See our new page on the problem of
Japanese Knotweed
Fun Day in Lyreacrompane 2019
Daniel Breen, first, Michael O'Sullivan, second in the Man's
Sheaf-throwing competition along with Mary O'Sullivan
winner of the Women's Event. On the right is Hanna Mai Collins
who sponsored the event.
Mary O'Sullivan and Caitriona Lyons first and second in the
Women's Sheaf-throwing event.
Helena puts it over the bar and Hannah Mai tries it out.
Festival Time in Lyreacrompane!!!
Congrats to Lyreacrompane NS... X6!
Great Achievement - 6th Green Flag.
Sad passing of Lyreacrompane native
The death has occurred of Johanna Beer (née
Hickey)
Chessington, UK and formerly of Knockanebrack, Lyrecrompane,
Listowel, Kerry
Johanna Beer
- JoJo (nee Hickey), Chessington, UK. Formerly of
Knockanebrack, Lyrecrompane, Listowel, Co. Kerry and
also spent time in Longford and Mullingar. Sadly
left her family and friends on Wednesday, 5th June
2019. Much loved mother of Patsyanne and Katie and
sadly missed by her sister Anne in Nottingham, her
grandchildren Edward Raymond and Aaron and by all of
her extended family in Ireland and the UK.
Removal at 2pm from Garners Funeral Home, 4 the
Broadway Tolworth, walking in a slow pace to Our
Lady Immaculate Church on Tuesday, 18th June 2019,
for Requiem Mass at 2:30pm. This will be followed at
4:15pm by a committal service at Randells Park
Crematorium, Leatherhead, KT22 0AG. Family flowers
only please, donations, if desired, can be made to
the Princess Alice Hospice, West End Lane, Esher,
Surrey, KT10 8NA.
Visitors from OZ
Mary Kirby (cousins to Jer, Pa, Jim, Con and John Kirby of Duagh
and the Aherns of Knocknaglough) and her husband Ken are
visiting the area for a few days - March 2 to 6). They’re over
from Australia. All the cousins please take note!
Radio Kerry's
'In Conversation' programme
featured Joe Harrington from Lyreacrompane recently.
You can listen back on the podcast. Just click below...
https://www.radiokerry.ie/joe-harrington-february-13th-2019/
Visit to Sing Sing
From the Kerryman of January 30, 2019
A thank you note from Australia.
Lyre connected wedding in New York.
Shane Harrington and Corinne Laurice on the way.
On the steps - to tie the knot
Congratulations to our Victorious Neighbours -
St. Senans
St. Senans made history yesterday, Sunday December 10, when they
won the North Kerry Championship for the first time. They beat
the reigning champions Ballydonoghue who were going for their
3rd title in a row. The game was played in the Con Brosnan Park,
Moyvane and they won the Bernard O'Callaghan Memorial Cup.
Congrats to Lorraine and Daniel
Lorraine O'Hanlon and Daniel O'Donoghue recently married.
Happy Retirement Seán
Postman, Seán O'Connell, on his last day as Lyreacrompane
Postman
delivering the mail to Norrie Connell, Carrigcannon, on Friday
November 31 2018
Congrats!!!!!!!!
Noranne Kelly and Daniel McDermott married on Friday Nov 16 in
Lyre Church
In Broughane Today !!!
The wild ones in Lyreacrompane - No kidding!
Weeshie Fogarty RIP
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of
Weeshie Fogarty.
Weeshie was a great friend to the Dan Paddy Andy Festival
Committee.
He opened our 2009 Festival. On another occasion Weeshie
came to one of our festivals to record
his radio Kerry programme. He interview the older
generation of footballers, such as the late John Neville
and Joe Quill, and this programme brought back lovely memories
of times past in the football fields of
Lyreacrompane. On the ocassion of Duagh/Lyre reaching the
final of the All-Ireland Junior Club Championship
in Croke Park Weeshie was good enough to do a 'virtual'
commentary for a fund raising CD we brought out.
Ar dheis De ar a anam dilis.
Best of Luck to the Pierse Family
Roibeard Pierse
and family are taking part in the TV Show Ireland's Fittest
Family.
(Photo from Mary Cogan's Listowel Connection Blog)
Big turnout at re-launch of Mass Path/River
Walk
Improvements to Mass Path and River Walk.
Congratulations to all concerned.
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Built in the 1920s across the Smearlagh at the rear of the
Church
The Songs of Joe Harrington
The album includes ‘The Road John Murphy Made,’ the winning song
in this year’s Sean McCarthy Ballad Competition.
That song is set in the 1750s connecting the butter trade to the
slave trade.
The Album is available from Joe
Harrington, Lyreacrompane, Co. Kerry Tel: 087 285 3570
e-mail
irishramblinghouse@gmail.com
It is also available on line at
www.kerrymusic.com
and on Spotify.
The album is now in the following shops.
Caball’s Tralee
Lyreacrompane Post Office.
Fitzgerald's Listowel
Watson’s Shop, Duagh.
O’Connor’s Hardware, Duagh.
McAullife’s Shop, Knocknagoshel
Kelly’s Six Crosses.
Annie Lyons Shop, The Square, Abbeyfeale
Tom Hickeys, Main St.,Castleisland.
Stacks Lixnaw.
The proceeds from the album go towards the
Fund for the renovation of the old Glen Schoolhouse in
Lyreacrompane as a Heritage Centre for the general Stacks
Mountains area. This community project aims to preserve and
highlight the Heritage, Culture and Environment of the Stacks
Mountains and involve the community in a manner that will lessen
social isolation. Our fundraising efforts have gone well to date
and we have set ourselves a further target of €10,000. Sales of
the album will be part of meeting this goal, so we are hoping
that people will rally round and buy the Album. More information
on the Heritage House Project can be found on the Heritage page
of www.lyreacrompane.com
On the Lyreacrompane Heritage Trail
The Lyreacrompane Heritage Group regularly
get enquiries from people seeking their roots or wishing to know
more about some aspect of the heritage, culture or environment
of the general Lyreacrompane area. This week we had a visit from
Sue Hurley from Australia seeking information on her ancestors
who had been landlords in north Kerry, including Lyreacrompane
from 1857 to 1911. The houses associated with the Hurlys are
Fenit House, Glenfuff House in Kielduff, Glendalough House hear
Glenbeigh and the now demolished Bridge House in Tralee -
the Garda Station now stands on the site.
Sue is pictured here in front of the Glen
Schoolhouse in Lyreacrompane. This building, now a protected
structure, was handed over to the community by John Hurly for
use as a schoolhouse in 1872 and the Lyreacrompane Heritage
Group is working to have it renovated as a Heritage House for
the Stacks Mountains area. (To go to Heritage page
click here) During her visit members of the
Heritage Group accompanied Sue as she sought out places
connected with her roots. First stop was the Glen Schoolhouse.
Sue at the Glen Schoolhouse which was once owned by John Hurly.
Sue visiting Ballyseedy Graveyard where a number of Hurly
ancestors are buried,
including John Hurly of Fenit House - known as the landlord of
Lyreacrompane
Noel Griffin, who has done marvelous work in sorting out and
taking care of the graveyard pictured
with Sue and Kay O'Leary of the Lyreacrompane Heritage Group.
Sue at the gates of Fenit House which is now owned by the Byrne
family
Birthday Celebrated in Lyreacrompane
Down the years the Lyreacrompane Heritage
Group have given talks to groups on the heritage, culture and
the environment of Lyreacrompane but it was a first when Cáit
O'Shea from Lahard, Beaufort decided that for her special
birthday all she wanted was a tour/talk on Lyreacrompane. Cáit's
daughter, Doreen, contacted Joe Harrington, Chairperson of the
Heritage Group, to organise the event. Today, Monday September
10th Cáit accompanied by her husband Tony and daughter Doreen
Moore from Tralee spent a couple of hours in the area with tour
guide, Joe Harrington.
Check out our Heritage page click here
Proceeds from 5K/10K Walk/Run
Joe Harrington making a presentation
of €1,315 to Catherine Healy of Enable Ireland following the
annual 5K/10K Walk/Run Fundraiser which was held during the Dan
Paddy Andy Festival in Lyreacrompane. Also included in the photo
from left to right are Chloe, Odhran, Caoimhe and Eirn Lyons,
Brigid Long, Helen Schisas, Patricia Lenihan, Michael Lyons,
Chris Kelly, Mossie Long, Mick Naughton, Tim Nash, Kay O’Leary,
Christy Donoghue and Ellie Lyons. Some volunteers are missing
from the photo and we thank them also for their help.
Danny Tim Throws a Party
Danny 'Tim' O'Sullivan was to have
opened the Dan Paddy Andy Festival in 2017 but had a serious
health setback and was given a 5% chance of pulling through.
Danny's son, Patsy, accepted the Dan Paddy Andy presentation
plate on his behalf. Since then, Danny has made a marvelous
recovery to full health and to celebrate he organised a huge
get-together with family and friends at his home place near
Glenbeigh. The turnout was massive and the hospitality was
mighty. The photos show the inside of the marquee and also one
of Danny Tim and Kay O'Leary who also knows him for his support
for the Irish Rambling house shows in recent years.
Celebrations in Lyreacrompane - Post Office
remains open.
The general Lyreacrompane Community is delighted that our Post
Office remains open and Johnny Nolan is still behind that
counter providing a valuable service in our community. If the
Post Office had gone the shop would have been unlikely to
survive. Apart from convenience, the Post Office is a point at
which people meet and its closure would have meant an increase
in social isolation.
Our community has ducked a bullet and we
need to really take to heart the urgent need to support our Post
Office and Shop. We have a second bite of the cherry so
please encourage your friends and neighbours to use the
facility. It definitely is a case of use or lose it.
We would like to make a special appeal to
people who used Duagh, Knocknagoshel, Ballymacelligott and
Banemore Post Offices to now use Lyreacrompane Post Office
whenever possible.
It's as close to you as any town.
Lyreacrompane Post Office and Shop
Guard What We Have
It is worth considering the
important things we have in our community. These include our
School, Post Office, Community Centre, Festival and the various
small businesses. It is vital
that we continue to support the things that makes and keeps us a
vibrant community. Let us appreciate the things we have and work
individually and collectively to maintain, extend and improve
them. There are a lot of things working against small rural
communities like ours and we all need to think of the bigger
picture so as to protect what we have. No one else is going to do
that for us.
Dan Paddy Andy Festival 2018
Photos by Joe Harrington, Kay O'Leary, Patricia Lenihan and
Breeda Piggott
For a second
page of Festival photos
click here
or at the end of the Pat McKenna's gig photos further down this
page.
Some of the Stewards for the Dan Paddy Andy Festival 5K-10K Run
Walk...
Eamonn Monahan, Tim Nash, Chris Kelly and Sean Enright
Mossie Walsh, Ballydonoghue with his dancing partner, Rita
Hannon, in the Waltzing Competition
while Caoimhe Lyons is on home ground in the 5K. (See Mossie
talking about his Dan Paddy Andy medal in this clip...
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=ballydonoghue%20parish%20magazine
Joe Harrington explaining the finer points of Turf Cutting on
the Bog Walk
while the Men’s 5K winner was Luke O’Callaghan, Tralee
Pat McCarthy, Duagh and Dublin, makes a surprise presentation to
Kay O’Leary, who initiated the Dan Paddy Andy Festival
twenty-one years ago, for her role in the community, especially
for her work in building the Festival over the years.
Ellie Lyons presenting Sean Scully of Enable Ireland with €50
from her First Communion money
and Chloe Lyons with her Grandmother, Pat Dillon
Dan Paddy Andy Festival 2018 Walk Run participants. Man's 10K
winner, Donald White, Listowel,
Michelle Greaney, Tralee, 2nd in the 5k and Women's 10K winner
Rachel Stokes.
Visitors from London with Helen who was home from
Australia
Ann Reidy and Joe Burke - winners of the Dan Paddy Andy Festival
Waltzing Competition with judge Michael Murphy
Second place went to Phil O’Sullivan and Din O’Sullivan from
Tralee.
Third in the Waltzing competition were Eileen Loftus, Adare and
Dan O’Halloran, Abbeyfeale
And they are off... in the Walk Run for Enable Ireland
Dan Paddy Andy Festival Walk/Run Results
The results of the Dan
Paddy Andy Festival 5K/10k Walk/Run were…
Men’s 5K. Luke
O’Callaghan, Tralee came first in a time of 19.55. Adrian
O’Connor, Millstreet and John Griffin from Cobh in Cork came
second and third.
The Women’s 5K went to
Denise Quilter, Duagh in a time of 22.41 with Michelle Greaney,
Tralee and Noelle Dillon, Duagh were second and third.
The Men’s 10K was won by
Donald White, Listowel. His time was 34.20. Sean O’Sullivan, Farrenfore was second and Conor Lucey from Macroom was third.
Rachel Stokes from
Listowel won the Women’s 10K in a time of 43.29. Bernadette
O’Regan Byrne, Brosna and Tessy Whyte, Listowel were 2nd
and third. The proceeds will go to The Kerry Branch of
Enable Ireland.
You can click on the
following link for times.
Our thanks to Marie Murray who used her phone app to capture the
finish. Because the 5K and the 10K happened at the same time and
the participants in both distances were intermingled crossing
the finish line the positions given are not correct but the time
of each is correct. The 5k participants had three digit numbers
and the 10K participants had four digit numbers. Two runners in
the 5k wore 10K numbers by mistake but the times clearly show
the difference.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gvSLRaoRoDTTMsoTzhK5fH6ItN7u8mb1
Lovely to hear from
participants who were happy with the Event...
"Thank you for a wonderful running event
yesterday, great support and wonderful spread of refreshments
afterwards .. all for a worthy cause .. The day held dry this
year 😄..it
was a lovely community event …", Rachel Stokes
"Really enjoyed the race yesterday will be
back next year". Conor Lacey
Pat McKenna - From Derry to Kerry to Fill the Marquee
The big event of the Festival turned out to be
the Pat McKenna Dance
and a special thanks to Eddie Lee
who stepped in when Pat's Keyboard player had to return to Derry
due to a family emergency.
Thanks to Breeda
Piggott for the photos below of the Pat McKenna Gig.
Mary Buckley and Mary McKenna with
Pat
Joe Harrington and Kay O'Leary
with Pat McKenna
For more
Dan Paddy Andy Festival 2018 photos
click here
A Journey back in Time
Some pupils from Lyreacrompane National School, along with their teacher, Kieran Quirke, paid a visit to the old Glen Schoolhouse - a protected structure, which it is hoped to renovate as a Heritage House. They were met by Joe Harrington and Kay O'Leary who outlined the history of the schoolhouse and the pupils also engaged in discussing other aspects of local history and the heritage of the area. Afterwards there were some treats for all and copies of the present and previous Lyreracrompane Journals were given to the class before they made their way back to their school. Our thanks to Kieran for encouraging the young people of the area to find out about the history, heritage and culture of their own area and the pupils certainly showed a lively interest. 
Heritage Survey
We are carrying out a survey (anonymous) on
the proposed Lyreacrompane Heritage House/Centre.
We would appreciate it if you can take a few minutes to complete
it. You don't have to be from the Lyreacrompane area and you can
read about the project on the Heritage
Page (Click Here)
To complete and submit the survey please click on the
link below.
Thanking you in anticipation...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCWp9LrASnclxp0fL6lEeSCQwZ4zDiJ-dxLLfUDNvglnpJsA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Coming Soon
Brendan McCarthy, the author, a native
of Tralee, Co. Kerry, is a graduate of University College Dublin
and a solicitor by
profession. After a twenty-five-year legal career in the City of
London, he now pursues his interest as a local
historian, his current area of research being Fr. William
Ferris’s unpublished histories of Kerry parishes.
The book will be launched in a few weeks
but in the meantime you can order a copy from Brendan.
His e-mail is...
ballymacbook@gmail.com
Fr. William Ferris spent much of his
five-year curacy from 1929 to 1934 in the parish of
BallymacElligott, Co. Kerry, systematically collecting from his
parishioners a vast archive of popular history covering not just
the parish ofBallymacElligott but also the neighbouring parishes
of Ballyseedy, O’Brennanand Nohoval. When almost ready for
publication, the book was banned by the Bishop of Kerry because
Fr. Ferris had ‘gone against the traditions of the diocese’ as
regards his chapter on St. Brendan and the patron saint of
Kerry’s place of birth. Dismayed at the ban, Fr. Ferris shelved
the manuscript and it has lain dormant ever since.
Now, after eighty-five years, Fr.
Ferris’s History of the Parishes of BallymacElligott, Ballyseedy,
O’Brennan and Nohoval is finally published. The book documents
not just the history (political, economic and social) of the
area and the cultural and topographical landscape, but also
comprises a rich genealogical resource. It is a unique
compendium of North Kerry life at atime of rapid change, and an
important record of the oral history and culture of rural life
in early twentieth century Ireland.
The uniqueness of the book lies not only
in the fact that the content will be new material to the reading
public but also, thanks to Fr. Ferris recording it in the
early 1930s, the fund of oral history, reminiscences, folk
memory, place names, archaeological heritage, etc of a passing
generation was not taken to the grave but was, in fact,
preserved and is now finally available to the public. It is, in
Fr. Ferris’s own words, ‘a history of the people, by the people,
for the people’.As such, it is a one-off and destined to be a
collector’s item.
Dromadda Bridge upgrade
Some of the workers building the stone parapet of
the Bridge - John Brosnan, Willie Brouder and Gavin Dillon
This bridge was originally built in the early
1840s at a cost of £125. The Lyreacrompane Heritage Group, which
had been making the case to Kerry County Council for the
preservation and repair of the stone bridges in the area is
delighted with the work on Dromadda Bridge and they thank John
Fitzgerald and the Roads Department for ensuring that this
aspect of the heritage of our area is looked after.
Writers and Poets
Congrats to John Brosnan and Michael Gallagher - prizewinners at
the Ballydonoghue Bardic Festival
Grand Slam!!!
A great day for the Irish!
The First Ever Parish Parade - Congrats Duagh
Update on Glen School Project
- Feb 24, 2018
Plans for the renovation of the Old Glen
Schoolhouse have been discussed for a while now in the community
and moves have been undertaken to move the project forward. The
building, which dates from around the Great Famine, is a
protected structure, and planning permission has been granted to
develop the building as a place where the Heritage and Culture
of the Stacks and Glenarruddery mountains can be showcased as it
was in the past and enjoyed as it is today.
The Lyreacrompane Heritage group met this week to discuss the
project and make further plans. The dozen members who attended
were given an up-to-date report that showed that fundraising was
progressing well and that a feasibility study will be carried
out in the near future. A variety of new ideas were suggested at
the meeting and all these will be on the mix when the study is
being done.
Anyone, at home or abroad, who would like to support the
project, or find out more about it, should contact the Chair
(087 285 3570) of The Lyreacrompane Heritage Group,
Lyreacrompane, Listowel, Co. Kerry or E-mail
lyre@lyreacrompane.com
(See our
Heritage Page also)
Snow Scenes in Lyreacrompane March
2018
Slawek Kupiec teaching his son Oliver to ski in Lyreacrompane
Click the link below to see an unusual sight in Lyreacrompane...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrKeF6DKRE&feature=youtu.be
"Meet my friend. Isn't he cool"
The King of them all...
All aboard
The Hardy Boys?
The Man from Snowy River and the Skier from Lyreacompane (First
time Skies were ever used here?)
Anyone can have a snowman but...
Set Dancing at Roches Bar 1974
Click on this link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntzyfessNJM
The Lyreacrompane part starts after about one minute into the
video
Journal Number 12 now in shops
The Lyreacrompane Journal Number 12 is now in the shops... 80
pages packed with photos and articles of local interest... The Lyreacrompane and District Journal will, as
always, be of special interest to our exiles....
Available at Lyreacrompane
Post Office and other local shops and in outlets in local towns or
from
The Lyreacrompane Journal
Lyreacrompane
Listowel
Co. Kerry
Phone 087 285 3570
The Irish Rambling House Show at Siamsa
Tíre
Great Irish Rambling House Show at Siamsa Tire
last night. Twenty mighty entertainers and two great guests
(Sean O'Sé and Annmarie O'Riordan). Packed venue and a great
atmosphere. Thanks to the lovely staff at the venue and to Radio
Kerry for asking us to put on the Show. The following were those
on stage and where would you get a nicer and more talented group
of people?....
Singers
Doris Shire The Mungret Nightengale Pat
McCarthy Duagh and Dublin Young Bob
Casey Clare
Storytellers
Peter Casey Co Clare Chrissie Roche
Castlemahon Paddy Commane Co. Clare
Noel Joyce Tipperary
Musicians
Stephen O’Leary Kilcummin Accordion
Sean Kelleher Fossa Banjo Guitar
Padraig Enright Flute player Lixnaw
Sarah O’Keeffe Brosna Concertina and dancer
Maurice O’Keeffe Brosna Fiddle and Dancer
Pat Curtin Shannagolden Mouth organ
Joe Creedon Co Cork Mouth Organ and singer
Dancers
Triona Ni Shúilleabháin Ballyferritor Michael
O'Sullivan Caoimhe Lyons Lyreacrompane
Margaret Madigan Co Limerick Darragh
O’Donnell Co Limerick Bodhran and Dancer
Bean a Ti Angelina O’Donnell Bean a Ti Co Limerick
Rambled in - Annmarie O’Riordan and Sean O’Se.
Sound – Billy Donegan
Managed and produced by Kay O’Leary and Joe Harrington
Lyreacrompane
The Lyreacrompane and District Journal
Lyreacrompane & District Journal (No. 12) will be in the shops on
Friday, December 10. If you would like to contact the
Journal please call 00353 (0)87 285 3570.
Click
HERE
for Photos
of the 2017 Dan Paddy Andy Festival
Click
HERE
for Photos of the Dan Paddy Andy 5K and 10K Run/Walk 2017
Let the Exiles know....
Organised from Lyreacrompane by Kay O'Leary and Joe Harrington
Very well done to Mike and Tony
Very well done to Mike Quinn and Tony Healy in their Ford
Escort Mk2 who won the first Colin McRae 'if in doubt flat out'
Perpetual Cup at the Clare Stages Rally yesterday. Also
Tony is the winner of the trip to Barbados to co-drive for
Justin Campbell in his BMW in 2018.
Worthy Cause
Go to Facebook for more info...
https://www.facebook.com/Crumlin-Colour-Dash-1963383663877129/
Councilors thanked in Lyre Notes
(From the Kerryman)
DPA 5K/10K Run/Walk 2017 cheque
presentation
Cheque for €1,500 raised at the Dan Paddy Andy Festival 5K/10K
Run/Walk presented to the Kerry Cork Cancer Link Bus. Thanks
again to all who helped. (Not everyone was available for the
photo) (Photo and article from Kerry's Eye newspaper).
Patsy 'Tim' O'Sullivan accepts plate on
behalf of Danny
Danny Tim O'Sullivan was to officially open the 2017 Dan Paddy
Andy Festival but unfortunately he was unable to do so. Danny's
son Patsy is picture here accepting the Dan Paddy Andy
Presentation Plate on behalf of his dad from festival secretary
Kay O'Leary. Get well soon Danny and all the best to the
O'Sullivan family.
Press Reports on Dan Paddy
Andy Festival
Stephen Fernane, Kerryman
Sinead Kelliher, Kerry's Eye
Festival Results.
(See photos on Dan Paddy
Andy page)
The winners of the Dan Paddy Andy Waltzing
Competition were Margaret and Patsy Murphy from Keel, Castlemaine.
Second place went to Eileen Loftus, Adare and Dan O’Halloran,
Abbeyfeale. In third place were Fred Browne and Hannah Fitzgerald,
Knocknagoshel.
Winners at the Dog Show were….
Small and medium breed – Ann Collins, Abbeyfeale with ‘Yorkie’.
Large breed – Terry Bommer with ‘Olva’. Handled by a Child –
Sinead Shanahan, Listowel with ‘Nova’. Handled by an Adult – Joe
Hanley, Tralee with ‘Snapper’. Confined to Lyreacrompane - Martin
James Leane with ‘Ciath’. Best Puppy – Gerard Walsh, Glin with
‘Bono’. Fancy Dress – Shauna and David O’Donoghue, Abbeyfeale
with ‘Shadow’. Best Rescued – Kieran O’Connell, Lyre with ‘Floppy’
and the Best Overall – Gerard Walsh, Glin, Co. Limerick with
‘Bono’.
The Dan Paddy Andy 5K/10K
Run/Walk.
5K Women - 1st
Dinese Quilter, Duagh in 24.24. 2nd Grace Cahil,
Knocknagoshel and 3rd Catriona Lyons, Lyre. 5K Men -
1st Daniel Breen, Lyre in 21.35. 2nd Daniel
O’Donoghue, Lyre and 3rd Garett Scollard, Tralee.
10K Women - 1st
Rachel Stokes, Listowel in 41.31. 2nd Ann Kelliher,
Tralee and 3rd Geraldine O’Sullivan, Bantry, Co. Cork.
10K Men - 1st John Neville, Ballylongford in 39.00. 2nd
Jason Galvin, Lixnaw and 3rd Aidan McCarthy, Tralee.
This year’s Festival drew people from far and wide. Apart from
exiles returning home from as far away as Melbourne for the
occasion we had visitors from many parts of England, from France,
Germany and Spain and from many parts of Ireland including Wicklow,
Carlow, Tipperary and of course many people from Limerick and Cork
as usual. Thanks to everyone who helped out, especially in our
inaugural Dan Paddy Andy 5K/10K and to our sponsors for the
Run/Walk and Festival we say thanks once again.
Timber!!!
Good to see the dangerous trees overhanging the road and grotto
cut down. Interestingly, the trees seem to have been there
for longer than the grotto. The grotto was build in 1954 but a
count of the tree rings shows that the trees were about seventy
year old.
Scouts Open Day
Waltzing at the Dan Paddy
Larry O'Connor, Maurice Dowling and Tom O'Connor viewing the
Silverware. The lovely trophies for the Dan Paddy Andy Festival
Waltzing Competition have once again been kindly sponsored by
O'Connor Hardware and Farm Supplies, Duagh. Maurice is known to
be taking extra lessons in preparation and we hear he is being
described as a good outside bet in the competition. The Waltzing
competition is on Saturday night, August 5, during Marquee
dancing to Mike Condon. The judge is Mike Murphy and there
are trophies for first, second and third places. In the meantime
the best of look to Tom O'Connor who will be competing in cycle
racing in Donegal.
Festival Programme 2017
Fun Day in Lyreacrompane
Click this link for short video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5vcKBFyMfY&feature=youtu.be
You are worth a Medal!
Trophies and medals for our 5K and 10K Run/Walk in aid of the
Cork-Kerry Cancer Link Bus on Sunday August 6 at 11am starting
at the Festival Marquee. The only thing missing from the photo
are the €50 notes that will go to the first man and first woman
home in the 10K
Messing about on the river
Click on this link for short video of Lyreacrompane Scouts
having fun on the Smearlagh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvStZ27yiOw&t=2s
Fundraising 5k and 10k walk/run for
Kerry Cancer Support Group - Kerry/Cork Link
Bus
Sunday, August 6, 11am, Lyreacrompane.
Irish Coast Guard Helicopter in
Lyreacrompane
Click this link
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld-YZ6FAaKE&feature=youtu.be
Writers Week Tour in Lyreacrompane
Fr Anthony Gaughan with with two coaches of people attending
Writers Week 2017 at the Dan Paddy Andy Memorial in
Lyreacrompane. The chat was of the heritage of the area and the
story of Dan.
Dan is in the paper!
Congratulations Lorraine
Lorraine Nash from Lyreacrompane, winner of the Yamaha School of
Music Musician of the Year. The presentation was made at the
Ashe Hotel in Tralee on Sunday May 28, 2017
Lyreacrompane Post Office featured in
Kerry's Eye
Johnny and Marie Nolan at Lyreacrompane Post Office
Local Wedding
Congratulations to Joe Johnson and Fran Fitzgerald,
Carrigcannon,
Lyreacrompane who married this weekend.
Fleadh Cheoil County Winners 2017
Craobh Lixnaw Seán Nós Dancers who have qualified for Fleadh
Cheoil na Mumhan
which will
take place in Cork in July. From Left, Caoimhe Lyons
Lyreacrompane (U12),
Sinead Behan
Rathea and Aideen Quinlan Coolnaleen Upper (U15) pictured above
with their dancing teacher Ranóg Townsend.
Henry Shefflin
and his connection to Lyreacrompane
As told on the
Ray Darcy Show
Click here to see
clip
https://youtu.be/wdH9IQVh3cs
Henry Shefflin's roots in Kerry were
highlighted when Kay O'Leary told Ray about them.
Congratulations Karen and Tommy
Truck in Trouble
Off the road at Dromaddamore April 18 2017
On TV!!!
Caoimhe Lyons from Lyreacrompane features on TG4 at 8pm
Sunday night, April 16, with all her school pals from Gaelscoil
Mhic Easmainn in Tralee. In the trailer below Caoimhe is the one
doing the Séan Nos dancing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZZtltHQQhU
Rally Driving in Sunny Lyreacrompane
April 2 2017
Happy Anniversary Tim and Martina
Photo - Kerry's Eye
Mick Naughton celebrates
Mick Naughton celebrates 70.
Photo - The Advertiser
Dan will be twenty this year!!!
The big event of 2017 in Lyreacrompane has
to be the 20th Dan Paddy Andy Festival. Now would be a good
time to plan to be at our four day festival on the August Bank
Holiday Weekend, Friday to Monday August 4 to 7. We are proud of
the fact that the festival has grown and established itself as a
popular event in Kerry with an unbroken run for two decades.
On the
occasion of our twentieth anniversary we are planning to make the
festival bigger and better than ever with big names and a couple
of new events. We will be announcing full details soon. The Dan
Paddy Andy Festival has become a time for exiles to return to meet
neighbours and old friends. This year’s festival will be a special
one and we hope to see lots of exiles back to celebrate with us
and all those who turn up from near and far for Lyreacrompane’s
premier event.
If you are seeking accommodation
near to the Festival the good news is that Glenduff Manor is now
offering self catering accommodation. Find out more on their
Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/GlenduffManor/?fref=ts or
https://www.airbnb.ie/rooms/16551789
Glenduff Manor, Kielduff Phone 00353
(0)66 713 7105
Congratulations to Bernie Moloney and Conor Devlin
Lovely photo of the wedding party at Lyreacrompane Church
Photo by Patricia Lenihan
Some short videos and links
to do with Lyreacrompane
Just click on the
link
Dan Paddy Andy Festival promotional video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TTCMWIV0o4
The Dan Paddy Andy Festival Song - Mike Fitzgerald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Cx2eHWj08
Sean Nós Dancers Lixnaw at the Dan Paddy Andy Festival 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE0z7w7d-zg
Set Dancing at Dan Paddy Andy Festival 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn88xXez9QE
Loughlin's Bar. - Eddie Lee and James Kelliher at the Dan Paddy
Andy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecvr6j8WoJE
Eddie Lee and James at Dan Paddy Andy Fest 2016 - Johnny be
good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26h-5yr829Q
Darragh O'Donnell - Brush Dance 2016 Dan Paddy Andy Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQEjU36p1WI
Sonny Egan rocking an Irish Rambling House Show in Duagh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip2GDEZcQaY&t=6s
Eddie Lee - Knocknagoshel on the Hill (Joe Harrington)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bw9TbuBncw
Lyreacrompane NS 1916 Commemoration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LWYYCgUEgs
Baling at the Glen, Lyreacrompane 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVEG9_K_V-g
Army Helicopter in Lyreacrompane May 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skeIZ3-f_EE
Part of Teagasc event on the farm of Tim Nash, Lyreacrompane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGNHZYlPZh8
Silage time near Duagh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H__K82PQvXA
Lyre Grotto gets new floor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nesBFaMfkJ4
River Smerlagh in flood September 11 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZS9oqnW9Lk
The Wren in Lyreacrompane 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pojsa2o4Dg
Lyre Church Painted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iamLpDzOiUk&feature=youtu.be
To listen to Caroline O'Callaghan sing 'My Home in Sweet
Lyreacrompane'
Click here
Mike Condon - Hooley In the Hills (Joe Harrington Tribute to
Declan Nerney)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FY1l96eJa8
Hooley in the Hills Brush Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPhyRNbmSg
Knocknagoshel On The Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bw9TbuBncw
Joe Harrington's Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/joe.harrington.73157
Pony Trekking in Lyreacrompane
http://youtu.be/h0nAn_X-FD0
Flood in Smearlagh September 11 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZS9oqnW9Lk
Irish Rambling house Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/irishramblinghouse?fref=ts
Irish Rambling House website
www.irishramblinghouse.com
Circuit of the Glen Easter 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87-84Ir76g0
Caoimhe and Odhran Lyons sing Ireland's Call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKC7I16Qfz8
Caoimhe Sings an Irish Song in an Irish kitchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g4ckTSPLss
Caoimhe sings an Irish Song about going to the Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65y7fuHzR5A
Caoimhe's version of the Haka in the Irish language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUs7erdjCbU
Stand clear of the closing doors please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfdvBv_dNl4&t=212s
Army Maneuvers in Lyre May 20 2014
http://youtu.be/skeIZ3-f_EE
School Days
Click here to read Memories of Our School Days
The Dan Paddy Andy Festival Bog Walk 2015 was
videoed by Irish TV
and can now be viewed on-line at this link.
Please pass on the word to all Lyre exiles...
http://www.irishtv.ie/kerry-matters-51
Joe's Country Kingdom
Click on the following link to listen to
Joe's Country Kingdom
with Joe Harrington
broadcast live from Lyreacrompane on
Tuesdays, 9 to 11pm and Saturdays, 9pm to 11pm on internet
radio.
www.irishcountrymusicradio.com
At the Ploughing at Causeway
Announcing Glenduff Manor
There is general delight in the
Lyreacrompane area at the news that Glenduff House is to be
extended as a hotel. The historic building was once in the
hands of the Hurly Family who were the landlords of
Lyreacrompane from 1857 to 1911. There has been a shortage of
accommodation for visitors and exiles who visit this general
area. The best of luck to Michael O’Malley and his team with
their ambitious project which we are sure will be a great and
convenient venue for locals and those visiting our place. The
new venue will be called Glenduff Manor and will be officially
opened on Saturday, January 21 at 12.30pm.
Guarding local resources
Guard What We Have: It is worth considering the
important things we have in our community. These include our
School, Post Office, Community Centre, Festival and the various
small businesses. It is vital
that we continue to support the things that makes and keeps us a
vibrant community. Let us appreciate the things we have and work
individually and collectively to maintain, extend and improve
them. There are a lot of things working against small rural
communities like ours and we all need to think of the bigger
picture so as to protect what we have. No one else is going to do
that for us.
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