother in-law).

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ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL NEWS 9th March 2014

DEATHS John Behan, Bunagara. Pat Guerin, Ballahadigue.
Sadie Bennett, England. John O’Neill, Ballyneety, Limerick
Phyllis Board nee Carey, died in England late of Fourhane.

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Daniel Joseph Leahy, Shrone, Tony McAuliffe, Charles St, Mary Ward, Rathkeale, John L, Michael & Letitia O’Sullivan, Ennismore & Ballyduff, Dick & Mary Pierse, Market St, Patrick Lane, Coolnaleen.

MASSES THIS WEEK
Saturday
8th Bridie Walsh, Convent St, Months Mind /
Cecilia Doyle, Lartigue Village, Month Mind /
Anna Hartnett Potten, England & Clieveragh, Recently Deceased /
Sr. Pius O’Farrell & Deceased Family Members, Church Street /
Kathleen Heffernan nee Duggan & Willie Walsh, Dirha West /
Olivia & Thomas Murphy, William Street /
Michael Stacky O’Connor, Convent Street /
Deceased Members of the Morris & O’Neill Families Vigil
Sunday
9th Helen O Keeffe, Charles St. & London, Recently Deceased & Birthday Remembrance / Bertie Sheehan, Ballygrennan /
Richard Stokes, Mullingar & Listowel Birthday Remembrance 9.00am
Noreen & Pat Joe Browne, O’Connell’s Ave. /
Michael & Bridget O’Carroll, Clieveragh /
James & Josephine Allen, Killocrim 11.00am
Monday 10th 10.30am
Tuesday 11th Pat & Kit Dowling, Bridge Road 10.30am
March 12th 10.30am
Thur. 13th John Scannell, Dromin 10.30am
Friday 14th Nora Sheehy, Bedford, 1st Anniversary 10.30am
Stations of the Cross – No Mass 7.00pm
Saturday 15th John & Mary Dillon, Knockanasig & Clieveragh 10.30am
Noreen McGrath, Cahirdown, Months Mind /
Peg Dore, Lartigue Village & O’Connell’s Ave, 1st Anniversary /
John Enright, Feale Dr. & Dirha / Mairead & Michael Lyons, Derry /
Mary & Michael Halpin, Ballygologue Pk &
Ian McCarthy, Derrindaff, Duagh Vigil
Sunday 16th Thomas Relihan, Bedford, Months Mind 9.00am
Paddy & Eileen McElligott & John & Nora McElligott, Coolalarig 11.00am
Seamus McDermott, Bedford, Months Mind 7pm Vigil
Monday 17th St. Patrick’s Day People of the Parish 9.00am
Irish Mass - Dan & Bridget O’Connor, Moyvane 11.00am

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on Sunday, 9th, Fr .Spring 087-2935969


1st SUNDAY OF LENT 9th MARCH 2014

CHURCH NOTICES
TRÓCAIRE BOXES: Are available at the back of the Church. Trócaire is where we as a Parish support the most disadvantaged and marginalised in our world. Each family is invited to take a Trócaire box and support Trócaire during Lent and return to the church at the end of Lent.
MEDJUGORJE MONTHLY PRAYER MEETING POSTPONED this month resumes on Monday April 14th.
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME PROGRAMME: for our First Holy Communion children and their parents for the month of March is taking place on Saturday night next (Vigil) – 7pm. (March 15th ) – All the First Holy Communion Children and their parents are asked to attend. Meeting of the organising parents will take place on Thursday evening at 6.00 p.m. in the Presbytery.
PARISH LITURGY GROUP will meet on Thursday 13th March at 6.45pm. in the Presbytery.
KILLOCRIM FIRST CONFESSIONS: take place on Thursday March 13th at 8pm. in Killocrim School.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS: will take place on Friday night next (March 14th) at 7.00 p.m. It will be lead by our Ministers of Prayer. It will end at 7.30 p.m.

LISTOWEL PASTORAL AREA LENTEN TALKS: are hosting two Lenten talks on various aspects of Christian life -. at St. John’s Theatre & Arts Centre, Listowel. The first is on this Monday night March 10th by Canon Bob Fyffe. Bob Fyffe is from Scotland and an Episcopalian Priest and will speak on “How baptism invites us to live Community in a Christian Way”. The second talk will be given by Philip Cremin on Wednesday week (March 19th ) - Philip lectures in Theology in Waterford IT and will continue the same theme. Philip is a Layman & a Kerry Catholic. Everyone is welcome to both talks, admission is free & it’s a great opportunity to discuss and listen to what it means to be a Christian to-day. Other Lenten Talks in the Diocese are in the Programme leaflets at the back of the church.

COMMUNITY NOTICES
GAELSCOIL LIOS TUATHAIL have an open day on 20th March from 1.00pm to 2.30pm for parents and children. All welcome.
HOSPICE COFFEE MORNING Monday 17th March from 11am. – 3pm. at Nora Mulvihill’s House, 31 Church Street. Please come along and support this worthy cause.
KDYS LISTOWEL is currently looking for volunteers to assist in our Youth Café at KDYS, Listowel. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact KDYS, Upper Church St., Listowel at (068) 23744.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY ANNUAL PARADE organised by Glór na nGael, will take place on Monday 17th March and start this year at 12.00pm. It will go up William St., over Charles St., and back to the Square by Court House Rd., and Church St. We request you to keep the Square free of cars from 11.30am. to 2.30pm. especially the area in front of the reviewing platform between St. John’s and the Bank of Ireland. Go Raibh Míle maith agaibh. Enjoy the Parade!
MOTORISTS ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY are advised to avoid driving through the town of Listowel between the hours of 12pm. to 2pm. as there may be delays due to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Alternative routes will be signposted. Notice from the Gardaí and COISTE GHLÓR NA nGAEL
LISTOWEL FRC, A limited number of spaces remain to be filled in n the following classes at Listowel FRC, including Digital Photography, Horticulture, Interior Design, Sewing, Parents Plus (teens) , Refresher computers, Body/mind relaxation and Beginngers German. Contact Molly on 068 23584. The monthly meeting of the alzheimer's carers support group takes place next Tuesday March 11th at 12 noon. Also Preparation for Driving Theory Test and Car Safety course by a qualified ADI Driving Instructor for 6 weeks. For more information contact Alan on 087-7671555 or check Church Notice Board.
IRISH CANCER SOCIETY NATIONAL DAFFODIL DAY COLLECTION takes place on Friday 28th March. Volunteers would be gratefully appreciated, hopefully we will not have a repeat of last years Torrential rain. Contact / Noreen Queally (087) 1946936. Launch of Daffodil Day takes place in Listowel Arms Hotel on 12th March at 8 pm, Distribution of daffodils for the various areas.
THE LISTOWEL COMMUNITY COUNCIL will hold their AGM in the Listowel Community Centre on Wednesday 26th March at 7.00pm. All Welcome”

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Families From North Kerry
News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954) issue Wednesday 19 October 1927
£5,550 DISTRIBUTED Legacy of Late Mr. D. Kennelly INSTITUTIONS BENEFIT Elder's Trustee and Executor Company, Limited, as executor of the will of the late Mr. Daniel Kennelly, of Listowel, South terrace, Adelaide, has made a. first payment of one-half of the amount of the legacy bequeathed in terms of the will to each' of the following institutions: £500, St. Joseph's Orphanage, Largs Bay. £500, Late Father Healy's Reformatory and Old Men's Home, Brooklyn Park. £500, St. Vincent de Paul's Orphanage, Goodwood. £500, Catholic Refuge, Fullarton. £500, Little Sister of the Poor, South Australia, Incorporated, at Glen Osmond. £500, St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral Building Fund. £500, Good Samaritan Sisters, Port Pirie. £500, Solomontown Catholic School. £250, St. Joseph's Providence, West terrace. £250, St. Vincent de Paul's Society, Adelaide, to be divided equally between St. Francis Xavier's and St. Patrick's Conferences. £250, Little Company of Mary, South Australia Incorporated, for proposed Public Hospital, North Adelaide. £250, Sisters of Saint Joseph, Port Adelaide. £250, St. Patrick's Church, West terrace. £250, St. Mark's Church, Port Pirie. £50, Late Father O'Mahoney Memorial Fund, Port Pirie.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/129226583?searchTerm=sister%20kennelly&searchLimits=#pstart11076906


Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail (SA : 1898 - 1918) issue Wednesday 9 March 1904
Mr. D. Kennelly, whose health has been indifferent lately, has gone to Mount Gambier for a holiday. His many friends here hope the change will benefit him. He is accompanied by Mra, Kennelly.



News (Adelaide, SA issue Thursday 16 December 1926 Next issue

PORT PIRIE IDENTITY Death of Mr. D. Kennelly Mr. Daniel Kennelly, for many years a well-knowu resident of Port Pirie, died at his home at South terrace, Adelaide, after a long illness. The late Mr. Kennelly was born at Listowl. County Kerry, Ireland. 69 years age. and came to South Australia by the Robert Lee, sailing .ship, in 1877.


MISS MARY ALICE KENNELLY.
Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932) issue Thursday 11 September 1930
The death of Miss Mary Alice Kennelly occurred at Holbrook on August 21st. Deceased was 68 years of age and was a native of Picton and a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kennelly. who came from Kerry, ' Ireland. Miss Kennelly was the only surviving member a brother and sister predeceasing her. After her father's death at Holbrook she-went to live with their life-long friends, Mrs Purtell and family, by whom she was tenderly cared/ for during her . many years of suffering, for Miss Kennelly had been an invalid since her childhood. She was attended by Very Rev. Father J. Campbell during her long illness, and the Sisters of St. Joseph were constant visitors all through her years of patient suffering, She had the consolation of their presence at her death-bed, and her death 'was . holy and edifying. The funeral, which was largely attended, took place at Holbrook, the remains being interred; beside her father and mother, Rev. Father Campbell officiating.





Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954) issue Wednesday 20 July 1949

CHICA GO WAGES WAR AGAINST

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

CHICAGO (A.P.). This big "American city it fighting death in the streets.

A robust task force of traffic police is striving to cut down the heavy, loss of lives in traffic accidents.

' The score shows that so far they are winning the grim battle. During the first full six months of the campaign, 225 men, women and children were killed. That is a large figure. But it is 67 below the toll of 292 for the corresponding months last year.

Fatalities went down in Chicago while they rose for U.S. as a whole. What is more, the de- crease was, recorded despite a 12 per' cent, increase in the number of 'vehicles on the streets.

For contrast, in 1947. Chicago had 508 traffic deaths. Mayor Martin H Kennelly called Franklin M. Kroml, director of the Traffic Division of the International Association of Chiefs of Police I.A.C.P.). I.A.C.P. experts had helped Detroit, Los Angeles, and other cities. This was their toughest . job. Kroml young (42), trim ex-policeman found the. traffic force was understaffed, it lacked motorised equipment. There was little or no training. The courts were too lenient. The city's traffic record was the worst in the country."

A plan was drafted. Changes were made. The number of police- men assigned to traffic work" was increased from 369 to 1060. They were given special training. The small motor fleet was. built-up to 341 cars and two and three-wheel motor cycles. Most of them were equipped, with two-way radios. The horses mounted police had used for years, were. put, out to pasture.

The expanded staff moved into larger quarters. The record system, was modernised.

The new, strict programme went into full effect; with what may have seemed poor political timing, three weeks before the November, 1948, election.

'Citizens wondered if this was another of the well-known flashes in the town's-, law-enforcement plan. ; But the police went to work.' Their fresh zeal sometime took curious turns.

A car stalled and a driver got out to push. His wife slid behind the steering wheel. The car started, rammed a parked car. The lady was fined for operating a car without a driver's licence.'

A man started to cross a street in the middle of the block. He was struck and hurt by an auto- mobile. The jay walker, was charged with "failure to yield the right of way to a vehicle in the centre of the street."

The police caught thousands, Many motorists complained that they had been tagged without good reason.

Summonses for traffic offences and arrests in the first' six' full months added up to 248,893. On a recent Saturday morning, 2800 persons paid fines at the Violations Bureau.

This place is known as the "cafeteria court" It looks like a bank. Fines for minor offences that do not involve accidents are paid there. Cases involving accidents, reckless or drunken driving, high speed ' and other serious breaches are heard by judges in courts.

Chicago officials and L.A.C.P. field men still have problems to solve. The biggest 100 to 140 persons killed in the first four months of this year were pedestrians. But they point to statistics to prove they are getting results.

"It can work and it is working;" said Captain Charles O Regan, chief of traffic. ''We need arterial highways to the west, north-west and south-west. Until we have .them; we , will have a rough battle- But we will cut the death total down 40 per cent, in two years"

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/42632410?searchTerm=%20kennelly%20%20death&searchLimits=#pstart3080583

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Listowel Newsletter St Patrick's Day 2014

ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL 16th March 2014

DEATHS Anthony (Tony) Hartnett, Killocrim.
Anne McElligott, Bridge Road & Oakland’s Nursing Home.
Margaret Mulvihill nee Dowling, Moyvane late of Tarbert.

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Mary (Babe) White, Athea, Patrick Halpin, Greenville, Helen Kennelly, Market St, David Bunyan Senior, Convent, Maureen & Joseph Lambert, Wexford, Danny McCarthy & Loan & Patrick Sheehy, Duagh & Lyre.

MASSES THIS WEEK

Saturday
15th Noreen McGrath, Cahirdown, Months Mind /
Peg Dore, Lartigue Village & O’Connell’s Ave, 1st Anniversary /
John Enright, Feale Dr. & Dirha / Mairead & Michael Lyons, Derry /
Mary & Michael Halpin, Ballygologue Pk &
Ian McCarthy, Derrindaff, Duagh Vigil
Sunday
16th Thomas Relihan, Bedford, Months Mind 9.00am
Paddy & Eileen McElligott & John & Nora McElligott, Coolaclarig /
Joe Hilliard, Cahirdown 11.00am
Seamus McDermott, Bedford, Months Mind /
Dan Guiney, Gurtcreen, 1st Anniversary 7.00pm Vigil
Monday 17th People of the Parish 9.00am
Irish Mass - Dan & Bridget O’Connor, Moyvane 11.00am
Tuesday 18th Catherine (Kitty) Harnett, Smerla Bridge /
Robert Purcell, Woodford, Birthday Remembrance 10.30am
Wednesday 19th Paddy Devey, Willow Place 10.30am
Thur. 20th Noel Brick, The Curragh, Kildare & Listowel /
Mickey & Eileen Egan, Coilbee 10.30am
Friday 21st Agnes Buckley, Denis O’Sullivan, Kathleen Daly &
Denis B. O’Sullivan 10.30am
Stations of the Cross – No Mass 7.00pm
Saturday 22nd Monica Corridan, Convent St. 10.30am
Kevin Lucey, Knockroe Dr. & Charles St., Months Mind /
John O Connor, Craughtoosane, Months Mind /
Anthony Greaney, Ballygologue Pk, 1st Anniversary /
Mary Kelly, Lyre /
Liam, Nuala & Stephen Keane-Stack, Church St. & Asdee /
Michael O Mahony & Deceased Family, Woodford /
Paddy & Jane Barry & Deceased Family, Dirha Cottages /
Denis O Shea, Bridge Rd Vigil
Sunday 23rd Special Intention 9.00am
Joe Hannon, Charles St. 11.00am


Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on Sunday, 16th, Fr .Spring 087-9473317.

2nd SUNDAY OF LENT 16th MARCH 2014

CHURCH NOTICES
EMIGRANT SERVICES ANNUAL DIOCESAN COLLECTION will be taken up at all Masses (after Communion) this weekend, Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th March, 2014.
TRÓCAIRE BOXES Are available at the back of the Church. Trócaire is where we as a Parish support the most disadvantaged and marginalised in our world. Each family is invited to take a Trócaire box and support Trócaire during Lent and return to the church at the end of Lent.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS will take place on Friday night next (March 21st at 7.00 p.m. It will be lead by our Ministers of Prayer. It will end at 7.30 p.m.
MASS will be celebrated at Clounmacon centre on Friday next (March 21st )at 7.30pm. for the late John Doyle, John was the 1st chairperson in 1975 and also the late Pat Guerin, his mother Kit did trogon work for the centre.
LISTOWEL PASTORAL AREA LENTEN TALK by Philip Cremin due to take place on Wednesday next (March 19th) has been cancelled because of another engagement. Many thanks to all who supported the Lenten Talk on Monday night last.
HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE 15th to 24th September 2014, Spiritual Director: Monsignor Dan O’Riordan. Coach from Kerry to Cork Airport. Fully escorted tour, for further information contact 021-4277700
COULD YOU NOT SPEND ONE HOUR WITH ME DURING LENT?” Adoration is continuing in the Adoration Chapel every Tuesday & Wednesday. You are invited and encouraged to make a special effort during lend to drop in and spend some time.
ACCORD ARE RECRUITING for Accredited Counsellors and Marriage Education Facilitators. Please contact ACCORD Tralee on 066-712-2280 for further details.
ST. PATRICK BOOKLET By Fr. John J. Ó Ríordáin, CSsR, on sale in the Parish Office €3.00 each.
DIOCESE OF KERRY LENTEN PROGRAMME 2014 Fr. Peter McVerry will give a talk on Wednesday March 19th in Dromhall Hotel, Killarney @ 8pm, hosted by Killarney Pastoral Area. All are welcome to the talks and there is no cost. For further details, check out www.dioceseofkerry.ie
LISTOWEL PARISH OFFICE closed Monday 17th, St. Patrick’s Day. Normal office hours resumes on Tuesday.


COMMUNITY NOTICES

LISTOWEL BAZAAR MISSION GROUP The A.G.M. of the Listowel Bazaar Mission Group will take place on Monday March 24th at 7.30pm. in the Parish Meeting Room. All welcome.
LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE A 6 week preparing learner drivers for their theory test at on Tuesday March 25 at 7-9pm. Further details contact Alan on 087 767 1555. A 6 week course in body/mind relaxation starts on 24th at 11am. and German classes for beginners start on 25th at 11am.Contact 068 23584.
GAELSCOIL LIOS TUATHAIL have an open day on 20th March from 1.00pm to 2.30pm for parents and children. All welcome.
HOSPICE COFFEE MORNING Monday 17th March from 11am. – 3pm. at Nora Mulvihill’s House, 31 Church Street. Please come along and support this worthy cause.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY ANNUAL PARADE organised by Glór na nGael, will take place on Monday 17th March and start this year at 12.30pm. We request you to keep the Square free of cars from 11.30am. to 2.30pm. especially the area in front of the reviewing platform between St. John’s and the Bank of Ireland. MOTORISTS ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY are advised to avoid driving through the town of Listowel between the hours of 12pm. to 2pm. as there may be delays due to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Alternative routes will be signposted. Notice from the Gardaí and COISTE GHLÓR NA nGAEL.
IRISH CANCER SOCIETY NATIONAL DAFFODIL DAY COLLECTION takes place on Friday 28th March. Volunteers would be gratefully appreciated, hopefully we will not have a repeat of last years Torrential rain. Contact / Noreen Queally (087) 1946936. Launch of Daffodil Day takes place in Listowel Arms Hotel on 12th March at 8 pm, Distribution of daffodils for the various areas.
TARBERT COMPREHENSIVE FASHION SHOW at Tintean Theatre Ballybunion on the 28th of march tickets €10 contact 087 6986744.
KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL’S FILM-MAKER IN RESIDENCE, Michael Kelly, will facilitate a drop-in clinic at Listowel Library on Friday March 21st from 2pm to 4pm. If you are an aspiring film-maker, amateur photographer or film buff Michael will be on hand to share his expertise, and offer advice and assistance.
ST. MARY’S CHURCH LISTOWEL


St. Patrick’s Breastplate

There is a legend of how King Laoghaire invited St. Patrick to a conference at Tara on Easter night. His intention was to ambush St. Patrick and his eight companions. Tradition has it that St. Patrick composed the hymn known as The Deer’s Cry or the Breastplate as a protection against the ambush. In answer to St. Patrick’s prayer, all that King Laoghaire’s soldiers saw that night were eight deer and a fawn (the boy, Benignus) passing along the way.
An Extract of The Deer’s Cry

I arise today through
God’s strength to pilot me, God’s might to uphold me, God’s wisdom to guide me,
God’s eye to look before me, God’s ear to hear me, God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me, God’s way to lie before me, God’s shield to protect me,
God’s host to secure me – against the snares of devils, against temptation of vices,
Against inclinations of nature, against everyone who shall wish me ill,
Afar and near, alone in a crowd.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY 17TH MARCH 2014
MASSES Sunday
Seamus McDermott, Bedford, Months Mind /
Dan Guiney, Gurtcreen, 1st Anniversary Vigil 7.00pm
Monday for the People of the Parish 9.00am

Irish Mass - Dan & Bridget O’Connor, Moyvane 11.00a
THE ANNUAL ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE

Is taken place on this Monday 17th of March and starts this year at 12.30pm. It will go up William St., over to the end of Charles St., down Library Rd, to Church St., and back to the Square. We request you to keep the Square free of cars from 10.00am. to 2.30pm., especially the area in front of the reviewing platform between St. John’s and the Bank of Ireland. Go Raibh Míle maith agaibh.
PRAYER TO ST. PATRICK
Saint Patrick, apostle of Ireland, watch over your people.
Stranger and slave, protect our emigrants.
Prayerful youth, inspire all the young.
Famished and frightened, make us see the poor.
Alone on the hillside, now teach us to pray.
Reader of dreams, still walk among us.
Bishop and priest, confirm what is noble and true.
Kindler of fire, fan our faith into flame.
Baptiser of kings and of commons, steep us in gospel ways.
Exile for God, be with all missionaries.
Pilgrim to provinces, join our hands in friendship.
Climber of mountains, unveil the beauty of creation.
Preacher of mercy, sow peace in our homes.
Humblest of sinners, convince us of sin and of grace.
Protector and patron, reveal Christ beside us.
Father of faith, pray that Christ be within us forever.
ST. PATRICK, Principal Patron of Ireland, Pray for us.
Fr. Declan wishes all Parishioners a Happy St. Patrick Day!

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Tablet Archive

http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/23rd-october-1841/7/ireland


TABLET : Page 7, 23rd October 1841
GLORIOUS TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION AT NEWTOWNSANDES TO HONOUR THE ARRIVAL OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS APOSTLE OF TEMPFRANCE —Sunday week being the day which was announced as that on which the Very Rev. Mr. Mathew would arrive at Newtownsandes, to preach a charity sermon for the completion of the parish chapel of Murhnr, and to administer the sacred pledge of Temperance, twenty-two thousand of the sober and exemplary teetotallers of Clanmaurice, Eraughticonnor, Trughenackmy, swelled by countless auxiliary accessions from Glin, Loughill, Askeaton Adare' Newcastle, Abbeyfeale, and even from Clare, were assembled at Newtownsandes as early as eleven o'clock, to welcome the great benefactor of Irishmen once more to Kerry.


Tablet Page 21, 8th November 1930.
THE O'MAHONY OF KERRY.

A picturesque figure has been lost to Ireland by the death of the O'Mahony of Kerry, which occurred on October 31. This old chieftain—the title was assumed by deed poll in 1912—was in his eightieth year. In chronicling his career we outline the life of a prominent Irishman who came of non-Catholic stock, and he was himself an adherent of Eastern Orthodoxy until within about a year or so of the end, when the grace of conversion was given him and he was received into the Catholic Church.

Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony was the son of the late Pierce K. Mahony, J.P., of Kilmorna, Co. Kerry, and Jane, daughter of Mr. R. G. Cunninghame, D.L. On the death of his uncle, Mr. David Mahony, D.L., in 1900, he succeeded to the estate of Grange Con, Co. Wicklow. He was educated in England : at Rugby, Magdalen College, Oxford, and Cirencester Agricultural College. Interest in Irish politics led to his return, in 1886, as Nationalist Member for North Meath; but in the General Election of 1902, when he espoused the Parnellite cause, he was defeated by Michael Davitt; and in the following year, when a further contest took place as the result of an election petition, he was again unsuccessful. In 1898 he was called to the Irish Bar.

The O'Mahony was closely and generously interested in Bulgaria, a country which for many years moulded his religious views and in which he founded a college, at Sofia, for boys orphaned and homeless during the Turkish massacres in Macedonia.—R.I.P.

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Listowel Church Newsletter 23rd March 2014
8ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL

PARISH OFFICE is open Mon–Fri from 10am–5pm (excluding 1pm–2pm).
Canon Declan O’Connor P.P. Phone: 068 21188 / Parish Mobile: 087 0908949 (strictly for emergencies only).
Email: listowel@dioceseofkerry.ie. Notices for Parish Newsletter have to be in by 2.00pm on Thursdays. Funerals take place on weekdays at 11.30am and Sundays and Holy Days at 11.00am. Baptisms are at pre-arranged times and must be booked through the Parish Office. Confessions: every Saturday after 10.30am Mass. Check out our web page and all Diocesan news on: www.dioceseofkerry.ie

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Noreen O’Connor, died in England late of Bunagara. Reposing at family home, Bunagara from 4 to 8pm. this Sunday evening. Arriving to the Church Monday Morning for 11.30 requiem Mass burial in St. Michael’s Cemetery.

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Hannah Linnane, Gortacrissane, Nora, Patrick & Michael O’Shaughnessy, William St. & Eleanor Scanlan, Hollytree Drive.

MASSES THIS WEEK
Saturday
22nd Kevin Lucey, Knockroe Dr. & Charles St., Months Mind /
John O Connor, Craughtoosane, Months Mind /
Anthony Greaney, Ballygologue Pk, 1st Anniversary /
Mary Kelly, Lyre / Helen Nagle nee O’Conner, Skehenerin /
Liam, Nuala & Stephen Keane-Stack, Church St. & Asdee /
Paddy & Jane Barry & Deceased Family, Dirha Cottages /
Denis O Shea, Bridge Rd Vigil
Sunday
23rd Special Intention 9.00am
Joe Hannon, Charles St. / Peter & Annie Heaphy, O’Connell’s Ave./
Moll Doyle, Coolnaleen, 1st Anniversary 11.00am
Monday 24th Noreen Stack nee Clancy, Main St, Ballybunion &
College Road, Listowel, 1st Anniversary 10.30am
Tuesday 25th 10.30am
Wednesday 26th Lizzie & Sonny Kelly & Danny Kelly, O’Connell’s Ave. 10.30am
Thur. 27th Mary Dowling, Woodford Lodge 10.30am
Padre Pio Evening Mass 7.00pm
Friday 28th 10.30am
Special Mass & Stations of the Cross - for Deceased Members of the Imperial Stag & Jowika Factory, Cahirdown 7.00pm
Saturday 29th Mary & John James Devaney, Sligo 10.30am
Denis & Lillian Curtin, Coolaclarig / Henraitta Dillon, Behins /
Catherine Moore nee O’Donoghue &
Nora & John O Donoghue, Ballygologue Pk. /
Bridie Buckley, Birthday Remembrance & Tom Buckley, Finuge /
Tom & Jenny Carey, Main St. / Richard Cantilon, Duagh Vigil
Sunday 30th Richard Stokes & Deceased Members, Mullingar & Listowel 9.00am
Eileen Relihan, Bedford, 1st Anniversary /
Sarah Gill, Donegal, Recently Deceased &
Kathleen Dunne, Derry, Recently Deceased 11.00am

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on this Sunday, 23rd, Fr. Kennelly, 0872931064.
3rd SUNDAY OF LENT 23rd MARCH 2014

CHURCH NOTICES
TRÓCAIRE BOXES: are available at the back of the Church. Trócaire is where we as a Parish support the most disadvantaged and marginalised in our world. Each family is invited to take a Trócaire box and support Trócaire during Lent and return to the church at the end of Lent.
SPECIAL MASS FOR DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL STAG & JOWIKA FACTORY, CAHIRDOWN: will take place here in the Church on Friday night next (March 28th ) at 7.00 p.m. It will also incorporate our Lenten STATIONS OF THE CROSS within the Mass.
LENTEN PROGRAMME 2014 On Monday March 24th @ 8pm, Killorglin Pastoral Area will host a talk by Sharon Vard, CEO of Anam Cara, called Journeying with Hope in Day Care Centre, Killorglin. On Thursday March 27th @ 7. 30pm Iveragh Pastoral Area will host a talk entitled Healing through the grieving process by Pat Sheehan in the Community Centre, Cahersiveen. On Friday March 28th @ 8pm, Mike O’Mahony will enact Jesus: Wounded, Empowering Healer in Ardfert Retreat Centre, hosted by Naomh Bhreanainn Pastoral Area. On Saturday March 29th 10-1pm, Fr. Seamus O'Connell will explore The Sermon on the Mount: Roadmap for the Greatest Journey to God and to ourselves in KDYS, Fairhill, Killarney, hosted by the Diocese of Kerry. All events are free and all are welcome.
KERRY DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES Led by Bishop Ray Browne, from 2nd to 7th September 2014 direct flights ex Kerry Airport. All bookings must be made by post to: Janice O’Sullivan, Pilgrimage Co-ordinator, “Droum House”, Nohoval Upper, Rathmore, Co. Kerry contact 064 7758219.
PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND: organised by Premier Travel, Cork and lead by Mons. Dan O’Riordan, Castle will take place from Sept 15th to Sept. 24th 2014. There will be a special bus for all our Kerry Pilgrims to and from the Airport. More details: Premier Travel 021-4277700 or Fr. Declan
THE COUNCIL FOR NEW EVANGELISATION: Bishop Raymond has invited us to an event in association with the Council for New Evangelisation to a 24 hours of offering the Sacrament of Penance to those who wish in the context of Eucharistic Adoration from 5pm Friday March 28th until 5pm on Saturday 29th . The request is to have it in at least one church in every diocese. Pope Francis will do it simultaneously in Rome and here in our diocese the event will be held in the Church of the Resurrection, Killarney. All are welcome.
COULD YOU NOT SPEND ONE HOUR WITH ME DURING LENT?” Adoration is continuing in the Adoration Chapel every Tuesday & Wednesday. All are welcome.
MASS BOOKINGS: The Parish Office would appreciate if you would give at least a week’s notice when booking a mass in the church, as the news letter is planned a week in advance. The diary for the year 2015 will be opened in October 2014.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

THE MISCARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND will hold a support group meeting on Wednesday 9th April at 7 pm in the Listowel Family Resource Centre, John B Keane Road Listowel. All parents affected by the loss of a baby are very welcome to attend, regardless of whether the loss was recent or long ago. See www.miscarriage.ie for detail or contact Deirdre Pierce- McDonnell 087 3577173
LISTOWEL BAZAAR MISSION GROUP The A.G.M. of the Listowel Bazaar Mission Group will take place on Monday March 24th at 7.30pm. in the Parish Meeting Room. All welcome.
CHURCH ST. HOSPICE COFFEE MORNING Amount collected €295. A big thanks to all who gave so generously.
LISTOWEL RAMBLING HOUSE will take place in the Seanchaí Centre, The Square on Thursday March 27th from 9.15 pm. Admission free, tea/coffee served.
HISTORY IRELAND HEDGE SCHOOL on the topic 'Before Banna : Politics, Society & Sport in Kerry 1912-1916' will take place in the Seanchaí Centre, Listowel on Friday March 28th at 7.30 pm. Tel. (068) 22212/57907.

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From the Freeman's Journal, Aug. 16. 1864

A magnificent and rapid sailing steamer, with three funnels, visited the Shannon on Saturday last. She proceeded to the Foynes Island, where she lay at anchor until evening, when she suddenly steamed westward, toward Tarbert. While at anchor near Foynes, a warlike party landed, and made inquiries at the railway station about a special train to Limerick, and they appeared exceedingly disappointed when they could not proceed by rail to Limerick. It is supposed that the vessel is a blockade-runner, and it was rumoured here that a Lieutenant of the Alabama was one of the party who landed at Foynes. It appears that the steamer has arrived to convey an immense supply of clothing to the Confederates.


FITZMAURICE
My husband's gggrandmother was Honora Fitzmaurice, born approximately 1823,
reputedly from County Kerry. I know she was in Ontario, Canada, married to
Martin Do(o)lan, also from Ireland, by 1855 when my husband's ggrandmother,
Anastasia, was born.

Recently, my father in law came across an obituary he had saved for one of
Anastasia's sisters that said she was the granddaughter of Sir James and Lady
Fitzmaurice of Newsand, Ireland. Does ring a bell with anyone?

Dromin House Listowel, and this is what the article reads. Distinctive period residence completed in I668 for William Fitzmaurice, I9th Lord Kerry. One of the first Palladian houses in Ireland

James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald arrived at Kerry coast in July 1579 with expedition from Pope Gregory X111 and Spain, Most of the troops were massacred in November 1580, supervised by Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Edward Denny. English army was under command of Lord Grey de Wilton. The Edmund Spencer and Hugh O’Neill were present at the massacre.

Archbishop E. J. Fitzmaurice, born in Leitrim, Moyvane in 1881 son of Willian Fitzmaurice and Johanna Costelloe, ordained in 1904, appointed Bishop of Wilmington Del. Appointed titular archbishop in 1960, died in 1962.
Bishop John E. Fitzmaurice uncle of above born in 1840, ordained in 1862,appointed Bishop of Erie in 1899 he died in 1920.

Bishop Fitzmaurice (uncle of Frank Wall founder of ICMSA) died 1962

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http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/collections/show/1
Letter from Sister M. of Good Counsel (Mangan) to Nancy O'Rahilly, 7 May 1916.
My dearest Nan,
I cannot tell you how deeply grieved I was to learn of the very bad end of my dear Cousin, Michael and now come to offer you my heartfelt sympathy in your great sorrow. I feel intensely for you, and his four young children as it is a great trial to lose a good husband and father, but what must dear Nell & Anna also be feeling at such a tragic end to their loved brother. I ask you please to convey to them my feelings of condolence under the weight of this heavy cross:

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MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL March 30th 2014

PARISH OFFICE is open Mon–Fri from 10am–5pm (excluding 1pm–2pm). Canon Declan O’Connor P.P. Phone: 068 21188 / Parish Mobile: 087 0908949 (strictly for emergencies only). Email: listowel@dioceseofkerry.ie. Notices for Parish Newsletter have to be in by 2.00pm on Thursdays. Funerals take place on weekdays at 11.30am and Sundays and Holy Days at 11.00am. Baptisms are at pre-arranged times and must be booked through the Parish Office. Confessions: every Saturday after 10.30am Mass. Check out our web page and all Diocesan news on: www.dioceseofkerry.ie

RECENT DEATHS: Noreen O’Connor, Bunagara & England
Martin Corridan, Bedford.
Brian Holland, The Writings & Cherrytree Drive.
Margaret McElligott, Bedford.
Bob O’Carroll, Cahirdown & Dublin.
Betty Fleming (nee Faley), late of Ballygologue, funeral took place in New York.
Michael Moloney, late of Woodford, died in New York.

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Stephen Roche, Bedford, John Sheehy, Clounmacon, James Sugrue, O’Connell’s Ave, Pat & Bridie O’Driscoll, Listowel, John Broderick, Coilbee, Molly Lynch, Killocrim, Catherine & Mary O’Sullivan, Gortnaminch, Mary Townrow nee Relihan, O’Connell’s Ave. & Brendan Stack, Charles St.
MASSES THIS WEEK
Saturday
29th Denis & Lillian Curtin, Coolaclarig / Henrietta Dillon, Behins /
Stephen Roche, Bedford / Catherine Moore nee O’Donoghue &
Nora & John O Donoghue, Ballygologue Pk. /
Bridie Buckley, Birthday Remembrance & Tom Buckley, Finuge /
Tom & Jenny Carey, Main St. / Richard Cantilon, Duagh /
Dora Buckley, Tanavalla & Deb Guiney, Gurtcreen /
Betty & Tadhg Hickey, West Limerick / Paul Kirby, Charles Street Vigil
Sunday
30th Richard Stokes & Deceased Members, Mullingar & Listowel 9.00am
Eileen Relihan, Bedford, 1st Anniversary /
Sarah Gill, Donegal, Recently Deceased &
Kathleen Dunne, Derry, Recently Deceased 11.00am
Monday 31st Mary Slowey nee Kelly, London & O’Connell’s Ave. /
Josephine Devane, Aghadoe, Killarney 10.30am
Tuesday 1st Tim O’Carroll, Charles Street, 1st Anniversary 10.30am
Wed. 2nd Ted Keane, Slievecahill, Birthday Remembrance 10.30am
Thursday 3rd Anthony Curtin, Clounmacon, 1st Anniversary 10.30am
Friday 4th Jack Leahy, Ballygologue Road / Mai Mahoney, England 10.30am
Jacqueline Sheehy 1st Anniversary & Kevin Sheehy, Greenville 7.00pm
Saturday 5th PJ Browne, Listowel & Dublin, Recently Deceased &
Betty Gormaly, St. Brendan’s Terrace 10.30am
Pat Guerin, Ballahadigue, Month Mind /
Eileen Galvin, Dirha West / Sheila Ryan, Skehenerin /
Larry Buckley, Birthday Remembrance & Dora Buckley, Tanavalla Vigil
Sunday 6th People of the Parish 9.00am
John Behan, Bunagara, Months Mind /
Liam & Frances Woulfe, William Street 11.00am


4th SUNDAY OF LENT 30th MARCH 2014

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on this Sunday, 30th, Fr. Broderick, 0879061255.

CHURCH NOTICES
CONFIRMATION IN OUR PASTORAL AREA: Bishop Ray Browne will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation in Duagh Church on Tuesday next (April 1st ) at 2.00 p.m.. Wednesday next, (2nd April) in Moyvane Church at 2.00 p.m. Nano Nagle School in the Hospital Chapel on Wednesday, April 10th at 11.30 a.m. and also Listowel Parish in the Church at 2.00 p.m. More details next weekend.
FIRST CONFESSIONS: for the Presentation Convent Primary School will take place in the Hospital Chapel on Thursday next, March 27th at 8pm.
FIRST FRIDAY OF APRIL: is Friday next, April 4th. Usual Masses at 10.30 p.m. which will be followed by a ‘cuppa’ in the Meeting Room. Also Mass at 7.00 p.m. which will include a short Stations of the Cross.
Confessions: on Thursday and Saturday after the 10.30 a.m. Masses. Fr. Declan will not be doing his usual visits to the Sick and Housebound this week but do so for the month of May.
FINANCE COUNCIL MEETING at the Presbytery on Saturday morning next ( 5th April) at 9.00 am.
ANNUAL PETERS PENCE COLLECTION will be taken up at all Masses (after Communion) next weekend Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th April. This Collection is directed toward supporting the ministry of the Pope in his task of uniting the many different strands of the Church and supports the many charitable initiatives promoted by the Holy Father.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY OF THE WORD will be held on Saturday night next ( 5th April) at Vigil Mass). This is where we invite our younger children (pitched at Primary level) accompanied by their parents to a special ‘Liturgy of the Word’ in the Meeting Room lead by adult leaders during the Mass. Mass is televised there and they rejoin the congregation at Offertory time.
A SALUTE TO SPRING PRESENTED BY KERRY CHORAL UNION at St Mary’s Church, Listowel on Friday 11th April at 8pm. being hosted by Scoil realta na Maidne. This should be a lovely occasion as we experience the singing of Kerry Choral Union once again in our Church as we salute Spring. While admission is open and free to everyone on the night a ‘Suggested Donation’ of €10.00 in advance can be obtained by buying a ticket from the Parish Office, Boys School, Allos Bar and Bistro, Flavins Newsagents or contact 087 931833 / 068 21994, When all expenses are paid the remaining proceeds will be given to Scoil Réalta na Maidine, Listowel. Enjoy the night.
TRÓCAIRE BOXES: are available at the back of the Church. Trócaire is where we as a Parish support the most disadvantaged and marginalised in our world. Each family is invited to take a Trócaire box and support Trócaire during Lent and return to the church at the end of Lent.
ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE: On Thurs. 10th April 8 - 9.30 pm Fr. Teddy Linehan will present an Evening of Prayer and Reflection for the bereaved. Booking: 066-7134276.


COMMUNITY NOTICES

LISTOWEL BRANCH KERRY HOSPICE ANNUAL GOOD FRIDAY WALK ;: takes place from St. Patrick’s Hall on Friday 18th April at 11am. Sponsorship cards available from committee members. Please show our support for this worthy cause.
FEALE DRIVE RESIDENTS A meeting of the Feale Drive Community House Residents Committee will take place on Thursday April 3 at 7.30pm. All Feale Drive residents are encouraged to attend to discuss the future of Feale Drive Community House.


As we celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend we wish all Mums a Happy Mother’s Day

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THE IRISH LAND QUESTION.
A. REVIEW OF THE SUBJECT BY THE REV.
M. O'CONNOR OF KERRY.
The Rev. Father M. O'Connor, parish priest
or Ballybunion, Kerry, Ireland, spoke in the large hall at Cooper Institute last evening on .. The Irish
Land Question." Father O'Connor recently came to this country to solicit aid for the tenants of
the Herenc Estate, in Kerry to enable them
to meet heavy expenses incurred in trying to secure their rights as tenants. Before
the close of his lecture the speaker explained the tenants' case in detail. Ex•Senator T. C. E. Eccleslne acted as Chairman of the meeting, Among those who occupied seats on the platform were Mrs. Parnell, mother of the Irish agitator; John Stack, Vice-President of the Listowel Land League, the Rev. Fathers Mangan and Brosnan, Daniel O'Shea. Capt. John Kerr, John P. Sheehan. O'Donovan Rossa. and Dr. Wallace, President of the Land League of this City. Ex-Senator Ecclesine introduced Father O'Connor in a brief speech of welcome, and the audience greeted him with cheers. He had crossed the Atlantic. Father O'Connor said, to tell the story of his country's wrongs, and to say that the nation lying nearest to America was a nation of bondsmen, albeit they were struggling to be free. For 15 years he had been the priest of a large agricultural parish, and no one had had more ample opportunities to become acquainted with the Irish land system in all its phases. The system was the most iniquitous, the most barbarous, that had ever oppressed and debased any country. The law gave the Irish landlord absolute power over the life and death of his tenants, He could raise rents and evict tenants at will. Ireland had no manufactures, no trade, no commerce worthy the name. The only thing left to her people was the tilling of the soil. Evict the tenant and there was nothing left for him but the Poor-house or an emigrant ship. The lecturer related several Instances of the crushing of tenants by heavy rents which had come under his own observation. One large estate
in Kerry was reclaimed from waste bogs by the tenantry. It was purchased by Wilson Gunn,
Grand Juror and Deputy Lieutenant of the county, who raised the rents enormously-over lOO cent. In some cases-and thus confiscated the work of years. In another case of a reclaimed bog the tenants were forced to pay for rent 14 times the Government valuation. This was what was called rack-rent. and under it no tenant could ever save anything for" a rainy day." Regarding the plea that Ireland was overpopulated. Father O'Connor said It was true that along the western coast the people were somewhat crowded, but It was because they were driven out by the landlords from the green fields and valleys now occupied by cattle. In his journey from Kerry to Dublin he saw along the road waste land enough to keep half a million people . The lecturer spoke briefly of the Coercion act as the most stringent and most despotic law that ever appeared on a statute-book, and then declared that in the 10 years past not more than three or four of the assassinations in Ireland could be called agrarian crimes. Considering the provocation the people received It was amazing that there was so little crime in Ireland. Instances of landlords' outrageous crimes against morality were related by
the speaker in valorous language, and the audience hissed heartily as he told how a
farmer he knew had been ejected because his young wife refused to listen to the
dastardly proposals of the agent of the estate. Gladstone had said, Father O'Connor continued,
that a decree of ejectment was equivalent to a sentence of death. Allowing five members to a family, there would be probably 80.000 persons evicted in Ireland this year. Referring to the good done by the Land League, the speaker asserted that if kept up and supported as it ought to be, the day was not far distant when landlordism would be overthrown by the efforts of the League, Landlords were beginning to find that they had made a mistake in evicting their tenants the farms of the ejected men were idle-avoided as If they were the plague. Some landlords had consented to take back tenants at a rent agreed upon by a fair arbitration and this was due to the Land League agitation. The latter, too had forced the English Government to deal with the land question, and Gladstone had introduced a bill in Parliament that no one would have dared to propose three years ago, Father O'Connor believed this bill amended, would become law and in 10 years one-half the Irish tenants would own their own farms. The speaker next, talked of the Harence Estate, In Kerry. to assist the tenants of which is the object of his visit to America. In 1877 the estate passed by the will of its late owner into the Landed Estates Court for sale. Under notices from the court, the tenants went to Dublin in November, 1878. to bid for their holdings, pursuant to the Bright clauses of the Land act. To the astonishment of the tenants and the court, the solicitors for the trustee announced that the estate had been sold by private contract to the agent Goodman Gentleman, for £65,000. The tenants rightfully complained, and the court rescinded this private contract and ordered the estate divided Into lots to suit the tenants and put up at auction. Notices were again served by
the court on the tenants to bid for the lots, and an aggregate of £64,000 was offered for the estate. A few days before the time fixed for the sale the court was asked to confirm another private sale of the estate to Samuel Murray Hussey for £80.500.
The court refused, Mr. Hussey appealed to the Irish Court of Appeals, which overruled the lower
court and handed the estate to Mr. Hussey. The tenants, as a last resort. appealed to the House of Lords, were again defeated, the whole resulting in the putting upon them of £2.000
costs. This defeat the lecturer said. would result in ruin for Little Irish tenants, for It, had shown
the inefficiency of the Land act of 1870, especially the Bright clauses, and would compel additional
legislation for the good of the people. In conclusion, Father O'Connor declared that the
faithful Pastors of the Irish people were at the front of the Land League, which would never
cease agitating until the present. land system had been destroyed forever, What they wanted was justice, freedom, and the restoration to Ireland of her legislative independence. The audience cheered for Father O'Connor, Mrs. Parnell, and the Chairman. Dr. Wallace spoke a few words of
hatred toward the British Government, and the meeting came to an end.
Published: July 21, 1881 Copyright ' The New York Times

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Listowel Co Kerry, Church Newsletter 6th April 2014

ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL

PARISH OFFICE is open Mon–Fri from 10am–5pm (excluding 1pm–2pm). Canon Declan O’Connor P.P. Phone: 068 21188 / Parish Mobile: 087 0908949 (strictly for emergencies only). Email: listowel@dioceseofkerry.ie. Notices for Parish Newsletter have to be in by 2.00pm on Thursdays. Funerals take place on weekdays at 11.30am and Sundays and Holy Days at 11.00am. Baptisms are at pre-arranged times and must be booked through the Parish Office. Confessions: every Saturday after 10.30am Mass. Check out our web page and all Diocesan news on: www.dioceseofkerry.ie

RECENT DEATHS: James G. Dore, Charles Street.
Nora Dwyer, Shrone East & Lystoll Lodge Nursing Home.

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Joe, Liz & William Moloney, Charles Street.

MASSES THIS WEEK
Saturday
5th Pat Guerin, Ballahadigue, Month Mind /
Eileen Galvin, Dirha West / Sheila Ryan, Skehenerin /
Larry Buckley, Birthday Remembrance & Dora Buckley, Tanavalla/
Maire Grimes, Clieveragh Vigil
Sunday
6th People of the Parish 9.00am
John Behan, Bunagara, Months Mind /
Liam & Frances Woulfe, William Street /
Sean McCarthy, Coolard 11.00am
Monday 7th Bill McGrath & Deceased Family Members, William Street 10.30am
Tuesday 8th Special Intention 10.30am
Wed. 9th Margaret McElligott (Mrs Mac), Requested by Kerry Parents & Friends 10.30am
Thursday 10th Private Intention 10.30am
Friday 11th Tim & Bridie O Flaherty, Church Street 10.30am
Saturday 12th Mass of thanks given 10.30am
Marion Nolan nee Murphy, Bedford /
Breda O Connor (nee Surgue), O’Connell’s Ave. /
John O Connor, Clieveragh Park /
Toddy Sommers, Billerough /
Joan Carroll (nee McKenna), Finuge /
Mary Joy, Ballinruddery & Charles Street Vigil
Sunday 13th Ann Sheehan, Ballygrennan /
Kathleen, Eddie, Mossie & Maryanne Hartnett, Gortnaminch /
Murt & Eileen Daly, Knockane 9.00am
Kevin Murphy, Curragh Close /
Sarah Gill, Donegal, Recently Deceased &
Kathleen Dunne, Derry, Recently Deceased 11.00am

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on this Sunday, April 6th, Fr. Lawlor, 0876794112.

OFFERTORY COLLECTION FOR OUR PARISH last weekend was, (including all envelopes). May God reward you and thank you for your generosity.

ANNUAL PETERS PENCE COLLECTION will be taken up at all Masses (after Communion) this weekend Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th April. This Collection is directed toward supporting the ministry of the Pope in his task of uniting the many different strands of the Church and supports the many charitable initiatives promoted by the Holy Father. Thanks.
5th SUNDAY OF LENT 6th APRIL 2014

CHURCH NOTICES
CHILDREN'S LITURGY OF THE WORD taking place this Saturday night at the Vigil Mass.
TROCAIRE BOXES: are available at the back of the Church. Trocaire is where we as a Parish / Diocese support the most disadvantaged and marginalised of the world. Each household is invited to take a Trocaire Box and read the material inside and return any offering to the Church during Holy Week.
LISTOWEL AREA PASTORAL COUNCIL representing the parishes of Moyvane, Listowel, Duagh & Lixnaw will meet on Tuesday 8th April next at 8pm. in Knockanure Community Centre.
A SALUTE TO SPRING BY KERRY CHORAL UNION: hosted by Scoil Realta na Maidne will take place at St. Mary’s Church on Friday night, 11th April at 8.00 p.m. Enjoy the night.
EASTER CONFESSIONS: There will be a Penitential Service for Holy Week with a number of Priests hearing Confessions on Monday 14th April at 8.00pm. The Church asks each of us to go to Confession at least once a year. We invite you all to avail of the opportunity to do your Easter duty on this night.
CHRISM MASS: where all the priests of the Diocese renew their priestly vows and Bishop Ray will bless all the Holy Oils for the coming year will take place at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney on Tuesday evening, April 15th at 7.30 p.m. Each parish of the Diocese is invited to be represented at this Mass and there will be refreshments immediately afterwards in St. Brendan’s College. It would be great if a few from Listowel Parish could come along and it is always a lovely experience and occasion.
ARDFERT RETREAT CENTRE: Fr. Teddy Linehan will present an Evening of Prayer and Reflection for the bereaved on Thursday 10th April 8 - 9.30 pm Booking: 066-7134276 or E.mail: ardfertretreat@eircom.net All are welcome.
OPUS '96 CHAMBER CHOIR WILL PRESENT "HOSANNA", a service of the world's most beautiful Sacred Music along with prayerful reflections in preparation for Holy Week on Palm Sunday 13th April at 8pm at Our Lady & St Brendan's Church, Tralee. More details on www.stbrendansparishtralee.org

LISTOWEL CONFIRMATIONS 2014
THE SACRMENT OF CONFIRMATION will be administered by Bishop Ray Brown on Thursday next 10th April in Listowel. There will be two ceremonies. The first will take place at 11.30 a.m. in the Hospital Chapel for three candidates from Nano Nagle School. The Parish Confirmation with 60 candidates from Presentation Primary, Scoil Realta na Maidne, Gael Scoil and Kilocrim Schools will take place in the Church at 2.00 p.m. The Boys and Girls for Confirmation and their sponsors are asked to be in their seats by 1.30pm. Usual reminder: The use of Cameras and Videos are not permitted during the ceremony. There will be ample opportunity afterwards, both inside and outside the Church to take photographs with the Bishop. Wishing all the Confirmation candidates, their teachers and their families every blessing on the day.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

LISTOWEL TIDY TOWN’S GROUP 2014 Annual clean up week. Monday 7th April, Town Park Car Park. Tuesday 8th, College Cross (near garage). Wednesday 9th, Convent Cross, near car park. Thursday 10th, Fitness Centre car park, near cinema. Friday 11th, Carroll’s Yard car park. (clean up materials will be provided). We are all responsible for our environment!
KERRY COUNTY ROADSIDE CLEAN UP takes place on Saturday next, 12th April, sponsored by KWD Recycling. Volunteers needed. Contact www.kerrycountycleanup.com
LISTOWEL BRANCH KERRY HOSPICE ANNUAL GOOD FRIDAY WALK : takes place from St. Patrick’s Hall on Friday 18th April at 11am. Sponsorship cards available from committee members. Please show our support.
LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE are offering a variety of courses including healthy cooking on a budget, horticulture level 3 & 4. digital photography, first aid and interior design. Names are also being taken for a benefit five computer class focusing on the basics of how to use internet, Skype and email. The The monthly meeting of the Alzheimer's Support Group take place at 12 noon on Tuesday April 8. Donations are being accepted for ‘a bring and buy sale’ on Tuesday April 8 from 7.30pm. More details: Contact Centre.

Knoc

HARNETT
MSGR. JOSEPH H. HARNETT DIES
MSGR. JOSEPH H. HARNETT DIES; LED CATHOLIC RELIEF SERIVCES
Published: August 28, 1987 New York Times



Msgr. Joseph J. Harnett, who directed refugee relief projects for the Catholic Relief Services for almost four decades, died Wednesday of cancer at St. Joseph's Villa, a priest's nursing home attached to the Mercy Hospital in Darby, Penn. He was 76 years old and lived in Immaculata, Pa.

The monsignor's work on behalf of those made homeless by war, depression or natural disaster began in France immediately after World War II and spanned Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia before ending with his retirement in 1984. At the time of his death, he was chaplain of Immaculata College.

Father Harnett's assignment to France came four years after the founding of Catholic War Relief Services in 1943. In his 37 years in the field, the number of countries served by the relief service grew from 12 to 73.

After completing his assignment to France, he was transferred in 1948 to Trieste, Italy, then part of the Free Territory of Trieste, where he was appointed director of the service's local relief efforts for refugees from Eastern Europe. He remained in Trieste until 1954.

That year, which signalled the end of French power in Indochina, he was sent to Saigon, where he established the first American voluntary aid program in Vietnam. Many Honours Abroad

Two years later he was elevated to monsignor and was named director of all the service's Far East programs, which covered 12 countries in an arc from Pakistan to South Korea. Based in Saigon, he held the post for a decade.

In 1966, Monsignor Harnett was assigned to Rome and given even wider responsibilities as director of all Catholic Relief Services activities in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. He remained there for 18 years, until returning to Philadelphia and retiring in 1984.

The governments of France, South Vietnam, the Philippines and the city of Trieste all honoured Monsignor Harnett for his achievements. So did his hometown of Philadelphia, which cited him for ''his outstanding and humanitarian services'' in 1960.

Joseph John Harnett was born Dec. 23, 1910 in Philadelphia. He graduated in 1930 with a bachelor of arts degree from St. Charles Seminary in Overbrook, a Philadelphia suburb. The same year, he went to Rome, where he studied at the Lateran Seminary before being ordained in 1935. He returned to Philadelphia and taught at St. Thomas High School in Philadelphia and at the St. Charles Seminary before embarking on his career with the Catholic Relief Services.

Survivors include a sister, Mary Veith of Philadelphia, and four brothers: Daniel, of Malvern, Penn.; John, of Merion, Penn.; William, of Washington's Crossing, Penn., and Gerald, of Richmond,

Knoc

LISTOWEL CHURCH NEWS
HOLY THURSDAY, 17TH APRIL
Morning Prayer at 10.30 a.m. followed by Confessions.



Mass of the Lord’s Supper 8.00 p.m. followed by Confession.




Church will remain open until 11pm. for prayer.
You are invited to spend some time with the Lord during this time. This recalls his night of prayer in the garden of Gethsemane.



GOOD FRIDAY, 18TH APRIL

Morning Prayer at 10.30 a.m. followed by Confession

The Lord’s Passion 3.00 p.m.


Stations of the Cross
(lead by Listowel Drama Group) 8.00 p.m.



HOLY SATURDAY, 19TH APRIL
Morning Prayer at 10.30 a.m. followed by Confessions

Easter Vigil 8.00 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY MASS 20TH APRIL
9.00 a.m. & 11.00 a.m.


ST. MARY’S CHURCH, LISTOWEL
HOLY WEEK PROGRAMME




Listowel Parish Liturgy Group, invite you to enter into the spirit of Holy Week by joining us for the Holy Week Ceremonies which celebrate the anniversaries of the events of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord taking place at the following times:


PALM SUNDAY 13TH APRIL Blessings of Palms


(Vigil Mass 7pm. Saturday Eve
& 9am. & 11am. on Sunday morning)




MONDAY, 14TH APRIL Mass at 10.30 a.m.



Penitential Service at 8.00 p.m. including individual Confessions with a number of priests present. We encourage as many as possible to avail of the opportunity to have their Easter Confession.




TUESDAY, 15TH APRIL Mass at 10.30 a.m.

CHRISM MASS at 7.30 p.m. St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney.
Bishop Bill has invited all parishioners to this Mass at which the priests of the Diocese renew their priest vows. Also all the Oils used for the various sacraments for the coming year are blessed.




SPY WEDNESDAY, 16TH APRIL Mass at 10.30 a.m. followed by
Confessions.
ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL

RECENT DEATHS: Michael O’Riordan, Willowbrook, Listowel & Kanturk.
Barbara Barry O’Callaghan, died in Wales late of London & Tanavalla.
Maureen Kiely, Mary Street, Limerick.
ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Timmy (Junie) Canty O’Connell’s Ave., Bernadette O’Sullivan, Cahirdown, Daniel O Connor, Ballygologue Rd. & Ellen Moore, Charles St, K. Behan, Brendan Tce, Michael & Peg Murphy, Charles St, Michel Aggie, Joe & Nora Nolan, Charles St, Mai Watkins, Cahirdown.

MASSES THIS WEEK
Saturday
12th Noreen O Connor, Bunagara & London, Months Mind /
Marion Nolan nee Murphy, Bedford /
Breda O Connor (nee Sugrue), O’Connell’s Ave. /
John O Connor, Clieveragh Park /
Toddy Sommers, Billerough /
Joan Carroll (nee McKenna), Finuge /
Mary Joy, Ballinruddery & Charles Street Vigil
Sunday
13th Ann Sheehan, Ballygrennan / Murt & Eileen Daly, Knockane/
Kathleen, Eddie, Mossie & Maryanne Hartnett, Gortnaminch 9.00am
Kevin Murphy, Curragh Close / William Collins, Skehenerin
Sarah Gill, Donegal, Recently Deceased &
Kathleen Dunne, Derry, Recently Deceased 11.00am
Monday 14th Jeremiah, Teresa & Jimmy Loughnane, Ballygologue Park 10.30am
Easter Confessions 8pm
Tuesday 15th Agnes Buckley, Denis O’Sullivan, Kathleen Daly &
Denis B. O’Sullivan, William St./ Rena McAuliffe, Courthouse Rd
/Maura & Michael Cronin Market St. & John Madden Sligo 10.30am
Wed. 16th Patricia Griffin, Feale Dr./ Kitty O’Carroll, O’Connell’s Ave.
Dolly & Jim Roche, O’Connell’s Ave. /
Michael & Tommy Browne, London 10.30am
Holy
Thursday 17th Morning Prayer from Divine Office 10.30am
Mass of the Last Supper 8.00pm
Good
Friday 18th Morning Prayer from Divine Office 10.30am
Lords Passion 3.00pm
Stations of the Cross 8.00pm
Holy Saturday 19th Solemn Easter Vigil Morning Prayer from Divine Office 10.30am
Joe & Trevor Chute & Tony Brennan, Ballygologue Pk. &
Eileen Keane, Ballylongford & Bridget & John Joe O’Connor, Shannon golden / Teresa Holly, Convent Street Vigil
8.00pm
Easter
Sunday 20th John O Neill, Ballyneety, Limerick, Recently Deceased /
Pat, Josie & William Kenny, Church Street 9.00am
Joe Mulvihill, Clieveragh & Moss Galvin, Mountcoal 11.00am

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on this Sunday, April 13th,
Fr. Declan 0870908949 (strictly emergencies only).

PASSION SUNDAY (Palm Sunday) 13th APRIL 2014

PARISH OFFERTORY COLLECTION Our sincere thanks for the Offertory and Peter’s Pence Collection last weekend. May God reward you and thank you.

CHURCH NOTICES

EASTER CONFESSIONS: Our Holy Week Penitential Service/Confessions with a number of Priests hearing Confessions is taking place on this Monday 14th April at 8.00pm. The Church asks each of us to go to Confession at least once a year. We invite you all to avail of the opportunity to do your Easter duty on this night or avail of the Confessions times at the other side of this page.

TROCAIRE BOXES: are available at the back of the Church. Trocaire is where we as a Parish / Diocese support the most disadvantaged and marginalised of the world. Each household is invited to take a Trocaire Box and read the material inside and return any offering to the Church during Holy Week.
CHRISM MASS: where all the priests of the Diocese renew their priestly vows and Bishop Ray will bless all the Holy Oils for the coming year will take place at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney on Tuesday evening, April 15th at 7.30 p.m. Each parish of the Diocese is invited to be represented at this Mass and there will be refreshments immediately afterwards in St. Brendan’s College. It would be great if a few from Listowel Parish could come along and it is always a lovely experience and occasion.
SPECIAL HOLY WEEK BOOKLETS will be available at the back of the church on Holy Thursday. We ask you to buy these booklets for just €1.00 which you can place in the box alongside the booklets and keep the booklet for the three days of the Easter ceremonies.
“DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME” PROGRAMME will be part of our Mass on Holy Thursday night at 8.00 p.m. All First Holy Communion children and their parents are asked to attend.
OPUS '96 CHAMBER CHOIR WILL PRESENT "HOSANNA", a service of the world's most beautiful Sacred Music along with prayerful reflections in preparation for Holy Week on Palm Sunday 13th April at 8pm at Our Lady & St Brendan's Church, Tralee. More details on www.stbrendansparishtralee.org
PILGRIMAGE TO POLAND in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II – in celebration of his canonisation year. Direct flight from Shannon, coach from Kerry. Details 021-4277700 or 066-7131328.
MEDJUGORJE MONTHLY PRAYER MEETING has been postponed for the Month of April due to Holy Week. It will resume on at 7.30 in the Parish Meeting Room.
PLEASE NOTE: PARISH OFFICE will close for Easter on Good Friday, 18th April at 1.00 p.m. and will re-open on Wednesday, 23rd April, at 10.00am.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

LISTOWEL BRANCH KERRY HOSPICE ANNUAL GOOD FRIDAY WALK : takes place from St. Patrick’s Hall on Friday 18th April at 11am. Sponsorship cards available from committee members. Please show our support.
THE LISTOWEL BRANCH OF THE IRISH CANCER SOCIETY wish to thank all who donated to their Daffodil Day Collection on March 28th.To the Volunteers who gave their time so generously and, Those who picked and donated fresh daffodils. Together we raised €22,555. This collection includes areas of Listowel/ Ballybunion/ Moyvane/ Causeway / Ballyduff.
AN EASTER ACTIVITY CAMP will be held at Listowel Family Resource Centre from Monday April 14-Friday April 18 from 9.30am-1.30pm daily. Further details from Jacqui/Pat on (068) 23584
LISTOWEL COMMUNITY CENTRE Kettlebell and Spinning running classes throughout the week for beginners and the experienced. Kiddies parties also available so book early to avoid disappointment. For more info call us on 068 22244 or e-mail us at listowelcommunitycentre@eircom.net
STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COMMUNITIES North & East Kerry Development ( NEKD ) invite you to attend a public meeting on Wednesday 16th April, 2014 at Listowel Family Resource Centre at 8 pm to discuss the proposed destruction of the local services and supports currently delivered in your area. Your support would be greatly appreciated on the night.
DEBTS ANONYMOUS Meet weekly in Listowel, in a warm, safe, confidential atmosphere at the Xistance Cafe, William St, Monday’s at 1pm. For more information contact Tom on 0872814887.

Knoc

6 June 1840
http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/6th-june-1840/10/ireland

STATE OF THE POOR IN LISTOWEL.—We are extremely sorry to have to say that the state of the poor in Listowel is awfully deplorable. Potatoes are one shilling and four-pence per stone ! and, melancholy to relate, there is no employment in the country. ...Limerick Reporter.

Taken from Tablet;

Duagh and more
Page 24, 17th March 1934

Recent deaths among the secular clergy include the Rev. Thomas Dowling, parish priest at Graignamanagh, County Kilkenny; John Lynch, C.C., of Duagh, Kilmorna,. an active worker in the Gaelic movement; J. O'Brien, parish priest of Holywood, County Down; and G.. O'Callaghan, parish priest at Causeway, Tralee.—R.I.P.

A HEAVY CLERICAL OBITUARY.—During the past few days death has made many gaps in the ranks of the Irish priesthood. The Jesuits at Milltown Park, who lost one of their veteran members lately by the death of Father Hugh Tunney, have now to deplore the loss of another priest, this time at the early age of forty. Father Paul Healy, S.J., who died on March 9, was the worthy son of a very distinguished father, the late Mr. Timothy Healy, first Governor-General of the Irish Free State. Father Healy was an old boy of Belvedere College and Clongowes Wood; he had been just over twenty-two years in the Society of Jesus. The Holy Ghost Fathers at Harold's Cross have lost Father John O'Harte, C.S.Sp., a native of New Zealand but educated in Ireland, at Blackrock College.
GERMANY THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS !—At Memmingen, an old Bavarian town of 15,000 inhabitants, the Editor of a Catholic paper recently complained of the methods used by Nazis to draw readers away to their own newspapers. For this offence the Editor and staff have all been taken into "protective custody," which is a euphemism for gaol. At Bonn, in the Rhineland, a Protestant paper has been confiscated for printing a resolution passed by the Free Evangelical Synod of the region.

Knoc

Published: July 28, 1906,
Mangan
The New York Times
Cleveland Ohio 27th July 1906.
John Mangan a retired policeman aged 72 born Glin County Limerick, has refused to seek estate of $6 million. Two babies were born the same day under the elder Mangan’s roof, John the policeman and Mary was born to a sister of Mr Mangan, she later became Lady Bateman. In 1849 Mr Mangan sold his estate to the father of Lord Kitchener and then went to America, the parents died in 1851 and the children were sent to charitable institutions. What became of Mangan’s money is unknown. Mary the cousin of John Mangan Policeman married Sir Thomas Bateman in London. Sir Thomas died six years ago and Lady Mary died intestate leaving $6 million. John Mangan said that at his age of 72 he is not wildly ambitious.

British Columbia Kelowna Record 18 July 1912.
Harry Millie and Premier Roblin both started business in the same old town. Harry started a telephone business in Carman and made if pay, he went out to Okanagan Valley and started a second telephone system and was a winner. He sold his telephone system and passed through Carman on his way to visit his early home near the Lakes of Killarney with $75,000 stowed money in his jeans. Meanwhile Premier Roblin is in a million dollars hole.

Knoc

ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL 20 April 2014


RECENT DEATHS: John Keane, O’Connell’s Ave. Requiem Mass this Sunday at 11am
Alice O’Neill, died in England late of Ballygologue Rd.
Celia Mahony, died in England late of Ennismore.
Elsie Geale nee Ivens, died in England late of Cahirdown.
George Hennessy, died in Australia late of The Square.

ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Maureen O’Connor, Church St, Robert, Josephine & Mary Dore, Charles St, Mary O’Connor nee Chute, O’Connell’s Ave. & Thomas (Tom) Keating, Dirha Cottages, Sean Enright, St. Mary’s Dromerin, Betty Grist, Eileen Moylan, Freemount, Bridie Dowd, O’Dowd’s Rd, Corridan, Moriarty & Fitzgerald Families & Deceased Family Members.


MASSES THIS WEEK

Holy Saturday 19th Solemn Easter Vigil
Joe & Trevor Chute & Tony Brennan, Ballygologue Pk. &
Eileen Keane, Ballylongford & Bridget & John Joe O’Connor, Shannon golden / Teresa Holly, Convent St. /
Frankie Corcoran, Feale Dr. /
Laurence & Ellen Collins, Kilmorna Vigil
8.00pm
Easter
Sunday 20th John O Neill, Ballyneety, Limerick, Recently Deceased /
Pat, Josie & William Kenny, Church Street /
Joe Mulvihill, Clieveragh & Moss Galvin, Mountcoal 9.00am
Funeral Mass – John P. Keane, O’Connell’s Ave. 11.00am
Monday 21st Deceased Members of the Old IRA 10.30am
Tuesday 22nd Bridie O Sullivan, Ennismore 10.30am
Wed. 23rd Tony Hartnett, Killocrim, Months Mind 10.30am
Thursday 24th Special Intention 10.30am
Padre Pio Evening Mass 7.00pm
Friday 25th Jeremiah, Margaret & Jer Halpin, Clounmacon 10.30am
Saturday 26th Paddy Dillon, Gortacrissane, Birthday Remembrance 10.30am
Margaret McElligott, Bedford, Months Mind /
Betty Clancy, St. Brendan’s Tce. /
Ann (Nancy) O’Sullivan, Killocrim /
Patrick, Bridie & Mary O’Sullivan, Killocrim /
Baby Tori Murphy-Mulvihill, Stokers Lawn, Birthday Rem. /
Richard Carey, Ballygologue Rd. /
John McMahon, Clieveragh Pk. / Christy Stack, Greenville /
Patrick, Timothy & Joan Buckley, Knockane Vigil
Sunday 27th Robert Purcell, Woodford 9.00am
James G. Dore, Charles St. Months Mind /
Catherine O Mahony, Ballygrennan /
Sinead Halkett, Gortinard / Mike Fitzgerald, Ballinruddery 11.00am

Priest on duty for Listowel Deanery on this Sunday, April 20th, Fr. O’Connell 0879267038.

EASTER SUNDAY 20th APRIL 2014

This Easter morning we celebrate the central mystery of our faith, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He suffered on the cross and died for us, but now he has risen. ALLEULIA!

SPRING-EASTER OFFERINGS: A sincere word of thanks to you all who have already dropped in your Spring-Easter Offerings. Your offering maybe placed in the ‘Green Envelope’ in your Envelope Box or use the loose envelopes at the back of the church and it supports your priests. Again, this year throughout the Diocese – to facilitate the collecting of the Spring / Easter Offerings – the Baskets will be passed around immediately after Holy Communion on this Holy Saturday night and again on this Easter Sunday morning. If it is not convenient for you this weekend you can drop on the Offertory Plate at any time or drop into the Parish Office. Míle Buiochas

CHURCH NOTICES
PARISH OFFERTORY COLLECTION Our sincere thanks for the Offertory Collection last weekend. May God reward you and thank you.
DIVINE MERCY DEVOTIONS: here at St. Mary’s Church, Listowel on Sunday next, April 27th, from 3.00pm. to 4.00pm. Confessions will begin at 2.30pm. All are most welcome!
TRÓCAIRE OFFERINGS These should be returned as soon as possible to the Sacristy or Parish Office. Please do not leave them lying around in the Church. Thank you.
REBUILDING OUR CHURCH A Talk given by Fr. Tony Flannery will take on Tuesday 29th April at 8pm. in St. John’s Theatre. All are welcome.
YOUTH MINISTRY COURSE will take place over 16 nights and 2 Saturdays starting in October 2014 in John Paul II Pastoral Centre. For more information contact the Parish Office.
PLEASE NOTE: PARISH OFFICE will be closed on this Monday & Tuesday and will re-open on Wednesday morning at 10.00am.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE Supervised Study for Exam Students will take place Monday 21st April to Friday 25th April, 10am. to 3pm. Cost €8.00 per day.
FEALESIDE PLAYERS: are presenting a hilarious Comedy Drama in a rural setting entitled: ‘’Thy will be done’ in St. John’s Theatre – Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday of next week. All Proceeds in aid of Laundry Service for the Elderly in Listowel. Enjoy!
LARTIGUE MONORAIL SPECIAL EASTER WEEKEND AND SUMMER OPERATION The Lartigue Monorail and Museum will operate on Easter Saturday and Sunday (April 19th and 20th) from 2pm to 4pm. From May 1st to mid-September the Lartigue will operate every afternoon from 1pm to 4.30pm.
LISTOWEL RAMBLING HOUSE Thursday 24th April at the Seanchaí Centre, The Square, Listowel from 9.15pm. An informal evening of traditional Irish music, song, dance & storytelling. Admission free.
NORTH KERRY WIND TURBINE AWARENESS GROUP will hold a meeting for the wider North Kerry Community in the Listowel Arms on Thursday April 24th at 8pm.
LISTOWEL TIDY TOWN: say a big "thank you" to everyone who came out on the "clean ups" last week, especially the children, who were brilliant. Thank you also to those who provided the "goodies" and the teas and coffees, It was all very much appreciated. We invite you all to the Seanchaí on Tues April 22nd at 8pm where we will launch our newly commissioned 3year plan. Please come along and have your say in making "Lovely Listowel even lovelier!

Japandamo

Hi all,

We have formed a semi-regular boardgame meeting which we have been holding in the Listowel Arms Hotel.

We've set up a group page on Facebook, if anybody is interested in joining us, we'd be delighted to meet you.

We'll be meeting up tonight at 8pm in the Arms if you are interested.

All the best.

xxyyzz

I'm sick of looking at Aoife Thornton's face. Is it really necessary to have a poster up on every single lamppost on every street in Listowel?

Knoc

In Memory of Martin Behan from NY Times
October 9, 1931 - December 11, 2013
Obituary; Mr. Martin Behan died December 11, 2013 with his longtime friend and roommate, Joseph Wiseman, by his side at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York after a four year illness. Martin was born in Ballyegan, Lisselton, Ireland the son of the late Margaret (Buckley) Behan and Jeremiah Behan. Mr. Behan is survived by one sister Eileen Hennessy, his friend Joe Wiseman, sisters-in-law Mary Behan, and Bridie Behan. He was predeceased by his brothers Jeremiah, Patrick, Robert, and sisters Maura, Catherine, and Josie. Martin worked on the family farm, and with his brother, Jeremiah, prior to emigrating to the United States in 1958. He also attended trade school for carpentry prior to leaving Ireland. Upon arrival in America, Martin's carpentry talents were quickly noticed, and appreciated. He began what turned out to be a very successful career with the Local 608 Carpenters Union in New York City, where he had settled down. Martin initially lived in the Bronx, and later in Manhattan. After retirement Martin, and Joe embarked once again on another very successful career as handymen and Mr's. Fix it. Their skilled work brought more and more customers to their business. The only advertising they used was word of mouth from happy customers. Martin was also known to his friends and family for the helping hands he rendered to them, whether it be completing a project for them, or helping someone in financial need. Another of Martins accomplishments was his acquisition of the Stirrup Bar in White Cross, Co. Cork. He remodeled that facility, which was managed by his sister Eileen, and her family. Martin was always very proud of the "Stirrup" and was forever inviting his friends in America, and Ireland to visit should they be in the area. As industrious as Martin was he enjoyed travelling back to Ireland to spend quality time with his family and friends. He also enjoyed travelling to Rhode Island to visit with his sister, Catherine and her family. In line with Martin's work ethic, he often transformed those visits into work if he noticed something out of line, or something that needed repair in their homes. From time to time he would travel to Florida where he enjoyed the warmth and relaxation. Martin was a proud member of the Kerryman's Association in New York City. He was also responsible for assisting numerous friends and relatives who emigrated to America from Ireland. Some of the assistance included finding housing, and employment for the new arrivals as well as training in the carpentry trade. Even in his debilitated state Martin, was able to provide assistance to Kathleen, and Pye when the need arose. Funeral arrangements were coordinated between the Andrett Funeral Home in New York and the Lyons Funeral Home in Derry, Listowel. Martin's funeral was held on Monday, December 16th 2013, from the Lyons Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial was held at St. Theresa's Church in Ballydonoghue. The Mass was concelebrated by Rev. Joseph Tarrant, Rev. Padraig Kennelly, Rev. William Buckley and the Rev. John Lawlor. Music was under the direction of Steve Donegan, who was accompanied by soloist Emma Tarrant, Martin's grand niece. The eulogy was given by Deidre Bolger the decedent's niece. Burial was in St. Michael's Cemetery in Listowel, Ireland.
Andrett Funeral Home, 353 Second Ave, New York, NY 10010 |

Knoc

ST. MARY'S CHURCH, LISTOWEL 27 April 2014


ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE Thomas Lyons, Finuge,


MASSES THIS WEEK


Saturday 26th Margaret McElligott, Bedford, Months Mind /
Betty Clancy, St. Brendan’s Tce. /
Ann (Nancy) O’Sullivan, Killocrim /
Patrick, Bridie & Mary O’Sullivan, Killocrim /
Baby Tori Murphy-Mulvihill, Stokers Lawn, Birthday Rem. /
Richard Carey, Ballygologue Rd. /
John McMahon, Clieveragh Pk. / Christy Stack, Greenville /
Patrick, Timothy & Joan Buckley, Knockane Vigil


Sunday 27th Robert Purcell, Woodford 9.00am
James G. Dore, Charles St. Months Mind /
Catherine O Mahony, Ballygrennan /
Sinead Halkett, Gortinard / Mike Fitzgerald, Ballinruddery 11.00am
Monday 28th Ned & Hannah O’Neill, Bridge Rd, Sue & Tracey O Neill, Nora & Jack Foley London 10.30am
Tuesday 29th 10.30am
Wed. 30th Martin Corridan, Bedford, Months Mind 10.30am
Thursday 1st 10.30am
Friday 2nd 10.30am
Retired, Deceased, Sick & Serving
Members of the An Garda Siochana 7.00pm
Saturday 3rd Michael Moloney, Woodford & New York, Recently Deceased 10.30am
Margaret O’Sullivan, Tralee & Finuge /
Daniel Allen, St. Brendan’s Tec, 1st Anniversary /
Jeremiah & Ellen McCarthy, Toor, Duagh /
Tommy & Mary McAuliffe, Colbert St. Vigil
Sunday 4th Hannah & John O’Brien, Cahirdown 9.00am
James Cronin, Cherrytree Dr, 1st Anniversary /
Michael Anthony O’Sullivan, Moyvane & Ballylongford 11.00am





PARISH OFFERTORY COLLECTION Our sincere thanks for the Offertory Collection last weekend. May God reward you and thank you.
ANNUAL EDUCATION OF PRIESTS COLLECTION will be taken up at all Masses (after Communion) next weekend Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd May. This fund provides for the education of a future generation of priests whose ministry will continue to be vital in Diocese of Kerry in the 21st Century. The Diocese currently has two students in formation for priesthood.


2nd SUNDAY OF EASTER 27th APRIL 2014

PARISH OFFICE is open Mon–Fri from 10am–5pm (excluding 1pm–2pm). Canon Declan O’Connor P.P. Phone: 068 21188 / Parish Mobile: 087 0908949 (strictly for emergencies only). Email: listowel@dioceseofkerry.ie. Notices for Parish Newsletter have to be in by 2.00pm on Thursdays. Funerals take place on weekdays at 11.30am and Sundays and Holy Days at 11.00am. Baptisms are at pre-arranged times and must be booked through the Parish Office. Confessions: every Saturday after 10.30am Mass. Check out our web page and all Diocesan news on: www.dioceseofkerry.ie

CHURCH NOTICES

DIVINE MERCY DEVOTIONS: here at St. Mary’s Church, Listowel on this Sunday, April 27th, from 3.00pm. to 4.00pm. Confessions will begin at 2.30pm. All are most welcome!
PARISH COUNCIL will meet on Tuesday 29th April at 8pm. in the Presbytery.
COMMUNION CALLS TO THE SICK & THE HOUSEBOUND: As Friday next (2nd May) is the First Friday, Canon Declan will be doing his usual calls to the Sick & Housebound Wednesday & Thursday. The Parish Office will make contact as to the time of his arrival. Anybody new who wishes a visit from the priest, please contact the Parish Office, 068-21188.
FIRST FRIDAY OF MAY: is Friday next, May 2nd, Usual Masses at 10.30 p.m. which will be followed by a ‘cuppa’ in the Meeting Room. Also Mass at 7.00 p.m. Confessions: on Thursday and Saturday after the 10.30 a.m. Masses.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY OF THE WORD will be held on next Saturday night ( 3rd May) at Vigil Mass). This is where we invite our younger children (pitched at Primary level) accompanied by their parents to a special ‘Liturgy of the Word’ in the Meeting Room lead by adult leaders during the Mass. Mass is televised there and they rejoin the congregation at Offertory time.
40 HOURS ADORATION will take place in the Parish again this year – commencing with Mass at 8pm. Friday 9th May until the closing Mass at 11am. Sunday 11th May. We are appealing to people who wish to commit to an hour of Adoration to sign the sheet at the back of the Church which will be available next week onwards.
TRÓCAIRE OFFERINGS These should be returned as soon as possible to the Sacristy or Parish Office. Please do not leave them lying around in the Church. Thank you.
REBUILDING OUR CHURCH Tuesday night 29th April at St John’s in Listowel, Fr Tony Flannery, Redemptorist and founding member of the Association of Catholic Priests will give a Talk @ 8 p.m.. Everyone is welcome. Fr. Pat Ahern will chair the meeting.


COMMUNITY NOTICES

ALZHEIMERS IRELAND TEA MORNING at Christy’s, The Square, on Friday May 2nd at 10.30am. Raffle spot prizes. Your support would be appreciated.
LISTOWEL MILITARY AGRICULTURAL & VINTAGE FESTIVAL WEEKEND this weekend activities including street theatre, will be taking place throughout the weekend. We would greatly appreciate if parishioners attending 11am. Mass on Sunday May 4th would remove their cars from the Church area to the AIB Bank immediately afterwards as a re-enactment of a battle scene is planned for them. All are welcome to attend.