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Mná Month Continues In Cashel Library.

Mná Month continues in Cashel Library, but do remember booking is essential for all those attending, so do please telephone Cashel Library at 062 63825, to avoid disappointment.

Current Photographic Display:

(Note: Display continues only until March 17th 2024).
Cashel library celebrates the incredible talent of local photographer Ger Long. From the captivating scenes of nature to the heart-warming moments of childhood, every photograph in this exhibition titled “Liminal”, (between past and present), tells a unique and inspiring story.

Wednesday 13th March @ 7pm: Visit by Author Eimear Ryan.

A chance to meet and greet acclaimed author Eimear Ryan, who will discuss her book “The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport”; she burrows deep into the confluence of gender and sport.

Friday 15th March @11am: St Patrick & the Patriarchy; lecture by Branch Librarian Ms Maura Barrett.

St Patrick is synonymous with Christianity’s arrival in Ireland, heralding a new religious ideology, patriarchal and monotheistic, replacing the older order of the divine feminine.

NOTE: All events are provided FREE of charge at Cashel Library.
Again, Booking Essential please to Tel. No.: 062 63825.
[ You can locate the Cashel Library building, situated on Friar Street, Lady’s Well, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, HERE. (G487+RX) ].

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An Invitation To Launch Of ‘Mná Month’ At Cashel Library.

Ms Maura Barrett, (Cashel Library) Reports:-

A Cara,

Please join us in Cashel Library on Friday evening next, March 1st, at 7:00pm with country music sensation Ms Dee Morrissey to launch our Mná Month celebrations.

Good News; Mná Month is happening again at Cashel Library and the schedule is being currently finalised.

To date the following events have already been finalised.

NOTE: All events are provided FREE of charge at Cashel Library. Booking Essential please to Tel. No.: 062 63825. Refreshments will be served at all events.
[ You can locate the Cashel Library building, situated on Friar Street, Lady’s Well, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, HERE. (G487+RX) ].

Finalised Events To Date.

Friday, 1st March, at 7:00pm: Opening Concert with Country Music sensation Dee Morrissey.
Saturday, 2nd March, at 10:00am: Crafty Women Wellbeing Workshop entitled, “It is all about ME!”, with Noeleen Watson.
Monday, 4th March, at 11:00am: Free Online Services with your Local Library – Learn what your Library Card entitles you to, with IT Guru Paul Devane.
Tuesday, 5th March, at 7:00pm: Visit with Author Maureen O’Sullivan, “The Girl in the Tunnel”, a true story of her survival in the Magdalene Laundries.
Friday, 8th March, at 2:00pm: Stone Mad with Philip Quinn – Make Stone Pendants or Worry Stones using limestone and marble.
Monday, 11th March, at 11:00am: Strong Women Karaoke Sing-a-long with Claire Grant.
Tuesday, 12th March, at 11:00am: Memory Café with The Alzheimer’s Society.
Wednesday, 13th March, at 7:00pm: Visit with Author with Eimear Ryan, author of book “The Grass Ceiling”.
Tuesday, 19th March, at 6:30pm: Women’s Health and Menopause with Nicola Ryan Menopause Pharmacist
Tuesday, 26th March, at 3:00pm: Genealogy with Mary Guinan Darmody.
Tuesday, 26th March, at 6:15pm: Movie NightShirley Valentine“.
Wednesday 27th March at 2:30pm: Sustainable Jewellery Making with Gillian Tobin
Thursday, 29th March, at 3:00pm: Circle Dancing with Tracey Tobin. (Circle Dance is a gentle healing way to bring mind, body & spirit together, Relieve stress and create energy).

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Attention: Get Your Free Digital Book Token.

World Book Day, 7th March 2024, is just around the corner.

Ahead of a host of annual celebrations across libraries, schools and book shops, World Book Day tokens have now been issued.

Same are valid from February 15th until March 31st 2024, and you can access your World Book Day token digitally, by simply clicking HERE.

In participating bookshops, each voucher entitles the bearer to a free World Book Day Book or €1.50 off books costing €3.99 or more.
Both Easons (Thurles Shopping Centre) and Bookworm (Parnell Street), here in Thurles town are taking part and below are some of the amazing World Book Day books, that you can pick up free from our local booksellers:-

Elmer and the Patchwork Story, by David McKee.
Greg the Sausage Roll: Lunchbox Superhero, by Mark and Roxanne Hoyle.
Dinosaur Club: On the Trail of a T-Rex, by Rex Stone.
Marv and the Ultimate Superpower, by Alex Falase-Koya.
Can You Get Jellyfish in Space?, by Dr Sheila Kanani.
Loki: Tales of a Bad God, by Walker Press.
The Curious Case of the Irish Yeti: Molly Malone and Bram Stoker, by Alan Nolan.
Inis Mara, by Tristan Rosenstock.

For more information on World Book Day visit your local book shop and www.worldbookday.com.

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Extract From ‘Irish Roadside Trifles’ Published In 1929 By T. O’Gorman.

The Angelus.

When about halfway on the high road between Dublin and Cork, I decided to have tea in the Cathedral town of Thurles and I said, “When thus refreshed, I shall think nothing of the 73 mile journey from there to the southern capital”.

These thoughts were in my mind, when a young girl on a bicycle came in the opposite direction and after looking at me, blessed herself as she was passing. “Now that’s queer” I said. “I wonder why she blessed herself; have I frightened her in any way? Would the devil by any chance have momentarily thrown his shadow over me and caused her to shelter behind the armour of that protecting sign”.
Certainly he has been busy in these parts; yonder is the mountain called by his name, (referring to the Devil’s Bit) and which so unmistakably bears his mark.
I felt anxious, and no wonder: but then I taught again on my journey, and looking at my watch I saw that the minute hand was just past the stroke of six, and I at once saw the explanation: it was the Angelus.
My hearing is not so good, and I did not hear the bell; but I have no doubt when she was passing there came floating through the air from the spire in Templemore, the sound of the evening bell, which she promptly answered by her act of homage. I was glad that the incident turned out to be so edifying, and that Satan was not playing any of his tricks.

In no place is this beautiful custom of saying the Angelus prayer more observant than in County Tipperary, and particularly in the town of Thurles, to which I was then traveling. There the great bell has a persuasive power that will not be denied. A tuneful time announces the solemn toll; and then work ceases, and heads our bared, and men’s minds are turned to the opening act in the great scheme of the redemption: when an angel visiting a house in Galilee saluted the occupant “Hail Mary”. Men at street corners drop their conversation on the scarcity of occupation and on the price of stout and tobacco, and turn their minds to the object of this heavenly visitor.
When doing business with the shopkeeper you will find that he suddenly ceases talking and when looking up to see why your question is unanswered, you will find him with bowed head saying the Angelus prayer.

Jean-François Millet’s painting of ‘The Angelus’, completed during the summer of 1857 just after the ending of the Great Irish Great Famine (1845-52). The painting’s initial title was ‘Prayer for the Potato Crop’.

The custom is poetical and appealing; and perhaps no picture has more copies than Millet’s famous “Angelus,” (Jean-François Millet 1814–1875), where he portrays two field workers with bowed heads and clasped hands, engaged in prayer.
A copy of this picture was the subject of my contemplation when on one occasion I was waiting in a room in the palace at Thurles, and I thought it a very suitable picture for that place.
I also saw on the same occasion, outside in the back lawn, two large bells hanging on a low suspension rack over a platform of cement. It looked as if this place of honour was their reward after long service. And so it was, for only eight miles away, but hundreds of years ago, they proclaimed the Angelus hour for the peace abiding monks, who on the other side of the Suir Valley, ere the steep sides of Slieveardagh hills are reached; built their Abbey church; and there for many years those bells controlled their working and their praying hours. But disruptive days set in, and the Iconoclasts* of that time cast the bells from the belfry tower, and as things of evil, made some earth cavern or river bed their ignoble burial place. But in time their good angel brought them to the light of the day and now at Thurles, in quiet seclusion in the Cathedral shade, they faintly vibrate in sympathy with the great bells overhead.

*Iconoclasts meaning a person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration and who attacks settled beliefs or institutions.

In this Cathedral the Waterford born operatic composer William Vincent Wallace spent a time as organist. And falling under the influence of the Angelus, he introduced into his opera Maritana, the beautiful Angelus scene, where the chorus, as Spanish peasants sing, so appealingly, the words: “See us kneel and hear us pray”. The Spanish are as faithful to the Angelus call as we Irish, and this is but natural; for where we not the same people as one time? Was it not from the sunny lands of Spain that the proud Milesians set sail in their good ships to this, their Isle of Destiny, to use a new combination of Moore’s well-known words. And though the more northern climate may have changed us somewhat, yes in fundamentals we are like our Spanish cousins and particularly in our loyalty to the Angelus bell.

While the bells of Thurles have this compelling power, the Cathedral has a mysterious influence; for as one enters one beholds emerging out of the gloom, pierced by stained glass rays a magic structure. Gently the gloomy veil rolls off and then come into view pillars and many arches; the far distant double-sided altar circled by the spacious Ambulator; the side altars with their splendid statues; and last, the vaulted covering overhead. The Cathedral, as it were, unveils itself for each visitor, comes forth to meet one, inviting you to stay and pray. This is the result of the peculiar light in the place; just that mixture of daylight and gloom which gives a vagueness that is associated with the idea of mystery and beauty.

The builders of the Thurles Cathedral, understanding the value of this, and seeing its effect in a church in Italy, wisely decided to reproduce it in Thurles by copying the Italian Church. And crowning their work, they hung in the lofty campanile the splendid bells, whose brass tongues persistently and untiringly compel men’s minds to ponder on the Joyful Mystery of the Annunciation.

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Christmas Coffee Morning, Cashel Library.

Note: For admission to this most welcome of Christmas events, booking is essential, so please do contact Cashel Library in advance on Tel: 062 63825 to confirm your attendance.

[ You may locate the Cashel Library building, situated on Friar Street, Lady’s Well, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, HERE. (G487+RX) ].

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