Our annual history outing will take place on 11th June. The group will visit Strokestown Park House and Famine museum in Co. Roscommon, as well as Lissadell House Co. Sligo. Tickets of 45 euro pp include entry to both houses,…
46 Men Dead: The Royal Irish Constabulary in County Tipperary 1919–22, by John Reynolds, is available now; The Royal Irish Constabulary – the RIC – has long been portrayed as the ‘eyes and ears of Dublin Castle’, an oppressive colonial…
On Saturday last, 21 May, Tipperary Studies, the local history library for the county, launched its new website, www.tipperarystudies.ie . The culmination of months of work by both the Library staff and Eclipse website design, this brand new site…
Friday August 19th 2016 Event: Friday Evening Welcome (event code A1: cost 10 euro) Venue: The Scouts' Hall, Ashe Rd, Nenagh Bridge, Nenagh, Tipperary Time: the Scouts' Hall will be open from 3pm for a Meet & Greet so that people can come…
On Thursday next, 26 May @10.30, local author Bill Cooke will deliver a lecture entitled "Thurles Before the Normans".
The Nationalist, 30 May 1953; A few days before Edmund Hillary completed his famous conquest of Mount Everest, an adventurous Kilsheelan bullock conquered Poulakerry Castle. Hillary received several decorations from the Queen. The bullock got 4 inches in The Nationalist...
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: The AGM will be held on Saturday 21 May at 2.00pm in THE SOURCE, Thurles, including the launch of the 2016 Journal by Dr. Liam Chambers, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at Mary…
Tipperary Studies new website, https://www.tipperarystudies.ie , will be launched in The Source, Thurles on Saturday next, 21 May, at 2.00pm. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome to an introduction to the new website.
Nenagh Guardian, 23 May 1953 Monsignor Thomas Quinlan was Borrisoleigh native who led a most remarkable life, spending the majority of it in turbulent and war-torn South East Asia. Born in 1896, he joined the Columban Missionary Society and first…
Tipperary Star 2 May 1953 A meeting of the South Tipperary Committee of Agriculture, which called for the introduction of the metric system to Ireland. After a debate where no 0.25 was asked or given (but neither was there so…