We are heartbroken to share the news that Maurice O’Keeffe, Irish Life and Lore co-founder with his wife Jane, beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend passed away on 26th August 2024. His passion for Irish history and heritage and his unwavering commitment to its preservation through oral history will forever be remembered and valued. Maurice […]
Launch of The Big House in Kerry: A Social History at Muckross House, Killarney in December 2022. L/R: Muckross House”Butler” Mr Rohan; Maurice O’Keeffe, Irish Life and Lore; Dick Spring who launched the book; editor Jane O’Hea O’Keeffe, Irish Life and Lore; “Victorian Maids” Liz Ryan and Patricia McSherry. Buy the book
Maurice and Jane O’Keeffe of Irish Life and Lore are pleased to announce the publication of the third and final part of the ‘1922-2022: A Century of Change’ oral history collection. Browse the 67 new oral history recordings here. This significant and wide-ranging oral history project, comprising 287 recordings and conducted over three years, commemorates […]
Edited by Jane O’Hea O’Keeffe 2022, Irish Life and Lore Limited edition collector’s item hardback 328 pages, €75 €60 The soft cover edition of ‘The Big House in Kerry: A Social History’ has now sold out. As a result, we’ve decided to reduce the price of the limited edition hardback. Just 250 copies of this numbered […]
Volume 7 of ‘The Old Kerry Journal’ will provide our loyal readers with much to contemplate, and to enjoy, during this strangest of times in all our lives. Our newest edition includes an excerpt from a previously unpublished work by the late Russell McMorran on 19th century Kerry historian and genealogist, Mary Agnes Hickson. She […]
Launched in October 2018, Voices of the Troubles is a unique oral history project sponsored by the EU Special EU Programmes Body Peace IV fund under the objective to build positive relations with people from different backgrounds and communities to support peace and reconciliation. Due to the history of division in Northern Ireland and the border […]
