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Launch of Tipperary 1917-1921

Thanks to everyone who joined us on Saturday for the launch of our ‘Tipperary 1917-1921: a history in 80 documents’; the 2nd in our series on Tipperary in those formative years from 1913, a follow up to ‘County Tipperary in…

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Hungry Grass

In Irish folklore Hungry grass or féar gorta is a patch of grass which causes great hunger and faintness if you step on it. If you don't eat almost immediately you can die! It grows where a famine victim died…

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Sheep stealing acquittal

The Tipperary Free Press reporting on the assizes in Clonmel 1827 included this hilarious acquittal. The judge refused to even hear the case as the chief witness appeared totally ignorant of religion. The sixteen year old had 'Never heard anything…

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The demise of Cashel’s medieval walls

Cashel Heritage Forum are delighted to present the seventh lecture in the ‘Within and Without The Walls’ series on 29.8.2019. Local Archaeologist Richard O’Brien will examine the post-medieval history of the medieval town walls of Cashel in a lecture entitled…

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