November lecture; Guarda an Pobal, policing the Irish Free State 1922
Our November lecture is now live on both our YouTube watch the video here and our Soundcloud listen to the lecture here channels. Dr John Reynolds is an historian and a serving sergeant in the Garda Síochána had done extensive…
November lecture and exhibition
This week we are delighted to host the Thurles Garda District Centenary Celebration Week, which is Commemorating 100 years since the formation of An Garda Síochána. From Monday the 14th of November until Friday the 18th of November there will be a Garda Síochána…
October Lecture : The Irish Transport & General Workers Union in Tipperary in Tipperary
Our sixteenth lecture series kicks off with a talk by Francis Devine on the ITGWU in Tipperary - with special reference to the Lewis brothers of Nenagh. Francis is a former tutor, SIPTU college and is the author of Organising…
The ITGWU in Tipperary
Our October lecture the ITGWU in Tipperary is now live on our Youtube the ITGWU in Tipperary video and Soundcloud The ITGWU in Tipperary audio only channels. Francis Devine discusses the history of the ITGWU from it's formation in 1908…
New collection of family documents in our digital archive
A new collection of manuscripts relating to the Cooke family of Borrisoleigh and the Grene family of Cappamurra & Dublin has just been added to our digital archive. Cooke of Garrengrena collection Amongst the papers are genealogies of the Cooke…
Review of Tipperary Historical Journal 2022
Like so much else over the past few years, Tipperary Historical Society held no meetings so that the last AGM was in June 2019. Some degree of normality was restored when on Saturday 23 July members gathered at The…
New material added to our digital archive
Seven volumes of watch job books from John Rudd, Watchmaker and Jeweller, Thurles, Co. Tipperary have just gone live on our digital archives. They comprise 27,548 names and addresses of people who lived left in an item for repair at…
Heritage Week 2022; Fr Kennedy Slides digital collection
For Heritage Week 2022 Tipperary Studies is delighted to present a selection from the huge collection of slides and photographs, taken by Fr. Tom Kennedy, Holycross in the 1960s and 1970s. The collection was recently donated to Tipperary Studies by…
Tipperary Historical Journal 2022
Many thanks to John Coman for launching the 2022 Tipperary Historical Journal. John hails from Church Street in Tipperary Town and is a long time member of the Tipperary Historical Society. He works as the College Secretary in Trinity College…