Danny Houlihan‘s Irish Experience

May Eve Sunset Walk Lahadane 2023 Danny Houlihan.

Welcome to the Wild Atlantic Way & Danny Houlihan's Irish Experience Show and our May Eve Sunset Walk Lahardane 2023.

I guided a group during the May weekend  to the top of Knockanore the hill of slaughter on May Eve, where once the might of the Fianna was tested against Tailc Mhic Treoin a noted warrior from Greece over the beautiful female Niamh.

Most of you will not be able to attend the walk on this occasion so I will just give you a taste of the sights we came across and its history and its people who are now long  gone as we proceeded up to the famous Hill of Slaughter at Knockanore. I have included a small portion of local Genealogy and history along the way to give an insight to the area which is rich in history and culture.

I hope you all enjoy this episode I did and the walk.

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In this episode which is a first in the series Danny Houlihan deals with historic individuals along the Wild Atlantic Way. In this episode Danny covers a brief history of a local Priest and Champion of the People the late Fr Mortimer O' Connor Parish Priest of Ballybunion who lived in the area in the  1870s.

This crusading Priest took on the power the money and the might of the Landlords to secure the small tenants their holdings and public rights in the area of Ballyeagh and Ballybunion and further afield.

In this episode Danny Houlihan has consulted old faded newspapers of the day old shop records and information both oral handed down and written by local people and historian's now gone to highlight a period and people now long and since forgotten consigned to a closed book. This episode is again but taste of a period in Irish History now long gone.

Danny Houlihan looks back at the old faded newspapers of the times in 1900s and comments it made on the developing seaside resort in Ballybunion North Kerry Ireland. Again after years of praise like other places which will be covered in the series Danny describes the town and what was ongoing and according to the press what was needed in improvements. In the 1930s there was a drive to light the seaside resort in the North Kerry town with local people promoting the idea of a locally built power plant this was achieved after many meeting and many funny stories told. Danny Houlihan once again weaves a unique tapestry on the subject adding history and humour to the forgotten of the place

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The sun rose over Knockanore hill as the local workers made their way by foot and bike to the 72 acre wireless station to finalise the last mast the 500 foot on the Universal Radio Wireless Station YXQ, located on sandhill road Ballybunion North Kerry Ireland. 

Morning tea was ready at the brown wooden buildings surrounding the site, in the months to follow the station would transmit morse messages to its sister station at Newcastle New Brunswick In Canada and intern would receive coded messages from Canada and monitor shipping activity on the Atlantic during World War 1.

The day would go down into history locally as a storm front closed in from the Atlantic on the massive 500ft Tower resulting in severe damage to the central tubular mast prior to first contact with Newcastle New Brunswick in Canada.

The station would later on the 19th of March 1919 with the Marconi Company using a telephony transmitter transmit human voice for the first time from East to West from Ballybunion to Louisbourg Cape Breton Nova Scotia. This episode Celebrates the 105 Anniversary of that historic event and our connection with Canada.

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St Patricks Day has arrived again and around the World Irish celebrations are under way with parades and our music song and dance that show case our rich diverse culture and heritage.

In this episode Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience celebrates the day with a taste of History and music which will put you feet tapping. Danny looks back at a few of his podcasts Holy Wells and Lisslaghtin Abbey in Ballylongford with a few tunes weaved into the story on his pipes along the way. Enjoy & Happy Saint Patricks Day 2023.

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In this episode I will cover one of our native Irish tree The Ash Tree and its associated legends and lore.

The Ash Tree or Crann Fuinseoige is highly regarded in Ireland along with the oak and yew trees and can traces its roots back to the dawn of time. A native tree which in bygone times was venerated by the people of Ireland and its ancient customs and our old Ogham Calendar of Trees

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The Hazel Rod made from the Crann Coill or Hazel Tree is famous in Irish Myth & Legend and the famous Salmon of Knowledge. Hazel Rods were used in Ireland many years ago for various purposes such as divining for wells and for the location of missing people. In this episode Danny Houlihan travels out again along the Wild Atlantic Way and its history to sample another two recorded events he has documented and indeed witnessed with the famous Hazel Rod a part of the history of Ireland

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A New Church in Rattoo St Augustine Wilson Gun 1887

In this special episode Danny Houlihan returns once again to Ballyduff and through the faded brown documents and old newspaper clippings from old scrap books of the day takes a journey back in time at a part of a shared shared history between Ballyduff and Ballybunion a unique Church commissioned by the late Wilson Gun and his wife of Ballyduff North Kerry Ireland in the year of 1877 and 1879. 

Indeed not many visitors to the area may know that located on Sandhill Road in Ballybunion there were two former Protestant Churches located there, the old Killehenny built after the Great Irish Holocaust of 1846 & 1847 and another St Augustine which is now the town library and is used by everyone and is well worth a visit. The church has a unique past, its beginnings originated in Ballyduff, its foundations, stone laid upon stone in the shadow of the famous round tower in Ballyduff just outside Tralee North Kerry 3 miles distant from Ballybunion, this church was moved stone by stone to Ballybunion in 1957

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In this episode of the series Danny Houlihan visits a famous holy well along the Shannon side in North Kerry Ireland called Tobar Eoin and the associations with the famous America Out Law Jesse James and the John James family of the 1820s onwards from a long-forgotten place called Snugborough Asdee.

Long lost names and tradespeople that made up the history and fabric that is Asdee North Kerry Ireland are spoken of once again. All are brought back in focus of the past lifeways with local historian Danny Houlihan consulting sourced information and tattered fragments of brown old books that remain. Danny Houlihan weaves a unique tapestry of the area and its people with is truly the Wild Atlantic Way Ireland.

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Ballybunion Golf Club 1893 The Early Game of Golf Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience

Today the famous Ballybunion Golf Course is World renowned for its two championship golf courses the Old Course and the Cashen Course.International golfers have visited the course over the years and the club has hosted many events including Murphy’s Irish open in 2000 including visits from famous International golfers who come to play the famous links yearly.

In this short historical visit back to the famous fairways and the faded brown pages of old newspaper clippings and available material from the year of 1893, Danny Houlihan takes brief look at the club and its origins its landlord and the first people who were there at that time of its first meeting in1893 at the Castle Hotel Ballybunion North Kerry Ireland and a story that was related to Danny many years ago about those pioneering days of golf in the year of 1893.

Research for this podcast is from the oral tradition and written accounts of the period and by local people who were golfers themselves and had a great love of the area of Ballybunion and the course. This is not a definitive history but a taste of the rich area of Ballybunion North Kerry Ireland.

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