UCC Social Science class, Scully's Corner, some happy boys and a festival of everything seaweed related

This group of local social scientists is pictured at their conferring ceremony in UCC.  My collaborator did not give me a year.

Front row. Cork UCC staff. Far right Paddy Drummond, -----? Fr Michael Galvin.

Middle Row L-R; Garda ?, Robert and Olive Pierse, Eileen Larkin, Mrs Sheahan, Mrs Walsh, Mrs Culhane, Mr and Mrs John Pierse, Pat Kennelly. 

Back Row, l-r; Garda ? , Bill Walsh, Michael Dillane, Pat Rochford, John and Jer Kennelly and Dan Keane.

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Big Changes at Scully's Corner

Broderick's  is also now being renovated.

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Ellis Island

Little known fact:

Ellis Island is named after a farmer, Thos. Ellis who owned it and used it for grazing animals. But when millions of people were arriving into NY and creating all sorts of chaos, not only carrying diseases, the NY authorities purchased the Island as an Immigration Station where people could be "processed" before being allowed into the US. Prior to that the people went to Castlegarden, in NY. Ellis Island opened in 1892 and it is said that in 50 years 12 million passed through. There is a lovely Irish Balled called "Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears" which tells the story of Annie Moore, a 15 year old Irish girl who was the first to be processed on the Island.

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World's Smallest Public Library?

My daughter snapped this in Bonn recently

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Noreen O'Connell is a very proud Nana. She sent me these photos of her grandsons taken on St. Patrick's Day 2015

8 year old Chris O’ Connell was busking in Castlebar on St. Patrick's Day 2015 and 21 month Darren O Connor enjoyed a cone while watching the Listowel parade.

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Seaweed Festival

Ballybunion has come up with a great idea for a festival; the Wild Atlantic Seaweed Festival. This is what the organizers say,

"Ballybunion will be celebrating everything good about seaweed...from seaweed in cookery, in healthy living, in beauty products to soaking in the age-old tradition of our famous seaweed baths at the Wild Atlantic Seaweed Weekend on the 5th, 6th & 7th of June, 2015. Our weekend will also celebrate other bounty from the sea like our local Shannon Dolphin, periwinkles, mussels, oyster, fish and sea salt."

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….days like this

Looks like the whole town decamped to the sports field on June 29 1953.
 In response to John Murphy, Margaret Ward identified a few more people.

"In reply to John Murphy(who I think is one of the Murphys of the Railway Gates), yes next to him is a Cahill but it is Maurice RIP. Next to Maurice is Paddy Mc Guinness, then an O'Mahoney from Charles St. (I'm not good on first names), next is Ned Boursin, an O' Carroll from the Red Cottages, again no first name, then a Kennelly(Cloth Hall) who married one of the Harmon girls, who is also in that photo."

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Are you researching your Kerry Ancestors?

Here is a link to a great blogpost by Kay Caball outlining what resources and records are available to you:

Researching your Kerry Ancestors