Lament for Half-Door

We are delighted to be able to bring you the eighty page 10th edition of the Lyreacrompane and District Journal. We are proud that the Lyre area has a past and a present that is worth recording for the future. We think you will enjoy what we have included in this issue and, as always, the collection of material for the next Journal starts right now. Our thanks to all who contributed articles and photos, especially to Kay O’Leary for her tireless research of past events in the area and to the Local History Dept at Tralee Library. Special thanks, in theses difficult times, to our advertisers. They help to make the Journal possible so please keep them in mind when you are purchasing during the year. (December 2011)

Kay O’Leary making a presentation to Billy Keane who launched Journal No.9

Contents

Our Happy Times in Lyre P2 Lament for Half-Door P4 Show me the Way P5 Moonlighters P8 Trecking, Turbary & Turbines P9 Christmas Long Ago P13 Adrian P14 Glasnacree to Washington P15 All Kinds of Everything P16 Eileen of Enright’s Bridge P18 GAA Bits & Pieces P19 Mansion in Mountcoal P21 Cycling through Lyre P22 On The Road with the Rambling House P23 Kerry Highway Robbery P27 The Life of HW O’Connor P31 Conflict in Knocknagoshel P33

Dromada Runaway Bog P35 Gunshots in Dromada P37 Questions and Answers P43 Remember the Bands P45 Lyre Notes ’60 & ’71 P46 & P48 Snowy Mountain Trip P51 Damn the Dam P54 North Kerry Reaching Out P55 The Al Roche Cup P56 Some lighter Moments P57 Dan Paddy Andy O’Sullivan P59 Odds & Ends P65 History Of Scott County Iowa P66 Talking About us in New Zealand P67 Ladies Gaelic Football in Australia P72 Duagh Up & Doing P75 Prince Monolulu P77 The Actual Penal Laws P80 Journal Cover Designed by Shane Harrington 1