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.…
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“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…
February, Cheesemount, Tipperary
Winter seems a long time ago in summer, summer seems a long time away in winter.
“This Woful Elegy”: the grave of William Costello, “of the parish of Grangemocler”
Visiting the Killamery High cross, I spied just to the south of the cross a striking gravestone, that of “William Costello, of the parish of Grangemocler”. With a little bit…
My Best of Tipperary Stained Glass (a personal selection of ten images)
Since this post from January I have been blogging intermittently picture of stained glass from Churches in Tipperary. As I wrote in that original post: Recently visiting various churches in…
Stained glass from St Mary’s Church, Grangemockler, Tipperary
Grangemockler Church is most famous for its links to Michael Hogan, victim of the 1920 Bloody Sunday and namesake of the stand in Croke Park . It has a selection of…
A Short Walk In The Linguan River
Formerly the boundary betweent the kingdoms of Osraige (Ossory) and Eóganacht Chaisal (Cashel), the Linguan is a Suir tributary that for much of its course marks the Kilkenny -Tipperary county…
