Geoff Rose – Patrick Kavanagh in Kilkenny
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
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
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!
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
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)
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
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) […]
The Old St John’s Church and Graveyard
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-The-Old-St-Johns-Church-Dublin-Road-Graveyard.mp3 Paddy Neary The ancient parish church of St. Johns stood probably within the present churchyard. ”St Stephen was recognised as the patron saint of this church in the 17th […]
The High Road to Dublin
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-The-High-Road-to-Dublin.mp3 Paddy Neary In ancient times a pathway ran from the ford over the Barrow at Leighlin Bridge by Shankill Castle through the village of Garryduff to Highrath Castle then […]
The Civil War in Kilkenny 25th April to May 03rd 1922
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-Civil-War-01.mp3 https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-Civil-War-02.mp3 https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-Civil-War-03.mp3 Paddy Neary The opening salvos of the Civil War had yet to be fired, this did not happen until June 28nd 1922, when the Four Courts in […]