Friday 9 February 2018

Listowel Town Park, a walking race and some more from the Sive archive

Greenfinch

Photo; Graham Davies on Facebook

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In The Park, Winter 2018



The gas pipeline in a very wet town park.


The river rose much higher in the days after I took this photo.




Listowel Community Centre


Deserted tennis courts



Empty playgrounds


Blown down sign

Bleak house....The Dandy Lodge in the background. 1916 commemorative garden in foreground.

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Mad Speed Limit at Tim Kennelly Roundabout



Would you head into a roundabout at 60km per hour?

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Wren Boys and Tarbert to Listowel walking race


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Sive Revisited




When The Abbey Theatre produced Sive in 2014, some kind friends of the blog shared some of their memorabilia with us.




Kay Caball whose mother was the chair of the Drama Group kept the programme and some of the newspaper cuttings.


Margaret Dillon, who played Sive sent us this photograph of the cast visit to Dáil Eireann where Dan Moloney, T.D. received them and took them on a guided triumphal tour.

Kay Caball gave us the names of all the people in this photo.

Front Row From Left:

Jeffrey O’Connnor (Cahirciveen,  Sheila Keane’s Husband)
Brendan Carroll   (Carroll's, William St)
Margaret Dillon     (She played Sive)
John B. Keane        
Cecile Cotter  (‘Tasty Cotter’s’ daughter – Scully’s Corner used to be called Cotter’s Corner)
Nora Relihan
Dan Moloney T.D., (grandfather of Jimmy Moloney)

Second Row Left to Right
John Cahill,  (Main St.,)
Hilary Neilsen, (Bridge Road)
Siobhan Cahill (Main St.)
Bill Kearney  (Lr. William St. – where The Shebeen is now)
Harry Geraghty  (Bank of Ireland or maybe National Bank?)
Eamon Keane 
Mrs. Peggie Walsh  ( The Square)

Back Row, Left to Right
John Flaherty  (Charles St)
Margaret Moloney (Gurtinard)
Kevin Donovan (Upper William St)
Seamus Ryle  (Nora Relihan’s brother)
Ina Leahy  (Leahys, Market St)
Dr. Johnny Walsh
Peg Schuster  (John B’s sister)

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