Kenmare gears up for 'Gangs of New York' gathering

Gangs of New York in Kenmare, must rank as one of the more unusual gatherings in 2013.

Designed to attract the Kerry town’s diaspora, it centres on the emigration of 5,000 people from the Lansdowne Estate in the late 1840s after the famine.

WS Trench, the land agent for the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, forgave rent arrears and donated £4 to every tenant who wanted to leave for America and Canada.