County Tipperary, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Tipperary’s past.
Vanishing Ireland (Tipperary people)
- The Cistercian monks of Mount St Joseph’s, Roscrea (namely Fathers Laurence Walsh, Ciarán Ó Sabhaois, Niall Maguire, Éanna Henderson and Dom Colmcille O’Toole).
- Joseph Hanrahan (1930-2015), farm labourer & trap driver, Kilsheelan
- Nellie Kelly (1922-2007) & Christy Kelly (1933-2008) – Nenagh
- Hannah Leahy (1919-2015, Country Markets Secretary & Treasurer), Annesgift
- Jack Longeran (1930-2020) – General Factotum of St Joseph’s Industrial School
- Ger McKenna (1930–2014) – The Greyhound Maestro
- Bob Mullins (1921-2019) – Tree Farmer & Market Trader, Glen of Aherlow
- Jack ‘Ginger’ Powell (1913-2015) – Ireland’s Oldest Vet – Toomevara
- Jimmy Ryan (1928-2018) , The Hurley Maker – Crosscannon, Killenaule
- Willie Sheehan (cattle breeder & shoemaker, born 1917), Clonwalsh
- Nellie Shortall (shopkeeper & cook, born 1913) Fethard
- Paddy Walsh (Farmer) and Johnny Walsh (Forrester) of Derrinlaur
- Seanie Quinlan – The Gravedigger of Kilsheelan, County Tipperary
County Tipperary – Family Histories
- Barton of Grove
- Bunbury of Kilfeacle & Shronell
- Bunbury of Lisbryan (sometimes Lisbrien), near Ballingarry, and Woodville House, Ballymackey, Nenagh
- Bunbury Isaac of Lisbryan
- Butler of Ballyglasheen
- Crawford of Nenagh
- Fennell of Cahir and Rehill (and, later, of Burtown House, Athy, Co. Kildare)
- Galvin of Ballyporeen & Chile
- Gough of Rathronan and Salisbury
- Harrington of Ballytarsna, Moycarkey, in the parish of Borris-on-Ossory
- Lockwood of Castlelake, Indaville and Cashel, see here.
- Loughman of Ballytarsna, Moycarkey, in the parish of Borris-on-Ossory
- Low of Kilshane
- MacCarthy Reagh of Springhouse (Kilshane)
- Moclair (Mockler) of Ballinlough & Ballinree
- Morgan of Thurles – Father Ted’s Forebears
- Moore, Earl of Mount Cashell
- O’Meara of Toome
- Ormond, Earls of (Butler) – The First Seven Earls (1327-1515)
- Ponsonbys of Kilcooley Abbey
- Prentice of Roscrea
- Ryan (Rayne) of Cahir
- Synge of Slevoir
- Yelverton, Viscounts Avonmore, of Portland and Belle Isle
Turtle’s Books About Tipperary
People connected to County Tipperary
- William Bunbury II (1704-1755) of Lisnavagh, co. Carlow
- Justin MacCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel
- Lord Norbury – The Hanging Judge
- Barry O’Meara (1786-1836) – Napoleon’s Doctor
- Charles Bianconi (1786-1875) – The Man who put Ireland on Wheels
- The Life & Death of Ned Kelly
- Henry Kellett (1806-75) of Fethard, explorer and sailor, referenced in Herald and Pandora: A chronicle of Panama belles, Irish Colonies and Giant Tortoises
- John Sadlier (1813-1856)
- Chief Justice Sir Edward Pennefather, referenced here.
- Anthony Trollope in Clonmel
- Charles Joseph Kickham (1828-1882)
- Sackville Carden (1857-1930) of Barnane House and the Naval Attack on the Dardanelles
- Thomas St. George MacCarthy (1862-1943) – The Rugby Star who Co-founded the GAA
- Lena Rice (1866-1907), Wimbledon Champion
- Jack Judge (1872-1938) – A Long Way to Tipperary
- Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield (1890–1986) – The Clonmel Roots of the Eagle Of Trieste
- Violet Gibson – The Irish Aristocrat Who Shot Mussolini
- Brendan Bracken (1901-1958) – Churchill’s Faithful Chela
- George Plant (1904-1942) – IRA Executioner
- Giles Blundell (d. 2000) of Slievenamon (Fethard)
- Gottfried Helnwein – Head Above the Cuckoo’s Nest (2000)
- Charlie Swan – A Racing Icon
- Obama: A Tale of Irish Wigmakers, Shoemakers & Oratorical Bishops
Places in Tipperary
Articles with a Tipperary Connection
- An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
- A Short History of Irish Gold
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- Bunbury of Johnstown House, County Carlow, Ireland
- Vikings on Irish Waterways
- Normans on the Irish Waterways
- Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
- Robert Essex & the Siege of Caher
- The Palatines in Ireland
- How Ireland’s MPs voted in the Act of Union in 1799 & 1800
- Rayne’s Shoes – A Tipperary Tale
- Corrupt Banking in Victorian Ireland
- Jack Colvin and Hopit: The Tipperary War Horse
- The Burning of Marlfield, 1923
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- The Irish and the White House
- The Shannon One Design Class – An Interview with Vincent Delany
- Waterways Through Time
- Waterways Through Time – Season 2
Past Tracks – Tipperary
- Templemore
- Thurles
- Tipperary Town