Peader Kearney -

[Paughanstown]

That would be great, lots of the elder generation saying that we are related, but I need to prove how!!

[myluck!]

 

That would be great, lots of the elder generation saying that we are related, but I need to prove how!!

That's my line!!!!!!

[amos5300]

 i am a bourke  my father wroth peader biography the "soldiers song" and "My dear EVA" we grew up with the stories. My grand mother was his sister and her sister was the mother of brendan behan.
they came from off st stepens green and their father was a coach man . now can i help

[myluck!]

I'd love to think so!

My OH's grandmother was a Bourke from Kilkenny
and his grandfather was a Kearney from Wicklow/South Dublin

A second cousin remembers conversations at home when he was a child talking about Peadar being related, he met Dominic Behan some years ago and when introduced Dominic referred to him as a cousin! and there are a few more stories and each have come from a different branch!

I have looked at both sides of the family and to date found no connection
I even looked at Peadar's family and found no connection
So if there is one it must be distant

I did find out that the pension records of Kathleen Kearney-Behan were confused with that of Kathleen Bourke-Kearney which I found amusing after all my searches!
Philip and Kathleen (Bourke) Kearney lived in Inchicore, Eccles Street and Drimnagh from the 1920s to 1960s

I'd love to work this out somehow - thanks for the offer
If you have posted three times here we can send a Private Message with more details

[amos5300]

peter or peader had a number os sister one marry PJ Bourke his brothe was IN the royal dublin fusiliers Jimmy . Brendans mother was kathleen maiden name furlong /behan she married twice.
pm  me so that i can see who i am talking to ?

[amos5300]

post 3 lol

[myluck!]

PM sent - thank you

FYI
Brendan Behan's mother who was Peadar's sister, was born Kathleen KEARNEY
Her parents were John KEARNEY 1854-1897 and Katie McGUINNESS 1860-c1907
She married Jack FURLONG 1885-1918 and then Stephen BEHAN 1891-1967

Another member of the KEARNEY family - Jimmy married Kathleen GILL
She became Mrs. Kathleen KEARNEY and was also confused with my OH's grandmother seemingly!

[bibinic]

Has anyone come across an Ellen Kearney, born 1893, (father Terence Kearney, mother Margaret Fitzh...), from Drumcondra? The surname is spelt differently, sometimes Kearney, Carney, M'Carney or McCarney in official documents. Ellen married James Goulding in 1924. The Gouldings and the Behans were housepainters who seemed to all know each other well.
The reason I'm asking is that family lore (or wild rumour!) had it that Ellen was Peadar Kearney's sister. I don't see any evidence of that at all, but was wondering if they were cousins or something. Could her father Terence be a brother of John Kearney?

[bibinic]

Re my earlier post, Terence Kearney was born in Co. Fermanagh - quite a distance from John Kearney's birthplace in Co. Louth!