Below is an extract from a beautiful piece written by Liz Kett. Liam was born in Kells, Co. Kilkenny. The youngest of the O’Byrne family, his father Liam senior a Tipperary man, was Principal Teacher at Kells National School and his mother Helena was from the west of Ireland. Music was a big part of […]
During April and May, Dalton House held a Creative Writing Course. With the financial support of the Kilkenny Leader Group we secured, renowned writer and winner of the Listowel Writers Week Comedy Essay competition, Gerry Moran to deliver his creative writing course. Over the six weeks the participants enjoyed writing and sharing many short stories […]
As is well known we deliver dinners everyday. What may not be known is the distance we travel. Here’s a previous map so you can compare how our deliveries evolve. On our quietest day we have 15 stops but our busiest day has 42. The map below shows about 30 stops. The red line is […]
We’re having a cake sale on Saturday the 19th of April. Come along and take advantage of home baking at it’s best.
Each Wednesday evening we meet between 8pm and 10pm, share a cup of tea and a sandwich and then have a sing song. If you’ve read our blog before you’ll have come across previous recordings. While looking through those recordings I found three that I thought I’d share with you. Firstly here’s John singing the Cobbler. […]