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…
Part 2 of the Scottish King tells the story of Edward Bruce's army in Munster. From the Butler accounts we get a picture of military campaigning in the 14th Century as Edmund Butler raises an army in Tipperary to counteract…
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…
In our eight podcast reading from Denis Marnane's Second hundred we visit the motte & bailey at Kilfeakle, a lasting monument to the Norman advance into Tipperary and one of the earliest outposts of the De Burgos, who became one of Ireland's…
Our second podcast in the series. This one is taken from Denis G. Marnane's publication, The Second Hundred. A contemporary newspaper account of the ongoing problem of faction fighting in post-famine Tipperary. listen to podcast no.2 here