OurKidsCode is coming to Clonmel Library.  For families with primary aged kids. To Register your interest and see what it is all about check out the information meeting on Zoom on Tuesday the 7th of November at 8pm. Scan the QR code in the poster or join with Meeting ID 956 4647 1141 Passcode 530343Read More

Tipperary County Council Libraries introduces the Tipperary County Council Libraries’ Sensory Service, special spaces that make our libraries more accessible to all. Our Sensory Spaces are designed for people with sensory processing disorders, learning and development difficulties, autism and dementia. A busy public space can often be an overwhelming place to visit. The Sensory Room...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 45 – Famine Era Murders in County Tipperary Dr Ciarán Reilly of Maynooth University describes 1840s Ireland as one the most dangerous places on earth. This statement on the face of seems extreme. A statistical analysis conducted by Richard McMahon (A violent society’? Homicide rates in Ireland, 1831–1850) offers a more...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 44 – Famine Evictions in Tipperary One of the most emotive aspect of the Great Irish Famine is eviction. The image of an emaciated family hopelessly standing aside as their cottage is demolished endures to this today. Dr Ciarán Reilly of Maynooth University estimates that over 250,000 people were made homeless...Read More

Pigot’s Commercial Directory of Ireland (1824) describes Clonmel’s Corn Market as being as extensive as any in the Kingdom. It claims that one fifth of all flour exported from Ireland emanated from one establishment in Clonmel alone. By 1832, Clonmel was the dominant force in milling nationally and was exporting a quarter a million hundredweight...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 42 – Lord Lieutenant of Ireland visits Clonmel For four days in August 1865 the attention of the nation was firmly fixed on Clonmel. This was because Queen Victoria’s highest ranking official in Ireland was visiting the town. John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberly, was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and his...Read More

The Tipperary Banking Collapse of 1856 On Sunday morning the 17th of February 1856 the body of man was discovered on Hamstead Heath in London. The body was that John Sadleir Esq. MP, a native of Shronell, Co. Tipperary. It would later be confirmed that Sadleir had committed suicide by drinking a phial of prussic...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 40 – Escape from Clonmel Jail On Saturday the 21st of September 1867 the Clonmel Chronicle reported news of a daring escape from Clonmel Jail. The escapee was the prominent Fenian Captain Lawrence O’Brien and the discovery of his empty cell on the previous morning sparked a countywide manhunt. O’Brien had...Read More

Around Our Town Ep. 39 – Darby Brahan: The most feared man in Clonmel The name of Darby Brahan may not be familiar to the people of Clonmel today but in the mid 18th century he was quite possibly the most feared man in south Tipperary. If indeed you had the misfortune of coming face...Read More