Fethard & Killusty Newsletter 2009

Kerry Street Sports will be held in the Railway Field on Sunday 7th 1938

This original 26”x20” paper hand-made poster was supplied by Michael McCarthy, Kerry Street. The month was August as it was the only month that year that had a Sunday on the 7th. FETHARD & KILLUSTY NEWSLETTER 2009

Dedicated to our friends and relations living away from home

Published by the Fethard & Killusty Emigrants’ Newsletter ISSN 1393-2721

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Layout and design by Joe Kenny, Rocklow Road, Fethard Printed by Modern Printers Kilkenny

Cover: View of Fethard Town Wall and Watergate Bridge from the East

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A look back at Lisronagh N.S...... 58 Fethard Senior Citizens Club ...... 44 A small world! ...... 74 Fethard Senior GAA Club ...... 114 Acknowledgements ...... 190 Fethard Town Wall Medieval Festival . . . . 160 Aerial Views of Fethard ...... 144 Fethard’s International Boxer ...... 99 All Ireland Volleyball Champions ...... 126 Fethard’s Nonagenarians 2009 ...... 191 An unlikely connection? ...... 32 Fiodh Árd Bord na nOg ...... 119 Babes in the Wood – programme 1959 . . . . 53 Get Shortie! ...... 192 Badgers Over 30s Soccer & Social Club . . . . 96 Holy Trinity Church of Ireland ...... 7 Cashel Blue Cheese ...... 11 Irish Walled Towns Network 2009 . . . . . 128 Christmas Greetings from the Abbey . . . . . 6 Jackie Aylward – an appreciation ...... 133 Community Employment Scheme ...... 135 Jimmy O’Donnell’s winning entry ...... 84 Days of the Father ...... 198 John Joe’s Corner ...... 178 Deaths in the parish ...... 154 Killusty National School ...... 150 Do You Remember . . . 1979? ...... 102 Killusty Pony Show ...... 151 Don’t lose those memories! ...... 3 Killusty Soccer Club - 40th Anniversary . . . . 26 Donations Received 2009 ...... 188 Legion of Mary ...... 10 Emigrant’s poem from 1800s ...... 100 Marriages ...... 98 Fethard – The town I loved so well ...... 15 Mervyn Colville – Glasnevin ...... 60 Fethard & District Credit Union ...... 85 My Uncle, Michael Browne ...... 206 Fethard & District Day Care Centre . . . . . 82 Nano Nagle National School ...... 170 Fethard & Killusty Community Council . . . 182 One of Fethard’s own ...... 24 Fethard & Killusty Community Games . . . . 41 Our dear departed 2009 ...... 155 Fethard Ballroom Ltd...... 47 Parish Greetings ...... 5 Fethard Bridge Club ...... 19 Patrician Presentation Awards Day . . . . . 122 Fethard Country Markets ...... 45 Plumber and Painter ...... 164 Fethard Historical Society ...... 156 Researching a History of Fethard ...... 140 Fethard Ladies Football Club ...... 39 St. Patrick’s Boys National School . . . . . 180 Fethard Oil — Daly Fuels ...... 194 Staff farewell to popular teacher ...... 127 Fethard Parish Church Organ ...... 196 Tailors fit for a president! ...... 86 Fethard Parish Church record ...... 197 The late Canon James Power ...... 152 Fethard Players ...... 57 The Soldiers Tree ...... 51 Fethard Scouts - 27 Tipperary Group . . . . . 48 Whispers from the past ...... 68

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Don’t lose those memories! by Joe Kenny (editor) he past twelve months will be two shillings and sixpence. By the age Tremembered by many people of twelve, I was developing my own at home and abroad for very different photographs, thanks to a Christmas reasons, some will have happy memo- present from my mother of a small ries and others very sad ones. As ‘Photographic Kit’ purchased from another year rolls by and takes its toll Donal O’Sullivan’s Chemist. Donal we can only look back and ask, where had a very keen interest in photogra- have all the years gone? Time r