Finding Tipperary

Ag Lorg Thiobraid Árann

Finding Tipperary wins Tipperariana Book of the Year award

Terry Cunningham, Fethard Historical Society, Mary Hanarahan, Fethard Historical Society , Mary Guinan-Darmody, Denis G. Marnane, Doirin Saurus, Fethard Historical Society

The first anniversary of the launch of Finding Tipperary was recently celebrated in a very special way, when it was awarded the Tipperariana Book of the Year Award by the Fethard Historical Society. The presentation took place in the Abymill Theatre, Fethard on 26th January 2008 where authors, Denis G. Marnane and Mary Guinan Darmody were presented with two specially commissioned teapots. Fethard potter, Doirin Saurus designed and made the two pieces using Finding Tipperary’s cover illustrations, Nenagh Castle and the Main Guard. 

The members of Fethard Historical Society supplied beautiful refreshments to the large attendance. Ian Meagher of the local Londis store kindly sponsored the refreshments and the local committee provided the home baking. 

Michael Ahern, Clonmel, Mary Guinan-Darmody, Denis G. Marnane, Liam O’Duibhir, Clonmel, Patrick Bracken, Tipperary Libraries

Also in attendance were two former winners of the Tipperariana Book of the Year, Michael Ahern, author Figures in a Clonmel Landscape and Tipperary Libraries own Patrick Bracken, author of Foreign and fantastic field sports: cricket in County Tipperary. 

Copies of Finding Tipperary are available directly through Tipperary Studies and branch libraries throughout the county; price €30 (postage extra). It is also available through selected local bookshops and of course both the authors will attend the Fethard Book Fair 0n 10th February 2008.

Thanks again to the Fethard Historical Society for their Tipperariana Book of the Year Award and good luck to them with their annual Bookfair.

 (photos courtesy of Joe Kenny, Fethard )

Finding Tipperary – A new publication for Tipperary Libraries

Thursday 25th January 2007 saw Councillor Jack Crowe, Chairperson of County Tipperary Joint Libraries Committee, launch the new publication Finding Tipperary a guide to the resources of the Tipperary Studies Department. [You can read the full text of Cllr. Crowe's speech here]

ABOVE: Cllr. Jack Crowe, Chairman, Mary Guinan-Darmody & Cllr. Lucy McLaughlin, Mayor

The Tipperary Studies Research Library in The Source, Cathedral Street, is the most important intellectual resource in the entire county. Finding Tipperary gives access to its extensive and expanding holdings: books and articles current and past; family documents; local government records; virtually every newspaper ever published in the county; a wide range of maps and a growing collection of photographs. Finding Tipperary does exactly what the title indicates. It provides the reader with signposts to find their Tipperary. This might involve exploring ancient settlement sites; reliving exploits on the sporting field; discovering who you are or imagining a very different county through fiction.

Finding Tipperary is divided into six parts. Part One is further divided into sixteen sections:
· County, Towns, Villages and Countryside
· Sports
· Genealogy
· Remarkable Individuals
· Institutions
· Antiquarian Sources
· Archaeology
· Heritage
· Womens Studies
· Leabhair Ghaeilge (compiled by Donnchadh O’Duibhir)
· Early and Medieval Irish History
· Early Modern Irish History
· Modern Irish History
· Legal Sources
· Law and Order
· Politics
· Religion and Education
· Legal Sources
· Reference Material
· Prose and Verse

The holdings of Tipperary Studies are listed in the comprehensive footnotes, which accompany each section. Parts Two to Six cover Periodicals, Unpublished Sources, Newspapers, Maps and Photographs respectively. A subject index is printed at the back, and superb illustrations grace the whole publication, all drawn from the Tipperary Studies collection.

It is the essential reference book for anyone with an interest in the county and as a limited number have been published, it is bound to become a sought after collector’s item.

Finding Tipperary has been compiled by Denis G. (Des) Marnane, one of the best-known local historians in the county and Mary Guinan Darmody, librarian in the Tipperary Studies Department. Des Marnane lives and works in Tipperary town. He has a PhD (UCC) in modern Irish History and writes extensively on many aspects of Tipperary history.
Mary Guinan Darmody, a native of Killenaule and now living in Moycarkey, is in charge of the Tipperary Studies Library in Thurles and holds an MA in Local Studies from UL.

Copies of Finding Tipperary may be purchased directly from Tipperary Studies, priced €30
[Additional cost for postage: Ireland €8; England €11; Europe €11; Rest of the World €17]

Copies may also be purchased from any of the branch libraries throughout the county. Enquiries may be addressed to: Mary Guinan Darmody, Tipperary Studies, The Source, Cathedral Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary [ Tel. 353 (0) 504 29278]; E-Mail: studies @tipperarylibraries.ie

last updated on: Tuesday, 03-Aug-2010 15:40:10 IST

Baineann Finding Tipperary amach Leabhar na Bliana Tipperariana

Terry Cunningham, Cumann Staire Fhiodh Ard, Mary Hanarahan, Cumann Staire Fhiodh Ard, Mary Guinan-Darmody, Denis G. Marnane, Doirin Saurus, Cumann Staire Fhiodh Ard

Céiliúradh an chéad chomóradh bliana de sheoladh Finding Tipperary i slí an-speisialta ar fad, bhronn Cumann Staire Fhiodh Ard dámhachtain Leabhar na Bliana Tipperariana air. Bhí an bronnadh ar siúl san Amharclann Abymill, Fiodh Ard ar 26 Eanáir 2008, áit ar bronnadh dhá phota tae coimisiúnaithe go speisialta ar an mbeirt údair, Denis G. Marnane and Mary Guinan Darmody. Potaire ó Fhiodh Ard, Doirin Saurus, a dhear agus a rinne an dá phíosa ag úsáid léaráidí ó fhorchlúdach Finding Tipperary, Caisleáin an Aonaigh agus Daingean an Phríomhgharda. 
Chuir baill Chumann Staire Fhiodh Ard sóláistí den chéad scoth ar fáil don lucht féachana mór. Ian Meagher ón Londis áitiúil a d’urraigh na sóláistí agus chuir an coiste áitiúil an bhácáil bhaile ar fáil. 

Michael Ahern, Cluain Meala, Mary Guinan-Darmody, Denis G. Marnane, Liam O’Duibhir, Cluain Meala, Patrick Bracken, Leabharlanna Thiobraid Árann

Sa lucht féachana bhí beirt a bhuaigh Leabhar na Bliana Tipperariana cheana, Michael Ahern, údar Figures in a Clonmel Landscape agus Patrick Bracken, údar of Foreign and fantastic field sports: cricket in County Tipperary. 
Tá cóipeanna de Finding Tipperary le fáil go díreach trí Staidéar Thiobraid Árann agus leabharlanna ar fud an chontae; praghas €30 (postas breise). Tá sé le fáil chomh maith i siopaí leabhar roghnaithe agus beidh na húdair ag freastal ar Aonach Leabhar Fhiodh Ard ar 10 Feabhra 2008.
Buíochas arís le Cumann Staire Fhiodh Ard as an Dámhachtain Leabhar na Bliana Tipperariana agus go n-éirí leo lena n-aonach leabhar bliantúil.
 (grianghraif le Joe Kenny, Fiodh Ard)

Finding Tipperary – Foilsiúchán nua do Leabharlanna Tiobraid Árann

Ar Déardaoin 25 Eanáir 2007 sheol an Comhairleoir Jack Crowe, Cathaoirleach Comhchoiste Leabharlainne Chontae Thiobraid Árann Finding Tipperary, treoraí le hacmhainní Staidéar Thiobraid Árann. [Is féidir téacs iomlán na hóráide a thug an Comh. Crowe anseo]

THUAS: An Comh. Jack Crowe, Cathaoirleach, Mary Guinan-Darmody & An Comh. Lucy McLaughlin, Méara

Is í Leabharlann Taighde Staidéar Thiobraid Árann san Fhoinse, Sráid na hArdeaglaise, an acmhainn intleachtúil is tábhachtaí sa chontae ar fad. Tugann Finding Tipperary rochtaineacht dá sealbhas cuimsitheach leathan: leabhair agus ailt chomhaimseartha agus stairiúla; cáipéisí clainne; taifid rialtais áitiúil; beagnach gach uile nuachtán foilsithe sa chontae riamh; raon leathan de léarscáileanna agus bailiúchán ghrianghraf atá ag fás. Déanann Finding Tipperary díreach a deir sé sa teidil. Tugann sé comharthaí don léitheoir Tiobraid Árann a lorg dó féin. Seans gur mian leat suíomhanna ársa lonnaíochta a chuardú; eachtraí ar an bpáirc imeartha a athachtú; fáil amach cé tú féin nó fiú contae difriúil a shamhlú tríd an bhficsean.
Tá Finding Tipperary roinnte ina sé chuid. Roinntear Cuid a hAon i sé chuid déag eile:

• Contae, Bailte, Sráidbhailte agus Tuath
• Spórt
• Ginealas
• Daoine Suntasacha
• Institiúidí
• Foinsí Ársa
• Seandálaíocht
• Oidhreacht
• Staidéar na mBan
• Leabhair Ghaeilge (bailithe ag Donnchadh Ó Duibhir)
• Stair na hÉireann Luath agus Meanaoise
• Stair Chomhaimseartha na hÉireann Mhoch
• Stair Chomhaimseartha na hÉireann
• Foinsí Dlí
• Riail agus Reacht
• Polaitíocht
• Reiligiún agus Oideachas
• Foinsí Dlí
• Ábhair Taighde
• Prós agus Véarsaíocht

Tá sealbhas Staidéar Thiobraid Árann liostaithe sna fonótaí cuimsitheacha a théann le gach uile chuid. Clúdaíonn Cuid a Dó go Chuid a Sé Irisí, Foinsí Neamhfhoilsithe, Nuachtáin, Léarscáileanna agus Grianghraif faoi seach. Tá innéacs ábhar priontáilte ar chúl, agus tá léaráidí den scoth ar fud an fhoilseacháin, iad ar fad tógtha ó bhailiúchán Staidéar Thiobraid Árann.
Is é seo an leabhar taighde bunriachtanach d’éinne le suim acu sa chontae agus, toisc nár fhoilsíodh ach beagán, beidh tóir mhór air cinnte.
Chuir Denis G. (Des) Murnane, duine de na staraithe áitiúla is cáiliúla sa chontae, agus Mary Guinan-Darmody, leabharlannaí i Staidéar Thiobraid Árann, Finding Tipperary le chéile. Maireann agus oibríonn Des Marnane i mBaile Thiobraid Árann. Tá PhD (An Choláiste Ollscoile, Corcaigh) i Nua-Stair na hÉireann agus scríobhann sé ar mórán ghnéithe de stair Thiobrad Árann.
Tá Mary Guinan-Darmody,a thagann ó Chill Náile ó dhúchais agus a mhaireann anois i Maigh Chairce, i bhfeighil ar Leabharlann Staidéar Thiobraid Árann i nDurlas agus tá MA aici sa Staidéar Áitiúil ó Ollscoil Luimnigh.
Is féidir cóipeanna de Finding Tipperary a cheannach díreach ó Staidéar Thiobraid Árann, ar phraghas €30
[Costas breise do phostas: Éire €8; Sasana €11; an Eoraip €11; Domhan ar uile €17]
Is féidir chomh maith cóipeanna a cheannach sna brainsí áitiúla ar fud an chontae. Seol fiosrúcháin chuig: Mary Guinan-Darmody, Staidéar Thiobraid Árann, An Fhoinse, Sráid na hArdeaglaise, Durlas, Co. Thiobraid Árann [ Guth. 353 (0) 504 29278]; Ríomhphost: studies@tipperarylibraries.ie

nuashonraithe ar: Tuesday, 03-Aug-2010 15:40:10 IST