Introducing Listowel
The late writer Bryan MacMahon said of Listowel: ‘I harbour the absurd notion of motivating a small town in Ireland, a speck on the map, to become a centre of the imagination.’ Listowel certainly has more literary credentials than your average provincial town, with connections to such accomplished scribes as John B Keane, Maurice Walsh, George Fitzmaurice and Brendan Kennelly. Keane wrote with wry humour about subjects ranging from Limerick’s beggars to the perils of giving up porter as a New Year’s resolution. Outside these connections and a few venues, however, the town is little more than some tidy Georgian streets and a riverside park.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Recommendations for a 5 day trip
by yofletch 02 April 2011
FROM Tralee head to Listowel to see LARTIGUEMONORAIL.COM / then east on the N69 to Foynes to see the...FLYINGBOATMUSEUM.COM / followed…
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RE: Ireland in 13 days
by yofletch 20 March 2011
Sorry, When are you arriving, what time of the year ? Also from MARCH 31 2011 see FLYINGBOATMUSEUM.COM in Foynes ( say FINES) also in…
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RE: Driving Killarney to Dublin?
by yofletch 05 June 2010
I would like you to change your plans Here goes Instead of going the most direct route Consider going up the coast of Kerry and then…
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