The Nationalist, 7 March 1945 It’s been stuck at a quarter past four for a fortnight, but the exasperated Editor of the Nationalist assures the town’s populace that the Main Guard Clock is near relief...
Clonmel Chronicle 4 February 1933 In comparison to days gone by, the aftermath of election counts in Ireland these days are fairly tame affairs. You spend the evening on the couch, battling valiantly not to nod off, watching Brian, Sharon,…
Freeman’s Journal, 5 February 1819 The story of a faux-pilgrim who swindled a Cashel couple out of clothes and money. Once she had made it safely back to the sprawling Dublin metropolis she must have thought that she was home…
1830 - Clonmel Elects Coote Without Any Dispute Clonmel Advertiser, 20 & 24 February 1830 The coverage in the Clonmel Advertiser of the election of Eyre Coote as M.P. for Clonmel in 1830. He was filling the vacancy left by…
Clonmel Chronicle, 5 & 9 February 1921 Forget everything you were taught in school about Béal na Bláth in August 1922: if you were to believe some reports of the time, Michael Collins was shot dead in February 1921 in…
Nenagh Guardian, 27 January 1951 The Editor of the Guardian spots an opportunity to have a go at Dun Laoghaire Borough Corporation, and makes sure he doesn't let that opportunity go to waste. The story of the Christ the King…
Irish Times, 1 January 1974 The late Ida Grehan was a feature writer for the Irish Times, and in the first edition of that paper in 1974 she regales the readers with her recent visit to Clonmel. The poor old…
Tipperary Star, 10 January 1959 Greasers, Mods, Rockers, Punks, Emos, Skinheads, Metalheads, Goths, Hippies, Ravers, Grungers, New Romantics... the list is endless. Every decade has given rise to a number of youth subcultures that have invariably frightened the living daylights…
Clonmel Chronicle, 15 January 1876 If you were to believe the newspapers of the time, salmon poaching was big business in the second half of the 19th Century. Many column inches were taken up with reports of prosecutions, arrests and…
Nenagh Guardian, 14 December 1895 The Workhouses were very tightly run ships in the late 1800s: luxuries were non-existant, waste was not tolerated and malingerers were discouraged. The Board of each Union always sought to cut their overheads and bring…