by Jer Kennelly
PARISH: Confessions: On request before/after any Mass. Eucharistic Adoration: every Tues. after 10.00am Mass to 11.30am. Baptisms: Saturday afternoons only from 12 noon to 4pm.
Knockanure Community Centre would like to thank and acknowledge receipt of €1,500 from the Community Activities Fund 2021 to support payment of energy costs.
Moyvane/Knockanure Care of the Aged wish to thank everyone who subscribed to the recent Church Gate collection.
Knockanure Family Fun Day has been postponed due to unforeseeable circumstances and will be rescheduled at a later date.
Knockanure Sacristan, with regret, Grace Leahy is moving on from Aug. 17th. We Thank Grace for her dedicated service and wish her every Blessing.
Rosary will be recited at Our Lady’s Grotto, Moyvane on Tues. 15th Aug. at 7:30pm on the Feast of the Assumption. Rosary will also be recited at the Grotto Knockanure at 8pm every Tues. in Aug.
Church Council Meeting, Tues. 5th Sept. Items for agenda by Fri. Sept. 1st.
Presbytery/Office: 068 49308, Web: dioceseofkerry.ie
AGM: Knockanure Valley Text Alert AGM, Fri. 25th Aug. at 8pm in Knockanure Community Centre. Gardai and Muintir na Tire will attend.
ORDINATION; Rev Mark Moriarty ordained to the priesthood for the diocese of Kerry in the Cathedral, Killarney at 3pm Sunday, 13th August.
DEATH of Fr. Michael O’ Connor, CSsR, Redemptorist Community, Mount Saint Alphonsus, South Circular Road, Limerick and formerly St. Thomas More Parish, Kansas City, Missouri, and Tralee. Died on Thursday, 10th August 2023.
ANNIVERSARIES: Bridie Leahy, Michael Scanlon, Kay Horgan, Patricia Morton, Brid Flavin, Sr. Kathleen O Connell, Patricia Danaher, Mary Stack, Tom Lyons, Mary O Carroll,
MASS INTENTIONS:
Sat. 12th Aug.’23- Moyvane for Jack Mulvihill (Aniv.) Woodgrove at 7.30pm; Sun.13th Aug.’23- Knockanure People of the Parish at 9.30am and mass Moyvane for Michael Scanlon RIP (1st Aniv.) at 11.00am; Mon.14th Aug.’23-Moyvane- Feast of the Assumption, Vigil Mass at 7.30pm; Tues.15th Aug.’23- Knockanure a Private Intention at 9.30am, and mass Moyvane a Private Intention at 11.00am; Wed.16th Aug.’23- Knockanure a Private Intention at 10.00am; Thur.17th Aug.’23- Moyvane for Tom Scanlon (Aniv.) Leitrim Middle at 10.00am; Fri.18th Aug.’23- Knockanure a Private Intention at 10.00am; Sat.19th Aug.’23- Moyvane for Jack & Nora Walsh & Michael Mulvihill (Aniv.’s) at 7.30pm; Sun.20th Aug.’23 Knockanure a Private Intention at 9.30am, and mass Moyvane for Nodie Brosnan RIP, Recently Deceased at 11.00am.
LEGION OF MARY PILGRIMAGE TO KNOCK: Sunday, August 20th leaving from the Church Abbeyfeale bus stop at 7am. To book your seat contact Bernard Broderick 068 31565, Gerard O’Callaghan 087 2980841, Michael Lane 068 32757, David Davy 087 0994272.
The Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Knock takes place each year from 14 – 22 August.
Padre Pio Pilgrimage to Knock takes place on Sun. 17th September. Coach will leave Listowel at 7.45am via Ballybunion. From Asdee at 8.15am, Ballylongford 8.30am and Tarbert 8.45am. Contact Bernadette on 087-6019474. Feast of Our Lady of Knock is celebrated on Thursday 17th August. On August 21st 1879, fifteen people had a vision of Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. John on the gable of the parish church of Knock.
St ROCK (c.1295 – 1327) – (Feast Day: 16th August) It is believed that Saint Rock was born in Montpellier, France.
GAA Knockanure Lotto Results from Tuesday August 8th– Jackpot was €3,900; Numbers Drawn: 16, 17, 23, and 31. No winner but lucky dips went to: 1. Kathleen Flynn, Abbeyfeale; 2. Terry Mahon, Fr Casey’s Close, Abbeyfeale; 3. Jack Houlihan, c/o Jim Greaney; 4. Mary Horgan, Kilmorna, and 5. ML Collins, Glin Rd, Moyvane. Next draw will be on Tuesday August 15th in the clubhouse and jackpot will be €4,000.
CONGRATULATIONS to James Fogarty of Moyvane on winning the Mick McCarthy Storytelling Competition in Finuge, with his story Boom Burst Boom.
FESTIVAL IN DUAGH: Friday, August 18 – Sunday, August 2023. In concert, Friday, August 18th Michael English and his band €30. Saturday, August 19th ABBA-esque €22. Sunday, August 20th. Trudi Lalor and the Matrimony Band with Paddy O’Brien and TR Dallas €25. You can also get a weekend pass for €65. Full Bar Facilities as well as numerous Spot Prizes each night. Contact 087-2684540 or get them on Eventbrite.ie.
ST JOHN’S: Dago Red Concert on Thursday August 17th @ 8pm; Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes on Friday August 18th @ 8pm. Details from 068 22566.
MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER: European Family Weekend August 25-27 offers families the opportunity to energise their relationships, using a language and an approach suitable for all ages (6 years and older). We request a non-refundable deposit of €50 (£45) per family (towards the cost of the venue). We will simply ask families to donate what they can afford at the end of the weekend. Register your interest on [email protected]
TRALEE STREET FEST: ‘Tralee StreetFest’ will be held between 18 and 22 August, during the Rose of Tralee International Festival.
GLIN CASTLE AND GARDENS: Sunday, September 3 from 12 -6pm. Admission €10. Tickets available at the entrance gate. Coffee, Cakes, Ice Cream, Refreshments and Raffle.
HERITAGE WEEK TALK: Kerry Writers’ Museum in Listowel will host a talk on the ‘Heritage & History of the North Kerry Greenway’ on Friday August 18th from 8pm. Historian Tom Dillon will present a lecture on the newly-opened stretch of the Kingdom of Kerry Greenway from Listowel to Abbeyfeale. Knocknagoshel Tidy Towns and Cathy Eastman of Biodiversity Partners will host a family friendly biodiversity walk and talk at 11am at Aggie’s Inch in Knockbrack, Knocknagoshel, V92F9X8.
I spent a day walking around Galway City and only found one drinking water fountain, hidden in a park.
BINGO Moyvane; coming to bingo to please think about where you park your car. For the last two nights cars have been causing an obstruction and people have had to leave bingo to move their cars. One other thing, the crowds are big right now and there is a problem with people who come late so can you fill the seats and leave space for others. If you have a handbag you might park it under your seat. Thank you. Did you know that the prize money at bingo every Thursday night is a minimum €3,000 but it could be as high as €5,000. Bingo starts at 8.00pm. Thank you for your support.
CULTURE NIGHT COIS FÉILE takes place on September 22 this year, see Glorach Abbeyfeale for more.
LARTIGUE: From May 1st throughout the summer until October 1st, the Lartigue will operate every afternoon from 1pm to 4.30pm in Listowel. Telephone 068 24393.
TINTEAN, Ballybunion, on 19th Tina Turner Tribute.
RAMBLING HOUSE: at Ballyhahill Hall on Wednesday August 16, at 8pm. All musicians, singers’ dancers and storytellers are most welcome.
SEISIÚN NIGHTS: Templeglantine Comhaltas Branch will host the Limerick show at the Devon Inn Hotel on Thursday nights at 8.30pm.
HOSPITAL: Recent visitor restrictions have now been lifted. Regulations and paperwork is using valuable of health professionals.
GARRY MCMAHON TRADITIONAL SINGING WEEKEND, Abbeyfeale. The official opening by Labhrás Ó Murchú will take place on Friday, October 13 at 8pm.
GAA North Kerry information https://www.facebook.com/legs24561
ROSE CUP: Sixteen Teams taking part, beginning on Saturday August 19th at two Tralee GAA venues in Tralee – Na Gaeil and Kerins O’Rahilly’s — from 10:30am. The Rose of Tralee 2022 will present the medals. Listowel and Fr. Casey’s of Abbeyfeale are among contestants.
ALL-Ireland Champion: congratulate Fionán Mackessy on winning the All-Ireland Poc Fada senior title on the Cooley Peninsula, Co Louth, 7 August 2023, the first Kerryman to win the title, his club is
Saint Brendan’s Ardfert.
NOMINATIONS for the 2023 Kerry Person of the Year and for the 2023 Laochra Chiarrai award,
the closing date for nominations is August 21. Details from [email protected].
ESB tours of Ardnacrusha Power Station Ireland’s first national hydro-electric station, available from Monday to Friday. Book online www.esb.ie/ardnacrushatours.
BLOOD Transfusion Service will visit Ballybunion Community Centre on 24th of Aug, from 4.45pm to 8pm, more from 061 306 980.
RADIO: Mary Kennelly – all the stories lead back home on 20 Aug. Mary is a Poet, retired Teacher and Principal with a gift for storytelling. Listen on Horizons Radio Kerry at 9 am.
CELEBRATION OF LIGHT CEREMONY – Tralee Bay Wetlands will once again provide the backdrop for this year’s Celebration of Light Ceremony, organised annually by cancer support charity – Recovery Haven Kerry. This year’s event will take place on Sunday, August 20th at 7pm and aims to unite those touched by cancer and remember those we have lost. All welcome and candles will be for sale on the night.
MARKET at McMunns Garden Ballybunion every Sat, from 10am to 2pm.
COWS: The number of cows in the Pallaskenry college dairy herd has fallen as a result of TB, dropping from 460 to 398 milking cows now.
ICOS is warning that reduce milk supply could have serious economic implications for processing co-ops. EU School Milk Scheme participation has decreased for the second year by over 7,000 students in comparison to the year before.
CORN prices in the US in July dropped by 18% from a June peak. The 2023 harvest is forecast to be the second largest on record. Brazil harvest increased this year also.
SHOW at Cappamore on 19th of August.
The 2023 Dublin Horse Show took place from August 9-13. 1919 was the first time women competed on horseback at the Show. https://www.dublinhorseshow.com/
TICKETS for National Ploughing Championships will require online pre-booking. 2023 National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co Laois from September 19th to 21st, for all details please see www.npa.ie.
GRANTS: CLÁR funding of €328,882 for six essential community organisations and key first-responder groups in Kerry.
WALKING about 10,000 steps per day is claimed to reduce dementia risk.
RING of Kerry classic tractor run set for 18th of August.
JOBS: Accenture cutting 890 Irish jobs, after 400 layoffs it made earlier this year. It is reported that jobs are moving to other parts of the world. Accenture plc is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology.
TOADS: Two hundred natterjack toadlets were released in Castlegregory recently. They were reared in a conservation project between the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Fota Wildlife Park.
The natterjack can have a high mortality rate of 90% in the wild.
SHANNON Airport expecting 48,000 passengers over the holiday weekend.
KAYAKING in Listowel on Sat 19th of Aug. details from 087 627 2761.
PILGRIMAGE to Medjugorjie travelling from Cork. September 6 – 13 Return flights from Cork to Dubrovnik, for details & bookings contact: Group Leader – Maura O’Keeffe Harcksen – 066 7127143 or 087 1517696.
GALA CONCERT—RED HURLEY with St. John’s Gregorian Choir, Kerry School of Music Orchestra and Kerry Chamber Choir. “How Great Thou Art” Sunday September 24th in St. John’s Church at 7.30pm.
Proceeds in aid of Kerry Hospice.
FESTIVAL: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe knows how to throw a party. Founded in 1947 as a rebellious little sibling to the prestigious International Festival, the Fringe is now the world’s biggest arts festival. The contrast between the two institutions remains striking, and if you’re seeking a rough-and-tumble ride through the sharpest, silliest, and strangest theatre and comedy on the planet, then you’re in the right place.
RECORD: Guinness World Record, Dolly Day event on June 25, 2023 which had 1,100 Dolly lookalikes in Listowel. Listowel also holds the record for the largest gathering of people dressed as nuns, which was held in 2012.
IRISH Words: The Dictionary and Lost Irish Words
From September to December this year in Australia, you can see a stage adaptation of the acclaimed novel The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. The novel is an account of a young girl’s effort save words that had been excluded by the first Oxford English Dictionary compilers in 1886.
https://tintean.org.au/2023/08/10/the-dictionary-and-lost-irish-words/
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FIRE: Hawaii’s area in and around Front Street — designated a National Historic Landmark since 1962 — was destroyed by the overnight blaze, and also its historic buildings. 167-Year-Old Maria Lanakila Catholic Church still stands despite fire according to satellite pictures.
BOOK Review by Frank O’Shea- Vincent Carmody: Listowel. A Printer’s Legacy. The Story of Printing in North Kerry 1870-1970. Available from listoweloriginals.com
IRISH ATHLETIC SPORTS.
Pilot, Volume 48, Number 2, 10 January 1885
A HEALTHY movement in Ireland has just received the approval of the two most popular Irishmen living, Dr. Croke, the patriot Archbishop of Cashel, and Charles Stewart Parnell, the National leader. It appears that a Gaelic Athletic Association has been established in Dublin for which the members asked those two famous men for their patronage. The Archbishop writes that he accedes to the request with the utmost pleasure.” And he adds that one of his most painful reflections is that Ireland is importing not only English goods but English games to the injury and discredit of her own. We advise all readers of The Pilot to the Archbishop’s excellent letter, and give it careful perusal. Mr. Parnell also expresses his pleasure at the movement and accepts the position of patron. There is suggestion and example in this for the greater Ireland in America. The noblest athletic games known are those practised by the Irish from time immemorial. They ought to be preserved for the good of the race. Manly games and sports are as necessary for boys and men as any other branch of education or pleasure.
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ASKING TO BE SENT TO PRISON.
Pilot, Volume 48, Number 2, 10 January 1885
Judge McCafferty, of Boston, grow indignant last week when a poor starved boy pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy, in order to be sent to prison, where he would be fed and clothed and have a bed to sleep in. The lad said, and truly, that he had tried, day after day, to get work, but had failed. Judge McCafferty looked down at the little shivering figure, and his voice trembled as he spoke, “I am frequently called upon to deal with hard cases,” he said impressively, ‘‘but this is one of the saddest that I ever saw. There is something rotten in the charities of Boston or I would not have so many cases of this kind. Five or six men have come before me this week and pleaded guilty to a crime for the sake of a living. Strong, rugged men, capable of working and supporting others, plead guilty and are sent away among criminals for the sake of being clothed and fed. It is wrong and unjust. I protest against it in the name of humanity.’
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Boston Pilot (1838-1857), Volume 17, Number 13 — 1 April 1854
MAURICE RELAHAN. native of Kilmeany, parish of Knockanure, near Listowel, co Kerry, who arrived in New York about 4 yrs ago; when last heard of (18 months) was at Savannah. Information of him will he received by his sister and brother-in-law John Moore, formerly of Pyremount, near Tarbert, Co Kerry; now of Danville, Canada East. Address, care of Thos Culhane
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Pilot, Volume 30, Number 2, 12 January 1867
TIMOTHY THORNTON, a native of the Parish of Knockanure, county Kerry, who came to this country about seventeen years ago ; when last heard from he was in Connecticut. Any information concerning him will be thankfully received by his ? John Mulville, Box 239 Waterbury, Conn.
OF PATRICK KENNELLY, a native of Ballylongford Kerry. Ireland, who came to this country in March, 1863. Any information would be thankfully received by his brother? John and Kate Kennelly, Dudley Post-office, Arlington? county, Pennsylvania
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Pilot, Volume 36, Number 11, 15 March 1873
Yet Muller, the letters show, took an emigrant to an office, and induced him to pay $ 45 for a ticket worth only $35. As there was no law to cover the case Mr. Muller was convicted of a misdemeanour only. At the same time a case was known where he made a serious mistake in change. In 1869, another case occurred where a poor man—a native of Ireland—arrived here with his wife and four children. He was innocent of the traps set for the emigrant, and arrived here with the intention of going to Chicago. One of his children took sick at Queenstown and was left in the hospital. On his arrival here he repaired to the house of Dennis McGrath, who warned him against the snares of Castle Garden, and advised him to remain in the place with his family until the passengers were ready to leave for the West. Mr. Wallach described the movements of an emigrant runner, who took this victim outside of the Garden, where McGrath saw him in the company of the runner, and succeeded in getting him (the emigrant) to accompany him to his house. He then told McGrath that the runner had taken him to Nicholas Muller’s office, where Muller told him he would have to take a first class ticket for the child who was to follow, and after paying this Muller had demanded a further deposit of $lO for incidental expenses of the child on .the way to Chicago. McGrath (Mr. Wallach said) explained the swindle to the emigrant, and took him to Superintendent Casserly to have his complaint taken. This was done, when Casserly sent for Muller, who admitted that he had charged full fare for a child eleven years old and returned the difference and the $lO advanced. Here Mr. Wallach remarked that he believed if a man was guilty of deceiving emigrants that man was not fit to take charge of the interests of emigrants.
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Thos. Keneally, formerly attached to the Castle Garden, who will make affidavit to the fact when called upon. Muller had, he said, all his life long, lived upon the emigrants, and there was not a trick or device by which emigrants had been defrauded that was not known to Muller. Besides, he had a great influence in the ward politically,
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The journalists in the mainstream press have never known what to do with this event. This is, after all, a positive gathering that brings together millions of people, mostly young Catholics. This is not an everyday thing. It shows young Catholics happy to embrace the church, while celebrating its teachings — a stark contrast to the secular world and the messages of hopelessness and sin we get each day.
As a result, the mainstream press covers World Youth Day and the pope’s appearances through a lens of scandal and (#ShockedShocked) politics.
Doctrine, as is often the case, is simply swept aside. Anything positive that can be gleaned from the gathering of so many young people is tossed aside. World Youth Day is a snapshot of the church’s future — but you wouldn’t know it from much of the coverage of the last week. For example, going to confession (with the pope helping out) is a major part of the World Youth Day experience. Valid story?
For great — and complete — World Youth Day coverage, the Catholic press did its job, once again. Places such as Crux, The Pillar on Substack and Catholic News Agency created pages where all their stories could be found. In other words, a one-stop-shop for all things World Youth Day.
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IMAGES: A Catholic photographer uses his cell phone camera to capture images of cathedrals and basilicas across the country including Las Vegas, and Philadelphia.
Andrew Masi was inspired while attending Easter mass in Newark one year. He said he’s taking Catholics on a virtual tour with him.
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