Just a friendly reminder to enter our St. Patrick’s Day Giveaway by 11:59pm EDT tomorrow, March 17th. The winner will be announced Wednesday, March 19th. Simply answer the Listowel trivia question below, fill in your contact information, and hit the submit button.
But first, take a look at what people have to say about the prize, a signed copy of Vincent Carmody’s Listowel – Snapshots of an Irish Market Town 1850-1950:
“A beautifully designed and executed book, wherein the discards of history are put on parade to become a treasure throve of insight into the life of an Irish Market town. Listowel is transfigured; If space allows movement; place is pause at every turn of a page.” Dr. Patrick J. O’ Connor
“That Vincent Carmody’s Listowel, Snapshots of an Irish Market town is evocative and beautiful is not surprising, but it is also an artful history. Concisely and lucidly told, it is a mosaic of faces and the telling artifacts of everyday life.” Richard White, Professor of American History, Stanford University
“This book is about more than the shops and the pubs. It is a reminder of the transience of life, of the way that humans move on but a streetscape remains. Beautifully presented, it will appeal to anyone from North Kerry and should give other towns reason to wish they had someone who would do the same for them.” Frank O’Shea, Irish Echo
Listowel (courtesy of Vincent Carmody)
Good Luck!
The Irish in America 
April 28, 2014 at 3:09 pm
Dear Sir,
For the information of your readers, the website http://www.census.ie will add the full 1926 Irish census over the next three months. This will add to the 1909 and the 1911 census. Today, additional entries of earlier census returns have been made available, but only refer to certain counties, as a large proportion of the national census returns of the 1800s were destroyed by fire during the civil war.
April 28, 2014