- A Note from Our President
- Cartwheels, Stócachs and the Battering Ram: Forgotten Aspects of Munster’s Skellig Shrove Traditions (Shane Lehane)
- John Kerin (1753-1823) (Sylvia Turner)
- Canon Brosnan and Cnoc na dTobair, Cahirciveen (Maurice J. Bric)
- Fr John J. Kennedy DSO: Republican and Imperial War Hero (Lorcán Ó Cinnéide)
- Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee & the Soldiers who Served, Part 1 (Tommy Martin)
- Muintir Chiarraí agus Craobh an Chéitinnigh: Kerry connections with the Keating Branch of the Gaelic League, 1901-1916 (Mary Mac Diarmada)
- Playing Cat by the Shores of Loch Léin, Killarney (Fr Tom Looney)
- From Kerry to Kildare Street: The Aglish Cross Inscribed Ogham Stone (Tony Bergin)
- Engaging Young People in History and Heritage: Kerry Heritage Hunters and Kerry Young Historian Award 2023 (Claudia Köhler & Victoria McCarthy)
- Fiana Fail in Kerry: from Anti-Treaty Insurrection to State Power. (Thomas Earls Fitzgerald)
- A Civil War Letter by Guerilla Leader Tom Barry to his Mother (Dr Patricia O’Hare)
- A Lost Opportunity for an End to the Civil War in Kerry (Bryan MacMahon)
- A visit to the Palace of Westminster (J. Anthony Gaughan)
- Murder of Batty McCarthy and Trial of his Killer William Little 1916-1917 (Young Kerry Historian of the Year -Kieran Cahill)
- Lassinagh House (Young Kerry Historian - Junior Category: Aaron Harty)
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2023
- 2024 Events - Programme Highlights
- Obituaries
- Contributors’ List
- 2023: A Year of Commemorations
- Kerry Publications 2023
- Annual Membership Renewal
- Membership Application Form
The Kerry Magazine
The Kerry Magazine is an annual publication of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society. It was first published in 1989, when it was primarily intended as a newsletter to keep members abreast of activities within the Society.
This has grown over the years into a much-respected stand-alone publication, which provides a platform for both academics and non-academics to publish short articles, pertaining not only to archaeology/history but also to the wider culture and heritage of the County.
Articles submitted for consideration for publication by the editorial sub-committee of The Kerry Magazine, should be submitted by May 31 of any given year. We welcome short articles (maximum 2500 words, including endnotes) from both academics and non-academics related to any aspect of Kerry’s rich and diverse culture and heritage. Contributors are also required to submit appropriate illustrations and a brief biographical note for publication in our Contributors’ List.
For queries relating to The Kerry Magazine or for a copy of our Contributor’s Guidelines, please email
The complete index to the articles published in our magazine may be searched by entering a keyword/author’s name/title in the above search box, or downloaded here. Please note, there was no edition published in 2004.
Magazines Available to Purchase
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- A Note from Our President
- Kerry Group: 50 Years Expanding Horizons (Tony Bergin)
- Iveragh’s Repealers: the “Monster Meeting” at Kilpeacon, July 1843 (Maurice Bric)
- The Massacre At Dún An Óir, 1580 (Conor Brosnan)
- Remembering the Man from Kilsarkan, 360 Years on: Daniel Dominic O’Daly (1595-1662), Portugal’s Ambassador Extraordinaire (Declan M. Downey)
- Student Week in the West (Alun Evans)
- Memorial Plaque at Listowel Garda Station (J. Anthony Gaughan)
- Writing Kerry’s Poor into History (Colum Kenny)
- In Search of Dar Erca, the Saint of Valentia Island (Elva Johnston)
- Village Change: based on my interview with the late John P. “The Tailor” Brosnan, Scartaglin, shortly before his death in 2001 (Tommy Martin)
- Light Keeper’s Role in Historic Bird Migration Study at An Tearaght (Gay McCarron)
- Ellen O’Connell and the Political Power of a Poem (Olivia O’Leary)
- 1881: Tumultuous Court Cases, Agitation and Discontent in The Brosna Land War (Tom Roche)
- The Repeal of the Act of Union 1801 Meeting in Ardfert on June 18, 1843 (Sylvia Turner)
- Henry Shaw: A notable American Visitor to Co. Kerry in 1840 (Peter Wyse Jackson)
- Kerry Young Historian of the Year, Senior Category My Great Grandfather Jan Danielak (1891-1944) (Mira Danielak)
- Kerry Young Historian of the Year, Junior Category Dicksgrove – A History (Jack Blanchfield)
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2022
- Obituaries
- Contributors’ List
- Kerry Publications 2022
- Membership Application Form
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- A Note from Our President
- Lord Kenmare versus the Working Man: The Killarney Strike of 1917 (Tim Horgan)
- The Fall of the Fitzmaurices - The Demise of Kerry’s First Family (Kay Caball)
- Historical Sources for the study of the War of Independence in County Kerry (Tom Dillon)
- A Chinese Kerry Interlude (J. Anthony Gaughan)
- Ventry Protestant Church and Collegiate School (Bryan MacMahon)
- The Book Trade in Kerry (Paul Dillon)
- Shipwreck of the Dictator (Christopher Warner)
- The Brosna Newspaperman who founded The Irish American Advocate: John C. O’Connor (1868-1946) (Tom Roche)
- Tralee Imports and Exports of Food through the Port of Tralee during the Great Famine (Conor Brosnan & Kieran Murphy)
- The Legacy of Arabella Denny and the Magdalen Asylum (Sylvia Turner)
- Amelia Wilmot (1874-1955) Recovering a Kerrywoman’s Lost Revolutionary History (Mary McAuliffe)
- Minutes of Killarney Dispensary and Fever Hospital 1813-1900 (Patricia O’Hare)
- Teenage Takeover: What happens when young people are in charge of the past? (Claudia Köhler)
- The Kerry Young Historian of the Year Award (Victoria McCarthy & Claudia Köhler)
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2021
- Obituaries
- Contributors’ List
- Kerry Publications October 2019 - December 2020
- Membership Application Form
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- President’s Address (Marie O'Sullivan)
- Hon. Secretary’s Report 2018
- Maurice Neligan: A Labour Organiser in Kerry, 1918-1920 (Dr Paul Dillon)
- Scartaglin: Area Mapping Surveys and Surrounding Place-name Definitions (Jerry Flynn)
- Outpost of Empire-The Dingle Royal Constabulary Barracks, 1886-1922 (Dan Graham)
- Mapping Kerry 450 Years Ago (Dr Arnold Horner)
- From Kerry to Laois: The Return of the Seven Septs (Dr Michael Christopher Keane)
- The Tomb in the Lab: A Major Science Week Event Exploring Killaclohane Portal Tomb (Claudia Köhler & Jemma O’Connell)
- Corporal Thomas Joseph Murray and the Connaught Rangers Mutiny of 1920 (Bryan MacMahon)
- Architecture Kerry 2018 (Victoria McCarthy)
- Life on the Tearaght 1883 - 1886 (Gay McCarron)
- A Description of Castleisland Castle by Sir William Herbert 1590 (Robert McGuire)
- Faction Fighters of County Kerry (Seán Moraghan)
- Saleen Pier (Pádraig Ó Concubhair)
- Ryan’s Daughter in Dingle – A 50th Anniversary Recollection (John O’Connor)
- The Visit of the Prince of Wales to Killarney – April 1858 (Dr Patricia O’Hare)
- A Well-Travelled Uniform-The Life of Captain R. E. Palmer (Jude O’Gorman)
- Cogadh Na Saoirse i gCiarraí Thiar (Noel O Murchú)
- The Life and Times of James Boothby Roche MP for East Kerry and Great- Grandfather to Diana, Princess of Wales (Tom Roche)
- James Kerin (1779-1848) Surgeon (Sylvia Turner)
- Muckross Lichen Collections in the Natural History Museum, London (Roy Vickery)
- Obituaries
- Tralee Medieval Society
- Contributors’ List
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2020
- Kerry Publications October 2018 - September 2019
- Membership Application Form
- Call for Participation: The Young Kerry Archaeologists’ Club
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- President's Address (Marie O'Sullivan)
- Hon. Secretary's Report, 2017
- Launch of The Kerry Magazine, No. 29, 2018, Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, Kerry Library HQ, Tuesday, November 28, 2017 (John Breen)
- We Always Vote Redmond in This House (Dr Pat McCarthy)
- The Rose of Tralee International Festival: Connecting the Global Irish Community since 1959 (John Drummey)
- The Architecture and Landscape of Tralee Castle (Victoria McCarthy)
- Siamsa Tíre – 50 Bliain ag Fás: From Fadó Fadó to Anam (Caitriona Fallon)
- 10 Years of Tionól Mhic Easmainn (Dr Aoife Ní Chonchubhair)
- John Francis Marshall Miles - Dingle Doctor, Magistrate and Humanitarian 1847-1912 (Dan Graham)
- Views from the Sea: Four Little-known Images of Kerry Harbours in the 1630s (Dr Arnold Horner)
- 1848 i gCiarraí agus in Iarthar Luimnighe (Pádraig Ó Concubhair)
- Harry Clarke’s Windows for Diseart Chapel, Presentation Convent, Dingle (Dr Roisin Kennedy)
- Phoenix Paradiso (John O’Connor)
- Ancient Tomb - Youthful Imagination: Killaclohane Portal Tomb: An Innovative Approach to Heritage Education in Kerry (Claudia Köhler)
- Christy O’Grady: Patriot, Prisoner and Professor (Jude O’Gorman)
- 500 Years after Martin Luther: The Reformation and Its Legacy in Kerry (Venerable Simon J. Lumby)
- Mallets and Clubs: Victorian Pastimes from the ‘Big House’ (Patricia O’Hare)
- Anthony Trollope and Isaac Butt in Tralee Courthouse in 1849 (Bryan MacMahon)
- The Harrington Brothers and Their Kerry Connections (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
- ‘Women Voted Early and in Large Numbers’; Irishwomen, Activism, and the 1918 General Election (Dr Mary McAuliffe)
- Farranfore: A Village on a Crossroads in the Centre of Kerry (Marie O’Sullivan)
- Fr William Ferris’s History of BallymacElligott: The Book, the Bishop and the Ban (Brendan McCarthy)
- Major Charles George Fairfield of Loyal Mount Eagle Lodge, Brosna, County Kerry (Tom Roche)
- Royal Visit to Kerry - June 15, 2018General Data Protection Regulation Requirements
- Obituaries
- Contributors’ List
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2019
- Kerry Publications September 2017 - October 2018
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- President's Address (Marie O'Sullivan)
- Hon. Secretary's Report, 2016
- Scoil Naomh Eoin Báiste, Lios Póil: Tomás Ághas Remembered: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme
- Tralee 800 Conference, November 4-6, 2016 (Isabel Bennett)
- Michael Glazier, Kerryman Extraordinare (Bryan MacMahon)
- The Archaeology of Cosán na Naomh - The Saints' Road Pilgrim Path on the Dingle Peninsula (Isabel Bennett)
- A Vicious Boycott, Firies, January 1886 - April 1888 (Gay McCarron)
- Tomás Ághas Centenary 2017 (Tony Bergin)
- Seán Ó Riada 1882-1967 Oileán Chiarraí agus Nua Eabhrac: Gaeilgeoir agus Poblachtánach (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
- The Roman Catholic Chapel, Chapel Lane, Killarney (Connor Doolan)
- An tAthair Máirtín Ó Mathúna Mártán Ó Mathghamhna 1879-1944 (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
- The Anchors of the 1916 Gun-Running Ship Aud return to Tralee Bay after 100 years under the Sea - Part Two (Laurence Dunne)
- The Palatines (Padraig Ó Conchubhair)
- District Inspector Michael John Hunt of The Royal Irish Constabulary and Greys Lane, Dingle 1911-1915 (Dan Graham)
- Boat building in Dingle (John O'Connor)
- On the Road with the Kerry Junior Football Team: 1954 (Fr J. Anthony Gaughan)
- The Gaelic Irish Chief: Past, Present & Future (Tighe & Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
- Alexander Nimmo and the making of Knightstown on Valentia Island - A New Village in the 1830s (Dr Arnold Horner)
- Dermot Browne’s Letters from the Western Front (Patricia O’Hare)
- The Transplantation of the Laois Septs to Kerry and of their Descendants in Kerry over four Centuries (Dr Michael Keane)
- Saint Moling - A Native of Brosna (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
- The Ballyheigue Wreck, County Kerry (Dr Connie Kelliher)
- Golden Jubilee Seminar: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 1967 - 2017
- Obituaries: Chris Nolan, Fr Gearóid Ó Donnchadha, Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2018
- Contributor’s List
- Kerry Publications October 2016-August 2017
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- President's Address (Maureen Hanafin)
- Hon. Secretary's Report, 2015
- Knockaderry National School, Farranfore Remembers 1916: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme
- Letters from Tomás Ághas while Imprisoned in the United Kingdom (Tony Bergin)
- The Blackest Days of Black ’47 in Tralee (Bryan MacMahon)
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society - Early Days (Kathleen Browne)
- Tochaltánna Bréachaí (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
- A West Kerry Summer Diary, 1846 (Dr Marc Caball)
- The Murder of John O’Connell Curtin: A 19th Century Tragedy at Castlefarm, Firies (Gay McCarron)
- The Anchors of the 1916 Gun-Running Ship return to Tralee Bay after 100 years under the Sea (Laurence Dunne)
- Casement in Kerry: A Revolutionary Journey (Helen O’Carroll)
- The Life and Times of Captain Richard Edward Walter Burke 1893 - 1977 (Dan Graham)
- Dingle Coastguard Station (John O’Connor)
- Tralee 800 (John Griffin)
- Brendan's Immrama - The Archaeological Evidence of the Irish Discovering America (Tighe & Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
- Firies in 1916: The Story of Jim Riordan (Dr Tim Horgan)
- Killarney’s Victorian Gardens (Patricia O'Hare)
- Mapping Sliabh Luachra in the early-19th Century (Dr Arnold Horner)
- The Royal Irish Constabulary Mutiny at Castleisland (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
- Prince Geoffrey O’ Donoghue, Bard and Lord of the Glen, Killarney (Caroline Hurley)
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Celebrates 50th Anniversary (Marie O’Sulliva)n
- Early-17th Century Piracy along the South-West Coast: The Kerry Connection (Dr Connie Kelliher)
- Opening Address at the Roger Casement Autumn Gathering, September 4, 2015 (Celine Slattery)
- Kerry 2016 Centenary Celebrations (Kate Kennelly)
- Slí Bhréanáinn - In the footsteps of St Brendan from Fenit to Lerrig (St Brendan Heritage Committee, Fenit)
- Historic Tralee: Site of Holy Cross Dominican Priory-Kerry County Council (Archaeology Department and Kerry County Museum)
- Obituaries: Chris Nolan, Fr Gearóid Ó Donnchadha (Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta)
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2017
- Contributor's List
- Kerry Publications October 2016-August 2017
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- President's Address (Maureen Hanafin)
- Hon. Secretary's Report, 2014
- Telling Time (Dr Michael Connelly)
- A Special Curtin Scrapbook (Gay McCarron)
- The Spaces of Irish Natural History: Maude Jane Delap, Valentia Island 1866-1953 (Dr Nessa Cronin)
- Oisín Kelly’s Statue of Roger Casement (Bryan MacMahon)
- Thomas F. Meagher and the Tricolour (Senator Mark Daly)
- Dan O’Mahony 1862-1934, Poblachtánach, Moonlighter agus Sealgaire Afracánach (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
- The Liberator’s Piper: Pádraig a' Chasúir Ó Súilleabháin (Seán Donnellly)
- The O’Rahilly (Padraig Ó Conchubhair)
- The Kerry Steamship - SS Derrymore and World War One (Dan Graham)
- Fenit Lighthouse Part Two (Tommy O'Connor)
- The Role of Women in Gaelic Society in the Middle-Ages (Grainne Henry)
- The Indomitable Irishry (Tighe & Elizabeth O'Donoghue/Ross)
- Fr John O’Sullivan 1807-1874 (Holy Cross 150 Group)
- Con Keating: Personal and Political (Sarah O’Farrel)
- Charting the Cycle Routes of County Kerry over 100 Years Ago - The Kerry Road Maps of R.J. Mecredy (Dr Arnold Horner)
- Tenant Farmers Host Dinner for Henry Arthur Herbert of Muckross, December 27, 1849 (Patricia O’Hare)
- The Tudor Conquest of Munster, 1565-1582Prof. Ben Kiernan (Tomás Ághas)
- The Dublin Years (Micheál Ó Móráin)
- Kerry Library Archives Collections: the 1916 Context (Michael Lynch)
- The Arrest and Detention of Roger Casement in Kerry (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
- Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2016
- Contributor’s List
- Kerry Publications October 2014- September 2015
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- President's Address (Maureen Hanafin)
- Hon. Secretary's Report, 2013
- 25 years of Archaeological Excavations in Kerry (Isabel Bennett)
- Captain Flora Sandes of the Serbian Army (Bryan MacMahon)
- Jeremiah Buckley Ballymacelligott First World War Veteran (Ethel Corduff)
- An tAthair Máirtín Ó Mathúna / Mártán Ó Mathghamhna 1879-1944 (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
- Cumann na mBan - Remembering the Women of South Kerry (Mark Daly)
- Recruiting the Dead an oration delivered at TraleeTown Council Commemoration Ceremony in PáircAn Phiarsaigh, Tralee, April 20, 2014 (Helen O’Carroll)
- Anti-Recruiting in Kerry 1903-1914 (Alan Drumm)
- Fenit Lighthouse (Tommy O'Connor)
- In Memory of my Father, Tom Finn 1927-2006 (Clodagh Finn)
- Early Christianity in Kerry Eastern Coptic Influence Meets Druidic Philosophy (Tighe & Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
- Andrew Carnegie, Peg, and the Dingle Carnegie Free Library (Dan Graham)
- 50 Years of Heritage Interpretation at Muckross (Patricia O'Hare)
- Humphrey “Free” Murphy Kerry's foremost Soldier during the Revolutionary Period (Tim Horgan)
- Memories of a Rural Irish Sports Meeting (Jim O’Shea)
- The “Sunny Side” of Early 20th Century Kerry (Dr Arnold Horner)
- Milestones in the Policing of Tralee down through the Years (Donal O’Sullivan)
- Valerie Bary A Tribute (Dr John Knightly)
- Castleisland Through the Ages: A Brief Overview (Marie O'Sullivan)
- Kerry Explorer Tom Crean comes to Knockaderry National School Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme (Claudia Köhler & Marie O’Sullivan)
- Storytelling in Kerry (Ray O'Sullivan)
- Forgotten Political Displays in Cahersiveen (Gerard Leen)
- Reminiscence of a Childhood in Farranfore in the 1930s (Dr Dick Shanahan)
- Tralee Soldiers in the Great War 1914-1918 (Russsell McMorran)
- Former Editors
- Contributor’s List
- Kerry Publications October 2013-October 2014