Joan Kennelly (died 2007) was an Irish photographer,

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and founder of the regional newspaper, ''

Kerry's Eye ''Kerry's Eye'' is a weekly local newspaper in County Kerry, Ireland. It is published every Thursday and, as of 2010, had a claimed circulation of approximately 25,000.

''. Kennelly and her husband,

Pádraig Kennelly Pádraig Kennelly (10 February 1929 – 21 May 2011) was an Irish journalist, editor, photographer, cameraman and publisher, who co-founded and edited the '' Kerry's Eye'' newspaper. Kennelly originally began his career as a pharmacist. His inter ...

, took more than 500,000 photographs of daily life in

County Kerry County Kerry ( gle, Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the co ...

between 1953 and 1973. The collection has been digitized and published as the Kennelly Archive in 2009. Joan and Pádraig Kennelly co-founded the ''Kerry's Eye'' newspaper in the basement of their home on Ashe Street in

Tralee Tralee ( ; ga, Trá Lí, ; formerly , meaning 'strand of the Lee River') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. The town is on the northern side of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula, and is the largest town in County ...

, County Kerry, in 1974. In May 2011, an exhibition of the Kennellys' photographs documenting the visit of

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and his wife,

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, to Ireland in 1969 opened at the Irish Cultural Institute in Paris, France. Many of the most famous photographs on display were taken by Joan Kennelly. These included a photo of Charles de Gaulle standing over a kneeling

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at a

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, County Kerry. This particular picture was published on the front page of the French magazine, ''

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''. She died in 2007.

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External links

The Kennelly Archive
Year of birth missing 2007 deaths Irish newspaper founders Irish photographers Irish photojournalists Irish women photographers Kerry's Eye people People from Tralee Women photojournalists {{Ireland-artist-stub