April, 2011 - Thurles Information

Tipperary Giant Cornelius Magrath

Cornelius Magrath the Silvermines Giant,

The skeleton of Cornelius Magrath, the ‘Tipperary Giant,’ will be one of the exhibits on display in an exhibition, marking 300 years of medicine, at Dublin’s Trinity College, over the coming weeks.

The parents and siblings of Cornelius, who was born near the Silvermines, Nenagh, Co Tipperary, were […]

Sadler’s Wells Dies At Coolmore Stud

Sadler’s Wells, possibly the best sire Europe has ever known died peacefully at Coolmore Stud in Co Tipperary this afternoon, at the age of 30.

Sadler’s Wells has been Champion Sire in Great Britain and Ireland 14 times, as well as North America once and Champion Sire in France three times. The stallion had been […]

Shannon Protection Alliance Meeting In Dromineer

Part of Tipperary's Lough Derg shore line.

The Shannon Protection Alliance will hold a public meeting next Thursday, April 28th at the Lough Derg Yacht Club in Dromineer.

The purpose of this meeting is to raise awareness and if possible also establish another branch of its group which are currently opposed to […]

Thurles Easter Sunday Mass Began At Sunrise

Easter Morning 2011. Photo J.O'Loughlin.

Easter Sunday Ceremonies began early here in Thurles this morning, beginning at 6.00am with an open air Mass in the quiet old graveyard of Killinan, [Map Ref.]just outside the town. Excellent weather conditions and a perfect early morning sunrise greeted the large crowd, comprised of young and old, […]

Easter Proclamation Of Irish Republic

Half-copy of the Irish 1916 Proclamation

Ninty Five years ago today, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic (In Irish: Forógra na Poblachta), issued by the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army, was read by Patrick Pearse, at four minutes past noon on Easter Monday, April 24th, 1916, from the steps of the General […]