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TIPPERARY
HISTORICAL JOURNAL
The annual Tipperary Historical
Journal has established itself, both here and abroad, as an authoritative source
of new research on the history of County Tipperary. A full listing of all
articles and book reviews can be found under each year.
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The following issues of the Tipperary Historical Journal are now
out of print: 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1995;
1998; 2000. However, you can now read the articles online from ALL out-of-print
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FINDING AN ARTICLE
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search through the article titles and authors for all years by choosing the
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Journals on one page. You can also use an Index compiled in MS Excel by Patrick
M.A. Nolan B.A., which can be downloaded by clicking
here. A printed version of this is available
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College Road, Kilkenny, Ireland (Phone 00 353 (0)56 772
1483; email pnolan@iora.ie) for €11.00, including postage.
TIPPERARY HISTORICAL
JOURNAL
The Tipperary Historical Journal, since its inception, has published new
research on Co. Tipperary spanning a multitude of disciplines. It is virtually
impossible to describe the range and breadth of material the Journal has covered
since the first issue in 1988, although you might start by looking at the list
of articles in each Journal year by year. However, the short descriptions below
of some of the Journals by our retired Editor, Marcus Bourke, give a good
introduction to the subjects you can expect to find between the covers of the
Journal. (These extracts are taken from various Society Newsletters over the
years: the Newsletters are reproduced in full elsewhere on this site).
TIPPERARY HISTORICAL
JOURNAL 2001
"Readers of the 2001
Tipperary Historical Journal will probably not be surprised to learn that
Tipperary Town based historian Des Marnane is involved in the two longest
articles in this the fourteenth Journal. His detailed analysis of the social
conditions of his native town just 100 years ago, based on the 1901 Census,
occupies 26 pages. Similarly, his supplementary notes to the first instalment
(to be continued annually) of John Davis White's classic "Sixty Years in Cashel",
never republished since it first appeared in 1893, fill another 26 pages.
Readers from Clonoulty and thereabouts will be fascinated to see the
reappearance, after six years, of the Northern historian Richard Reid (now of
Australia), who contributes a second instalment of his story of the mass
emigration in the mid-1900's of Clonoulty folk to Australia, complete with
contemporary illustrations.
A posthumous account of Tipperary men who fought in the Spanish Civil War in the
1930s comes from Pat Lonergan of Kilfeacle, whose family still treasure the
certificate he got, signed by both General Franco and General Eoin O'Duffy. The
Nenagh area features in two quite different articles in the forthcoming Journal
- an account by David Murphy of the Dictionary of Irish Biography project on an
army mutiny in Nenagh in 1857, and a 14 page account from Richard O'Brien of
Cashel of the recent excavations in and around the new Nenagh by-pass. Maria
Luddy of Clonmel (now of Warwick University) gives an account of the women's
history sources uncovered by her recent Government-sponsored Irish Women's
History project, while Áine Chadwick (also of Clonmel) traces the career of
local nun Alice O'Sullivan who, with nine others, was massacred in China in
1870. As if to show how ecumenical our Journal is, David Butler of Cahir
completes his survey of Presbyterianism in the Fethard area from 1890 to 1919,
and Dúchas personality Con Manning (of Kilcash origin) writes on the two Sir
George Hamilton's and their connections with Roscrea and Nenagh castles. Liam
Ó'Donnchú of Thurles Sarsfields shows how widespread hurling was in
mid-Tipperary before the GAA and John Doyle were ever born. Michael O'Donnell of
Fethard continues his scholarly series on Tipperary MP's from 1560 to 1800,
while Professor Peter Woodman of UCC reports on a dig at Ballybrado House near
Cahir.
In a searing article Edmund O'Riordan of Clogheen Clogheen (& UCC) tells how the
gentry dined and wined while the proletariat had to starve or emigrate in Black
'47. The Journal once again ends with a fine - in this issue almost 30 pages -
section on book reviews of Tipperary interest. No fewer than twelve academic
reviewers, located from Australia to Belfast, deal with publications on such
widely diverse topics as Geoffrey Keating to Sadleir the banker, William Smith
O'Brien to poor Bridget Cleary, the latter now taker over by two mediocre
American feminist 'historians'. This section is a journal within a journal once
again!"
TIPPERARY HISTORICAL
JOURNAL 2000
"For the past five issues,
the Tipperary Historical Journal has commemorated the 150th anniversary of the
Great Famine of the 1840's. Dominated by an annual article from the pen of Denis
G. Marnane, the Famine was analysed and recalled in no less than 28 articles,
filling over 350 pages - all of it original research that will be used by future
students of the Famine. Now, with Des Marnane's final article - based in part on
archdiocesan baptismal and marriage records - all that comes to an end, and the
Journal returns to more conventional topics!
A major contribution for the 2000 Journal comes from William Jenkins, author of
the recent history of Tipperary "Co-Op", who, in a long article, traces the
history of the butter markets of South Tipperary in the 100 years or so before
the rise early in the twentieth century of the creameries. Clonmel native Áine
Chadwick, now resident in rural England, writes on two war memorials at Kickham
Barracks, Clonmel, which survived the destruction of the barracks during the
Civil War. The names of many Tipperary men who took the Queen's shilling are on
these two handsome monuments. The American Civil War of the 1860s, in which many
Irishmen participated, is the background of a short piece by New York lawyer Ed
Shaughnessy, who traces the career of his ancestor William Walsh of Cahir who,
as a U.S. marine NCO, took part in that war. The prelude to the Irish War Of
Independence forms the backdrop to an extract from the memoirs of the late Eamon
Ó Duibhir of Clonoulty who, as an IRB man and Irish Volunteer officer in
pre-1916 days, met the Labour leader James Connolly in Dublin.
Going back several centuries earlier, Fr. Ignatius Fennessy OFM, who is
librarian at the Franciscan house in Killiney, Co. Dublin, recounts the
mysterious theft of a sacred relic from Holycross Abbey, restored in the 1970s
by the patron of the Society which produces the Tipperary Historical Journal,
the late Archbishop Thomas Morris. Irish Times journalist Brendan Ó Cathaoir,
specialist in 19th century nationalism, traces the colourful career of Young
Irelander and 1848 man John Blake Dillon, grandfather of Fine Gael personality,
James Dillon, T.D. Remaining in the same period, Thurles writer Proinsias Ó
Drisceoil, in a short essay, ponders the decline in popularity of Charles
Kickham of "Knocknagow" fame. Fethard historian Michael O'Donnell contributes
the first of several instalments on the parliamentary representatives for Co.
Tipperary in the 240-year period from 1560 to the abolition of the old Irish
parliament by the Act of Union in 1801.
Two articles, which between them deal with what might loosely be called the
minority community in Co. Tipperary, come from the pens of Cahir graduate David
Butler and Cornwall resident Arthur Carden. The latter attempts to rescue the
[un-]popular reputation of his collateral ancestor "Woodcock" Carden of Barnane,
near Templemore. The former contributes the first of two scholarly accounts of
Presbyterianism in the Fethard area from 1690 to 1919. Clonmel-woman Nellie
Beary-Ó Cléirigh, an expert on Irish lace, recalls the efforts of "do-gooder"
Lady Aberdeen, wife of a Viceroy of Ireland, to promote an embroidery industry
in the pretty village of Marlfield.
Devotees of archaeology are unusually well catered for in the Tipperary
Historical Journal this year. In a major article - the first of several, the
Editor hopes - Queen's University archaeologist John Ó Néill, with the
co-operation of many named colleagues, presents a summary of the multitude of
archaeological finds made by the Lisheen Project as the Galmoy mining got
underway. Tipperary UCD graduate, Richard Clutterbuck, traces the history of a
late medieval settlement at Graystown, near Fethard, while Richard O'Brien of
Cashel records some recent archaeological finds at Killea graveyard, near
Templemore.
In an unusually long Books Section, Seán Connolly of Queen's University and John
Logan of Limerick University pass generally favourable treatment on Tom
McGrath's monumental two-volume tomes on Bishop Doyle of Kildare & Leighlin of
the 1800's. Another review worth careful reading, by Raghnall Ó Floinn of the
National Museum, castigates the editorial "work" on two posthumous volumes by
the late Fr. Colmcille of Clonmel & Mellifont, which Ó Floinn regards as falling
well below the expected scholarly standard. Finally, Carrick litterateur Michael
Coady gives a glowing account of Angela Bourke's new study of the case of
Bridget Cleary, burned alive over her kitchen fire by her husband Michael as
recently as 1895."
TIPPERARY HISTORICAL
JOURNAL 1999
"The Tipperary Historical
Journal for 1999, our twelfth, is due for publication after Easter and contains
at least three unusual features. Running to over 230 pages, it ends with a
22-page ten year index (by Pat Nolan of Kilkenny), covering all issues from 1988
to 1997 inclusive. Next, it has two fine full-page colour illustrations - one of
two Irish soldiers of the Irish Brigade of the French royal army (in a second
article on this topic by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin), the other a portrait of
Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, whose family lived in Dundrum House
(now a popular hotel) until 1904. Thirdly, this Journal is unique in that, in
place of the usual editorial message is a Guest Editorial by Prof. Vincent
Comerford of NUI Maynooth’s Modern History Department.
The 1999 Journal contains no less than 17 substantial articles, as well as the
usual Books Section (dominated by a lengthy review by Dr. John Bradley - also of
Maynooth - of Denise Maher’s book on Tipperary’s medieval grave-slabs), a second
report on our recent readers’ survey and our fifth consecutive Famine Section.
This last is graced once more by Des Marnane with his usual impressive array of
statistical tables, while Martin Ryan of RTÉ (soon to publish yet another life
of Gen. Sir William Butler) engages in some neat historical detective work on a
famine eviction he suspects was carried out by the General’s own father. The
remaining Famine article is by Helen Kennally of Leeds, who tells a
heart-rending tale of North Tipperary orphans “exported” to Yorkshire by an
unscrupulous landowner from near Puckane.
In what amounts to a second
Editorial - but still not from the Editor’s pen - Michael Hall lambasts the
continued obliteration of townland boundaries by “progressive” farming inside
and outside the county, in a short piece which has the support of the County
Tipperary Historical Society. Hot with the news of the discovery (by himself and
his twelve year old son) of a “new” 'sheela-na-gig' comes Edmund O’Riordan of
Clogheen, whose two-page illustrated article arrived after final proofs for 1999
had been “put to bed”.
Surely the most novel item
in the new Journal comes from Corkman Anthony McCann, who reproduces (with
explanatory notes) the diary of a teenage boy of the [in-]famous Scully family,
kept during a holiday in Paris in 1865 - complete with typical schoolboy
spelling! In a fascinating, if high-brow, piece of historical speculation
another Corkman, Diarmuid Ó Murchadha (lately Editor of the Journal of the Cork
Historical & Archaeological Society) visits several possible Tipperary sites of
the medieval synod of Rathbrassil. By far the longest article in 1999 is a
31-page analysis of the possible causes of the decline of the Irish language in
North Tipperary long before its demise in Norman “South Tipperary”, which
comments on inter alia Dr. Garrett Fitzgerald’s learned R.I.A. paper of 1984,
and has a list of sources running to 103 published works! Dr. John Logan of
Limerick University has collected and tabulated the vital statistics of no fewer
than 67 Tipperary paupers taken into Limerick’s House of Industry between 1774
and 1794. Among them were several “reduced” (sic) housekeepers and several
“strollers” like Patrick Fogarty and Will Sallinger whose strolling career ended
at 8 years of age.
Archaeologists are served
by a 21-page report by Brian Hodkinson on his two year’s work at Nenagh Castle
gatehouse, and by a short account by Mary O’Donnell from Clonmel (and UCC) of
excavations of a section of the traditional pilgrim route, Rian Bó Phadraig,
found near Ardfinnan. Danny Grace has a homely piece, complete with extracts
from letters home from the Front, on Nenagh men who served in World War I -
including one winner of the Victoria Cross. This is balanced politically by an
amusing account by the late Fr. Pat Gaynor (also of Nenagh) of his 1918
confrontation with the Redmondite Dean Innocent Ryan of Cashel. Michael Collins,
Cardinal Logue, John Dillon and Piaras Béaslaí also feature in this memoir from
over 80 years ago. Perhaps the most unusual item of all in this new Journal is
that on a royal mediation conference held in Terryglass monastery 1262 years
ago, in 737 A.D. A thirteen page account of the Franciscans in Clonmel begins in
the 1260s, while the only Irish language contribution is a discussion by
Donnchadh Ó Duibhir of a manuscript by a Limerick man written in 1714 and found
in Bolton Library in Cashel."
TIPPERARY HISTORICAL
JOURNAL 1998
"The 1998 Tipperary
Historical Journal, which will be ready for dispatch to members in May, will
contain some 250 pages, making it the most extensive in our eleven years of
publishing this Journal and, dare we venture, one of the most interesting for
that fact! [for the statisticians among us, the figures are: 1988: 232 pages;
1989: 168 pages; 1990: 215 pages; 1991: 248 pages; 1992: 244 pages; 1993: 220
pages; 1994: 197 pages; 1995: 217 pages; 1996: 202 pages; 1997: 200 pages]. To
mark the 150th anniversary of the Young Ireland Rising of 1848, it will contain
over a 50 page commemorative section on the Insurrection. Of the five articles
on 1848, two will be of special interest: "The North and Young Ireland" by the
late Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich and an in-depth analysis of the Confederate Clubs
of County Tipperary (town by town) by our Chairman, Dr. Willie Nolan. Dr.
Richard Davis of the University of Tasmania, himself of Clonmel Quaker ancestry,
writes about William Smith O'Brien, the reluctant leader of 1848 and Dr. Gary
Owens, of Western Ontario University in Canada, edits a unique contemporary
account of the Rising by the Carlow rebel Patrick O'Donohue. The Section is
introduced by Carlow historian, Dr. Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, late of the National
Museum and now a prolific publisher (under the imprint Coiscéim) in his own
right.
In addition, the 1998
Journal continues, for the fourth successive year, its commemoration of the
Great Famine, with four more articles on that event of 150 years ago. Dr. Denis
Marnane contributes Part III of his account of the Famine in South Tipperary,
adding over 20 more pages to this unique series. Dr. Seán O'Donnell of Clonmel
writes on the Famine's impact on that town. Máirtín Ó Corrbuí tells (in Irish)
how the Famine struck one small parish of North Tipperary, and the Editor, in a
review article, assesses the influence on Famine publications of Dr. Christine
Kinealy of Liverpool University. It is worth noting that this Famine section has
proved to be of huge interest not alone to our Irish members but more especially
to our members outside Ireland, especially those of Irish descent in the United
States and Australia and continues to draw favourable comment. Indeed, it has
been a major factor in the recent increase in membership from these continents
as those involved in genealogical research attempt to understand the conditions
in their ancestral home during this tragic period of the County's history.
If there are any readers
who are not interested in either Young Ireland or the Great Famine, they can
rest assured that there is still plenty to satisfy them in the 1998 Journal - no
less than fourteen other articles in fact. Two on the War of Independence are
posthumous: a last interview by Kilkenny historian Jim Maher with Dan Breen and
a fragment of autobiography from Sean Sharkey of Clonmel on his exploits as
Intelligence Officer for the Third Tipperary Brigade. Writing from Luxembourg,
Cork-man Eoghan Ó hAannracháin contributes a fascinating 30 page account of
Tipperary "Wild Geese" veterans who served in the French Army [see Newsletter #9
for more details], while another Kilkenny historian, Angela Bourke of UCD,
analyses, from a feminist viewpoint, the horrific 1895 case of the Drangan woman
Bridget Cleary, who was burned alive by family and neighbours on suspicion of
being a witch. The other anniversaries occurring in 1998 are marked by Dr. Ruan
O'Donnell of St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra and our own indefatigable "Des"
Marnane, respectively. O'Donnell traces the career of Clonmel 1798 insurgent
Philip Cunningham, who died violently in Australia. Marnane tells of the coming
in 1848 of the railway to Co. Tipperary in a tale full of landlord greed and
intrigue (in a characteristic aside, Marnane records that the first train
arrived late at Limerick Junction, as it has done ever since!).
Going somewhat further
back, Dr. Dagmar O'Riain-Raedel of UCC publishes a unique account from 1591 of a
German "tourist" who came to Monaincha, the monastic site outside Roscrea.
Kilkenny editor Edward Law recounts the exploits of the "bucks" of Fethard in
the 1700s, led by the Freemason Amyas Griffith. Limerick & UCC archaeologist
Tracy Collins provides an illustrated record of the ruined Hore Abbey close to
the Rock of Cashel, neglected by most visitors to that town. Clonmel
archaeologist Diarmuid O'Keefe contributes a profusely illustrated account of a
set of 18th century gravestones, centred in Kilsheelan but spreading into
counties Kilkenny and Waterford."
TIPPERARY HISTORICAL
JOURNAL 1997
"The 1997 Tipperary
Historical Journal will be a special tenth anniversary issue. Once again it will
run to some 200 pages and, for the third consecutive year, it will also have a
special “Famine 150” section. To mark ten years of the Journal our leading
historian, Des Marnane, will contribute a specially written forty page article
entitled “Tipperary History and Historians”. Containing no less than 220
footnotes (some running to half a page), this important article will survey the
whole period from early Christian times to the present day and is certain to
remain an important source-reference for years to come. Prominent amongst the
other general articles is a biographical study by Nancy Murphy (of Nenagh) of
Frank Maloney, a neglected Nenagh GAA personality. She places North Tipperary as
the location of much activity in the early days of the GAA. Continuing the
Journal’s coverage of the War of Independence are three articles. A new account
is given of the historic 1917 Sinn Fein Ard-Fheis (when de Valera replaced
Arthur Griffith) by Fr. Pat Gaynor, a Tipperary priest who was present. Thurles
readers should read with interest a detailed analysis, by the Editor, of a
chilling Civil War episode involving the future General Costello of Irish Sugar.
UCG graduate, Kate O’Dwyer of Dundrum, gives a critical appraisal of the
guerilla campaign of the Third “Tipp” Brigade. In addition, there is a report by
Edward Law, of Kilkenny, of a Masonic funeral in Fethard in 1768 and a brief
report of the initial results of a readers’ survey carried out for the Journal
in 1996.
Heading the five-article
“Famine 150” section of over fifty pages is a description of the Famine in South
Tipperary in 1848 by Des Marnane. Using some new local sources, this article
contains 10 statistical tables. Dr. Laurence Geary (of Mitchelstown and UCC)
recalls an unedifying dispute, over a new fever hospital in Fethard, between
Cashel officials and Fethard clergy at a time when people were dying in large
numbers. Joe Walsh, of Cahir, publishes two Famine notebooks from UCC’s archives
which belonged to the Butler family of Ballyslatteen. Danny Grace lists the
forgotten priest-victims of the Famine and Dr. Tom McGrath reviews two new books
on the Church and the Famine.
Four archaeological papers
include more Clonmel excavations by Catryn Power and a report by Dr. Martin
Doody (who wrote for our first issue in 1988) on fifteen years’ research into
the Bronze Age, mostly in West Tipperary. A new, hitherto unrecorded, stone
circle in North Tipperary is described by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O’Brien,
while Tracy Collins, another UCG graduate, traces the medieval walls and towers
of Cashel. Dean Lee of Cashel contributes a touching appreciation of our late
patron, Dr. Thomas Morris, and a twelve page Books Section rounds off this tenth
Journal. It includes a review of Seamus King’s “History of Hurling”, Prof. Mary
Daly of UCD on John A. Murphy’s centenary history of UCC, a critique of the new
edition of Thomas MacDonagh’s “Literature in Ireland”, published by Relay Books
of Nenagh, and an assessment of Dutch historian Joost Augusteijn’s new book on
the War of Independence in five counties, including Tipperary."
TIPPERARY HISTORICAL
JOURNAL 1996
"In the Journal's second
Famine section, running to 100 pages in 1996, pride of place goes to Dr. Des
Marnane's 42-page account of conditions in South Tipperary during the worst
Famine period. He exposes the shortcomings of British Government policy (both
from Whitehall and Dublin Castle) in trying to cope with the disaster. Following
three short records from the archives of the Folklore Commission (including one
in Irish by the famous teacher/author from Newcastle, Séamus Ó Maolcathaigh),
comes a fine 21-page survey of Famine conditions in Fethard by local historian
Michael O'Donnell. Gordon Smith, a young Maynooth history graduate from Co.
Dublin, also contributes a 13-page analysis of the medical aspects of the Famine
in Tipperary.
Of the eleven general
articles, the longest is that on the South Tipperary IRA from 1916 to 1921 by
Dr. Joost Augusteijn of Amsterdam University (who gave a talk on this topic to
the Society last November) in which he uses the UCD Archives with great skill. A
valuable genealogical history of the O'Meara family of Lissinisky, near Nenagh,
comes from the distinguished pen of Dr. John J. O'Meara, who was Professor of
Classics in UCD for 36 years until he retired twelve years ago. Dr. Maria Luddy
of the University of Warwick traces the work of District Nurses from 1815 to
1974, with special emphasis on Co. Tipperary. Archaeologist Dave Pollock, who
lives near Fethard, contributes a detailed architectural account of the medieval
Cahir Abbey, illustrated by no less than fourteen striking drawings of the
complex by the author himself.
Amongst the books reviewed
this year is the recent survey, by Rockwell teacher Séamus Leahy of the noted
Tubberadora hurling family, of the "Babs" Keating era. This book is wittily (and
appropriately) reviewed by the Editor of the Cork Historical & Archaeological
Journal!"
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