LOCAL man Gerard Barrett
Knockanure writer/director behind the award winning Kerry made
feature film ‘Pilgrim Hill’ has been honoured with the
prestigious Bingham Ray Award for Best New Irish Talent at the
24th International Galway Film Fleadh recently.
GREAT to see dedicated people keeping the local villages looking
well. It is no easy job to have flowers blooming all summer
despite the lack of sunshine. It is noticeable the neglected
condition of the closed Garda Station.
SAINT PIO Evening Mass will take place on Thursday 26th July
at 7pm. incorporating the Rosary Mass and Benediction.
CHOIR Practice Wednesday evening 25th July at 7.30pm in
Knockanure Church in preparation for the Graveyard Mass. New
members welcome.
I.C.A. Annual Outing – visiting Cobh Heritage Centre and the
Titanic Museum is on Friday 24th August. Names to Eileen Roche
at 087 6679943.
ICA exhibition of Art, Crafts and Photography in the County
Museum, Ashe Memorial Hall from Monday, continues to Friday,
August 3rd.
BAD Weather is greatly affecting confidence in agriculture, the
governments target for expansion in farm produce will now be
impossible to achieve.
SOCIAL day for the active retired is on Monday 13th August at
Knockanure Community Centre. Come along and enjoy a great day
with a hot meal followed by music and dance. New members
especially welcome. For more details please ring 068 49799.
KERRYWIDE: The recording of the Active Retirement Day at
Knockanure Community Centre will be broadcast on Kerry Radio on
Sunday 29th July at 9pm.
SENIOR Citizens Summer Outing on Friday 27th July. Bus leaving
village at 12 noon. Visiting Foynes Museum with light lunch
Boyces Gardens and the Bridewell, tea & scones served. Book
with Maureen 49365, Ita 49134.
THANKS: The Kerry Branch of the National Council for the Blind
wish to thank the collectors and very generous subscribers of
Moyvane and Knockanure to its recent Church Gate Collection.
The amount collected was €732.85.
SEISIUN every Wednesday night at 9pm at the Arms Hotel and
Thursday night at Templeglantine.
GARDEN Festival in Listowel August 3rd to 6th. Antiques &
Craft Fair, Listowel Garden Festival Queen, Listowel’s Top
Talent Show and more.
CEMETERY Masses; Duagh on July 26th at 7.30pm; Lislaughtin on
Wed. August 1st at 8pm; Ahavoher on 6th August at 7.30pm; Old
Knockanure on 7th August at 7.30pm Murhur on 8th August at
7.30pm. Weather permitting.
REEK Sunday 29th July.
LOUGH Derg pilgrimage on July 27th-29th next. Contact Peg on
068-31232.
BEREAVEMENT; The “Méala” Bereavement Awareness Group (formally
the Bereavement Support Group) hold their monthly meeting at
Listowel Family Resource Centre on Wednesday July 25th at 8pm.
MEDJUGORJE Pilgrimage, 1st Sept. Departing from Cork, with
Marian Pilgrimages. Spiritual Director: Fr. Danny Broderick.
Contact Bridie McCarthy on 066-9477674 / 087-6654296.
MASS Rock; Annual Mass at Poll on Aifrinn Mass Rock,
Ballybeggan will be celebrated on Thursday, August 9th at
7.30pm.
DEATH took place of Johnny Murphy, Carrueragh, Knockanure and
Aras Mhuire Nursing Home, Listowel on July 18, 2012. Johnny was
predeceased by his sisters Sr. Declan Murphy who died July 19th
2010, Kitty O Connor and Julia Nolan, brothers Michael and
Billy. Mass for Johnny was celebrated by Fr Lucid, Fr McMahon
and Fr O Callaghan, The Mulvihill Family sang hymns at the Mass.
Johnny was laid to rest at Old Knockanure Churchyard with his
father Michael who died in 1959, his mother Maria Galvin died
1968, brothers Michael and Billy, aunt Julia Mc Mahon and uncles
John, Mick, Tom, and Edward Murphy. Johnny was in his 96th year,
loved football, a great historian, singer, artist and a devout
Catholic. He used his talents to help his own family and
countless others.
ANNIVERSARIES: Joe O Connell, Kathleen King, Peg McCarthy, John
Griffin, James Godley, Jackie Lyons, Willie O Dowd, Tom Lynch,
Ellie Scanlon, Bridget Dewsaap, Eileen Nolan, Paddy Scanlon, Kit
Dee, Eileen Hagerty, Catriona O Connor, Fr Edward Fitzpatrick,
Jer Mulvihill, Anna matia Houlihan, Jim Kennelly, Bridie
Stackpool, Hannah Dore Flynn; Mass on Wed. 25th at 7.30pm
for Jeremiah Mulvihill; Mass on Fri. 27th at 7.30pm for
Deceased members of the Moore & Healy Families; Mass on
Sat. 28th 7.30pm for Denis Corridan; Mass on Sun.
29th 10.00am for Edward Carmody
And the 11.00am Mass in Moyvane is For the People of the Parish.
READERS: Vigil, Elaine Hudson; 11.00am, Jerry Duggan;
Knockanure Sunday 29th July, Mary O’Flaherty & Siobhan
Fitzgerald.
PRIESTS annual dinner who are home from abroad which will be
held in the Parish Centre, Church of the Resurrection, Park
Road, Killarney on Tuesday, August 7th at 6.30pm.
THOUGHT: “People don’t care how much we know until they know how
much we care” Joe Aldrich.
“The habit of being prompt once formed extends to everything —
meeting friends, paying debts, going to church, reaching and
leaving place of business, keeping promises, retiring at night
and rising in the morning, going to the lecture and
town-meeting, and, indeed, to every relation and act, however
trivial it may seem to observers.” –William Makepeace Thayer,
Tact and Grit, 1882;
Benjamin Franklin once said to an employee who was always late,
but always ready with an excuse: “I have generally found that
the man who is good at an excuse is good for nothing else.”
STARS: An international team of astronomers has observed the
heart of a distant quasar with unprecedented sharpness, two
million times finer than human vision.
WEEKEND: Journey into Awareness, an inspirational weekend, In
Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co Limerick from Saturday 28th &
Sunday 29th July 2012.
LOCAL man Gerard Barrett Knockanure writer/director behind the
award winning and now critically acclaimed Kerry made feature
film ‘Pilgrim Hill’ has been honoured with the prestigious
Bingham Ray Award for Best New Irish Talent at the 24th
International Galway Film Fleadh recently. The Awards ceremony
attended by five hundred people at the Town Hall Theatre in
Galway City was presented by Kate O’ Toole the daughter of the
award winning actor Peter O’ Toole.
Pilgrim Hill premiered to a sell out audience on the Friday
night to critical and audience acclaim and was officially opened
by Minister Jimmy Deenihan. National Film Critic Donald Clarke
called the film “moving and touching” while Miriam Allen the
founder of the Film Fleadh called it “beautiful and my favourite
pick of the entire festival”.
Pilgrim Hill was shot on location in Ballylongford, Brosna and
Abbeyfeale in the summer of 2012 over 7 days and Barrett is
incredibly proud of it’s success so far “It’s amazing to be
honest to be here and for the film to pick up one of the top
awards just crowns it. I’m just so pleased for everyone involved
in the film and everyone who helped out down in Kerry. It’s not
just a win for the film but it’s a win for Kerry”.
Barrett 24, who works for the Oscar Winning Brown Bag Films
Animation and Disney Animation in Dublin has now a development
deal with Magnolia Pictures owned by the billionaire Mark Cuban
after winning the award.
After the award winning debut of Pilgrim Hill at the Galway
Film Fleadh, it has been invited to the Prestigious Busan
International Film Festival in South Korea where the Film will
compete for the grand jury prize. The top ten rated film
festival in the World, Busan welcomes the worlds new top young
filmmakers and the festival is attended by more than 500,000
Asians each year. Pilgrim Hill has also been invited to compete
in the Rome International Film Festival in December.
A 250km walk from Limerick to Dublin to raise funds for Pieta
House (a non-profit organisation providing a specialised
treatment programme to prevent suicide and self harm), has been
organised from 11th to 21st September 2012.
I am taking part in this walk and would greatly appreciate any
donations to this worthy cause. For sponsorship cards or further
details call 087-7751386. Many thanks, Michael Hayes (July
2012)
JOHNNY Quaid.
A chance meeting in 2008 led Johnny Quaid to represent Ireland
in the World Pool Championships that year and every year since,
Johnny aged 23 secures 8th or 9th place in the World
Championships each year.
“I injured my back in 2006 when I was 17 years old. I left
school early after the Junior Cert and had been working as an
apprentice in roofing in Abbeyfeale. One day I finished work but
as I was walking away I realised I had left my jacket on the
roof. I went back onto the roof and a few moments later fell off
it. I have no memory of the accident. The first thing I remember
is waking up in the Mater Hospital without any knowledge of what
had taken place.”
SAINT Molua is the patron Saint of Ardagh and his feast day is
4th August and the Holy Well near Ardagh Cemetery is dedicated
to his memory. Saint Molua was born in Limerick and he was
educated at Bangor under Saint Comgall and became known as a
monk, builder and hermit. He founded over 100 monasteries in
Ireland and was a man of great tenderness to man and beast
despite his strict observance of the monastic discipline. In
olden times people used to wash their clothes at the well and as
a result it dried up for a number of years. The parish priest
was credited with getting the water to return and it was
described as cool clear and fresh water. It was claimed that a
local woman had her sight restored at the blessed well. It was
also stated that Saint Patrick put a curse on the well (who ever
drank from the well would die) because the people stoned his
donkey. Saint Molua reversed the death threat and the people
continue to visit the well on his feast day on 4th August, which
was observed as a parish holiday in olden times. He died on
4th August 622.
VOLUNTEER: If you are over 18 and would like to find out more
about a Volunteer Programme or if you would like to give an hour
or more of your time and volunteer in one of our centres, please
contact: Grainne Keane, Volunteer Coordinator, Daughters of
Charity Services, Limerick.
Tel: 087 2855976 E-Mail: [email protected]
YOUTH 2000 SUMMER FESTIVAL: will take place in Clonmacnois, Co
Offaly from Thursday – Sunday, August 9 –12. It’s for young
people aged 16 – 35. Phone 01 6753690 or book online at
www.youth2000.ie.
KERRY CAMINO: You are invited to walk in the footsteps of St.
Brendan, The navigator, it’s a 57km trail on The Dingle Way with
stops in scenic areas to stamp your “Log Book” and you will
receive a certificate on completion.
Knockanure Notes – 22nd July, 2012
July 22, 2012