Preparing for The Rose Of Tralee Festival, Co. Kerry, Ireland 1963
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Tralee gets ready to host the Festival of Kerry and find a new Rose of Tralee.
Contestants from three continents will merge on Tralee to compete for the title of Rose of Tralee. Roses from as far away as Sydney and San Francisco will gather at the Ashe Memorial Hall where the winner will be crowned. The international search for the Rose of Tralee is just one part of the Festival of Kerry. It is a week when everybody from Kerry if at all possible, returns to their county to join the celebrations.
A week of fun and festivity.
William Pembroke Mulchinock wrote the song ‘The Rose of Tralee’ in a house on the outskirts of Tralee over a hundred years ago. The original Rose of Tralee, Mary O’Connor, worked in the house and provided the inspiration for the song.
Dan Nolan, editor of The Kerryman newspaper and one of the festival founders, explains what the event is all about. He says that visitors from overseas who come to the festival remain in Ireland for many weeks providing a source of tourism for the entire country.
The aim of the festival is to promote tourism in Kerry and in Ireland in general.
This year the festival cost over £8,000 to put on and Dan Nolan says that the financial outlay has been rising every year. The festival committee are responsible for raising finance with the support of local business. Fund-raising events in Ireland and overseas, as well as support from national businesses all contribute to the cost. In addition, this year’s festival has received a £1,000 grant from Bord Fáilte. It is estimated that the festival is worth around £300,000 to the town.
The event attracts between eighty and ninety thousand people throughout the week. Nancy Cable is in charge of the bureau which oversees the provision of accommodation for visitors. She says that every spare bed in the town is made available. Cathleen O’Keefe is one of the many Tralee residents who provides accommodation during the festival. It is not about the money for her, but supporting the festival. She says that the same people come back year after year.
You do it for the support of the festival and for the good name of Tralee town.
Another event that takes place as part of the festival is the three day race meeting at Ballybeggan Park. The race meeting is free to all to attend. Joe Grace, secretary of the race course, says that by throwing open their gates to the public the hope is to make the racing meeting even more popular.
Festival secretary, George Rice, explains the complicated logistics involved in organising the festival. With Festival of Kerry centres all over the world coordinating events can prove challenging with just a small team of volunteers involved in administrative work.
The highlight of the festival is the selection of the Rose of Tralee.
Denis O’Riordan, chairman of the Festival Committee, is adamant that it is not a beauty competition.
The girls are chosen for their poise, personality, charm, and well if they’re good-looking, we don’t object.
Dubliner Ciara O’Sullivan is the 1962 Rose of Tralee. Winning the competition has given her the opportunity to meet lots of people she would otherwise have never met. Her duties for the year included attending functions in Kerry. Part of the prize included a trip to Italy for an audience with Pope John XXIII.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 20 August 1963. The reporter is Seán Egan.
Love the footage here. Id give anything to be able to travel back in time to around this time. Tralee was so vibrant back then even with no festival. I used to love going into woolworths with its wooden floors and all the sweets and toys and the shop girls were so friendly. All the cars had their own unique sound and even exhaust fume smell. Id love to call on my Dad who was only 40 back then and have a nice old chat and hug my dog sammy who would be delighted to see me again. My Dad was good friends with Joe Grace and he would give him a job in the racecourse as everybody's normal job would close for the week. I used to love going with him to the racecourse. Dan Nolan I only knew as the guy with the white fancy Fiat 125 specials that he used to drive enthusiastically. He also used to go for walks past my house and he walked as he drove with his walking stick - a real sergeant major type guy.
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It has changed now a lot of unsavory people around and a thugs paradise .
It always used to be buzzing in the 1980s and had a nice funky atmosphere with all those ancient shops.
@@Scotia6261
You mean the black and tans ?
@@Kalergi.Killarney aka the Planters/ fakeugees/asyBum seekers.
@@Scotia6261
Yeah. Did you see the Swedish ladder video ?
“If they’re good looking we don’t object “ 😂😂😂
Your man at 6:00 with the flat cap has been on the pints all morning.
On it since he woke up… 😂
He'd be what they'd describe in Tralee as a"An owl bit gatty.".
We Were Never Asked
Ah aren't they lovely
Once the land of saints and scholars, it is now the land of Arabs and Africans
They can be saints and scholars too remember, but ye know lad it is nice to hav ye own culture like. instead of a mixed pot absolutely everywhere
Where do your people come from going back over the past 2000, you will not be able to cope with the shame when you find out the truth, you will have to leave Ireland and go back to the home of your forefathers and mothers, shame on you
New invasion!
And eastern europe and balkan gangsters. I visited Croatia in 2004. Beautiful country, full of shifty people.
@@davidfoley3510
Yes actual gangsters added to the mix along with the all- new black & tans, who are going to make the old black and tans seem like boy scouts.