Joan Kennedy (née Sweeney)

Died on May 20, 2026

Joan Kennedy (née Sweeney), Tullamore Rd. Birr, Co. Offaly and formerly of Fermoy, Co. Cork, died May 18th, 2026, peacefully in the exceptional care of the staff of The Laurel Suite, Birr Community Nursing Unit, in her 96th year.

Predeceased by her beloved husband Joe, parents Dan and Brigid, brothers Tom and Donal.

Deeply loved and regretted by her son Brian, sister-in-law Valerie Sweeney, nephews Paul, Brendan and Danny, niece Rosemarie, grandnieces, grandnephews, and the extended Kennedy, Sweeney families, her friends in St. Brendan’s Church Choir and Birr Stage Guild.

May she Rest In Peace.

Reposing at Boyd’s Funeral Home, Birr (R42YF75) on Thursday evening from 5pm – 7pm. Funeral Mass on Friday at 11am. in St. Brendan’s Church, Birr, followed by burial in Clonoghill Cemetery, Birr.

Family flowers only, donations in lieu to: Laurel Suite Birr Community Nursing Unit, c/o Boyds’ Funeral Directors.

House strictly private please. Funeral Mass will be live streamed on:

https://www.facebook.com/stbrendans.birr

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Reflection

Bring flowers of the rarest Bring flowers the fairest, From garden and woodland and hillside and dale; Our full hearts are swelling, Our glad voices telling The praise of the loveliest flower of the vale! Refrain: O Mary, we crown thee with blossoms today! Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May. O Mary, we crown thee with blossoms today, Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May. Their lady they name thee, their mistress proclaim thee. Oh, grant that thy children on earth be as true; as long as the bowers are radiant with flowers as long as the azure shall keep its bright hue. Sing gaily in chorus, the bright angels o’er us re-echo the strains we begin upon earth; their harps are repeating the notes of our greeting, for mary herself is the cause of our mirth.

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