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John B Keane

Out In The Open: My guide to the long-haired featherless birds of Ireland

THE resemblance people bear to animals in their movements, appearances is frightening to say the least. Most of us act like asses and mules from time to time but this is not what I mean. Let me give an example. Once at a wedding I took careful stock ...

05 May 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

PICTURE THIS: The only antidotes for blushes of shame

OFTEN I can read the thoughts in a man's mind from the expression on his face. Not the obvious and primary thoughts like fear and joy, but the subtler ones like suspicion, uncertainty, incomprehension, and perplexity. No matter how well concealed ...

17 Nov 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: Gratuities for the frequently maligned publicans

PUBLICANS are much in the news at the present time. Prices are under review, and there are numerous letters to the Press accusing them of overcharging. Publicans, of course, have always been vilified by non-publicans and by those who feel that ...

13 Oct 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: A letter to my fellow workers, Sir Stafford and Mr Chamberlain

IN 1945 I was 17 years of age. It was a memorable time because I was a witness to the end of a way of life. This was a time when every countryman kept a pig, tilled a garden and cut his own turf. This was the way of it too in small towns and ...

01 Dec 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: My guide to drink slang (with all due respect to the cocktail set)

SELDOM indeed will you hear me complain in these columns about pubs, lounges, hotel bars, or any other area licensed to sell intoxicating liquor to those who can afford to pay for it and who have reached the ripe old age of 18. I do not ...

24 Nov 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: The sea.... it’s a sure guarantee of savage brutality

WHENEVER I read of a safe beach in a holiday brochure or any other form of publication I am appalled at the lack of knowledge displayed by those responsible. Certainly, it may not be my first time to say this, and I can only attribute ...

07 Jul 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out In The Open: Why you should come to my home town this week

LISTOWEL’S Writers’ Week, the sixth since its inauguration in 1971, starts on June 1, which is Tuesday next, and ends the following Sunday. A recent brochure compiled by the committees of Writers’ Week, this now ...

26 May 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: The man who has Sonny’s ear (and how he got it)

LAST WEEK I was reading an international magazine which dealt with the African State of Zaire, and with that strange genius, Bisengi-Mana, who happens to be director of President Mobutu’s Political Bureau. I ...

16 Feb 2020 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: The love (and hate) story I dare not to write

HAS IT ever occurred to you why nobody has ever written a book about his or her relationship? The books on public relations and international relations run into thousands, and the authors with the capacity ...

22 Sept 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: Thugs in command and ‘not a garda in sight’

CONCERNING my recent remarks regarding the summer scene in Balybunion and other well-known North Kerry resorts, I have received a number of letters from places as far apart as Emly and the city of Cork. ...

25 Aug 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: A letter to my fellow workers, Sir Stafford and Mr Chamberlain

In 1945 I was 17 years of age. It was a memorable time because I was a witness to the end of a way of life. TThis was a time when every country man kept a pig, tilled a garden and cut his own turf. ...

23 Jun 2019 at 14:00

John B Keane

Out in the Open: Giving Cupid a helping hand: Dan Paddy Andy

MORE THIS week about Dan Paddy Andy O'Sullivan, the great North Kerry matchmaker. Dan Paddy Andy, as we have seen in earlier studies was responsible for over 400 marriages. Only one of these ...

21 Jul 2019 at 14:00

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