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OKR 2024

  • AKaD
  • January 3rd, 2025
AuthorTitlePages Ómacháin PádraigThe Book of Pottlerath in Context7 Tierney AnnMary Jane Butler of Callan in 17th century Europe19 Breen PatrickJames Switsir Kk Businessman and Philanthropist 1741-180631 Cunningham JohnGrand opening of [...]

OKR 2023

  • AKaD
  • January 3rd, 2025
AuthorTitlePages Nolan PatAspects of the Kilkenny Tipperary Border7 Ó Drisceoil ProinsiasThe Johnswell Gaeltacht18 Knox JohnJohn Hume and St Canice' Credit Union29 De Weck LaurentJames Bernard O'Dunne (1714 - 1794)34 Lucey [...]

OKR 2022

  • AKaD
  • January 3rd, 2025
AuthorTitlePages Hull GrahamA Medieval Charcoal Production Pit, near Piltown12 Nolan PatKilkenny's Charitable Institutions13-22 Kennedy NedMichael Egan (1895 -1956) Playwright and Author23-33 Ó Drisceoil ProinsiasAmhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (1783 - 1838)34-43 O [...]

Geoff Rose – Patrick Kavanagh in Kilkenny

  • AKaD
  • December 17th, 2024

Patrick Kavanagh in Kilkenny Geoff Rose “This is a terrible place, Kilkenny is a terrible place, a terrible place entirely.” Not exactly the most poetic words for Ye Faire City, […]

Edmund Fitzpatrick 1822-1896

  • AKaD
  • September 6th, 2024

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ned-Kennedy-RIP-Edmund-Fitzpatrick-Artist.mp3 Ned Kennedy (RIP) My name is Ned Kennedy and I would like to tell you about the artist and illustrator, Edmund Fitzpatrick. The bicentenary of the birth of artist […]

The Canal Walk

  • AKaD
  • August 22nd, 2024

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Nicholas-Maher-The-Canal-Walk.mp3 Nicholas Maher, and takes account of previous research prepared by the late Edward Law There is a general consensus that the Canal Walk came into being about 1763. The […]

. . . YOU CAN ROLL IT AGAIN THERE, JACK!

  • AKaD
  • August 21st, 2024

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Geoff-Rose-Roll-it-again-Jack.mp3 Geoff Rose Going to the cinema is one of the pleasures of city living, a chance to escape from the reality of life to the celluloid world of the […]

Kilkenny’s Smallest Shop

  • AKaD
  • August 21st, 2024

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Geoff-Rose-Local-History-History-Kilkennys-Smallest-Shop.mp3 Geoff Rose As you walk down the very narrow High Street in Kilkenny these days, near the end of the street at its junction with James Street, you can […]

William the Earl Marshall (c.1146 – 1219)

  • AKaD
  • August 21st, 2024

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-William-Marshall-01.mp3 Paddy Neary The Marshall with his wife Isabel de Clare transformed the Lordship of Leinster by the sword but also through the establishment of castles, churches, towns and strategic […]

The Wake of Bryan Reilly

  • AKaD
  • August 21st, 2024

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-The-Waking-of-Brian-Reilly.mp3 Paddy Neary In the 1830s there lived in Walkin Street a man named Bryan Reilly. He occupied the house for over forty years, which was in later years (1880s) […]