Happy Real Bread Week to (and with) the Auld Mill Bakery in Grangemockler
It is Real Bread Week. As I am sure you knew. The Real Bread Campaign is encouraging people to bake their own, or to buy additive free locally made loaves.…
Category: tipperary
The lost worlds of Debois and Julieta Guipeal at the Tipperary County Museum
This is Portrait of a Man, by Julieta Guipeal: Apologies for the photo quality – this was taken with my phone’s camera in a well-lit (and thereby reflective) space. It…
“F***lands 1982”, E J Peters
Currently this piece by the late E J Peters – based apparently on an actual small ad – is on displayin Tipperary County Museum in Clonmel as part of their…
What is greater – to give your life for Irish freedom or to write comic songs about the Tipp team?
The Nationalist is running a poll to find out Tipperary’s All Time Great. Among the likes of Charles Kickham, Adi Roche and Dan Breen we have The Two Johnnies, a…
The water-filled River Clashawley, Fethard, in February
Last September I posted eerie photos of the dried up bed of the Clashawley River at Fethard. As contrast, here are some February photos showing the river in good flow:
“Where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows”
I just posted about the centenary of the Soloheadbeg ambush. This event is commonly considered to mark the outset of the War of Independence, a rebellion which ultimately did lead to…
The low-key centenary of the Soloheadbeg Ambush
About ten years ago, a friend of mine working in a ministerial department told me about the concern the government had about the “decade of centenaries” marking the anniversaries of…
Otters of the River Suir
Until a few years ago, otters and badgers were the only members of Ireland’s admittedly not that extensive land mammal fauna which I had not seen (let’s not get into…
Séamus Sweeney 