ABOUT Kilmore Parish Journal
We are a voluntary committee of eleven people, with an esteemed editor, Ger Walsh. Together, we spend much of the year writing or seeking articles that connect, inform, and represent the community of Kilmore and its hinterlands, our organisations, our history, social and cultural events, photographic records, sporting life, and other stories about people, places and experiences. By October/November, the articles are polished and work on technical production begins. A new Journal is launched in early December annually. Little did the first Kilmore Journal committee members back in 1974 realise what they were starting! In 2026, we are working on Issue 55… More than half a century of lived experience in Kilmore is available to all through the Kilmore Parish Journal (KPJ), thanks to the many laudable committee members and to the many contributors of material over the years, in the form of articles, activities, memoirs, occasions, and creative works.
The world has now entered the digital age, and our committee aspires to move in tandem to ensure the Journal remains relevant to modern community life and accessible to all. Over the past year, we digitised all past editions. The launch of our dedicated website will enable people near and far to access and download these editions. Although future journals will be published in book form as normal, digitised copies will be available the following year, when they are added to the Kilmore Journal website. The secret of KPJ’s success lies in generating interesting material for and by all generations of Kilmore people; it is your magazine.
Kilmore Parish Journal Officers and committee members no’s 1 to no 54
Editor.
Hilary Murphy 1972 to 2012.
Seamus O’Brien 2013 to 2022.
Ger Walsh 2023 – ’24 – ’25.
Assistant to the editor
John Power 1997 to 2008.
Chairperson
Sean O’Halloran 1972.
Rev. Donald MacDonald C.C. 1973 – ’74 – ’75.
Seamus O’Keeffe 1976 to 1982. 1997 to 2003. 2008 to 2020.
John Power 1983 to 1996. 2004 to 2007.
Lucy Moore, Fidelma Rossiter, Margaret Nunn, Breda Hayes 2021 – ’22 (Rotating).
Fidelis Power 2023.
Jim Moore 2024 – ’25.
Vice Chairperson
Frank Lonergan 2014.
Tom Dunne 2018.
Lucy Moore 2019 – ’20.
Hon Secretary
Theresa White 1972 -’73.
Rev Donald MacDonald C. C 1974 to 1981.
Brid Carroll 1982 – ’83 – ’84.
Mary Kehoe 1985 to 1992.
Mary Power 1993 to 2008.
Vivienne Brady 2009 to 2014.
Frank Lonergan 2015 to 2025.
Treasurer
Tom Kehoe 1972.
Rev Donald MacDonald C. C 1973 to 1993.
Seamus O’Keeffe 1994 – ’95 – ’96.
Patricia Boyd 1997 to 2025.
Advertising
Fergus Duff 1989 – ’90 – ’91.
P. J. Murphy 2000 to 2007.
Patricia Boyd 2008 to 2025.
Committee
Aidan Miskella, Annette O’Neill, Breda Hayes, Brian Sarsfield, Brid Carroll, Cat Hogan, Cyril Lambert, Ellen McCormack, Fergus Duff, Fidelma Rossiter, Rev. Dennis Doyle P.P., Frank Lonergan, Hilary Murphy, Jim Hurley, Joe Monaghan, John Power, Kevin Whitty, Lucy Moore, Margaret Nunn, Mary Kehoe, Mary Power, P. J. Murphy, Patricia Boyd, Patricia Power, Patricia Roche, Patrick Lambert, Paud Doyle, Peter Devereux, Rev. Donald MacDonald C.C., Richard Nisbet, Seamus O’Brien, Seamus O’Keeffe, Sean O’Halloran, Theresa White, Tom Dunne, Tom Kehoe, Tomas Hayes, Vivienne Brady, Ger Walsh, Rev. Pat Mernagh P, P. and Jim Moore.