Between now and December 21, 2007, Trinity College, Dublin. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/chronicle-of-history-goes-on-display -1139069.html > Wednesday October 10 2007 > > > 'The Annals of the Four Masters', a chronicle of Irish history credited with helping to shape > the modern nation - and it is being presented in its full form for the first time for 371 > years. > > > 'The Annals of the Four Masters' charts Irish history from ancient times > up to the 17th century and has not been in its full form since 1636. > > The exhibition went on show at Trinity College in Dublin yesterday and has > been lauded as a hugely important series of manuscripts which chart > Ireland's history. > > Having seen a need to compile the histories of Ireland in the early part > of the 17th century, the Irish Franciscans began to assemble documentary > history during a time of massive upheaval, which included the Flight of > the Earls in 1607. > > Micheal O Cleirigh, a Donegal antiquary and poet, was sent to his native > county from Louvain in 1626 to spearhead the ambitious plan. He was joined > by three lay writers, based at the Franciscan Friary at Bundrowes in > Donegal, and under the patronage of Feargal O Gadhra, Lord of Moy Gara and > Coolavin in Co Sligo. > > The exhibition brings together some of O Cleirigh's manuscripts that have > not been together in almost 400 years. > > The legacy of the annals can be seen around modern society, said > Bernadette Cunningham, deputy librarian with the Royal Irish Academy > (RIA). > > "Place name evidence drawn from the annals formed the basis of work in > establishing the correct names for use on Ordnance Survey maps," she said. > > "The many illustrious men and women that peopled the pages of these early > annals have become part of our national story and made their way into our > history books." > > The manuscripts, originally entitled the 'Annals of the Kingdom of > Ireland', have been housed recently at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and > Trinity College Dublin (TCD). > > They are being reunited at an exhibition at Trinity College as part of > celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Irish > Franciscan college of St Anthony's in Louvain in Belgium. > > Keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College Dr Bernard Meehan said bringing > the manuscripts all together gives fresh insights for historians. > > "It is the 17th century view of the formation of the country and they > provide a continuous history drawing on other documents," said Dr Meehan. > > The exhibition runs until December 21 in the Long Room at the Old Library > in Trinity College.

Ray, thanks for the obits on Dan Keating; it is an end of an era.  My father(a Kerryman) was an I.R.A. man from 1916 till after the Civil War.  He always said he hoped to see a united Ireland during his lifetime but unfortunately that did not happen. He was buried on St.Patrick's day, 1989 wearing the medal he received from the president of Ireland for his military service. There is a book Tragedies of Kerry, printed in 1924 but reissued in 1998 that names and tells the stories of many of the Kerrymen during that era. May they never be forgotten. Marguerite -----Original Message----- From: Ray Marshall <raymarsh@mninter.net> To: Kerry List <IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 4:50 pm Subject: [IRL-KERRY] FW: Republican Chapter closes with burial of War of Independence veteran from Kerry Subject: Republican Chapter closes with burial of War of Independence eteran from Kerry Maybe now "they can all get along." Here's a few articles on the life, nternment, death and interment of Dan "Ballygamboon" Keating from astlemaine. The Independent: hapter closes with burial of war veteran Saturday October 06 2007 TO a lone piper's strains of 'The Croppy Boy', the coffin of the last eteran of the War of Independence, 105-year-old Dan "Ballygamboon" Keating, as yesterday lowered into the grave alongside the church in which he had een baptised in 1902 near Castlemaine, Co Kerry. Dan Keating, the patron of epublican Sinn Fein since 2004, was a man who was "living history"; he was he comrade of those killed in atrocities of Ballyseedy, Countess Bridge illarney and Cahersiveen; he had seen friends die on hunger strikes and had een interned himself several times. He was "an inspiration to Republicans," Ruairi O Bradaigh, president of the arty, said in a lengthy graveside oration before around 600 mourners at iltallagh cemetery. Normally thick on the ground at Kerry funerals, Kerry's public epresentatives, including over 50 town and county councillors, and eight of ts nine Oireachtas members stayed away from the requiem mass for the ounty's oldest person. Newly elected Senator Mark Daly was the only public epresentative in the church. Mayor of Kerry Michael Healy-Rae and ine Gael councillor Michael O'Connor, carteen, attended the removal on Thursday. In the oration broken by bouts of applause, and to a gathering in which many ore Easter lilies, Mr O Bradaigh said Dan Keating had never wavered from is belief that "1916 was right, 1916 was justified"; he stood by a united reland and an end to the British presence in Ireland. "Dan Keating, as we know, always gave it straight from the shoulder: He egarded the so-called peace process as a surrender process," Mr O Bradaigh aid to applause. He would not accept any British government presence in Ireland, regardless f how it was presented. The ceremonies at the graveside were watched by several plain clothes etectives. The parish priest of Kiltallagh, Fr Luke Roche concelebrated the funeral ass with Monsignor Dan Riordan of St John's Church in Tralee where Dan eating travelled by bus to get weekday daily mass. He extended sympathies to Jack and Eileen Keating, nephew and niece-in-law ho had taken such "loving care" of Dan for 27 years. ttp://www.independent.ie/national-news/chapter-closes-with-burial-of-war-ve eran-1116695.html Associated Press: RA Veteran Dies at Age 105 By SHAWN POGATCHNIK – 1 day ago DUBLIN, Ireland AP) — Dan Keating, an IRA member and the last surviving veteran of Ireland's 919-21 war of independence from Britain, has died, his nursing home and ringe political party said. He was 105. Keating joined the 1st Kerry Brigade of the Irish Republican Army in 1920 nd, as a rifleman, took part in two major 1921 ambushes that left at least ive police officers, four British soldiers and five IRA members dead. "When you are involved in an ambush with a crowd of men, you wouldn't know ho killed who. But the prospect never troubled me," Keating said in a March nterview with the British Broadcasting Corp. He joined the IRA faction that opposed the 1921 peace treaty with Britain, nd fought against former IRA colleagues in Ireland's 1922-23 civil war. He as eventually captured by Irish Free State forces and spent seven months in prisoner-of-war camp. In a June 2006 interview, Keating said he considered Free State soldiers far ore brutal than the British forces they both had fought against. "They were worse than the Black and Tans," he said, using the nickname of ritain's auxiliary troops used during the war of independence, "and they ommitted some awful atrocities. In one week they murdered 19 people — omrades I knew only too well. They were just gone overnight." He served several short terms in prison for insurrectionist activity, ncluding an aborted assassination attempt of a former general of Free State orces, and participated in a 1939-40 IRA bombing campaign of London. Keating spent his entire adult life committed to the most hard-line branch f Irish republicanism on offer. He said Ireland should never be at peace ntil the border dividing the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland — oth states he considered illegitimate — was eliminated and the island nited under one government. In 1970, he switched his allegiance from the "Official" IRA to a new, orthern Ireland-based faction called the Provisional IRA that spent 27 ears trying to overthrow the British territory. When the Provisionals called a 1997 cease-fire and supported Sinn Fein oliticians' push for a negotiated settlement, he switched support to a reakaway faction, Republican Sinn Fein, that opposed compromise and backed RA dissidents' continued bombings. He became honorary patron of the fringe arty in 2004. Republican Sinn Fein president Ruairi O Bradaigh said Keating was committed o the cause "to the very day of his death and an inspiration to all true epublicans." Keating opposed the existence of the Republic of Ireland so much that he efused to accept the state's old-age pension. In 2002 he also refused a 3,500 award from President Mary McAleese that is offered to all Irish itizens who reach age 100; Keating argued that she wasn't the real resident of Ireland. Keating denounced the past 15 years' peacemaking efforts in Northern Ireland s "a joke." He appeared in a 2007 newspaper ad appealing to Sinn Fein not o begin cooperating with police, the step that preceded this year's rise of new Catholic-Protestant administration in the British territory. Keating had no immediate survivors. He will be buried Friday in Killtallagh emetery, County Kerry, following a funeral Mass at St. Carthage's Catholic hurch. ttp://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hf8Dv9Kf2AbqsSV-wlcrJ-iK8V1gD8S2M9AG1 BBC News: rish Civil War veteran dies at 105 The last surviving IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence and Civil ar has died at the age of 105. Dan Keating died peacefully near his home in County Kerry. Diarmaid Fleming ooks back on his life. Meeting the dapper Dan Keating, it could be difficult to reconcile the mmaculately dressed man with his revolutionary past. Looking probably more like a fit 75-year-old rather than a man of 105 years f age, unless you knew his background, it could be hard to imagine the entlemanly Dan as the last link to the revolutionary violence which gave irth to the modern Irish nation. But once the pleasantries of tea and brief discourse over the weather or erry's latest football 7victory were over, when visiting him at his home in astlemaine near where he was born, the subject of politics was never far way. Eighty six years after the Irish War of Independence, while the mainstream epublican movement had embraced compromise through power-sharing with nionists in Stormont, Dan Keating's views had changed little from the days e fought British forces in the hills and towns of Kerry. In a BBC interview in March, he said that a united Ireland remained his olitical goal: "You'll have no peace in Ireland until the people of the 32 ounties of Ireland elect a government without interference from England." Dan Keating was born in 1902 on a small farm near in Castlemaine in County erry, the eldest of seven. His uncles were militants involved in attacks on English landlords' agents uring land disputes in the 19th century. But he said that in his early youth, Kerry was peaceful until the 1916 aster Rising. Relations with the large British military garrison in Tralee were good, here a soldier from Lancashire who enjoyed music was welcomed to sing in he local pubs. When one of Dan's own cousins who was in the British Army overstayed his ome leave, two uncles were arrested after beating up a visiting military oliceman inquiring as to his whereabouts. But the injured soldier refused to give evidence against the two Kerrymen, aving them from certain jail and earning the respect of locals. "He didn't want any trouble," said Dan. The execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising rapidly changed the tmosphere to one of hatred and war, he said. Working in a bar in Tralee, he joined the IRA youth wing, acting as an ntelligence agent, and helping move weapons. He said it was a fervour of revolt and youthful excitement rather than olitical motivation which got him involved. "We were mad for it. It was the thing to do at the time. There was a wave nd you got caught up with it. All the people you knew were involved," he aid. He graduated to the IRA on turning 18, and took part in ambushes in which en from both his own and the British side died. He set up one ambush where several policemen were killed near his home, but ould not be drawn on whether he himself had killed, saying he did not know n the fog of war. "When you are involved in an ambush with a crowd of men, you wouldn't know ho killed who. "But the prospect never troubled me. You were fighting for a just cause and nce you have that in the forefront, it never troubled you," he added. He said it was a war to the death for both sides. "You had to wipe the enemy off the face of the earth, that was your job to o." A truce with the British ended the War of Independence in 1921, but the reaty led to the partition of Ireland. The IRA fought on, with Dan on the losing side in the bitter Civil War gainst the Free State Army which followed immediately. He was to serve the first of several stretches in prison, interned in the urragh Camp. While many IRA men left Ireland for good, unable to gain work in a land run y their civil war enemies, Dan stayed and got steady work as a barman. He remained active in the IRA in Kerry, and was part of an IRA squad which ttempted to assassinate the Irish fascist leader Eoin O'Duffy on his way to rally in Tralee in 1933. A disastrous plan by the IRA to cause sabotage in England during World War I - the S-Plan - brought Dan to England where he led the IRA in London, aking part in bombings of commercial premises and power-stations by night, hile he worked as a barman in The Strand in London by day. Prison When detectives came knocking on his door, he told him the Dan Keating they ere looking for had already left on a passing bus, and made it back to reland after giving them the slip. But more jail awaited on his return, with a second stretch in the Curragh nternment camp. He left the IRA on his release, he said after a clear-out of the "old uard", and settled down with a new wife who was a regular visitor to him in rison - and who with no hint of irony he said was even more militant than imself. He continued to fundraise and help republican causes, even storing weapons n his house despite an unsuspecting near neighbour being a senior oliceman. Working in the Comet Bar in Dublin's northside, he was an active trade nionist in the bar worker's union. A non-drinker until his 50s, he took his first drink after a row with the eetotal Pioneer Total Abstinence Association whose pin he had sported as a ifelong member. At a consultation meeting called by the government to relax pub opening ours, Dan was shocked when the teetotal organisation backed plans to engthen pub opening hours in opposition to the barworkers' union. His response was typically militant. "I took the pin off and fired it at them. I walked out of the meeting with he union leader Walter Byrne, and both of us had a glass of sherry," he aid. He retired back to Castlemaine after his wife died in the the late 1970s, ut continued to visit Dublin for big gaelic football and hurling matches, ttending over 150 All-Ireland finals in his lifetime, most likely a record. Walking several miles a day until just weeks before his death, he attributed is long life to moderation, never smoking, a good diet and lack of stress. And his secret for living to 105? "I always kept going and never worried about things. People should live heir life and not worry about things, and if they have any favourite astimes, they should keep at them," he said. Independent and fit, he travelled on his own by bus on a two-hour journey to ork to the premiere of Ken Loach's film, the Wind that Shakes the Barley in 006, meeting the British director afterwards to voice his approval in eclaring the film as an accurate portrayal of the fighting he was involved n himself. While he only drank an occasional Benedictine brandy, and detested swearing, is recommendation of moderation did not apply to politics. He remained an unreconstructed militant, left Sinn Fein in 1986 when it oted to end its ban on taking seats in the Irish parliament, and became a atron of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fein. Irish President He said he refused to meet Irish President Mary McAleese to receive a cheque n his 100th birthday because of her declaration of a desire to invite the ueen to Ireland during her term of office, and attacked the Sinn Fein eadership for entering into power-sharing in Stormont this year. Shortly before his death, he said he did not mind that his views were in the inority. "We are passing through a phase, the youth of Ireland - all they want is a ay packet and a good time," he said. "I don't mind because I meet a lot of people who think the very same as me nd we are very happy to be a minority. "We feel that we have a duty to hand it down to future generations," he aid. His passing marks the end of the last direct link to the turbulent and iolent birth of the modern Irish nation, as he was the last IRA veteran of he War of Independence. The muted response to his death of Irish politicians who would not have hared his politics would probably be, for Dan Keating, a fitting epitaph. ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7026951.stm Irish Examiner: ar of Independence veteran laid to rest 5/10/2007 - 16:29:30 Tributes were paid today at the funeral of the last survivor of the War of ndependence. Dan Keating died aged 105 on Tuesday after a short illness and was laid to est following a low-key service his native Kerry. Several hundred mourners attended the Requiem Mass at Kiltallagh Church. Born in Castlemaine in January 1902, he joined youth movement Fianna Eireann hile in his teens and remained a steadfast hard-line republican throughout is life. In the War of Independence he fought in the IRA’s Kerry brigades against the lack and Tans. Keating, an IRA rifleman, was involved in two major attacks on the uxiliaries, at Castlemaine and Castleisland, where up to 12 British troops ere killed along with several IRA men. Later he fought against the the Free tate forces in the Civil War in Limerick and Tipperary. Keating was made patron of hard-line Republican Sinn Fein in 2002 and party resident Ruairi O’Bradaigh paid tribute to him at the funeral. “During his long, healthy and adventurous lifetime, Dan has seen many splits nd deviations from Republican principles, but he had remained loyal and rue, and there is no more fitting recipient of this honour than this noble on of Kerry,” he said. In the early 1920s he was interned in Portlaoise jail and later in the urragh. He was also jailed in the 1930s on several occasions and after oining the small-scale IRA sabotage campaign in England in 1939 he returned ome and was again interned without trial at the Curragh 1940-44. In his last years he refused the €2,500 centenarians award over President ary McAleese’s increasingly close relations with the British royal family. ttp://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/index.aspx?c=ireland&jp=mhmhauidojkf ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com

Searching for Johanna Kane (Keane, Cain) birth records. Johanna Kane b.c.1843 Ireland, most likely Kerry imm.1850s America her brother, John, was baptized at Abbeydorney in 1837 another brother, Timothy, was baptized at Lixnaw in 1840 Father may be Cornelius Kane Mother may be Catherine Quinlan Many thanks for your help. Sherry Stafford sstafford@stlcc.edu 314-513-4828

Courtesy of Library Ireland, the words and music to 50 old Irish tunes, none of which I have ever heard of. But if you can read a bit of music and sing or play a tune, you may enjoy these. Ray -----Original Message----- From: libraryireland-bounces@booksulster.com [mailto:libraryireland-bounces@booksulster.com]On Behalf Of Books Ulster Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 7:51 AM To: Library Ireland Subject: [Library Ireland] Songs of Old Ireland: A Collection of Fifty IrishMelodies Continuing the musical theme, the latest addition to www.LibraryIreland.com is "Songs of Old Ireland: A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies", with words by Alfred Perceval Graves and music arranged by Charles Villiers Stanford. http://www.libraryireland.com/Irish-Folk-Songs/Contents.php This collection includes Ancient Lullaby, An Irish Lullaby, Colleen Oge Asthore, Fairy Nurse Song, The Flight of the Earls, Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill, Spinning-wheel Song, etc. Email: info@libraryireland.com Website: http://www.libraryireland.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.5/1058 - Release Date: 10/8/2007 4:54 PM

Wow. Thanks Ray. Those obits surely produce food for thought...............and they are now in my History Favorites. Monica ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Thanks Ray for taking the time to forward these stories of Irish History on to us all on the Kerry List. Trish in Sydney

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Subject: Republican Chapter closes with burial of War of Independence veteran from Kerry Maybe now "they can all get along." Here's a few articles on the life, internment, death and interment of Dan "Ballygamboon" Keating from Castlemaine. The Independent: Chapter closes with burial of war veteran Saturday October 06 2007 TO a lone piper's strains of 'The Croppy Boy', the coffin of the last veteran of the War of Independence, 105-year-old Dan "Ballygamboon" Keating, was yesterday lowered into the grave alongside the church in which he had been baptised in 1902 near Castlemaine, Co Kerry. Dan Keating, the patron of Republican Sinn Fein since 2004, was a man who was "living history"; he was the comrade of those killed in atrocities of Ballyseedy, Countess Bridge Killarney and Cahersiveen; he had seen friends die on hunger strikes and had been interned himself several times. He was "an inspiration to Republicans," Ruairi O Bradaigh, president of the party, said in a lengthy graveside oration before around 600 mourners at Kiltallagh cemetery. Normally thick on the ground at Kerry funerals, Kerry's public representatives, including over 50 town and county councillors, and eight of its nine Oireachtas members stayed away from the requiem mass for the county's oldest person. Newly elected Senator Mark Daly was the only public representative in the church. Mayor of Kerry Michael Healy-Rae and ine Gael councillor Michael O'Connor, Scarteen, attended the removal on Thursday. In the oration broken by bouts of applause, and to a gathering in which many wore Easter lilies, Mr O Bradaigh said Dan Keating had never wavered from his belief that "1916 was right, 1916 was justified"; he stood by a united Ireland and an end to the British presence in Ireland. "Dan Keating, as we know, always gave it straight from the shoulder: He regarded the so-called peace process as a surrender process," Mr O Bradaigh said to applause. He would not accept any British government presence in Ireland, regardless of how it was presented. The ceremonies at the graveside were watched by several plain clothes detectives. The parish priest of Kiltallagh, Fr Luke Roche concelebrated the funeral mass with Monsignor Dan Riordan of St John's Church in Tralee where Dan Keating travelled by bus to get weekday daily mass. He extended sympathies to Jack and Eileen Keating, nephew and niece-in-law who had taken such "loving care" of Dan for 27 years. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/chapter-closes-with-burial-of-war-ve teran-1116695.html Associated Press: IRA Veteran Dies at Age 105 By SHAWN POGATCHNIK – 1 day ago DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — Dan Keating, an IRA member and the last surviving veteran of Ireland's 1919-21 war of independence from Britain, has died, his nursing home and fringe political party said. He was 105. Keating joined the 1st Kerry Brigade of the Irish Republican Army in 1920 and, as a rifleman, took part in two major 1921 ambushes that left at least five police officers, four British soldiers and five IRA members dead. "When you are involved in an ambush with a crowd of men, you wouldn't know who killed who. But the prospect never troubled me," Keating said in a March interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. He joined the IRA faction that opposed the 1921 peace treaty with Britain, and fought against former IRA colleagues in Ireland's 1922-23 civil war. He was eventually captured by Irish Free State forces and spent seven months in a prisoner-of-war camp. In a June 2006 interview, Keating said he considered Free State soldiers far more brutal than the British forces they both had fought against. "They were worse than the Black and Tans," he said, using the nickname of Britain's auxiliary troops used during the war of independence, "and they committed some awful atrocities. In one week they murdered 19 people — comrades I knew only too well. They were just gone overnight." He served several short terms in prison for insurrectionist activity, including an aborted assassination attempt of a former general of Free State forces, and participated in a 1939-40 IRA bombing campaign of London. Keating spent his entire adult life committed to the most hard-line branch of Irish republicanism on offer. He said Ireland should never be at peace until the border dividing the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland — both states he considered illegitimate — was eliminated and the island united under one government. In 1970, he switched his allegiance from the "Official" IRA to a new, Northern Ireland-based faction called the Provisional IRA that spent 27 years trying to overthrow the British territory. When the Provisionals called a 1997 cease-fire and supported Sinn Fein politicians' push for a negotiated settlement, he switched support to a breakaway faction, Republican Sinn Fein, that opposed compromise and backed IRA dissidents' continued bombings. He became honorary patron of the fringe party in 2004. Republican Sinn Fein president Ruairi O Bradaigh said Keating was committed to the cause "to the very day of his death and an inspiration to all true republicans." Keating opposed the existence of the Republic of Ireland so much that he refused to accept the state's old-age pension. In 2002 he also refused a $3,500 award from President Mary McAleese that is offered to all Irish citizens who reach age 100; Keating argued that she wasn't the real president of Ireland. Keating denounced the past 15 years' peacemaking efforts in Northern Ireland as "a joke." He appeared in a 2007 newspaper ad appealing to Sinn Fein not to begin cooperating with police, the step that preceded this year's rise of a new Catholic-Protestant administration in the British territory. Keating had no immediate survivors. He will be buried Friday in Killtallagh Cemetery, County Kerry, following a funeral Mass at St. Carthage's Catholic Church. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hf8Dv9Kf2AbqsSV-wlcrJ-iK8V1gD8S2M9AG1 BBC News: Irish Civil War veteran dies at 105 The last surviving IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War has died at the age of 105. Dan Keating died peacefully near his home in County Kerry. Diarmaid Fleming looks back on his life. Meeting the dapper Dan Keating, it could be difficult to reconcile the immaculately dressed man with his revolutionary past. Looking probably more like a fit 75-year-old rather than a man of 105 years of age, unless you knew his background, it could be hard to imagine the gentlemanly Dan as the last link to the revolutionary violence which gave birth to the modern Irish nation. But once the pleasantries of tea and brief discourse over the weather or Kerry's latest football 7victory were over, when visiting him at his home in Castlemaine near where he was born, the subject of politics was never far away. Eighty six years after the Irish War of Independence, while the mainstream republican movement had embraced compromise through power-sharing with unionists in Stormont, Dan Keating's views had changed little from the days he fought British forces in the hills and towns of Kerry. In a BBC interview in March, he said that a united Ireland remained his political goal: "You'll have no peace in Ireland until the people of the 32 counties of Ireland elect a government without interference from England." Dan Keating was born in 1902 on a small farm near in Castlemaine in County Kerry, the eldest of seven. His uncles were militants involved in attacks on English landlords' agents during land disputes in the 19th century. But he said that in his early youth, Kerry was peaceful until the 1916 Easter Rising. Relations with the large British military garrison in Tralee were good, where a soldier from Lancashire who enjoyed music was welcomed to sing in the local pubs. When one of Dan's own cousins who was in the British Army overstayed his home leave, two uncles were arrested after beating up a visiting military policeman inquiring as to his whereabouts. But the injured soldier refused to give evidence against the two Kerrymen, saving them from certain jail and earning the respect of locals. "He didn't want any trouble," said Dan. The execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising rapidly changed the atmosphere to one of hatred and war, he said. Working in a bar in Tralee, he joined the IRA youth wing, acting as an intelligence agent, and helping move weapons. He said it was a fervour of revolt and youthful excitement rather than political motivation which got him involved. "We were mad for it. It was the thing to do at the time. There was a wave and you got caught up with it. All the people you knew were involved," he said. He graduated to the IRA on turning 18, and took part in ambushes in which men from both his own and the British side died. He set up one ambush where several policemen were killed near his home, but would not be drawn on whether he himself had killed, saying he did not know in the fog of war. "When you are involved in an ambush with a crowd of men, you wouldn't know who killed who. "But the prospect never troubled me. You were fighting for a just cause and once you have that in the forefront, it never troubled you," he added. He said it was a war to the death for both sides. "You had to wipe the enemy off the face of the earth, that was your job to do." A truce with the British ended the War of Independence in 1921, but the treaty led to the partition of Ireland. The IRA fought on, with Dan on the losing side in the bitter Civil War against the Free State Army which followed immediately. He was to serve the first of several stretches in prison, interned in the Curragh Camp. While many IRA men left Ireland for good, unable to gain work in a land run by their civil war enemies, Dan stayed and got steady work as a barman. He remained active in the IRA in Kerry, and was part of an IRA squad which attempted to assassinate the Irish fascist leader Eoin O'Duffy on his way to a rally in Tralee in 1933. A disastrous plan by the IRA to cause sabotage in England during World War II - the S-Plan - brought Dan to England where he led the IRA in London, taking part in bombings of commercial premises and power-stations by night, while he worked as a barman in The Strand in London by day. Prison When detectives came knocking on his door, he told him the Dan Keating they were looking for had already left on a passing bus, and made it back to Ireland after giving them the slip. But more jail awaited on his return, with a second stretch in the Curragh internment camp. He left the IRA on his release, he said after a clear-out of the "old guard", and settled down with a new wife who was a regular visitor to him in prison - and who with no hint of irony he said was even more militant than himself. He continued to fundraise and help republican causes, even storing weapons in his house despite an unsuspecting near neighbour being a senior policeman. Working in the Comet Bar in Dublin's northside, he was an active trade unionist in the bar worker's union. A non-drinker until his 50s, he took his first drink after a row with the teetotal Pioneer Total Abstinence Association whose pin he had sported as a lifelong member. At a consultation meeting called by the government to relax pub opening hours, Dan was shocked when the teetotal organisation backed plans to lengthen pub opening hours in opposition to the barworkers' union. His response was typically militant. "I took the pin off and fired it at them. I walked out of the meeting with the union leader Walter Byrne, and both of us had a glass of sherry," he said. He retired back to Castlemaine after his wife died in the the late 1970s, but continued to visit Dublin for big gaelic football and hurling matches, attending over 150 All-Ireland finals in his lifetime, most likely a record. Walking several miles a day until just weeks before his death, he attributed his long life to moderation, never smoking, a good diet and lack of stress. And his secret for living to 105? "I always kept going and never worried about things. People should live their life and not worry about things, and if they have any favourite pastimes, they should keep at them," he said. Independent and fit, he travelled on his own by bus on a two-hour journey to Cork to the premiere of Ken Loach's film, the Wind that Shakes the Barley in 2006, meeting the British director afterwards to voice his approval in declaring the film as an accurate portrayal of the fighting he was involved in himself. While he only drank an occasional Benedictine brandy, and detested swearing, his recommendation of moderation did not apply to politics. He remained an unreconstructed militant, left Sinn Fein in 1986 when it voted to end its ban on taking seats in the Irish parliament, and became a patron of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fein. Irish President He said he refused to meet Irish President Mary McAleese to receive a cheque on his 100th birthday because of her declaration of a desire to invite the Queen to Ireland during her term of office, and attacked the Sinn Fein leadership for entering into power-sharing in Stormont this year. Shortly before his death, he said he did not mind that his views were in the minority. "We are passing through a phase, the youth of Ireland - all they want is a pay packet and a good time," he said. "I don't mind because I meet a lot of people who think the very same as me and we are very happy to be a minority. "We feel that we have a duty to hand it down to future generations," he said. His passing marks the end of the last direct link to the turbulent and violent birth of the modern Irish nation, as he was the last IRA veteran of the War of Independence. The muted response to his death of Irish politicians who would not have shared his politics would probably be, for Dan Keating, a fitting epitaph. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7026951.stm Irish Examiner: War of Independence veteran laid to rest 05/10/2007 - 16:29:30 Tributes were paid today at the funeral of the last survivor of the War of Independence. Dan Keating died aged 105 on Tuesday after a short illness and was laid to rest following a low-key service his native Kerry. Several hundred mourners attended the Requiem Mass at Kiltallagh Church. Born in Castlemaine in January 1902, he joined youth movement Fianna Eireann while in his teens and remained a steadfast hard-line republican throughout his life. In the War of Independence he fought in the IRA’s Kerry brigades against the Black and Tans. Keating, an IRA rifleman, was involved in two major attacks on the auxiliaries, at Castlemaine and Castleisland, where up to 12 British troops were killed along with several IRA men. Later he fought against the the Free State forces in the Civil War in Limerick and Tipperary. Keating was made patron of hard-line Republican Sinn Fein in 2002 and party president Ruairi O’Bradaigh paid tribute to him at the funeral. “During his long, healthy and adventurous lifetime, Dan has seen many splits and deviations from Republican principles, but he had remained loyal and true, and there is no more fitting recipient of this honour than this noble son of Kerry,” he said. In the early 1920s he was interned in Portlaoise jail and later in the Curragh. He was also jailed in the 1930s on several occasions and after joining the small-scale IRA sabotage campaign in England in 1939 he returned home and was again interned without trial at the Curragh 1940-44. In his last years he refused the €2,500 centenarians award over President Mary McAleese’s increasingly close relations with the British royal family. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/index.aspx?c=ireland&jp=mhmhauidojkf

I would like to hear from anyone with roots in Laharan, Killorglin, Kerry. Where did residents go? Where did they settle in the US? I have a few in Hartford, CT and Weymouht, Massachusetts. I am particularly interested in Sullivans and Kellihers from there, although I'd like to hear from anyone. William D Romanski Rhode Island _________________________________________________________________ Boo! Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.aspx?s_cid=wl_hotmailnews

Searching for Jeremiah Foley birth records. Jeremiah Foley b.c.1848 Ireland imm.1861 America D.1900 Indianapolis. 1828 Father may be Daniel Foley b.c Mother may be Mary Sullivan Patrick Sullivan b. Parish of Kilgarvin 1782-1864 m.Mary Hagerty 1800-1888 Donna Marstrander

Can anyone tell me where BILLERAGH KILSHENANE is located, an where I can get info on this place? Thank you Lorri searching- ALLEN-BARNETT-CARROLL-BURNS GEIGER-Veach -GEARIN-KANE-SMITH-MOYLAN DONAHUE

Hi! I am seeking information on the McGillicuddy Family I am trying to find a Death or Birth Record. I lost a lot of information because I did not back it up and computer crashed. I am looking for information on Gerald"jermiah" McGillicuddy born btw 1830- 1840 in Clohane Co Kerry Area. I do have record that he married 3 feb 1864 in Roman Catholic Church Glenflesk Killarney Co Kerry to Ellen Donoghue. Are there records for before 1840 that are search able on the net and free?? the record is a family bible listed by who?? Can anyone help in obtain these records? I have written to the Roman Catholic Church in Glenflesk Killarney but they could not find this record. I need help. Thank you M

My g-grandmother was a CATHERINE SAGGERSON married in Medford Mass in 1854 possibly one of the first to be married at St Josephs to John Dwyer >From the Killorglin area . The priest John Ryan came from Cambridge to officiate.Couold this be related to the segersons???? Dan Dwyer in Medford

Do not ignore the cemetery at Abbey Island. I do not know the range of dates for the burials. My mother's family has been buried there for several generations. Ed Murphy another "Connecticuter"

Hi Lynne, Did he die in Castlecove? The old Coad cemetary is in Castlecove - he may have been buried there. If you go to Castlecove, go into the Blackshop Pub - located right on the main Ring of Kerry road. The post office is in the same block. Brendan Galvin has a lot of history from that area. If he is not bartending, one of his daughters or his wife will be. You may have to go in the evening - sometimes the pub is closed during the day. Castlecove is the electoral district if you are looking up info in Griffith's, etc. MEM --- Paul Keroack <pkeroack@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > My understanding is that both West Cove and > Castlecove are place names along the shore of the > Kenmare River, in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, > Kerry. Castle Cove was close to Cahirdaniel, near > Darrynane, Daniel O'Connell's residence. Each of the > former were also settlements, though not actual > townland names. > > Paul Keroack > > Lynne Horst <lmjhorst@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I saw that the Segerson family lived in the West > Cove house of Castlecove in the 18th century, I was > wondering if anyone knows what family lived there? > > Also, I am looking for the cemetery where my great, > great grandfather, James Segerson, is buried. He was > born in 1834, emigrated to the US, and returned to > Ireland and died about 1915. I would like to visit > his grave when I come to Ireland next summer. > > Thanks, Lynne Horst > _________________________________________________________________ > Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: > the word scramble challenge with star power. > http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html

My understanding is that both West Cove and Castlecove are place names along the shore of the Kenmare River, in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, Kerry. Castle Cove was close to Cahirdaniel, near Darrynane, Daniel O'Connell's residence. Each of the former were also settlements, though not actual townland names. Paul Keroack Lynne Horst <lmjhorst@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi, I saw that the Segerson family lived in the West Cove house of Castlecove in the 18th century, I was wondering if anyone knows what family lived there? Also, I am looking for the cemetery where my great, great grandfather, James Segerson, is buried. He was born in 1834, emigrated to the US, and returned to Ireland and died about 1915. I would like to visit his grave when I come to Ireland next summer. Thanks, Lynne Horst _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes Pat I am here and reading I have Daniel Sullivan from Cahersiveen born abt. 1826, son of Timothy Sullivan and Ellen Driscoll, He married Bridget Sullivan from Cahersiveen born abt. 1825, daughter of Cornelius Sullivan and Mary Kelly. They came to Colchester, and had the following children: Mary born 1854 in Ireland - Married Jeremiah O'Connor in Lebanon, Ct. Ellen Frances 1857 born in Maryland - married Elzear Bernard in Colchester, Ct. Timothy born 858 in Colchester, died of typhoid Fever at age 16 in1874 Bridget Agnes born 1859 in Colchester, married William Elliott Florence Paul born 1862 in Colchester - no other information on him. Daniel , Jr. born 1865 in Colchester - married Mary Ann Goulette. She later divorced him. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Hi, I saw that the Segerson family lived in the West Cove house of Castlecove in the 18th century, I was wondering if anyone knows what family lived there? Also, I am looking for the cemetery where my great, great grandfather, James Segerson, is buried. He was born in 1834, emigrated to the US, and returned to Ireland and died about 1915. I would like to visit his grave when I come to Ireland next summer. Thanks, Lynne Horst _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts!  Play Star Shuffle:  the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct

Jon, This is probably not a match (maybe Liz in Colchester will reply as well), but for what it's worth, here's my family: I have a Michael Sullivan and Margaret (maiden name unknown) from Cahersiveen. I think Michael may have died, but Margaret was born about 1778, and came over to the US, to Newport, RI. Children of Michael and Margaret Sullivan in Newport were (all were born in Cahersiveen, and all came to the US with their spouses. They all died in Newport): John R. Sullivan, born 1813, died 1854, wife Mary. They had a daughter Joanna. Daniel Sullivan, born Abt. 1815, died May 26, 1881, wife Bridget. They had a son, John B. Sullivan and a daughter Abby Sullivan. Abby, born 1817, died August 18, 1900, married to a Shea. They had two sons, Michael F. Shea and Patrick Michael Shea. Timothy C. Sullivan, born 1821-1823, died March 09, 1896, wife Hannah Curran. She was born abt. 1823 in Drommond, County Kerry, Ireland and died August 17, 1895. They had two daughters, Johanna Sullivan and Margaret Sullivan. This data is culled from Newport Courthouse records, Newport census records, one ship list, St. Mary Cemetery in Newport gravestones, and a distant cousin named Shea. What sparked my interest of course is that we both have a Sullivan from Cahersiveen married to a Curran. -Pat. Wary