Editing Tralee (section)

==Rose of Tralee==
{{See also|Rose of Tralee (festival)|The Rose of Tralee (song)}}
The Rose of Tralee festival is an international competition that is celebrated among Irish communities all over the world. The festival, held annually in August since 1959, takes its inspiration from a nineteenth-century ballad of the same name about a woman called Mary, who because of her beauty was called The Rose of Tralee. The contest, broadcast over two nights by [[RTÉ]], is one of the highest-viewed shows on Irish television with over a million people watching.

To commemorate the Rose of Tralee tradition, the Rose Garden in the Tralee Town Park is home to a life-size bronze statue depicting the original Rose of Tralee Mary O'Connor and the author of the Rose of Tralee ballad William Pembroke Mulchinock sculpted by an Irish sculptor [[Jeanne Rynhart]] (unveiled in 2009),<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/unveiling-of-statue-at-town-park-27386239.html|title=Unveiling of statue at Town Park|newspaper=[[The Kerryman]]|date=19 August 2009|access-date=9 November 2014|archive-date=9 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109210350/http://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/unveiling-of-statue-at-town-park-27386239.html|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as the Rose Wall of Honour – a series of glass panels that will contain the name of every Rose who has participated in the Festival since 1959 (unveiled in 2013 on the 55th anniversary of the Rose of Tralee International Festival). Both statues were commissioned by Tralee Town Council.