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…
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…
Glass plate photographic image collection of Munster now online In June 2021 Tipperary Studies Department of Tipperary County Council Library Service acquired 399 glass plate negatives. The images were taken during the latter half of the 1930s, which is apparent…
Our usual commemoration lecture which had to be postponed due to Covid 19 restrictions is now available on podcast. As hostilities escalated over the course of 1920 the IRA changed tactics and targets. Des Marnane with the help of Cathal…
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…
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…
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…
We hold a small collection of local interest private acts of parliament ranging from 1695 to 1905. An individual (wealthy, influential & male) who wanted to undo some family arrangement about property or who wanted a divorce for example, had to finance…
Knocking of the Old Workhouse or County Home Thurles 2004. The original workhouse was built in 1841-42 on the introduction of the poor law . The design was by the poor law commissioner's architect George Wilkinson and could accommodate 700 inmates. It…
A page from the Illustrated London News in 1867 from the archives. A different take on the term 'flying column' compared to the War of Independence fifty years later.