Discover the Stories
KERRY WRITERS’ MUSEUM
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Kerry is a special place. It has inspired generations of writers, playwrights and poets whose work has gone on to win international acclaim. At Kerry Writers’ Museum we invite you to follow the storyteller and discover the lives of some of the County’s finest creators of stories. From John B. Keane to Brendan Kennelly you will be transported into a world of comedy, love, mystery and magic as you weave your way through our writers’ rooms.
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Ignite your imagination and discover a dreamworld, a whole world of magic told by the Seanachaí – the bearer of Irish folklore. Embark on a journey set against the canvas of some of the greatest wordsmiths the country has ever seen. There will be mystery, there will be murder, there will be love, there will be comedy and then there will be more magic.
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Maurice Walsh, novelist and short story writer was born in the parish of Ballydonoghue, just outside Listowel on 2nd May 1879. He was the third child of ten and the first son born to John Walsh, a local farmer, and his wife Elizabeth Buckley who lived in a three-roomed thatched farmhouse. John Walsh’s main interests were books and horses and he himself did little about the farm, preferring to have a hired man. The most famous of these was Paddy Bawn Enright, whose name was to be immortalised by Maurice Walsh in his story The Quiet Man (though the name was not used in the movie version).
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