Gerry Curran
An extract from Dingle People: Families, Fishermen, Farmers & Friendsc
Annie Brosnan from The Colony and Patrick (Paudie) Curran were my parents. The family home was in Green Street where their five children, Mary, Nora, Gerry, Anne and Patrick were reared. I was born on 8 February 1954. I attended school in Dingle and was fifteen years of age when the news filtered through that the film Ryan’s Daughter was ...
Noreen Curran
An extract from Dingle, Lispole, Fionntrá/Ventry
The townland, Comdubh, near Annascaul Lake, is the ancestral home of the Curran family. Our side of the family settled in The Mall, Dingle, in the early 1900s. Here they operated a butcher shop and extended their business with a tea and pie shop in later years. My father, Mick Curran, married Ellie Rayle. (Beenbawn). Immediately after ...
Bottle Boy, Blind Lobsters and Barring Orders
An extract from Dingle Before Fungi Came to Town
My introduction to the family business coincided with the inauguration of the Dingle agricultural show in 1964. It was held in Páirc an Ághasaigh. I was eleven years of age and rambled into the bar. The place was crowded and my father asked me to collect the glasses. I must have made a favourable ...
David Donegan
An extract from Dingle People
My great-grandfather James Donegan was born in Causeway in 1839. He married Mary O’Connor in 1865. Their son David was an accomplished ploughman and he came to west Kerry to work on the Watson estate in Ballymoreigh, he also worked on the Burnham Estate. David was married ...
