All Roads Lead to Kenmare by Stanley Edward Goddard

All Roads Lead to Kenmare by Stanley Edward Goddard

The signpost that stood at the top of Main Street was the perfect symbol to justify the significance of Kenmare. The ten arrows pointing East and West placing this bustling market town at the very epicentre of wild County Kerry. The many roads that did indeed lead to Kenmare, proof of its geographical importance, but barley hinting at the rich and chequered history of this 'most English' of Irish towns.
For Stan Goddard, a dedicated photographer, with a rambler's soul and a passion for history, Kenmare was literally like a breath of fresh air. Its valleys and mountains and glens of Kerry forging an association that was to bring him back every summer for almost fifty years.
And it was to be a fruitful association, for though to many it was little more than a small, rural community hidden by the shadow of Killarney, Kenmare was a place that had been touched by history more than once. The town had visible links to the Bronze Age, Cardinals from Rome, Cromwell's surveyor General and nuns of the Poor Clare's. It also endured social and political upheaval, famine and even emigration. Factors that were not just the story of Kenmare, but the very tale of Ireland itself.
Now, reproduced in its original form, All Roads Lead to Kenmare offers the visitor to Kenmare a detailed, boots-on explanation of how nature, geography and man has impacted this beautiful town and why it is now considered by many to be a veritable jewel in the Ring of Kerry.
Concise and accessible, All Roads is much more than another potted history and more like a personal walking tour of Kenmare, but a walking tour with all those little questions answered, all those little facts explained and barely a touristtrap in sight

Stanley Goddard was born into humble stock in Lincolnshire in 1925. The son of a deep-sea fisherman, his childhood was hard but not without compensations and when he left for Egypt to do his National Service, he was not only endowed with a keen fascination for nature, history and geography, but was also a capable, enthusiastic photographer. It was a passion that would sustain him throughout his working life as a steel erector/ steeplejack and eventually bring him to Ireland where all his interests could be realized in one place, Kenmare.

Though he lived most of his life in Farnborough in Hampshire, it was in Kenmare that he found a wife, in Kenmare that he built a home, in Kenmare where he found soulful salvation and in Kenmare where he eventually found eternal rest in 1998.

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ISBN 13	9781412086769
ISBN 10	1412086760
Title	All Roads Lead to Kenmare
Author	Stanley Edward Goddard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Trafford Publishing
Year published	2006-06-19
Number of pages	172
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.