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Posted on February 6, 2019February 15, 2019

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…

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Posted on July 21, 2018July 28, 2018

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.…

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Posted on July 15, 2018

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…

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Posted on May 15, 2018May 13, 2018

February, Cheesemount, Tipperary

Winter seems a long time ago in summer, summer seems a long time away in winter.

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Posted on February 6, 2018February 5, 2018

Stained Glass from St Mary’s Church, Kilsheelan

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…

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Posted on September 3, 2017June 24, 2018

200 Years of Tipperary’s Lost and Found Wellington Monument 

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…

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Posted on September 1, 2017September 9, 2017

Muscular Christianity: Fr James Doheny brings the Tipperary Way to West Cork 

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…

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Posted on September 4, 2016September 4, 2016

Holy Well, Wilderness Gorge, Clonmel

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…

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