Tipperary Star, 30 September 1933 It was a landmark day in the history of the town when, in September 1933, it was announced that Thurles would be home to one of three new sugar factories. The industrial and agricultural landscape…
Tipperary Star, 30 September 1933 When one meets one’s betters, one can get starstruck and the code of etiquette goes out the window. Whereas these days handshakes with the Pope are seen as ordinary, unexceptional affairs, there was a time…
Tipperary County Council Library Service invites you to attend the annual Tipperary People and Places Lecture Series, which returns to Tipperary Studies, The Source, Cathedral Street, Thurles for its tenth series this winter. The lectures take place on the third…
Clonmel Chronicle, 4 & 8 September 1886 Times were hard for the children in Clonmel Workhouse in 1886. What made it even harder was the denial of one of their very few treats of the year. The custom was for the…
Tipperary Free Press, 14 September 1880 John B. Keane could have scripted this scene, which reports on the attempted sale in Carrick on Suir of the farm previously occupied by an evicted tenant. Sales such as these were…
In 1766 Fr Nicholas Sheehy Parish Priest of Clogheen, Burncourt and Ballyporeen was hung, drawn and quartered having being tried and found guilty of being an accessory to murder. It is believed that these charges were false and that it…
Nationalist, 9 September 1989 For a county with the kind of hurling pedigree of Tipperary’s, 18 years is an awful long time to wait for an All Ireland. The tale of woe of Tipperary hurling during the 1970s and ‘80s…