Lectures

Tipperary People & Places Lecture series returns to Tipperary Studies, The Source, Thurles

The lectures take place on the third Tuesday of each month from October 2024 to March 2025, commencing at 7.00pm.

As usual, a great mix of subjects and speakers to ensure that there is something for everybody to enjoy.

Admission Free – All Welcome

Further details contact (052) 6166123

E-mail studies@tipperarycoco.ie

www.tipperarystudies.ie

2025 LISTING

October 21^st 2025

David Broderick

From the Golden Age of Illustration to the Great War, the life and works of Thomas Butler Stoney (1885-1917).’

Public Historian David Broderick will resurrect the stories of two Victorian artists, Thomas and Charles Butler Stoney formally of Portland Park, Lorrha, Co. Tipperary.

November 18^th 2025

Joanne Hughes

Hidden in Plain Sight: Seventeenth-Century Cashel, Co. Tipperary

This talk features the results of Joanne’s research on the urban morphology of Cashel, Co. Tipperary. She has collated information from documentary sources, archaeological evidence, fieldwork surveys, photographic records, and historical mapping to develop a GIS-based plan of the seventeenth century town. Her research has produced evidence for previously unrecorded archaeological sites, and extant sites of cultural heritage significance. Joanne’s work in this area is ongoing, and in this talk she will highlight the need for further strategic research, and for dedicated survey in this fantastic Tipperary town. Joanne is an archaeologist based in Cashel for over twenty years, and has a particular interest in the seventeenth-century heritage of the town. She still loves the thrill of discovery that archaeological research and fieldwork provides!

December 16^th 2025

Dr David Fleming

‘The ordinary and the everyday in the eighteenth-century’

Historians often focus on the political and sometimes exceptional events that tended to affect society. Of less interest is the ordinary and everyday activities that people experienced. The mundane formed the backdrop for the larger events happening around people and localities, and was arguably more important in how people viewed themselves and the society around them. This talk will explore life in eighteenth-century Ireland, considering the agricultural year and the seasons that shaped it, and how individuals interacted in their localities. David is based at the School of History and Geography, University of Limerick.

January 20^th 2026

Dr Angela Byrne

The Irish in Romanov Russia: Tipperary People’s Experiences of War and Epidemics in the Empire of the Tsars

Dr Byrne explores the experiences of Tipperary tourists, diplomats and doctors in nineteenth-century Russia in times of war, epidemics and imperial expansion, drawing on research for her recent book, Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia. Angela is an editor with the Dictionary of Irish Biography and has published widely on the history of Irish travel and emigration, and women’s history.

February 17^th 2026

Kieran Grace

‘The Land War in North Tipperary, 1879-1882.’

The period of political and social agitation in Ireland that lasted from 1879 to 1882 is known as the ‘Land War.’ The principal political organisation involved was the Land League. This talk will cover the reasons for the land war, specific incidents in the area, explore why the land league was slow to come to North Tipperary, the Ladies’ Land League and the role of John Dillon, MP for Tipperary, in the setting up of the land league in North Tipperary. Kieran is a native of Toomevara, a former primary school teacher. He holds an MA in History from Mary Immaculate College and is currently doing a PhD entitled ‘John F. Finerty and questions of race, empire and nationalism in late nineteenth century Ireland and America.’

March 24^th (note date)

Dr Denis G. Marnane

The landlord, his wife, the parish priest and a tennis player: a story of village folk – the Rice family of New Inn.

Des, a noted author and historian is a regular speaker at the lecture series on a wide variety of subjects. He is also editor of the County Tipperary Historical Journal.