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 graduated 1890 with Honours obtaining a Moderatorship and Medal in Ethics and Logic; admitted a Solicitor, 1891; contested (U.) Limerick (City), 1900; gazetted Captain in the army. May, 1915: retired 1918, hon. rank of Captain; Clerk of the Crown and Peace for Limerick City and County, 1918. Recns. gardening, walking, bridge; eldest son of late Francis Kearney, Solicitor, and Ellie, dau. of late Thomas Keane, of Prospecthill, Co. Limerick: b. 11th Aug., 1870: m. 1910, Clare, dau. of M. J. Malone, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., of Pery Square, Limerick, and has issue one son and two daus. Res.: Shannon Lawn, Limerick. Clubs: Carlton, London; University, Dublin; County, Limerick.

KEANE, Rev. Michael Antoninus, D.D., O.P. Educ. at Mount Melleray and at Clonliffe; D.D. of the Catholic Univ. of Ireland (which seldom exercised its powers in this way), 1874; priest. 1874; spent five years as a Professor at Clonliffe, during which time he joined Bishop Donnelly in founding the Irish Society of St. Cecilia; subsequently Curate at St. Michan's, Dublin: entered the Dominican Novitiate at Tallaght, 1884; for some years was Prior in Cork in the 'nineties, but his principal work has been that of Friar Preacher of Missions and sermons of occasion. Author of Sermons (1916). Res.: St. Magdalen's Priory, Drogheda.

KEATING, John, A.R.H.A.; Portrait Painter; Lecturer Drawing and Painting from Life, Dublin Metropolitan School of Art Educ.: St. Munchin's College, Limerick. Was an omnivorous reader from the age of six or seven, went to school very irregularly, living about the ships and quays, and learned foreign languages from the sailors: spent three years in the mountains in Clare, shooting and living in the open; at twenty went to Dublin, having won a Scholarship in Art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art: twice at intervals was in London; spent four years in Arran, off the west coast of Ireland: came back to Dublin and won the Taylor Scholarship in Painting; loves every kind of bodily and mental activity; paint's what he sees: has no theories about art. Recns.: Gaelic literature and music, swimming, rowing, chopping timber; b. Limerick, 29th Sept.. 1889; son of Joseph Keating and Anne Hannan: m. 1919, May, dau. of John Walsh, Eadstown, Co. Kildare. Res.: 106 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin.

KEENAN, George Bruce, R.N.: Staff-Paymaster R.N., 1909; Fleet-Paymaster. 1914: Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Belgium; youngest son of the late Fleet-Surgeon Constantine Keenan. R.N.: b. 1877; m. 1913, Edith Gertrude, only dau. of G. Ajello. Res.: 3 West End Terrace, Spy Hill, Queenstown.

KEIGHTLEY, Sir Samuel Robert, Knt. (1912), M.A., LL.D. Is a Novelist; Barrister King's Inns, 1883; member of Senate of Queen's University of Belfast; son of late Samuel Keightley, J.P., Bangor, Co. Down; m. Gertrude Emily, dau. of late Henry Smith, Northampton. Res.; The Drum House, Dunmmry, Co. Down.

'''KELLER, Rt. Rev. Monsignor Daniel''', Vicar-General of Cloyne and Dean of the Chapter: b. 1839. Educ. at St. Vincent's Sem., Cork, and Irish College, Paris; priest, 1862; has been Curate of Killagh, Dean of St. Colman's College, Fermoy, Professor at the Irish College, Paris, and Adm. of Queenstown: dignissimus for vacant see of Cloyne, 1894: now P.P. of Youghal; Domestic Prelate to H.H., 1900: Chairman of Munster Provincial Council of the Association of Clerical Managers of Irish National Schools. Author of The Struggle for Life on the Ponsonby Estate (a pamphet). Res.: Youghal, Co. Cork.

KELLY, Ambrose Aliaga. Educ. at Downside; a wine merchant (member of firm of Messrs. T. W. and J. Kelly, Dublin); Consul in Dublin for King of Spain: second son of late Thomas Aliaga Kelly, of Monkstown, Co. Dublin: b. 1872: m. 1912, Isabel, dau. of W. B. Harrington, of Montenotte, Cork. Res.: 12 Elgin Road, Dublin; Stephen's Green Club, Dublin, and Wellington Club, London.

KELLY, Major Arthur Dillon Denis  (The O'Kelly), J.P., Co. Meath: Major late Border Regt.: eldest son of late Gen. Sir Richd. Denis Kelly, K.C.B.. of Mucklon, Co. Galway, and Ellen (d. 1903), dau. of Sir Wm. Dillon, 4th Bart.; b. 1853; m. 1895, Henrietta, youngest dau. of late Hon. Chichester Thos Foster-Skeffington. Res.: Weston, Duleek, Co. Meath; Mucklon, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.<section end="Kelly, Major Arthur Dillon Denis" />

<section begin="Kelly, Major Edmund Roche-" />KELLY, Major Edmund Roche-, D.S.O. (1917), Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; Royal Irish Regt. Educ.: Downside College; served S. African War (medal with 5 clasps), 1900-01; European War. 1914-18 (commanded a Battalion); second son of Michael Roche-Kelly, of Firgrove, Cratloe, Co. Clare; b. 11th April, 1881; m. 1913, Kathleen Mary, dau. of Col J. M. F. Shine, C.B.. A. M.S., and has issue one son and one dau. Res.: Castle Baggot, Hazlehatch, Dublin.<section end="Kelly, Major Edmund Roche-" />

<section begin="Kelly, Lieut.-Col. Basil James Roche" />'''KELLY, Lieut.-Col. Basil James Roche''', J.P. for Co. Limerick. Educ. at Stonyhurst: late Major Limerick City Artillery; Hon. Lieut.-Col., 1909; Major Royal Garrison Artillery from 1914; eldest son of John Roche Kelly, D.L., J.P., of Rochestown Castle, and Islandmore, Croom, and his 2nd wife, Kate O'Donnell, dau. of Francis Murphy, J.P., of Kilcalrne Castle, Co. Meath; b. 1877. Res.: Islandmore, Croom, Co. Limerick.<section end="Kelly, Lieut.-Col. Basil James Roche" />