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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig! ☘️

Art self for Tipperary folk tales by

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2023-03-18

Listen back to the Lyric Feature on the 18th century Tipperary woman Dorothea Herbert whose extraordinary memoir survives in the Library: https://t.co/p37chxDqYK

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2023-02-22

Winds gusting to 90kmh now on South coast at Roches Point. Some intense rain in a line from Tipperary to Cork.

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2022-10-17

It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary To the sweetest girl I know.
Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary, But my heart lies there.

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2022-10-07

Orla O’Dwyer, Tipperary
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The first Irish Aussie Rules player to be selected on All-Australian team since Jim Stynes. 👏🏻

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2022-04-08

John O’Leary (23 July 1830 March 1907 Dublin). Leading Fenian.👨‍🎓 (Law/Medicine) but no degree. IRB, so 20 years penal servitude. In exile lived mainly in Paris & visited US. "Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;" WB Yeats! https://t.co/wAcMO4YBQU

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2022-03-16

A series of beautiful sketches record Davy’s landing at Waterford at the beginning of one of his Irish tours in Notebook 15I.

This view of the lovely mountains around Waterford and Tipperary also has a rather nice reference to one of Davy’s other passions in life – fishing🐟

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2022-02-08

2 Feb 1550: d. Sir Francis Bryan, Henry VIII's 'Vicar of Hell' at Clonmel Co. Tipperary (BM)

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2022-02-03

1747: Death in of James Latham. Portrait painter, who Anthony Pasquin dubbed “Ireland’s Van Dyck”!🧑‍🎨Spent a year in Antwerp & maybe some time in England. Several 🎨self-portrait (left) https://t.co/DLBQ8zTOlV https://t.co/eqppM8KoAD

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2022-01-26

1713: Birth Rev Laurence Sterne. CofE clergyman & novelist eg 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy' & sermons/memoirs https://t.co/rxJtZgGk9x https://t.co/EQQpZDDK1l https://t.co/0V3nndrpoi

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2021-11-24

It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary To the sweetest girl I know.
Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary, But my heart lies there.

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2021-11-07

1830: Birth in of John O’Leary. Lead Fenian.👨‍🎓 (law/medicine) but didn't take degree. In IRB; sentence 20 years penal servitude. In exile lived mainly in Paris & visited US. "Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;" WB Yeats https://t.co/wa1LtQkuz2

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2021-07-23

“Oh play on!” said the little man
“You are a good player,” he continued “but could be better”

A Tipperary leprechaun makes young Darby the piper one of the best in all Ireland.

The fair folk are fond of a tune or two...


Art self for Tipperary folk tales

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2021-05-18

Illustration from few months ago of Borris ileigh players who captained Tipperary to All-Ireland victories.

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2021-03-20

1768: Death of Rev Laurence Sterne. CofE clergy/novelist eg 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy' & sermons/memoirs https://t.co/f2Ma3s0wIe https://t.co/EQQpZDDK1l https://t.co/0V3nndrpoi

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2021-03-18

1907: Death in Paris of John O’Leary. Leading Fenian.👨‍🎓 (Law/Medicine); didn't take degree. IRB, so 20 years penal servitude. In exile lived mainly in Paris & visited US. "Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;" WB Yeats! https://t.co/wa1LtQkuz2

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2021-03-16

diary
Marguerite Gardiner (1789-1849) from Tipperary was a writer, journalist and society hostess who married at 15 but escaped a violent marriage to become Countess of Blessington. She documented her friendship with Lord Byron in 'Conversations of Lord Byron'.

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2021-02-25

Blast from the past.
Illustration I did in 2014 of Tipperary hurling great, Eoin Kelly

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2021-02-04

2 Feb 1550: d. Sir Francis Bryan, Henry VIII's 'Vicar of Hell' at Clonmel Co. Tipperary (BM)

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2021-02-03