Community website for Millstreet, Co. Cork, Ireland
The monthly Cultúrlann Rambling House is happening this Saturday from 8:00 pm and every second Saturday of the month!
Enjoy an evening of music, songs, and stories where everyone is welcome to listen, participate, and enjoy the company of new and old friends.
Refreshments will be served, so come along for a great time of community and fun!
Dia is Mhuire dióbh go léir a cairde and welcome to my Report.
Millstreet featured largely on last week’s Irelands Own. It’s dated Oct.11.2024. The back cover is devoted entirely to Millstreet. Singing it’s praises and lauding the work of it’s people. Written by a man called Denis J Hickey, it highlights all our best assets and features such as our Holy Tubrid Well, source of our water supply our medieval forts and castles and our many entrepreneurs and lots more. Giving us all good reason to be proud of our own place. Further to that I had the honour of having a letter published on the letters page of the same weekly. It was a first for me, in the shape of a comment that I made on an article in a previous issue about the renowned Dr.Aidan McCarthy from Castletownbere, whom I’ve just discovered was a close relation to our own Fr. Paddy and the O’Byrne Family. His book A Doctor’s War is well worth a read. During the Japanese invasion of Malaysia etc, the Beara Medic found himself totally emersed in the conflict, he was taken prisoner and endured years in concentration camps and extreme cruelty. But at the end when the enemy was defeated and the Japanese general at their mercy his men wanted to kill him right away for all that he had done to them. But the Dr. Aidan said no, two wrongs never made a right. The man was so delighted and grateful that his life was spared that he presented his mighty sword to him. The sword was the symbol of all that this man stood for, his country, his pride his everything, and this was his way of showing his gratitude. That sword is now at the home of Dr. Aidan at the McCarthy public house in Castletownbere. On a visit to Beara one time, I’m very proud to have been photographed with that historic weapon in my hand by kind permission of his daughter and how wonderful it was for me to present a copy of it to Kevin O’Byrne who is a staunch historian but only ever heard the story of the sword. Never dreamt that he would see a picture of it or know where it is kept today. The truth is stranger than fiction.
Preceded by Jimmy Reidy’s Archival Show No. 119 relating to Ardpatrick on Cork Music Station at 8pm on this Tuesday, 8th Oct. 2024…..“Radio Treasures” (from 9.15pm to 11.30pm) features at 9.30pm Our Second Visit to Knockalougha Rambling House 2024 with splendid music, chat and songs. At 10.15pm we meet Ann Linehan as she presents her New Publication to Millstreet Library….Ann’s superb books are available at Wordsworth Bookshop, Millstreet & also online at www.buythebook.ie . And we chat about the recent Millstreet Tidy Towns Awards….And very especially we celebrate a superb feature on this week’s “Ireland’s Own” relating to Denis J. Hickey’s recent visit to Millstreet. All this and so much more on tonight’s very special Show. Feel most welcome to contact us on 086 – 825 0074 or by emailing corkmusicstation @gmail.com . Tap on the images below to enlarge. (S.R.)
