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St. John’s Catholic Church, Tralee.

A couple of my readers have requested a background or history of St. John's Catholic Parish church in Tralee. I am quoting directly here from the 2005 publication The Diocese ...
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Kerry: The Unquiet Grave (2)

Continuing- another chapter from The Unquiet Grave (Edited by Michael Connolly). A Tale of Two Tombs: The Rise of the Catholic Middle Class is by Helen O'Carroll, Curator, Kerry County ...
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Kerry ‘The Unquiet Grave’

While we are all in lockdown hoping to evade the dreaded Covid 19 virus, the subject of graveyards might not be the most appropriate to-day. However, it is a subject ...
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Life in Kerry in the 19th century

It is important to give descendants of Kerry ancestors a picture of what life was like when your grandparents or great/great grandparents emigrated, from the county in the nineteenth century: ...
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