Here are a few photos of the very enjoyable and successful trip.Ī section of the attendance at the Chicago launch. Vincent Carmody combined a family holiday with the launch of his latest book, Listowel, A Printer’s Legacy in Chicago and New York recently. Here are some old newspaper stories chronicling the story So he did a bit of research on our behalf and he found that finding a spot for the convenience proved very inconvenient. Photo: Bridget O’Connorĭave O’Sullivan was fascinated by Michael Guerin’s video account of the battle for the location of Listowel’s public toilet. Jimmy in the company of his friends and fellow dancers with the North Cork music maestro, Liam O’Connorīallybunion Sunset, March 2019. These are just a few, click on the link for more. John Kelliher took some great photos on the night. It was a labour of love for Jimmy Deenihan and a few more and I’m delighted it got such a good reception in The Listowel Arms on Sunday last and I am so sorry that I couldn’t be there. I invited him to the launch of A Minute of Your Time. Me in between Evelyn O’Rourke and Sean O’Rourke.īrian O’Connell signing my copy of The Personals. Below is the link to the story which was picked up by the makers of the Tar Abhaile programme. gr grandmother who had left from the workhouse in Listowel under the Earl Grey Scheme. It was she who presented the programme where Julie Evans came from Australia to research her gr. She remembered our time making a programme for TG4 with great fondness. Evelyn O’Rourke is a colleague of Seán’s and Brian’s. The author, Brian O’Connell watching on as his book is launched. He told us of a mother who made sheets from flour bags, and he mentioned a few of the more unusual items for sale that Brian tells us about in The Personals. Seán O’Rourke told us a few tall tales of a great grandmother who regularly washed her burial shroud or habit and hung it out on the line to air it so that it would be ready whenever…. The launch drew a a packed house with a few celebrities in attendance. This book by RTE journalist, Brian O’Connell, is a look at the stories behind the small ads the classifieds as we called them.īrian bravely contacted the sellers of interesting items he spotted in his trawl through the small ads in the papers and on Done deal and he met with them and more often than not, got an interesting story. I have a few photographs for you from the launch of The Personals in Waterstones on October 3 2019 She stopped to offer a few words of encouragement.
The light wasn’t great on the morning I took my stroll so the photographs are a bit dark.Įileen O’Sullivan was coming from mass. It’s a good time to snap the streetscape. The streets are quiet in Listowel too on Sunday mornings. Of the sleeping city sidewalks, Sunday morning coming down.”
” There ain’t nothing short of dying half as lonesome as the sound
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