1954 – Something More Solemn for Nelson’s Column?
The Tipperary Star, 23 October 1954 The erection of Nelson’s Pillar on Sackville Street in Dublin was completed in 1809, and from that day on it was the preoccupation of many Irish Nationalists as to how they could take…
Tipperary Studies Publishes Tipperary GAA Yearbooks Online
Tipperary Studies Publishes Tipperary GAA Yearbooks Online In 2016 we in Tipperary Studies, the local history department of Tipperary County Council’s Library Service, began digitising our archive of Tipperary GAA Yearbooks, a collection that stretches back over fifty years to…
1895 – Neighbour’s Roguery and Some Cahir Pishoguery
Clonmel Chronicle, 5 October 1895 It was 1895 and Bridget Cleary was a little over 6 months in her grave. That horrific case highlighted the place of "pishogues" - traditional Irish superstition - in the mindset of the Irish peasantry,…
1906 – Match is Cursed as Three Footballs Are Burst
The Nationalist, 29 October 1906 To paraphrase that great aficionado of Gaelic Football, Mr. Oscar Wilde; “To lose one football may be regarded as a misfortune; To lose both looks like carelessness; To lose a third smacks of someone sticking…
1930 – Loughmore’s Sermons About Industrious Germans
The Tipperary Star, 11 October 1930 The Rev. J. Russell of Loughmore was home from a recent trip to Germany, and he liked what he saw there, so much so that he appealed to the people of his parish to…
EXTRA Dates: Fr. Barry & the Workhouse Master, 5 & 6 October
EXTRA Dates announced for Thursday 5th and Friday 6th October Cashel Courthouse @ 8.30pm Bookings on 087 4135228 "I did not choose to become a pauper but I was compelled to become one because of the persecutions of others;…
1881 – A Heart Rending Depiction of a Cruel Eviction
The Nenagh Guardian, 24 September 1881 The painful account of an eviction in Cappawhite in September 1881. “Never would the tenants surrender to injustice”, stated the leader of the opposition to the ejectments, Rev. John Crowe CC. The eviction was…
1861 – Butler Rolls Out the Barrels in Ballypatrick
The Nenagh Guardian, 4 September 1861 A report on the visit of James Edward William Theobald Butler, the 3rd Marquess of Ormond, to one of his family’s former strongholds. A few weeks ago we dealt with the demise of the…