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
Our second podcast in the series. This one is taken from Denis G. Marnane's publication, The Second Hundred. A contemporary newspaper account of the ongoing problem of faction fighting in post-famine Tipperary. listen to podcast no.2 here
The first in a new series of podcasts, reading from Denis G. Marnane's publications The first hundred and The second hundred; originally short talks, each no longer than four or five minutes, on various aspects of Tipperary History and Heritage broadcast on Tipperary Mid…
With the library closed to the public I've been able to get stuck into working on some of our special collections; the papers of George Errington esq. an absentee landlord with an estate in the Barony of Clanwilliam near Golden in County…
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