Here you will find brief local stories of interest. Memorial and Historic information from the local areas. Photos, Videos and other relevant information will be added regularly.
General Liam Lynch 101st year Anniversary Memorial Mass, 14th April 2024
Some photos from the General Liam Lynch 101st year Anniversary Memorial Mass which took place on Sunday 14th April 2024 ...
Beautiful framed memorial to his Uncle General Liam Lynch, presented.
Matthew Houlihan is with Christy O Callaghan and Liam Lynch Centenary Newcastle at The Liam Lynch Monument. Beautiful framed memorial ...
Podcast from Nugent’s Pub in Newcastle on Morning Ireland on Spotify, 10th April 2023.
Shane McElhatton, Series Editor for the Decade of Commemorations, reports live from Nugent's Pub in Newcastle, Tipperary as the town ...
Annual Commemoration Event at Newcastle Community Hall 10th April 2023
Annual Commemoration Event at Newcastle Community Hall. Oration led by Eamon O’Cuiv TD ...
Plaque unveiling at Nugent’s Pub in recognition of the events that took place in the house on April 10th 1923
Unveiling of Plaque at Nugents Pub in recognition of the events that took place in the house on April 10th ...
Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Liam Lynch Monument 2023
The crowds assembled on this glorious and very special morning on the Knockmealdown Mountains to pay tribute to Liam Lynch ...
Screening of “The Dying Days – The Final Journey of General Liam Lynch 1923”
Newcastle Community Hall - Screening of “The Dying Days – The Final Journey of General Liam Lynch 1923” Film Film ...
“Follow the Footsteps” walking tour – on Sunday 9th April 2023
Just under 100 walkers left Newcastle to "Follow the Footsteps" taken by General Liam Lynch 100 years ago tomorrow. We ...
Launch of Gerry Shannons book – “To Declare a Republic”on Saturday Evening 8th April 2023
We had a Full house tonight for the Launch of Gerry Shannons book- "To Declare a Republic". Some words from ...
Historical Bus Tour on Saturday 8th April 2023
Great buzz around this morning as our first event got underway. Two full bus loads headed off on our historical ...
History of the Day – 07 April 1923
On this day 07 April 1923. Liam, Frank Aiken and Sean Hyde left Pierre Wall’s in the Nire Valley and ...
History of the Day – 6th April 1923
On this day, the 6th of April 1923. Liam Lynch, Frank Aiken and Sean Hyde, crossed through The Gap in ...
History of the Day – 4th April 1923
On the 4th April 1923 Liam Lynch, Frank Aiken and Sean Hyde left “Katmandu” safehouse, near Mullinahone, to head for ...
Safehouses of South Tipperary
This is the house Liam Lynch stayed in on the night of the 9th of April 1923. It belonged to ...
Katmandu – It’s NOT where you think it is.
Katmandu is not where you think it is. This one is in Poulacapple between Mullinahone and Callan. Katmandu was a ...
Kirwan’s Graigavalla – Liam Lynch stayed there more than once.
After the Executive meeting in the Nire on March 26th, 1923, Liam Lynch, Frank Aiken, and Sean Hyde crossed the ...
Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Dᴀʏ – 26th Mᴀʀᴄʜ 1923
Profile of Tom Derrig present at the meeting in the Nire with Liam Lynch on the 26th March 1923 Derrig, ...
Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Dᴀʏ – 25th Mᴀʀᴄʜ 1923
The Executive meeting continues at James Cullinanes Bliantas the executive meeting started on the 23rd and continues through 24th, 25th ...
Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Dᴀʏ – 24ʀᴅ Mᴀʀᴄʜ 1923
Sean Dowling (1896 – 1988). We are going to profile some of the lesser known participants who attended the Executive ...
Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Dᴀʏ – 23ʀᴅ Mᴀʀᴄʜ 1923
A meeting was to be held in the Goatenbridge area, probably at Nugent’s of Poulatar, on March 15th, 2023. As ...
The Eamon Bulfin Legacy Pipe Band from Argentina will join us in Newcastle on Easter Monday
We are really looking forward to welcoming the Eamon Bulfin Legacy Pipe Band who will join us for our parade ...
Capture of District Inspector Gilbert Potter – April 23, 1921
On April 23, 1921 District Inspector Potter is captured by the 3rd Tipperary Brigade, IRA, following the Hyland’s Cross Ambush ...
The Newcastle Company of the Third Tipperary Brigade 1919-1923
The 3rd Tipperary Brigade,based in South Tipperary was one of the most active of all such units that constituted the ...
HISTORY OF THE DAY, ON THIS DAY – 18TH MARCH 1952
In the early 1950s one of Liam Lynch’s biographers, Florence O’Donoghue, advertised in various Irish Newspapers asking for people’s memories ...
HISTORY OF THE DAY, ON THIS DAY – 17TH MARCH 1923
On the 17th March, Liam Lynch left Gurteenflugh on the first stage of his journey to the Executive meeting, the ...
A Brief History of the Liam Lynch Monument
After the end of the Civil War in May 1923 Ireland was not a friendly place for any person who ...
History of the Day – On this Day 15th March 1923
As early as the 2nd of March, General Liam Lynch proposed a meeting of the Executive to be held on ...
Matt Houlihan recounts the role his granduncle Bill Houlihan played on the 10th of April 1923 – Video
From: John Foley Images. A lovely piece of oral history here. Matt Houlihan recounts the role his granduncle Bill Houlihan ...
𝗔 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘅𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆
Following the Establishment of the Liam Lynch Memorial Committee in Feb 1934, whose goal it was to build a fitting ...
LIAM LYNCH THE EARLY YEARS
Liam was born near Anglesboro, Co. Limerick, in the townland of Barnagurraha in November 1892. He was the fifth of ...
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗠 𝗟𝗬𝗡𝗖𝗛 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗥- 𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗪
We are delighted to say that our General Liam Lynch Commemorative Calendars are on sale now. They have been delivered ...
Destruction of Tubrid House or”Ministers Hill”
Tubrid house or the "Ministers Hill " as its known locally sits overlooking the Tubrid Area outside Cahir. It was ...
Tipperary Book Launch of Gerard Shannon’s new book “Liam Lynch – To Declare a Republic”
We are delighted to announce that as part of our General Liam Lynch Centenary Weekend that we will host the ...
RTE NATIONWIDE VISITS NEWCASTLE
As part of an RTE Nationwide programme on the end of the Irish Civil War, we were delighted to welcome ...
The Liam Lynch Monument was unveiled on the 7th April 1935
The Liam Lynch Monument was unveiled on the 7th April 1935. Over 7000 people arrived in Newcastle from all over ...
Our friends in Fermoy are holding a General Liam Lynch Centenary Commemoration on Easter Sunday 9th April at 2pm
As part of our Centenary Weekend we are delighted to support our friends in Fermoy who are holding a General ...
𝗟𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝘆𝗻𝗰𝗵, 𝗧𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝘆𝗻𝗲
Grandniece of General Liam Lynch Dolores Lyne has created a wonderful exhibition called to the letter, where she follows some ...
LIAM LYNCH AND THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL LUCAS
In June 1920 , Liam Lynch engineered one of the most famous incidents of the war of Independence. Liam was ...
Members of the Ballybacon B Company 6th Battalion, 3rd Tipperary Brigade.
Michael Condon Crough Lower listed here was a Volunteers during the War of Independence and on the Anti Treaty side ...
Very Rare Map from The Third Tipperary Brigade
When viewed up close it has great detail in it. In December 2021, Tipperary Studies received an historic map on ...
General Liam Lynch Commemorative Calendar. Available online now
** ON SALE ONLINE NOW ** Be the First to secure your limited print edition General Liam Lynch Commemorative Calendar ...
John Foley talks about Liam Lynch and the making of his film “THE DYING DAYS”
Who was Liam Lynch? When people ask me that, I ask them if they know who Michael Collins was. When ...
The Building of the Liam Lynch Monument
A very rare picture of the Liam Lynch Monument nearing completion built before the days of safe pass.The Monument was ...
MEMORABILIA – On loan to us
We just received into our possession today the Irish Volunteer hat of Bill Houlihan it is over 100 years old ...
SAFE HOUSES OF COUNTY TIPPERARY – KATMANDU
Katmandu in Mullinahone Co. Tipperary - the forgotten hideout of the Troubles where General Liam Lynch among others often stayed ...
SAFE HOUSES OF SOUTH TIPPERARY – KNOCKNAREE
PIERY WALL KNOCKNAREE Piery Wall, lived in Knocknaree in the Nire Valley, locally he was called the Bard of Knocknaree ...
SAFE HOUSES OF SOUTH TIPPERARY – CROHAN, NEWCASTLE
Crohan Newcastle Co. Tipperary - The Houlihan house provided a safehouse during the War of Independence and the Civil war ...
HISTORY OF THE DAY. On this day 89 years ago, 23rd Feb 1934.
23rd Feb 1934 the first meeting of the Liam Lynch Memorial Committee was held. The purpose of the meeting was ...
𝗔 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:- “𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀” 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿.
Our Centenary weekend will kick off with a "Follow the Footsteps" Historical Bus Tour which will travel across the significant ...
The Liam Lynch Monument was officially unveiled on the 7th April 1935.
Crowds of over 7000 people travelled from all corners of Ireland to pay homage to their fallen hero, General Liam ...