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1949 Film Footage of Life on the Dingle Peninsula: Castlegregory, Camp and Cloghane
€18.00Add to cart1949 Film Footage of Life on the Dingle Peninsula: Castlegregory, Camp and Cloghane
George Daly emigrated to New York from his native Castlegregory, Co. Kerry in the late 1920s and, armed with an 8mm cine camera, he paid his first visit home to the Dingle Peninsula in the summer of 1949. He spent those sunny days filming in Castlegregory village and its environs, and also in the villages […]
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Mary Fitzgerald (b. 1933)
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Mary Fitzgerald (née Dunne) was reared on the foothills of Caherconree on the Dingle Peninsula, and she recalls her young days collecting barnacles, periwinkles and carrageen moss from the sea shore nearby. The local people of Camp and the local dancehall, known as Camp Hall, are recalled, and she explains that her grandfather, Mick Dunne, […]
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Pádraig Thornton (b. 1936), his wife Anne (née Tobin) (b. 1939), and her nephew Brian Hand (grandson of Liam Tobin)
€6.99–€10.00Select optionsPádraig Thornton (b. 1936), his wife Anne (née Tobin) (b. 1939), and her nephew Brian Hand (grandson of Liam Tobin)
Frank Thornton was Captain, 26th Battalion of the Old IRA and was active during the revolutionary period. Pádraig Thornton initially recalls his childhood days when his father Frank was away from home during the Emergency years. The Thornton family came from Drogheda, and Frank moved to Liverpool to a job as a ship-building painter prior […]
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Violet Howe (née Lovell (b. 1928)
€6.99–€10.00Select optionsViolet Howe (née Lovell (b. 1928)
Track 1: Violet Howe traces the Howe family back to 1677, and discusses their continued survival in West Cork over the centuries. She also describes the building which previously stood on the site of the present 19th century structure. Track 2: Violet speaks about her marriage to the late James Howe in the early 1950s. […]
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Patrick Quirke (b. 1935)
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The Quirke family home is situated beside the old railway line. At one time Patrick Quirke’s maternal Greaney family were in residence, and the old building was originally thatched. Patrick begins by telling a story about an occasion when a spark from the train set the thatch ablaze in the 1920s. The house dates back […]
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Tralee & Dingle Narrow Gauge Railway Collection
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Purchase the full Collection of 12 digitised recordings on DVD or USB Key for €50 The Tralee & Dingle Narrow Gauge Railway was established in 1891 and operated until 1953. It struck westwards from Tralee into the Dingle Peninsula, through Blennerville, Derrymore, Castlegregory Junction at Camp with a extension to Castlegregory. The main line continued […]
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Edward Brennan (b. 1931)
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Track 1: Edward Brennan outlines the British Army ranks of the three Dublin Brennan brothers in 1916, and explains that his father, Edward Brennan, served with the Irish Guards, and fought in France in 1915 to 1918. His uncle, Francis Brennan, served with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and another uncle, Eugene Brennan, was in the […]
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Sr Maeve O’Sullivan, DC
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Track 1: Growing up in Tuosist, South Kerry in the 1920s and 30s and her days in the Novitiate. Track 2: During the war she taught the blind in Liverpool and small boys in an orphanage in London in 1942. After that she returned to work with the handicapped in Liverpool. Track 3: Her mission […]
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Fr Maurice Crean, MHM
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Track 1: Growing up in Castlegregory, Co Kerry in the 1930s and 40s. His education, and entering the Mill Hill Fathers. Track 2: After ordination in 1963 he was appointed to the Diocese of Kisumu, Western Kenya. He discusses the remoteness of the place and difficulties in learning the tribal language. Track 3: Moving to […]
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Edward G. Hallinan (b. 1937)
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Track 1: A discussion on Edward Hallinan’s father, Sir Eric Hallinan, who was a Colonial judge, and the locations in which he worked. Early days in Midleton. Track 2: His uncles who fought in the First World War. The locations at which his ancestors were millers and the later sale of the mills to Ranks. […]
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Tom Daly (b. 1930)
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The railway station at Castlegregory was a hive of activity during Tom Daly’s young days, and he describes in detail the train journey to Tralee at that time. He remembers helping the local farmers drive their cattle and pigs to the station after Fair Days in the village and explains that the railway opened up […]
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Diarmuid Ring
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Track 1: Diarmuid Ring recalls his father, Tim Ring, a member of the IRB who worked closely with Cathal Brugha, and he describes a meeting with J.J. Kelly (‘Sceilg’), in which he was told about a secret mission his father and Cathal Brugha undertook in London in earlier days. He details the circumstances in which […]
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Tom Batt O’Connor (1907-2001)
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In 2001, which was the year of his death, the family of the late Tom Batt O’Connor contacted me to suggest that his memories should be recorded, as he had some very interesting facts to relate about historical events in Kerry and he was now in the later years of his long life. I made […]
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Jonathan Bewley (b. 1939)
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Track 1: Jonathan Bewley outlines the background of the Bewley family in Ireland since 1650, tracing his line back to Waterford where his great-great-grandfather, William Frederick Jacob, started the Jacobs biscuit business in 1860. Jonathan’s father, Edward Bewley, joined the company as an accountant. Track 2: A discussion follows on the Quaker ethos, which involves […]
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John Byrne, b. 1933
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Track 1: Background, growing up in Dublin (Rathfarnham), his early education and later entry to Trinity College Dublin in 1952 as an undergraduate, studying French and Classics, prior to beginning his engineering studies. Pays special tribute to his mentor Victor Graham in this regard. Being a Roman Catholic, a dispensation from the Church was required […]
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Desmond Tyndall, b. 1948
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Track 1: His background, growing up in the Coombe, leaving school at fourteen, securing a position in 1965 at Trinity College Dublin as a Helper in Commons. The tradition at Trinity for several members of a family to be employed by the college, often through generations. Track 2: Memories of the older employees of the […]
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Daphne Gill
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Track 1: Background and early education in Dublin. Securing secretarial work in Trinity College Dublin in 1970Track 2: Securing the position as secretary in the Department of Computer Science, which was housed in a hut in the Fellows’ Garden, and the move to Pearse Street. Track 3: Her interview for the post of Provost’s Secretary, […]
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Brian McMurry, b. 1931 (Recording III)
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Track 1: His undergraduate days at Trinity from 1949, and his courses and lecturers in Physics and ChemistryTrack 2: Recalling student groups and societies from undergraduate daysTrack 3: The admission of female lecturers to the Common Room in 1955, and his involvement in the change. Track 4: The traffic through the College, and how Dublin […]
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Brian McMurry, b. 1931 (Recording II)
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Track 1: His return to Trinity College from Lagos in 1966, becoming Reader in Chemistry, and the prevailing conditions at the College. Track 2: Recalling living and working at the College from 1959 during exciting timesTrack 3: In 1974 Chair in Organic Chemistry. Track 4: His posts at Trinity College, including Dean of Graduate Studies, […]
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Brian McMurry, b. 1931 (Recording I)
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Track 1: His northern background, early education, and introduction to chemistry at St. Andrew’s College, DublinTrack 2: His entry to Trinity College on a Sizarship in Experimental Science in 1949Track 3: His election as a Foundation Scholar in 1951, and his graduation with a Gold Medal in 1953. Track 4: His PhD on ‘Chemistry of […]
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Aidan Clarke, b. 1933
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Track 1: His background in Dublin, and his parents’ influence. Track 2: His early education, and his entry to Trinity in 1951 as an undergraduate, to study history. His lecturers and his respect for Professor Lyons. Track 3: His work at Magee College in Derry from 1959-1965, and his involvement with the University for Derry […]
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Thomas Pakenham (b. 1933)
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Track 1: Thomas Pakenham explains the reasons why he views artistocratic titles as anachronistic. His grandfather, Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, was a professional soldier and an officer of the Life Guards. When the government called for volunteers for the Boer War, Longford formed his own company, the Irish Hunt Company, which consisting mainly […]
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William Harvey-Kelly (b. 1924)
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Track 1: William Harvey-Kelly explains that his grandfather was the first member of his family to go into military service, spending his army life in India. William also discusses his father, Charles, who served in the Indian Army. Though his Baluch regiment was sent to France, Charles was in the Middle East for the duration […]
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James Shine (b. 1932)
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Track 1: Jim Shine’s grandfather came from Freemount in North Cork and he moved to Dungarvan with his wife, Catherine O’Shea, when he became master of the workhouse there. Jim describes various members of the Shine family and their history. His father, James Matthew Shine, qualified as a surgeon and joined the Army in the […]
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