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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…
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 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…
Winter seems a long time ago in summer, summer seems a long time away in winter.
Some images from St Mary’s Church, Kllsheelan. First of all some interesting motifs – I presume letters of some kind but I am not sure: These windows were clearly Chi-Ro…
Along the Grange Crag Loop walk,near the village of Grange in the Slieveardagh Hills, one comes across an arresting monument built two hundred years ago. Almost unbelievably (when you contemplate…
Here is the arresting life of Fr James Doheny, a priest of whom it could be rightly said they don’t make ’em like they used to: According to the records…
Walking through Wilderness Gorge in Clonmel – a somewhat less dramatic landscape than the name suggests – I came across this sign: It had been a good few weeks since I had…
Séamus Sweeney 