Doesn’t this photo take you back? I have no idea where it was taken. The picture is part of a huge collection of memorabilia amassed by local historian, Jer Kennelly of Knockanure.
Jer has done us all a service in collecting materials over the years. Much of this archive stuff would have been lost were it not for collectors like Jer and Vincent. Now Jer is making his photos available to us in NKRO. We are really excited about sharing them with a huge audience. Thank you, Jer.
Another woman with an appreciation of the value to us all of collecting old photographs is Nancy McAuliffe and she has just brought out a magnificent book of photographs of Ballylongford. She has a huge number of quality pictures and, better still, she has told us who they all are.
Tonight the NKRO website will be going live. It’s just at the beginning stage but we are hoping that you will all help us is collecting and sharing a photographic, audio and video treasure trove. I’ll tell you the link tomorrow.
Our NKRO postcards are available now in shops and credit unions. We want people to send them to the diaspora to make them aware of us and hopefully to encourage them to share their photographs and stories with us. When our website is up and running, my friend Maria Leahy, another adopted daughter of Listowel, will blog about North Kerry. So we hope to bring you news of Listowel and the whole of North Kerry on a regular basis. Exciting times indeed!
