2017 Soloheadbeg Commemoration – Sunday, 29 January
The annual Soloheadbeg ambush commemoration will be held on Sunday, 29 January. Assemble at Coffey's Forge at 2.15 pm.
Jan 17 – Tipperary Catholic landed gentry of the 18th Century – Paddy Ryan
Tipperary Catholic landed gentry of the 18th Century - Paddy Ryan In the January lecture from the Tipperary People and Places series Paddy Ryan will examine the Tipperary Catholic landed gentry of the 18th century. Targeted by the Penal Laws,…
1876 – Kilsheelan Poachers Let Off the Hook
Clonmel Chronicle, 15 January 1876 If you were to believe the newspapers of the time, salmon poaching was big business in the second half of the 19th Century. Many column inches were taken up with reports of prosecutions, arrests and…
1895 – Plug is Pulled on Roscrea’s Cold Baths
Nenagh Guardian, 14 December 1895 The Workhouses were very tightly run ships in the late 1800s: luxuries were non-existant, waste was not tolerated and malingerers were discouraged. The Board of each Union always sought to cut their overheads and bring…
1911 – Christmas in Nenagh
Nenagh Guardian, 30 December 1911 It's over a century since this yuletide report was published, but in it we can see so many familiar Christmas traditions that still endure. The postal staff are rushed off their feet. Town is thronged…
1899 – Happy-Go-Lucky Clonmel Soldiers Set Off For the Veldt
Nationalist, 16 December 1899 When the Second Boer War broke out in October 1899, many in the Empire believed, as they did at the outbreak of so many wars both before and since, that “The boys will be home for…
Gravestone Inscriptions launch at www.tipperarystudies.ie : 20 Dec. @ 7.15
Tipperary Studies is delighted to launch the next phase of its Digitisation Project next Tuesday night, 20 December, in The Source Library, Thurles. Over the last number of months work has been ongoing in preparing a number of gravestone inscription…
20 December – Dr. Patrick Gleeson – ‘Peoples, Kings and Kingdoms, Medieval Tipperary’
'Peoples, Kings and Kingdoms' Whilst Cashel is world famous as a former royal seat in Tipperary, there were many other seats of power and kingship dotted around the landscape of the county. In the December lecture from the Tipperary People…
1981 – Briquette Factory Dust Somehow Combusts
Tipperary Star, 19 December 1981 We all love a good briquette fire. A nice warm, cosy, welcoming blaze is just the ticket on a cold winter’s night. Who could say no to that? Well, for a start, the poor…
1965 – Burying the Hatchet in Cashel’s Leahy Park
The Nationalist, 18 & 25 December 1965 The inaugural Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship was played in 1965, and it didn’t get off to an auspicious start. In fact, it got off to a disastrous start, as the final, played…