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…
Talk on Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, The Main Guard, 24 Sept. @ 11am
In 1766 Fr Nicholas Sheehy Parish Priest of Clogheen, Burncourt and Ballyporeen was hung, drawn and quartered having being tried and found guilty of being an accessory to murder. It is believed that these charges were false and that it…
1989 – Tipp Are Conferred With Their 23rd
Nationalist, 9 September 1989 For a county with the kind of hurling pedigree of Tipperary’s, 18 years is an awful long time to wait for an All Ireland. The tale of woe of Tipperary hurling during the 1970s and ‘80s…
Kilkenny 1916: Contexts & Controversies, Sept. 1st, 2nd, 5th & 6th
Lecture 1: ‘My Grandfather, Thomas MacDonagh and Kilkenny’, Ms. Lucille Redmond Thursday September 1st. 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm In September 1901, Thomas MacDonagh arrived in Kilkenny, appointed to teach English in St Kieran's College.…
Special Offer – Tipperary Historical Journal back-issues
For the last quarter of a century Tipperary Historical Society has been documenting the county's rich historic past through its annual Journal, a publication that is eagerly anticipated each year by its enthusiastic membership. Since 1988 a myriad of topics…
1942 – Battle Lyons Drawn in Cashel Tea Crisis
Tipperary Star, 8 August 1942 Water, porter, petrol and tea. Four liquids that, during the Emergency, regularly got councillors’ danders up. August 1942 and, with the effects of rationing beginning to bite, the members of Cashel Urban Council were…
Part 5: Irish Burial Sites in World War I, R-Z – Tom Burnell
Military historian Tom Burnell (author of ‘The War Dead’ series and ‘Irishmen in the Great War’) has compiled a five-part list of statistics pertaining to the Irish casualties for World War I. In this fifth and final instalment, Tom lists alphabetically the cemeteries…