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Growing up in Clonmel part 2

By Noel Fanning MORE MEMORIES FROM THE 50’S & 60’S  IN CLONMEL The ladies giving out bread & cocoa at lunchtime in the schools. Queuing at Madigan’s Stationary Shop Parnell St. to buy school books. The Monday afternoon novena for…

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2021 Tipperary Historical Journal available

The 2021 Tipperary Historical journal is now available,  buy on our journals page https://tipperarystudies.ie/tipperaryhistoricaljournal/ or drop in to Tipperary Studies to pick up your 2021 copy. Also available from Bookworm, Thurles and Bookmarket, Clonmel. Packed with articles ranging from the…

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Irelands Great War dead website launched

November 11th each year is Armistice Day. To mark it this year Tipperary Studies are launching a new website www.irelandsgreatwardead.ie today, where they will host a database of servicemen and servicewomen who died in the Great War. There are 31,384…

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Education in Tipperary; Online exhibition

With schools reopening shortly why not take a look at alternate types of education in Tipperary over four centuries. Read about the history of some notable Tipperary schools such as the Clonmel Grammar School. Listen to the podcast on the…

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Bridge castle in Thurles

I've heard that Bridge castle (Barry's castle) in Thurles was built by the Knights Templars but Archdall's Monasticon Hibernicum credits the knights of St. John. Either version is just a tradition. There are no accurate dates for the construction of…

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The Earl of Normanton v tenants

Documents from the Irish Land War. The Earl of Normanton, residing in Hampshire, England, owned over 7,600 acres in Tipperary. His agent E.S. Rice paid the Property Defense Association for bailiffs to help carry out sales and evictions from the…

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