A discussion at a board meeting of the Tipperary Poor Law guardians over providing a second set of clothes for a 'Boarded out' boy gives an insight into how such children were regarded. The dangerous precedent of spending rate payers…
Denis Dowling Mulcahy, an Irish Fenian from near Clonmel was arrested in 1865 in the offices of the Fenian paper The Irish People and sentenced to ten years penal servitude. He was released in Gladstones amnesty of 1870 on condition…
Today's podcast traces the origins of the Hansard family in Tipperary to the year of rebellion 1798. The Earl of Derby raised a militia on his Irish estate in Tipperary to protect his interests during the rebellion. He brought in…
Our podcast today tells about the enthusiastic reception in Tipperary town for Lady Cleeve when she attended a ball at the military barracks. Lady Cleeve, the wife of Sir Thomas Cleeve a Limerick businessman, was a noted philanthropist who was…
Part 2 of the Scottish King tells the story of Edward Bruce's army in Munster. From the Butler accounts we get a picture of military campaigning in the 14th Century as Edmund Butler raises an army in Tipperary to counteract…
Todays Podcast tells of the short lived reign of Edward Bruce in Ireland which brought him into conflict with Edmond Butler, Earl of Carrick and Chief Butler of Ireland, who remained loyal to Edward II of England. Edward Bruce was…
Percy Fitzpatrick, the author of 'Jock of the Bushveld', a famous South African, had Tipperary roots. His father was born in Nenagh, the son of a Catholic shopkeeper, and rose through the British Empire legal system to become a supreme…
Todays podcast describes the 3rd annual Feis in Tipperary Town in the early years of the Gaelic revival movement, music, dancing and competitions - best bootmaker anyone? https://soundcloud.com/tipperary-libraries/feis-1906
It may seem unbelievable but in 1901 two Bansha families came to blows in church one Sunday over a disputed right to occupy a particular pew. The dispute was so bitter that the families ended up in court, with the…
Today's podcast looks at Victorian life in Tipperary through the eyes of Dr. Jeremiah Dowling, medical attendant to the Tipperary Town workhouse. Thanks to Denis Marnane for giving us his original recordings, we hope you will enjoy them. Listen to…