County Kerry, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Kerry’s past.
*****
Vanishing Ireland (Kerry people)
- Mick O’Dwyer (1936-2025) – GAA Legend
- Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh (1930-2024), The Voice of the GAA
- Mary Stack, Listowel (1933-2024) – Vanishing Ireland Podcast
- Willie Joe Cronin (born 1956), farmer, Ballinskelligs
- Joan Crowley (1922-2017), publican & fiddler, Kenmare
- Denny Galvin (1945-2026), cattle farmer, Stradbally
- Tom Horgan (born 1938), weather observer, Waterville
- Joe C. Keating (1931-2022), builder & salvage expert,, Ballinskelligs
- Stevie Kelleher (1930-2014), hackney driver, Dingle
- Timmy Kelleher (1925-2021), farmer, Dingle
- Liza Mulvihill (1915-2015) – Dairymaid & Cook of Moyavne
- Jimmy Murphy (born 1951), farmer, Cill Rialaig
- John Murphy (1925–2006), gardener-farmer,, Waterville
- Micheál Ó Braonáin (born 1954), storyteller & electrician, Ballinskelligs
- Liam O’Shea (1927-2021), blacksmith, Lauragh
- Christy Kate O’Sullivan (born 1951), farmer, Ballinskelligs
- Pat Piggott (born 1931) & John Pigott (1931-2014) (1931-2014), farmers-accordion players, Glenbeigh
- Tom Sheehan (1931-2017), schoolteacher & actor, Kilbaha, Moyvane
- Con Riordan (1912-2008), farmer, Glenbeigh
Pubs of County Kerry
- Dick Macks, Dingle
- Curran’s, Dingle
- Finucane, Ballylongford
County Kerry – Family Histories
- Bateman of Oak Park, mentioned here.
- Day of Valentia Island, see here.
- Hare, Earl of Listowel – Convamore
- Harrington – From the Beara to Butte City, Montana
- MacCarthys of Munster
- Maloney of Knockalougha, Duagh
- O’Leary of Kerry
- Sandes of Oak Park House, Tralee
People connected to County Kerry
- Brendan the Navigator and the Monks of Iceland
- Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland
- Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) – The Liberator
- Harold Mahony (1867-1905), Wimbledon champion
- Tom MacGreevy (1893–1967) – A Modernist Poet at War
- Tom Crean, with Shackleton here
- Sarah Simcocks (Jim Scullin)
- Gunner Tom Barry – An IRA Man at the Siege of Kut
- Flora Sandes
- Denis Guiney, draper, referred to here.
- Mick O’Connell, Gaelic football superstar
Articles with a Kerry Connection
- Mesolithic Kerry
- Noah’s Granddaughter & the Irish Salmon of Knowledge
- A Short History of Irish Gold
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- The Cistercian Order in Ireland
- Transatlantic Cable, and Werner Siemens (here)
- The Royal Munster Fusiliers: From Tralee to Seddelbahr, 1915
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- Music & Surf from Dingle to Doolin (2012)
- Where the Jingle Bells Chime – Christmas in Albany, New York
- Big Bertha’s Wake – The Guardian, 2010
- Bertha’s Resurrection
Past Tracks – Kerry
- Killarney
- Tralee