The Nationalist, 25 May 1904 These days the local newspapers are generally very supportive of the efforts of the local dramatic societies, regardless of the quality of fare they put on. “Grease” brought the house down, “The Shadow of a…
Kerry Evening News, 7 May 1831 When Thor threw his lightning hammer at the Rev. Mathew Moore’s house in Rockvale, Newport in May 1831, the results were devastating. That the twenty odd occupants of the house escaped relatively unscathed…
Tipperary Free Press, 30 March & 6 April 1836 “Alternative facts” are not simply a 21st Century phenomenon. When an attack on the home of the Hunt family was reported in the Tipperary Free Press of 30 March 1836,…
Freeman’s Journal, 11 April 1825 There are a few lessons to be learned here from the case of James Cleary, who stole £1500 worth of cash and jewellery from George Roe, of Loran Park, Roscrea. They are as follows; Be…
Tipperary Star, 30 April 1921 Not for the Irish rebel the smoking, rattling Crossley Tender: instead, he opted for the humble pushbike. And N.G. Cameron, Colonel Commandant, Commanding 16th Infantry Brigade, was not one bit happy about it.
Tipperary Star, 8 April 1933 Council houses were hard things to secure in the 1930s. People were killing eachother over them. They were even killing themselves, if only temporarily...
Tipperary Free Press, 29 March 1834 The courthouse in Clonmel saw plenty of use in the lawless years of the 1830s, and for the Spring Assizes of 1834 it adjudicated on 57 murder charges. Only one of these, however, resulted…
Tipperary Free Press, 11 March 1862 The rather snippy correspondence between Rev. Hiffernan of the Church of Ireland and Rev. Hogan, his Roman Catholic counterpart, relative to the death-bed conversion of a Fethard man. "You are to mind your…
The Nationalist, 29 March 1941 A report of a "Maiden Assize" in Clonmel in 1941. Maiden Assizes occurred when a court hearing sat with no criminal offences in front of it to be tried, and in such circumstances it was…
Nenagh Guardian, 21 March 1998 Report from the front page of the Nenagh Guardian on the events of that week in Prestbury Park, Cheltenham, when one National Hunt icon carried another to glory in the Champion Hurdle. Even those with…