Day: November 25, 2017

Parish Newsletter – 26th November, 2017

PARISH NEWSLETTER
BALLYDALY-CULLEN-MILLSTREET
Solemnity of Christ the King
26th November, 2017
CANON JOHN FITZGERALD P.P.
TEL NOS. MILLSTREET 029-70043/MOBILE 087-7752948
EMAIL:  <email>    DIOCESEOFKERRY.IE
PARISH OFFICE OPENING HOURS:
MONDAY-TUESDAY- WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY
10.00A.M.-1.00P.M. & 2.00P.M.-5.00P.M.

Your prayers are requested for the repose of the souls of the following and for those whose anniversaries occur around this time, and for those for whom masses will be offered during the week:

RECENT DEATHS: Maura Ross (nee Lehane), Minor Row & Dublin; Kathleen O’Hare, Coole.

MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEKEND:
Saturday 25th November:
Millstreet Vigil 6.30 p.m.                  MASS FOR ALL THOSE WHO DIED IN MILLSTREET & BALLYDALY DURING THE PAST 12 MONTHS.
Sunday 26th November:
Ballydaly   9.00 a.m.  Daithi Dowling, Murphy’s Terrace
Cullen      10.15 a.m.   Phil Cremin, Church Hill & Batt & Julia Cronin, Tureencahill
Millstreet 11.30 a.m.                          Con O’Sullivan, Claramore

Anniversaries:  Denis O’Shea, Pound Hill; Sr. Perpetua Hickey, Pound Hill; Betty Fitzgerald, Murphy’s Terrace; May Justice, Main Street; Catherine O’Mahony, Main Street; Babe Ann & Willie C. O’Riordan, Main Street; Garrett Hickey, West End;  Aidan Burke, Drishanemore; Mary Guiney, Drishane Road;  Julia & John C O’Mahony, Adrivale; Margaret O’Connor, Kilmeedy;  Moya Murphy, Claramore; Mary O’Regan, Station Road;  Tim O’Callaghan, Blarney & Millstreet; Nell Donnelly, Derragh; Mary Ann Cronin, Knockduff; John & Mai Naughton, Ahane; John & Mary Murphy, Laharn; Edward, Hannah & Anna Mary Fleming, Killarney; Martin Healy, Carriganima.  [read more …] “Parish Newsletter – 26th November, 2017”

The Millstreet Man who saved the Limerick Leader

Buckley, Jeremiah (1862–1937), newspaper proprietor, accountant, and nationalist, was born 16 November 1862 in Coomlogane, Millstreet, Co. Cork, the second son of John Buckley, gentleman, and Ellen Buckley (née Mullane), of Curragh, Millstreet, Co. Cork. He entered King’s Inns (1890) and was called to the bar in 1893. Having dealt with only a few cases he went on to become a chartered accountant, as a junior at Kean and Co., Dame St., Dublin. He bought this company on Kean’s death, retaining its working name. Around 1900 he also obtained ownership of the Limerick Leader, which had been founded in 1889 as a pro-nationalist journal, and run into financial difficulties. He revitalised the paper, securing its finances and maintaining its pro-nationalist stance. In 1902 he was jailed for one month because of a Leader editorial in which he denounced those who occupied the land of evicted tenants. The paper was again in trouble in 1919 when it was suppressed by the authorities for supplying information on the national loan organised by the first Dáil.

Buckley became an advisor and close friend of Éamon de Valera (qv) and was heavily involved in the foundation and development of [read more …] “The Millstreet Man who saved the Limerick Leader”

Millstreet GAA Players Fundraising Race Night in The Bush Bar

Connie Hickey of the Bush Bar, Millstreet presented €4,300 to the Millstreet GAA Players Fund on Thursday 23rd November 2017, the proceeds from the recent Race Night. Sincere thanks to all who supported the event.

[read more …] “Millstreet GAA Players Fundraising Race Night in The Bush Bar”

Death Notice: Kathleen (Kax) O’Hare, Coole

The death has occurred on Friday 24th November 2017 of Kathleen (Kax) O’HARE, Coole, Millstreet, Cork. Peacefully, at her residence. Beloved wife of the late Jerome, loving and much loved mother of Derry, Marie, Rena, John, Tom, Finian, Anne and the late Denis, sister of the late Birdie (Sugrue), Breda (Hall), and Bishop Diarmaid O Suilleabhain, sadly missed by her family daughters-in-law Mairead, Mary and Helen, sons-in-law Seani, Kieran and the late John, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, relatives and friends. May she rest in peace.

Reposing at her residence on Sunday from 4pm to 8pm with rosary at 8pm. Reception into St Patrick’s Church, Millstreet, for Requiem Mass on Monday at 12 noon. Burial afterwards in St Mary’s Cemetery. [1]  [read more …] “Death Notice: Kathleen (Kax) O’Hare, Coole”