Mrs. Claus To Make Special Visit To South Tipperary Arts Centre For Storytime And A Sing Song

Mrs. Claus is making a special appearance at South Tipperary Arts Centre (E91 W658) on Saturday the 14th of December to visit the boys and girls before Christmas Day. She will be visiting the South Tipperary Arts Centre Chapel where she will host two full hours of festive fun for children of all ages. The […]

Call for Tipperary stories of Ireland’s Rural Electrification Scheme

Local people with memories of Ireland’s Rural Electrification Scheme are being sought to retell their tales as part of a new publication due out later this year. The book ‘Then There Was Light’ will provide a valuable snapshot of the time Ireland left the dark ages by allowing power and light into even the most […]

Folklore and local history from Co. Tipperary Schools’ Collection now available on www.duchas.ie

The Schools’ Collection, an important component of the National Folklore Collection, UCD, contains the folklore material recorded by pupils between 1937 and 1939. It consists of over half a million pages recorded by around 50,000 primary school pupils in the 26 counties. Material from the Schools’ Collection has been published on an ongoing basis on […]