Yearly Archives: 2017

  Kerry Evening News, 7 May 1831 When Thor threw his lightning hammer at the Rev. Mathew Moore’s house in Rockvale, Newport in May 1831, the results were devastating. That the twenty odd occupants of the house escaped relatively unscathed…

Tipperary Free Press, 30 March & 6 April 1836   “Alternative facts” are not simply a 21st Century phenomenon. When an attack on the home of the Hunt family was reported in the Tipperary Free Press of 30 March 1836,…

Freeman’s Journal, 11 April 1825 There are a few lessons to be learned here from the case of James Cleary, who stole £1500 worth of cash and jewellery from George Roe, of Loran Park, Roscrea. They are as follows; Be…

  Tipperary Star, 30 April 1921   Not for the Irish rebel the smoking, rattling Crossley Tender: instead, he opted for the humble pushbike. And N.G. Cameron, Colonel Commandant, Commanding 16th Infantry Brigade, was not one bit happy about it.

Tipperary Star, 8 April 1933   Council houses were hard things to secure in the 1930s. People were killing eachother over them. They were even killing themselves, if only temporarily...  

Tipperary Free Press, 29 March 1834 The courthouse in Clonmel saw plenty of use in the lawless years of the 1830s, and for the Spring Assizes of 1834 it adjudicated on 57 murder charges. Only one of these, however, resulted…

  Tipperary Free Press, 11 March 1862 The rather snippy correspondence between Rev. Hiffernan of the Church of Ireland and Rev. Hogan, his Roman Catholic counterpart, relative to the death-bed  conversion of a Fethard man. "You are to mind your…