Kellys (I), The

DESCRIPTION: Kelly leaves Cork to find his uncle Martin in New York. "I found so many Kellys there I nearly lost my mind." He finds a German Jew and Chinese man named Kelly. In Boston the Kellys run everything. Peary found Pat Kelly already at the North Pole
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (McNulty Family recording)
KEYWORDS: questions travel humorous moniker talltale Jew
FOUND IN: US(MA)
Roud #46111
RECORDINGS:
Mick Moloney, "The Kellys" (on MoloneyCrownFarFromShamrockShore, MoloneyShenachieFarFromShamrockShore)
The McNulty Family, "The Kellys" (Decca 12209, 1939)
NOTES [44 words]: MoloneyCrownFarFromShamrockShore, p. 34, has Kelly discovering "Pat Kelly already at the North Pole," but the McNultys have Peary. - BS
(For Robert Peary's almost certainly false claim to have reached the North Pole, see the notes to "Hurrah for Baffin's Bay." - RBW)
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