Threshing Day at Dick Barron’s farm, Knockeen, 1945 — (back row) Danny Fitzgerald, Paddy “Henry” Power, Jim Lonergan, Nick Hannigan, Ned Blanche, Paddy O’Brien; (middle) John O’Shea, Bill Fitzgerald, Michael McGrath, Michael Dunphy, Unknown, Dick Walsh, Jack Walsh, Tommy Crowley, Richie “Cooney” Power, Christy Crowley, Unknown, Dick Barron; (front) Maurice Walsh, Jackie Dunphy, Martin Flynn, Pat Kennedy, Neddie McGrath, Matty Butler, Aiden Flynn, Jimmy Flynn, Pat Quinn.

Below: Piece about well-known Knockeen, Butlerstown farmer and county councillor Dick from the Munster Express in July 1958. Dick was 86 when he died thirty years later. He was a ratepayers’ representative on the local authority for a decade and sat on several committees, including the County Committee of Agriculture (later Acot). He was a brother of the late Monsignor Michael Dean Barron and was also predeceased in 1956 by his wife, the former Miss Alice Butler, Knockenduff, Tramore.