Tipperary People and Places Lecture series returns
Tipperary People and Places Series returns to The Source, Thurles on Tuesday October 15th. Hope to see you at some of the lectures.
Lecture ‘Gender and Democracy: The Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898’
Tipperary County Council are delighted to host Dr. Leeann Lane for a lecture organised around the commemoration of the 120th Anniversary of the First Local Elections in 1899, and our first lecture in the series being organised by Tipperary County…
Ardmayle Historical Society talk
Maura Barrett will be giving a talk on 'The Women of 1916' in Ardmayle church on Thursday 12th of September at 8pm All are welcome
Tipperary People & Places lecture series returns
Save the date..we're back on the 15th October..more details later
Cloughjordan Heritage Group erect headstone in Ardcroney Cemetery
The Cloughjordan Heritage Group have decided to erect a headstone in Ardcroney cemetery at the previously unmarked grave of RIC Constable Thomas Gallivan who was killed during the War of Independence. The event has generated interest further afield and relatives…
Lorrha Event next Sunday for Centenary of Fatal Shooting
On Tuesday evening, 2 September 1919, a group of young Lorrha IRA volunteers carried out one of the first attacks in what would become known as Ireland’s War of Independence. RIC Sergeant Philip Brady, who had only arrived at his…
Launch of Tipperary 1917-1921
Thanks to everyone who joined us on Saturday for the launch of our ‘Tipperary 1917-1921: a history in 80 documents’; the 2nd in our series on Tipperary in those formative years from 1913, a follow up to ‘County Tipperary in…
Launch of ‘Tipperary 1917-1921’ on Saturday 24th
Leas Chathaoirleach Councillor Seamus Hanafin will be Launching Tipperary 1917-1921: a history in 80 documents by Denis G. Marnane & Mary Guinan Darmody In The Source, Thurles on Saturday 24th August at 3p.m all welcome
Launch of ‘The workhouses of County Tipperary’
Drop in to Nenagh Library on Mon 19th August at 3pm for the launch of 'The workhouses of County Tipperary' booklet and lecture by the Irish Workhouse Centre. All welcome
Hungry Grass
In Irish folklore Hungry grass or féar gorta is a patch of grass which causes great hunger and faintness if you step on it. If you don't eat almost immediately you can die! It grows where a famine victim died…