Thurles Library, 6 May: Find your 1916 Ancestors
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Dunkerrin Parish History Society Lecture – Seamus King, 14 April
Dunkerrin Parish History Society's next lecture takes place on Thursday 14th April at 8.30pm in Obama Plaza. Seamus King will speak on "The History of Hurling Before 1884". Entry 5 euro, members free.
1847 – “Turnip Bread”
Tipperary Free Press, 24 April 1847 April 1847 and Ireland's over-reliance on the potato as a staple had been tragically and horrifically exposed many months previous. Desperate attempts had been made to provide a substitute for the starving population, perhaps…
1847 – “Arms dealer ballistic: gives Editor both barrels”
The Tipperary Vindicator, 3 April 1847 The newspapers of the 19th Century were great places to stage long-running feuds. In an age when the radio was still a far off prospect, belligerents were left to duel it out in games…
Tue 12 April – Dr William Murphy: “The German Plot Prisoners, 1918-1919”
Our rescheduled November lecture will take place on Tuesday, 12 April at 7.30 pm. Dr William Murphy The German Plot Prisoners, Stopping the Hunt and Tipperary, 1918-1919 In May 1918, in response to Sinn Féin opposition to the threat of…
1944 – Dr. Nicholas Mansergh Keeps Calm and Carries On
The Nationalist, 29 March 1944 News of the appointment of a gentleman with close Tipperary links to high office in Britain. The Mansergh family had been established in West Tipperary in the late 17th Century, through marriage with a Southcote…
March Lecture – County Tipperary in 1916
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…
1944 – “There Is Nothing More Important Than Cutting Turf”
Midland Tribune, 25 March 1944 March 1944 and the Turf Board is indulging in a bit of overstatement. Behind the hyperbole, however, there was, indeed, a real problem: Ireland was drastically short of fuel for domestic heating and cooking. The…