Cashel Library To Host Lecture On A Cashel, Co. Tipperary Bigamist.

Ms Maura Barrett, (Cashel Library) Reports:
An exciting lecture on a Cashel Bigamist, from the early 1800’s, will take place in Cashel Library on Thursday 28th August at 2:30pm.

This illustrated presentation will examine key themes arising from research into Irish convicts who had been transported to New South Wales in the early 19th century.

Australian-based Dr Damian John Gleeson, has been visiting Tipperary since the early 1980s and is descendant of the Gleeson, O’Brien and Collins families of Nenagh Co. Tipperary and Errinagh, Silvermines, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

As a qualified genealogist and historian, Mr Gleeson’s works include An Enduring Flame: St Patrick’s Mortlake, 1885-2020: An Irish-Australian Working-Class Community (Mortlake, NSW, 2021), winner of the City of Canada Bay Heritage Award in 2021, and The Rock of St George: celebrating the 125th anniversary of the first St Joseph’s Church/School, Rockdale (Rockdale City, NSW, 2017), winner of the Ron Rathbone Local History Prize, Bayside Council, 2017.

N.B. This exciting lecture is free to attend, but remember places for such popular events are limited. Please call Cashel library Tel: 062 63825, to secure your place.

Visitors attending this event can locate the Cashel Library building; situated on Friar Street, Lady’s Well, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, HERE. (Eircode E25 K798).