A Day in the Life: Tipperary 2020 within 2km Yes, life in lockdown is necessary. It is also historic. Tipperary County Council Library Service wants to record it using the old saying ‘A picture paints a thousand words’. Through…
Athassel Priory, Golden, Co. Tipperary was the largest medieval priory in Ireland. Built in the 12th century by William De Burgo for the Augustinians and dissolved in the 16th century it had a turbulent history, being burnt on more than…
Part one of the story of Mary Burke from Cashel #Tipperary and her marraige to Toby Burke from Dublin. Mary must have been surprised to learn that her husband of five years and father of their two children had, on…
Podcast nine in our series is the story of the abduction of Miss Hurley, a farmer's daughter from near Dundrum in County Tipperary. She was taken from her home by a gang of whiteboys in January 1811. Listen here to…
In our eight podcast reading from Denis Marnane's Second hundred we visit the motte & bailey at Kilfeakle, a lasting monument to the Norman advance into Tipperary and one of the earliest outposts of the De Burgos, who became one of Ireland's…
The story of an Edwardian Irish woman from Tipperary, Daisy Bates, who emigrated to Australia aged 23, reinvented herself, tried marriage,twice; then worked in journalism before moving to the desert and spending forty years living with aboriginal tribes and documenting…
The Yelverton case was a famous 19th-century Irish law case, where the marriage of Teresa Longworth and William Charles Yelverton, later the Vicount Avonmore, was annulled after William discounted his marriage to Catholic Teresa and married again. The Yelverton's owned…
The story behing the Oval office desk has an unexpected link to Tipperary. Listen to our latest podcast to learn about Admiral Kellet and the HMS Resolute. https://soundcloud.com/tipperary-libraries/admiral-kellet-and-hms-resolute/s-qzttOyrmPn8
Number 4 in our short podcast series is a description of a typical fair day in Tipperary in 1933. The day when the country came to the town and cattle filled the streets. Thanks to Des for permission to use…
Taken from Denis Marnane's Second hundred, this short piece describes an trio of ineffectual #Tipperary bank raiders who remained at liberty only long enough to hand over their takings to the IRA. https://soundcloud.com/tipperary-libraries/a-tipperary-bank-robbery