Picture: Don MacMonagle/Storied Kerry
A NEW website featuring remarkable stories from Kerry of legends, landscape, plants, animals, archaeology, history and folklore will be launched virtually on Tuesday, December 8 from the Institute of Technology in Tralee.
The Storied Kerry website features stories from eight different districts in Kerry which will entertain and stimulate in these difficult times.
Project chairman Frank Lewis said those involved want people to learn more of the Kerry story to enrich and enhance their lives following two successful day-long conferences held in Killarney in 2018 and 2019.
“It is bonding us more closely to our own place, encouraging us to look at the potentials of our place and play out part in developing it, sharpening our awareness of the problems and committing to solving them,” he said.
The official launch will be live on the website and on the Storied Kerry Facebook page at 4.00pm on December 8 and it will be repeated, with comments from viewers, on the following Saturday.
The technical preparation and presentation of the launch is being overseen by Phillip Doyle and his students from the Creative Writing and Technical Department of the ITT which, on January 1, becomes part of the Munster Technological University.
Those already contributing rich, colourful and fascinating stories to the Storied Kerry website include Killarney author and journalist Donal Hickey, Brendan G O’Sullivan from Kenmare, Owen O’Shea from Milltown, Joe Murphy from Listowel, Micheál Ó Coileáin from Dingle, Tommy Martin from Castleisland, Jessica Hamilton in Tralee and Cait Coffey from the Caherciveen district.
Storied Kerry is sponsored by the Trustees of Muckross House, Radio Kerry and the Gleneagle Hotel Group.
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