1864 – No Saving Hay on the Sabbath Day
Nenagh Guardian, 20 July 1864 With the summer weather being the way it has over the last number of years, can one imagine such a law as this being enforced these days?
Nenagh Guardian, 20 July 1864 With the summer weather being the way it has over the last number of years, can one imagine such a law as this being enforced these days?
Freeman's Journal, 6 July 1810 Landlords and their agents were made of stern stuff in early 19th Century Ireland, and they needed to be. Agrarian violence was rampant at the time and, as ever the case, if there was turmoil…
Tipperary Star, 2 July 1966 An article from the 1966 Tipperary Star that could just as easily have been written a few months ago. It’s been 50 years since the article was penned but the problems facing the Irish water…
Tipperary Free Press, 14 July 1865 The Bagwell connections to Clonmel go back to Cromwellian times, when the Quaker merchant family established itself in the town. The progression of the 18th Century saw the Bagwells grow ever closer to…
Tipperary Free Press, 26 June 1845 The report of what seemed to be a rather unorthodox horse race from Clonmel in 1845. No doubt both Greer’s and Prettyman’s horses would have scoffed at today’s Beecher’s Brook, especially since they were…
Tipperary Star, 26 June 1976 Now, we are nothing – nothing! – if not hopeless romantics here in Tipperary Studies so we’re giving this hopeful letter to the Editor of the Tipperary Star another airing. If Jean is reading this…
Tom Burnell's '26 County Casualties of the Great War, Vols 1-15' are available to purchase on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/…/1546405372/…/258-9845877-9767454… … In 1923 8 volumes of ‘Ireland’s Memorial Records’ were published, the purpose of which were to provide a remembrance of…
Clonmel Chronicle 26 June 1926 The Editorial of the Clonmel Chronicle does its bit to advertise the upcoming race meeting at Powerstown Park: after reading you’d feel the want to fill the hamper with cucumber sandwiches and Pimm’s, get the…
Nenagh Guardian, 30 June 1909 A good, old fashioned rant about truancy from the Nenagh altar by Fr. Hogan. Now, we all know that we have it soft these days – our grandparents told us often enough – but they…
Fourth Glenstal History Conference The Augustinian Canons and Canonesses in Medieval Ireland Friday 30 June - Sunday 2 July 2017 Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick Conference programme and booking details: http://www.glenstal.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Glenstal-History-Conference-Programme.pdf