We hold a miscellaneous collection of records of the Lough Derg Yacht club including this lovely design for a boat. Initially founded in 1836 the collection has a short history of the club between 1836 and 1905, Minute books from…
Tipperary Star, 1 May 1993 In late April 1993 the Tipperary County Board voted to stage the fourth instalment of Féile in Semple Stadium on the August Bank Holiday weekend of that year. The Féile series of festivals proved to…
Tipperary Studies is delighted to launch the next phase of its Digitisation Project next Tuesday night, 20 December, in The Source Library, Thurles. Over the last number of months work has been ongoing in preparing a number of gravestone inscription…
Since 2013, Mark Fitzell has been photographing the people of Cashel, while recording their memories, working lives and family backgrounds. 'The Many Faces of Cashel' brings together tales of joy, happiness, laughter, hardship and many tragedies, incorporated with beautiful images…
To celebrate the Rio Olympics were are putting the spotlight on Olympians with Tipperary connections that have represented Ireland on the world’s most famous and prestigious sporting stage. These articles were written by sports historian Michael O’Dwyer, and appeared originally during…
In the run up to the Rio Olympics were are putting the spotlight on Olympians with Tipperary connections that have represented Ireland on the world’s most famous and prestigious sporting stage. These articles were written by sports historian Michael O’Dwyer,…
Nenagh Guardian, 20 June 1896 What with the prospects of 20mph fatal accidents, “severe concussion of the brain” and crowds of “excitable savages”, the noble art of bicycling was a pastime fraught with all manner of menace in Nenagh during…
On Tuesday 15 March Tipperary Studies played host to its penultimate instalment in the 2015/16 Tipperary People and Place Lecture Series. In a novel twist on the usual format, two lecturers, renowned historians Denis G. Marnane and Sean Hogan, celebrated…