The Kerryman (South Kerry Edition)
SCARTAGLEN
ALZHEIMERS TEA DAY
Mary Murphy of Adriville will hold her annual Alzheimers Tea Day in her home on Thursday May 3rd from 10.30am, all day. Please support this very deserving cause which is a very worthy one.
BLOOD DONOR CLINIC
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) will hold a blood donor clinic in Castleisland Community Centre on Wednesday and Thursday next May 2nd and 3rd from 5pm 8pm. All who are willing to donate blood will be most welcome.
CONFIRMATION
Congratulations to the 12 young people from Scartaglen N.S. who were confirmed by Bishop Ray Browne at a Confirmation Ceremony held in Castleisland Parish Chruch on Friday last April 27th.
CHURCH DUTIES
Those requested for duties in Our Lady Of Lourdes Church for the month of May are as follows; Eucharistic Ministers Team B, Eilish Moynihan, Carmel O’Driscoll, Margaret Fleming, Sheila McSweeney. Collection Checkers, Eileen Forde and Mossie Kerin.
KILSARCON CEMETERY MASS
The annual open air mass in Kilsarcon Cemetery will be celebrated on Monday May 28th at 8pm and as always people with relatives buried in the cemetery are asked to clean and tidy their graves and take home any clippings, old wreaths etc.
FIRST COMMUNION
First Communion masses coming up this month for Castleisland, Cordal and Scartaglin are as follows: Castleisland Saturday May 5th at 11am, Scartaglin Saturday May 12th at 11am and Cordal May 19th at 11am.
FATIMA NOVENA
Last year (2017) was the centenary of the Apparitions at Fatima and a very successful novena was held in Gneevguilla church to mark the occasion. Owing to such a success it has been decided to hold a novena again this year in Gneevguilla and this will take place from Saturday May 5th to Sunday May 13th and all are welcome.
LADIES FOOTBALL
Best of luck to Shauna Tangney and the rest of the Kerry U14 ladies team who play Tipperary in the Munster Semi Final Replay in Mallow on this Wednesday evening. Lets hope Kerry come out on top once again in this contest.
GAA LOTTO DRAW
Scartaglen GAA Clubs next Lotto Draw will be on Sunday next May 7th in Lyons Bar when the jackpot will be E3,200.
TEA DANCE
Sliabh luachra Active Retired Network will hold the May Tea Dance on Sunday May 13th 2018 in Ballymacelligott Community Centre hosted by Ballymacelligott Active Retired the usual buses available contact your club..Starting at 2.30 music song, Tea will be served.
WORLD FIDDLE DAY
On Saturday May 19 World Fiddle Day will once again be held in Scartaglin. Over the past five years World Fiddle Day has evolved and involved the other traditions found in Sliabh Luachra today. Poetry, storytelling, singing, history and art have all been brought back into the fold. ”This year, on May 19th we are going to host our most ambitious project yet and feature the playing of slow airs with contributions from all the other art forms,”
In his 1993 RTE Radio One documentary, presenter Peter Browne spoke to many of the contemporaries friends and students of the late Pádraig O’Keeffe. In the course of the four-part programme titled, ‘Pádraig O’Keeffe The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master,’ people who knew and remembered O’Keeffe remarked on his masterful playing of slow airs. “What inspired this,? ”Was it the Irish language, the poetry of Eoghan Rua Ó Suilleabháin and Aogan Ó Rathille, the songs his mother sang or the rugged terrain of Sliabh Luachra through which he walked every day? “
On Saturday, May 19th at 12 noon, Peter Browne will play his choice of slow air and introduce the question to all participating guests and audience. ”We have invited five great exponents of air playing along with Peter to play a tune of their choosing and tell us why they play it. What in in the name of Sliabh Luachra inspires them to play it? ”After each example of air playing we have six guests from six different art forms who will contribute a piece from their genre. ”They’ll tell us what they draw from Sliabh Luachra that contributes to their creative processes,” The musicians invited include: Peter Browne, Matt Cranitch, Paddy Jones, Jackie Daly, Skip Gorman and Joe Thoma Guest artists: Eileen Sheehan, poetry; Breda Joy, author and journalist; Joe Creedon, sean nos singer; John Reidy, photography / artist; Éamonn Ó Braoin, Irish language historian and Lisa O’Neill, contemporary folk singer/songwriter ”It is anticipated and hoped that the audience will join in on the discussion and contribute where they see fit This is an unique event which we are going to video for the Handed Down Sliabh Luachra Archive so quietness is requested from the audience while filming.