MEMORIES OF DAYS GONE BY

This page is for stories and images of memorabilia and diaries once held by my parents, grandparents and granduncle. Their photos are in the above collage.🤩

My cousins intend to donate all these memorabilia to a historical society/museum in the very near future 🥰

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2 pocket watches belonging to my dad, Gerald(Gerry) Kiely. Not sure what decade they belong to.

I only possess the photos 

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PAGES FROM A VERY OLD SCRAPBOOK BELONGING TO MY DAD. 

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The following are documents that belonged to my mum's maternal uncle, John James Burns when he was a member of the old Irish police force 

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PAGES FROM A 1928 DIARY BELONGING TO MY DAD, GERALD (Gerry) KIELY. 

HE WAS THE ELDEST BROTHER OF AUTHOR, BENEDICT KIELY 

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TWO DRIVERS LICENSES BELONGING TO MY DAD, Gerald (Gerry) Kiely. 

DATING 1942 and 1943. 

My dad began to drive at a very young age, while in his teens. He was born in 1907 and died in 1987. 

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The following pages are from a book called THE LEAVES OF THE TREE (Evensong) by BENEDICT KIELY, who was my paternal uncle. He wrote this piece about my late dad who had just died on Oct 25th 1987. It is a ln except from one of uncle Ben's books, which is a memoir and the book is called DRINK TO THE BIRD 

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The following pages are the handwritten manuscripts of the above story, THE LEAVES OF THE TREE. They are handwritten by the author, BENEDICT KIELY who was my wonderful uncle 

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BOOKS WRITTEN BY OR SENT BY AUTHOR, BENEDICT KIELY, WHO WAS MY UNCLE 

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THE CARDS OF THE GAMBLER by BENEDICT KIELY