Conan Kennedy

Writer of books.Collector of old photographs. Publisher. Founder of Morrigan Books. And that there is our HQ on the Wild Atlantic Way.

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@karenievers Likewise, am about to vanish off Twitter for a while (get's tedious and have book to finish) but best wishes for future anyway.

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

Sorting old photos 1. Self +3 of kids. (And I didn't even get the Cap'n Birdseye gig)

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

One of daughters and friend. She's a radio producer and he's a President.

[Karen Ievers 🇮🇪🇺🇸🇮🇱 @karenievers]

Some light reading on this very gothic-esque Saturday night 🌝. Feeling that Sheridan Le Fanu vibe tonight 😁.

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@rtenews very exercised about the dreadful state of Afghanistan...but very hard to see what West (or indeed East) countries can do or should bother doing to assist. Afghans have thrown out all and any country from Russia to USA who might be capable of helping.

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@KeithMillsD7 Essentially this a cancellation/delay of Carbon Taxes. But Gov can't put it like that.

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

My grandfather was a later owner of Lord Ed's house Fresacti in Blackrock, Co Dublin. And this is me outside that place some years back...in ruins...the house, not me.

[Karen Ievers 🇮🇪🇺🇸🇮🇱 @karenievers]

2. Turns out that Mrs. Pare is the Hon. Geraldine Fitzgerald de Ros, dau. of Lord Henry Fitzgerald & niece of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. I only learned today that Lord Henry had a “romantic interlude” with Caroline, Princess of Wales/wife of George IV 😮. https://t.co/Y3jqR9pvJZ

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@AidanMcCourt @trocaire In an ideal world Trocaire, Goal and Concern should amalgamate, this would drastically reduce overheads (ie excessive staffing admin payments) & increase efficiency. Charity doesn't work well as an 'industry' or 'sector', & certainly not as a career vehicle for virtue signallers

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@jintygal31 Yes I've investigated Scottish Kennedys, they would be associated with N.Ireland Kennedys centred on Cultra, & that lot connected to the Wexford/Waterford families, however mine are Dalcassians from other part of Ireland. My Crighton man was an ancestor of mother's Conan family

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

My great great grandfather was a Scottish clockmaker from Glasgow, David Crighton...with others in his family being McFarlane and Prentice. So, och aye.

[Janette galbraith @jintygal31]

After waking up just a wee while ago, I thought that's a strange sound outside as a car drove past. Welcome to a proper Scottish winter in November & it's still snowing, just! If this is a sign of things to come, heaven help us! Silver linings? The ski resorts will be happy!

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

Nice book...but I have the Dolmen Press edition published a few decades ago...

[Martello Publishing @Martello_Books]

Wonderful pile of copies of ‘Malton’s Views of Dublin: The Story of a Georgian City’ here on the table of coffee table books at the mighty @Hodges_Figgis #Christmas #xmassorted for Georgian Dublin fans…. @littlemuseumdub

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@irishexaminer Defining any perceived negative aspect of human behaviour as 'white', 'black' or whatever is essentially a form of racism.

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@hughmaddenart
Hi, interested if you'd contact us about your Dublin Canvas artwork on Rock Road. [email protected]

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

Available now in shops ( and online, https://t.co/ZZz6OHDWg7 )
https://t.co/VwcFlsATPk

[National Library of Ireland @NLIreland]

A nice #lockdown project that has come full circle and found its way back to us! @conankwrites

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

Much appreciated mention.

[National Library of Ireland @NLIreland]

A nice #lockdown project that has come full circle and found its way back to us! @conankwrites

[Ciarán Cuffe @CiaranCuffe]

Good to connect online with @mickkellygrows this afternoon and the Grow it Yourself @giyireland crew. Michael we’ll have to get you up to our @InfirmaryGarden in Dublin one of these days!

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@derek_whyte I'd re-check that, suspect there is.

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

Peculiar watching Ireland playing Japan in rugby today, A because my cousin Jack Conan is on the team and B, my just published book tells the story of Jack's great great uncle who died in a Japanese prison camp in WW2. But hey, don't mention the war?

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

@karenievers This is Henry Wilson Slater, of White Hill, Edgeworthstown, which was the 'other' big house in that town...now demolished...your contacts in those parts may be interested in him.

[Conan Kennedy @conankwrites]

Photo arrives from Paris, my son who lives there, & my Dublin based niece, visiting him. Reminds me that we (and Arthur Conan Doyle) share ancestry from this Irish Parisian journalist. My grandfather went to school there, & mother to Sorbonne. Small world
https://t.co/fzOkmCqjGO