1879 – Clonmel Corporation’s Machinery Frustrations
Tipperary Free Press, 10 & 24 October 1879 It must have been music to the ears of South Tipperary's prisoners and workhouse inmates - in October 1879 Clonmel Corporation took possession of a steam-powered stone breaker. And its first…
Dunkerrin Lecture Series: Famine in Toomevara, 24 Oct @ 8.15
The Dunkerrin Parish History Society lecture series resumes on Monday 24th October at 8.15pm in Obama Plaza. Helen O'Brien will deliver a lecture on 'The Famine in Toomevara 1845-52'.
1933 – ‘The Factory’ – A Sweet Deal For Thurles
Tipperary Star, 30 September 1933 It was a landmark day in the history of the town when, in September 1933, it was announced that Thurles would be home to one of three new sugar factories. The industrial and agricultural landscape…
1933 – Roscrea Man’s Fleeting Papal Greeting
Tipperary Star, 30 September 1933 When one meets one’s betters, one can get starstruck and the code of etiquette goes out the window. Whereas these days handshakes with the Pope are seen as ordinary, unexceptional affairs, there was a time…
Tipperary People and Places Lecture Series 2016/17
Tipperary County Council Library Service invites you to attend the annual Tipperary People and Places Lecture Series, which returns to Tipperary Studies, The Source, Cathedral Street, Thurles for its tenth series this winter. The lectures take place on the third…
1886 – “Don’t Let Them Eat Cake”
Clonmel Chronicle, 4 & 8 September 1886 Times were hard for the children in Clonmel Workhouse in 1886. What made it even harder was the denial of one of their very few treats of the year. The custom was for the…
1880 – “No Outsider Will Bid For My Field…”
Tipperary Free Press, 14 September 1880 John B. Keane could have scripted this scene, which reports on the attempted sale in Carrick on Suir of the farm previously occupied by an evicted tenant. Sales such as these were…