November lecture postponed until 2022
For reasons outside our control, we have had to postpone the #November lecture in the Tipperary People and Places Series. postponed until 2022 new date to be confirmed.
Lecture series fifteen dates
Our 2021/22 lecture series has been confirmed and we start the series on Tuesday October 26th with Dr. Margaret Murphy speaking about the Knights Templar and agriculture in medieval Tipperary. The Templars came to Ireland in the 1170s on foot…
Munster glass plate images now live
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…
New: Collection of auction posters online
We have just added a collection of fifty two auction posters from the 1930s and 40s to our online digital archives. The posters were digitised by kind permission of Paul Walsh and son, Templemore. …
Holycross Show 1970-1991 online exhibition
Twenty-One Years of Holycross Show 1970 - 1991. Tipperary Studies invites you to its online exhibition Twenty-One Years of Holycross Show 1970 – 1991. See https://tipperarystudies.ie/holycross-show/ Enjoy the many photos, read the reviews in papers nationwide and listen to the…
Famine records live today
It's an exciting morning here in Studies as our #Famine records go live today. Well done to the team Pat, Jess, Mary, Aoife, Greg and Jane who made this possible. The clip is from the Tipperary Poor Law union minute book 11th…
Famine era PLU records launch
Our Famine era PLU minute books go live this Friday. The PLU Minute Book Digital Archive will be launched next Friday 28 May, at 12 noon, by Cllr Michael Smith, Cathaoirleach, Tipperary County Council. Check them out at http://www.tippstudiesdigital.ie/
Did your family own a dog during the War of Independence?
With no census taken in Ireland between 1911 and 1926, the registers will be considered a valuable genealogical resource as well as an interesting social snippet. They list the name and address of the dog’s owner, and the breed, sex…
Famine Records Digitisation Project
COMING SOON Famine Records Digitisation Project of Tipperary County Council Library Service Dr. Pat Bracken. Tipperary County Council Library Service holds a vast collection of Poor Law Union Minute Books, Rate Books, and Workhouse Registers, encompassing virtually the entire county.…
Famine Records Digitisation Project of Tipperary County Council Library Service
Tipperary County Council Library Service holds a vast collection of Poor Law Union Minute Books, Rate Books, and Workhouse Registers, encompassing virtually the entire county. Prior to the famine period, in 1838, an act for the more effectual Relief of…