Gone But Not Forgotten online Availability

Happy to see that books.ie have made my book available online.

http://www.books.ie/gone-but-not-forgotten-historic-graves-of-kerry



It will also be available online from Kennys.ie (free shipping) within the next week or so.

Just back from my wanderings in Kerry and great to see my latest book is selling. Its  a niche market and will hardly a massive amount but I believe worth pursuing. I still have to convince people that a study of graveyards is a study of local history and heritage, a celebration of the artistic abilities of local stone masons and not connected to morbidity. The Kenmare Bookshop,  http://www.kenmare.ie/members/kenmare-book-shop/, is great little bookshop which is a treasure trove for books on the locality, many of them like my own, of  a small print run but interesting and valuable documents for anyone interested in local history. Its also great when you go into a bookshop run by people who know and love books. My apologies to the Kerry people of Beara for not mentioning them in my book. A great book on the area is "Tuosist 6000 Turas Staire go Tuath Ó Siosta" available in this bookshop as well as Kenmare Library.

I also stopped in at The Red Fox, near Killorglin, whom I can announce is now an official stockist of "Gone But Not Forgotten Historic Graves of Kerry".  While there I picked up a copy of "The Truth Behind the Irish Famine"  by local man Jerry Mulvihill.
https://www.jerrymulvihill.com/

Characters of Galway video

Great short video here on the characters of Galway, the people who make and made it a special place.


https://vimeo.com/95960177/description

Gone But Not Forgotten reviewed in The Kerryman

Exploring Kerry's link to past - one grave at a time

Book explores stories from all over the county

Fergus Dennehy

June 30 2018 12:00 AM

 

They say that you only truly die when the last person visits your grave.  If so, then Galway native Rónán Gearóid Ó'Domhnaill has certainly done his part in helping to keep hundreds of forgotten stories alive here in Kerry.

Now living and teaching in Dublin, Rónán has spent a few weeks of each summer over the past two years travelling around to almost every graveyard in Kerry and recording the graves and stories he finds there. 

He has since published a book on the subject called 'Gone But Not Forgotten: Historic Graves of Kerry', which is now on sale in all good bookshops around the county. "I like to look at old graves and monuments, and through these, I examined the history of Kerry," said Rónán.

"I think that graveyards are under-explored parts of our heritage. They are an important part of our culture and traditions and a great link to the past. They are full of forgotten histories." Some of the graveyards which he visited over the course of his research included Rathass in Tralee; Muckross Abbey and Killegy graveyard in Killarney; and Sneem cemetery.

Among the stories that Rónán touches on in his book is the Tarbert drowning, which claimed the lives of 17 young people in August 1893. Another graveyard he writes about is Dromavalley, which contains the graves of the first casualties of the Easter Rising. In Cahersiveen, Rónán discovered the grave of Killarney native and Vatican Pimpernel, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, who helped thousands escape from the Germans during the Second World War. "Kerry people of all hues are represented in this book. I leave no judgment in this book; I am only seeking to tell the stories of those who made Kerry."

Kerryman