Blessing The Colours
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-Blessing-The-Colours.mp3 Paddy Neary Kilkenny Military Barracks April 23rd, 1922 In the presence of a very large attendance of citizens and people from the county, the troops of the Irish Republican […]
A Short History of Talbots Inch
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-Talbots-Inch.mp3 Paddy Neary Talbot’s Inch is a townland in County Kilkenny about one mile north of the city. The lands were named after a Norman family Talbot but whether they […]
St John’s, (O’Loughlin Memorial Church)
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/John-Lynch-St-Johns-Church.mp3 John Lynch The church of St John the Evangelist is one of four parish churches in the city of Kilkenny. The foundation stone for this church was laid on […]
Wat Murphy and The Rose of Mooncoin
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Jack-Lynch-Wat-Murphy-and-The-Rose-of-Mooncoin.mp3 Wat Murphy and The Rose of Mooncoin Jack Lynch People from Kilkenny love to sing The Rose of Mooncoin in celebration of another All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship win. […]
Two volunteers with Kilkenny connections and Caravaggio
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/John-Lynch-Two-volunteers-with-Kilkenny-connections-and-Caravaggio.mp3 Two volunteers with Kilkenny connections and Caravaggio John (Jack) Lynch This is the story of two Volunteers in The War of Independence and the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da […]
James Stephens
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/John-Lynch-James-Stephens.mp3 James Stephens John (Jack) Lynch Many historians agree that the roots of many modern Irish revolutionary organisations are based in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, The IRB. James Stephens, a […]
Knocktopher Abbey
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Fionnuala-Lynch-Knocktopher-Abbey-and-the-Langrishe-Family-part-1.mp3 https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Finnoula-Lynch-Knocktopher-Abbey-and-the-Langrishe-Family-part-2.mp3 Knocktopher Abbey Finnoula Lynch A tributary of the Little Arrigle River flows nearby the lush pasture lands of Knocktopher Abbey, onetime early settlement and friary of the Carmelite […]
Unwelcome Return of Auxiliary to Kilkenny
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Eamon-Kiely-The-unwelcome-return-of-an-Auxilary-to-Kilkenny-4.04.mp3 Unwelcome Return of Auxiliary to Kilkenny Eamon Kiely The British Auxiliaries or Auxies were a paramilitary unit of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). They were founded in July 1920 […]
Paddy Neary: The Three Tholsels
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Paddy-Neary-The-Three-Tholsels.mp3 The Three Tholsels Researched and read by Paddy Neary One of the best known buildings is the Tholsel building on High Street in Kilkenny City. Regarded by many as”medieval” […]
The Winslow Boy
researched and read by Eamon Kiely The events dramatised by Terence Rattigan in his play “The Winslow Boy” are based on the true story of the ordeal of a 13 […]