The Commons – Ballingarry Famine Walk , 28th July 2018
A little while ago I blogged that Choctaw artist/writer Waylon Gary White Deer was to lead a Famine Walk on the 28th July Well, today was the 28th July, so…
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Unity of Three in One sculpture, Clerihan, Co Tipperary
This sculpture dominates the junction in the middle of the village of Clerihan (AKA Ballyclerahan AKA Clerahan) which is a few miles from Clonmel. According to a comment on this page,…
Every gravestone tells a story: from Drangan, Co Tipperary
Graveyards are full of stories. Thomas Grey’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard captured this decisively in poetic form – so much so that any subsequent poem seems a pale shadow.…
Choctaw artist/writer Waylon Gary White Deer to lead Tipperary Famine Walk 28th July 2018
Choctaw artist Waylon Gary White Deer to lead Tipperary Famine Walk in Ballingarry on 28th July. From the Ballingarry Facebook Page: You are invited to this year’s Famine 1848 Walk…
Tipperary’s Pyramid
Kilcooley Abbey, near Gortnahoe in Tipperary is part of the Kilcooley Estate. One of the most striking features of the estate is tthe pyramid shaped mausoleum of the Barker family: This pyramid…
“Sibhse ghabhas tríomsa, cuiridh uaibh gach dóchas” – Dante’s Divine Comedy as Gaeilge
Recently I acquired a copy of Padráig de Brún’s translation into Irish of “Inferno”. de Brún translated the whole Divine Comedy. The fly jacket of my copy states that “it…
Multum In Parvo – Newport’s Newsagents, Fethard, Tipperary
A particularly charming sign – like many Latin tags, multum in parvo doesn’t go that easily into English – “much in a little” or “much in a small place” is…
Séamus Sweeney 