Today's podcast continues the story of Peter Gill from Nenagh, a tireless campaigner his paper covered many nationalist and land agitation meetings in #Tipperary including a St. Patrick's banquet in 1861 https://soundcloud.com/tipperary-libraries/peter-gill-ii
From his base in Tipperary John Keegan used Bianconis cars to travel aroung the Southern counties visiting places such as the new Cistercian monastery of Mount Melleray, founded by monks expelled from the abbey of Melleray after the French Revolution…
In 1839 John Keegan, working with the Ordnance Survey, visited Tipperary. He kept diaries of his experiences and todays podcast recounts some of the interesting people he encountered during his work. From Mr Ashe wth the collapsing house to Lady…
Podcast nine in our series is the story of the abduction of Miss Hurley, a farmer's daughter from near Dundrum in County Tipperary. She was taken from her home by a gang of whiteboys in January 1811. Listen here to…