The recently formed Castle of the Island Society held a launch at the River Island Hotel in Castleisland on Friday, June 2nd. This launch was held in order to promote the society which aspires to make a documentary about the history of Castleisland Castle later this summer. A number of short videos outlining the contents… Read more…
The recently formed Castle of the Island Society held a launch at the River Island Hotel in Castleisland on Friday, June 2nd. This launch was held in order to promote the society which aspires to make a documentary about the history of Castleisland Castle this coming summer. A number of short videos outlining the contents… Read more…
The River Island Hotel will be the venue on Friday night, June 2nd at 8:45pm for the launch of a Castleisland Castle Promotional Video project. Castleisland Castle was known in medieval times as ‘the Castle of the Island’ and t was described at the end of the 16th century as ‘A high monstrous castle, built… Read more…
In 1811, a young Kerryman named John Fitzmaurice from Knockavallig, Duagh, left the county on a ship bound for Portugal where he met the Duke of Wellington and joined the Green Jackets, the 95th Rifle Corps as a volunteer. His first footsteps in the peninsula were through the strategic lines of Torres Vedras, a place… Read more…
After delving into the archives here a month or so ago and, on a particular mission, I had cause and reason to head for 1985. Anytime I do this I spend far too much time back there and it takes a good while to snap out of it. One journey, dozens of tracks and trails.… Read more…
The Kerry Magazine, which is published annually by the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society (KAHS) was launched recently in Kerry Library, Tralee by Moira Murrell, Kerry County Council, CEO. This was the first in a series of events designed to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the foundation of the Society, on May 3, 1967. It… Read more…
The Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival will be held in Castleisland from Friday, October 28th to Monday, October 31st inclusive. There have been some years when the Gods have only barely concealed their collective sense of devilment and black humour. In that handful of occasions they steered the annual Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival into… Read more…
A Remembrance Mass will be celebrated on the 100th Anniversary of the death of Private John Joseph Bourke (1881-1916) on this Friday evening, September 16th in St. Brendan’s Church, Clogher, Ballymacelligott at 7.30pm. Private John Joseph Bourke (22759) from Ballymacpierce, Gortatlea, Tralee emigrated to New Zealand as a young man and worked for his uncle.… Read more…
Máire Holmes is the newly re-appointed Kerry County Council Writer in Residence – a position which is co-funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Máire has a lifetime’s experience in literature. She is the author of many poetry books and plays. She has been writer in residence in Mayo, Connemara and the Aran Islands, and… Read more…
The Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project contains many items of important, historical significance in its huge collection. Among these items are research notes on John Twiss of Ardmona, who was hanged in Cork County Jail on February 9th 1895 for the murder, on 21 April 1894, of James Donovan, a caretaker of an evicted farm… Read more…
The recently formed Castle of the Island Society held a launch at the River Island Hotel in Castleisland on Friday, June 2nd. This launch was held in order to promote the society which aspires to make a documentary about the history of Castleisland Castle later this summer. A number of short videos outlining the contents… Read more…
The recently formed Castle of the Island Society held a launch at the River Island Hotel in Castleisland on Friday, June 2nd. This launch was held in order to promote the society which aspires to make a documentary about the history of Castleisland Castle this coming summer. A number of short videos outlining the contents… Read more…
The River Island Hotel will be the venue on Friday night, June 2nd at 8:45pm for the launch of a Castleisland Castle Promotional Video project. Castleisland Castle was known in medieval times as ‘the Castle of the Island’ and t was described at the end of the 16th century as ‘A high monstrous castle, built… Read more…
In 1811, a young Kerryman named John Fitzmaurice from Knockavallig, Duagh, left the county on a ship bound for Portugal where he met the Duke of Wellington and joined the Green Jackets, the 95th Rifle Corps as a volunteer. His first footsteps in the peninsula were through the strategic lines of Torres Vedras, a place… Read more…
After delving into the archives here a month or so ago and, on a particular mission, I had cause and reason to head for 1985. Anytime I do this I spend far too much time back there and it takes a good while to snap out of it. One journey, dozens of tracks and trails.… Read more…
The Kerry Magazine, which is published annually by the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society (KAHS) was launched recently in Kerry Library, Tralee by Moira Murrell, Kerry County Council, CEO. This was the first in a series of events designed to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the foundation of the Society, on May 3, 1967. It… Read more…
The Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival will be held in Castleisland from Friday, October 28th to Monday, October 31st inclusive. There have been some years when the Gods have only barely concealed their collective sense of devilment and black humour. In that handful of occasions they steered the annual Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival into… Read more…
A Remembrance Mass will be celebrated on the 100th Anniversary of the death of Private John Joseph Bourke (1881-1916) on this Friday evening, September 16th in St. Brendan’s Church, Clogher, Ballymacelligott at 7.30pm. Private John Joseph Bourke (22759) from Ballymacpierce, Gortatlea, Tralee emigrated to New Zealand as a young man and worked for his uncle.… Read more…
Máire Holmes is the newly re-appointed Kerry County Council Writer in Residence – a position which is co-funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Máire has a lifetime’s experience in literature. She is the author of many poetry books and plays. She has been writer in residence in Mayo, Connemara and the Aran Islands, and… Read more…
The Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project contains many items of important, historical significance in its huge collection. Among these items are research notes on John Twiss of Ardmona, who was hanged in Cork County Jail on February 9th 1895 for the murder, on 21 April 1894, of James Donovan, a caretaker of an evicted farm… Read more…
