Kevin Gerard HOLMES, b: -

^{1969 Armstrong first person on moon}
^{1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl}
^{1989 Berlin wall falls}
^{1991 Persian Gulf War}
^{1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union}

^{1922 USSR formed by Soviet states}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}
^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}

^{1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy}
^{1899 Boer War begins}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage}
^{1914 - 1918 World War I}


			^Tom HOLMES^{b.1910 New Ross, Ireland d.1972 Thurles, Ireland}

		^Tom HOLMES^{b.1937 Wexford, Ireland d.1991 Nenagh, Ireland}	^{Mary O'FLAHERTY}^{b.1910 Waterford, Ireland d.1971 Thurles, Ireland}

	^{Kevin Gerard HOLMES}^{b. d.}		^{Edward Joseph KIRWAN}^{b.1898 Dublin, Ireland d.1959 Nenagh, Ireland}

		^{Olive KIRWAN}^{b.1941 Nenagh, Ireland d.2007 Limerick, Ireland}	^{Bridget NAGLE}^{b.1907 Nenagh, Ireland d.1993 Nenagh, Ireland}

^{Jennifer Ellen HOLMES}^{b. d.}			^{Patrick KELLY}^{b.1903 Abbeyleix, Laois, Ireland d.1985 Roscrea, Ireland}

		^Noel KELLY^{b. d.}	^{Margaret SHEEDY}^{b.1908 Roscrea, Ireland d.1990}

	^{Helen Joan KELLY}^{b. d.}		^{Peter Joseph MCCARTHY}^{b.1896 Innishannon, Ireland d.1966 Ballinhassig, Cork, Ireland}

		^{Marie MCCARTHY}^{b. d.}	^{Margaret M. CRONIN}^{b.1901 Innishannon, Ireland d.1986 Dublin, Ireland}