Thomas Kearey, born in Dublin in 1791, left home in 1813 as a young man of 22 trained as a smelter in gold and silver. He set out to seek his fortune in London, knowing he might never see his homeland or his family again. Thanks to his determination, charm and intelligence, he found success, security and love, and founded a dynasty. This is the true story of his life and times, researched, reconstructed and colourfully told two centuries later by his greatgreat-grandson Terence Kearey, a keen historian.
Terence Kearey has long harboured a wish to trace his family connections with his homeland back as far as possible in time. As a keen historian he has devoted thousands of hours to researching and recording the history of the Kearey name, all the way back to the 10th century AD, when his ancestors bore the name Ciardha. In this book he traces a thousand years of history, from the time when Ireland was divided into kingdoms. With the aid of DNA analysis he delves even further back, to the earliest occupation of Ireland by his Stone Age ancestors.
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