1864 – No Saving Hay on the Sabbath Day
Nenagh Guardian, 20 July 1864 With the summer weather being the way it has over the last number of years, can one imagine such a law as this being enforced these days?
1810 – Landlord Repels Bumbling Rebels
Freeman's Journal, 6 July 1810 Landlords and their agents were made of stern stuff in early 19th Century Ireland, and they needed to be. Agrarian violence was rampant at the time and, as ever the case, if there was turmoil…
1966 – No Way, We Won’t Pay!
Tipperary Star, 2 July 1966 An article from the 1966 Tipperary Star that could just as easily have been written a few months ago. It’s been 50 years since the article was penned but the problems facing the Irish water…
1865 – Free Press Aims Some Digs at John Bagwell and The Whigs
Tipperary Free Press, 14 July 1865 The Bagwell connections to Clonmel go back to Cromwellian times, when the Quaker merchant family established itself in the town. The progression of the 18th Century saw the Bagwells grow ever closer to…