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We got a real taste of Winter this past week! On the bright side, we've less than a month to go to the shortest day of the year - onward and upward after that!
With just a week to go to the General Election, the array of candidates in Lucan takes some study Interestingly, we counted 5 female candidates in Dublin Mid-west, and 9 in Dublin West - which surely must be a record ....
May the best men and women win seats!
Village Works - Many people believe that the Village Green was always landscaped with beautiful trees and shrubs - the elder lemons around Lucan will have different memories.
The photo here is courtesy of Dublin City Archives, and dates from the mid-1950s.
David believes he could be a great footballer. All he needs is a team. However, he ends up joining Rosegrove United, who as well as having an awful name are useless in David's opinion. David has two other problems. Firstly, his embarrassing Dad, who thinks he is a soccer expert because he watches Match of the Day. Secondly, Whacker Whelan, the soccer playing bully. Can David overcome these challenges and win the Player of the Year trophy.
Illustrations by Caoilfhionn Walsh & Ciaran O'Brien.
A must for any Xmas Stocking - available at buythebook.ie
Suitable for ages 6 to 60!
Local author and set in Lucan.
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St. Mary's Camera Soiree
Next weekend will be the big weekend for our group when the 12th Photographic Exhibition (one of our biggest) takes place in the Parish Centre on Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December. Full details can be found in the notice elsewhere in the Newsletter.
This week the winter light seemed to have favoured our photographers. Josie sent in a photograph of St. Mary's Church of Ireland in Leixlip, built at the confluence of the river Liffey and the river Rye. The church has been a site for Christian worship for over 800 years.
Kay captured beautiful reflections on a lake in St. Stephen's Green and Anna got as far as Sligo to send in a photo of Ben Bulbin, the setting of several Irish legends, one being the story of The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne.
Brendan sent in a marvellous shot of a very angry looking Owl taken at National Birds of Prey centre located in the grounds of Rossborough House near Blessington.
He also submitted a magnificent shot of a little Egret, a species of Heron, capturing its trademark elegant white feathers, black legs and striking yellow feet. The bird was hunted extensively and nearly to extinction in the 19th century to provide plumes for the decoration of hats. It became locally extinct in northwestern Europe as a result.
Thanks to conservation laws, by the beginning of the 21st century the bird was breeding again in France, the Netherlands, Ireland and Britain. Brendan tells me that the bird is a beautiful sight along the river Liffey, particularly in Lucan Demesne which provides ideal nesting and foraging grounds for the bird.
Stay safe until next week and don't forget our exhibition!
The Epic Origins of Hurling
From a translation of the original work Sceal na hIomána - the history of hurling before the GAA, which ran to about 820 pages of dense academic print in Irish.
There is much in the way of fascinating detail on the ancient game to be discovered within the book's covers, from early reference in the mythology of Cuchulainn through the ages to where it stands today.
Available exclusively online in hardback at Amazon. Information: visit www.epichurling.com
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