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THE July lecture from Offaly History is entitled “Building Offaly’s courthouses and prisons in the 18th and 19th centuries”. The lecture takes...

Early 1922 saw just two local organs of public opinion in Offaly – the  Midland Tribune and the  King’s County Chronicle. The Tribune was ...

Archives in Offaly covering the War of Independence period are varied and interesting. This blog will give a short overview of archival material in Offaly ...

Rathrobin is a book that keeps on giving. Its 250 Biddulph photographs from the 1870s to 1920s, all carefully captioned, depict the two Irelands – unionis...

Rathrobin is a book that keeps on giving. Its 250 Biddulph photographs from the 1870s to 1920s, all carefully captioned, depict the two Irelands – unionis...

LAST Friday Dr Christopher O’C  Fitz-simon was welcomed to Offaly Archives in Tullamore by archivist Lisa Shortall, county librarian Eimear McGinn an...

Offaly business mans nine decades of achievement recalled Reporter:  ); OFFALY History seldom write a blog on a living person but we are making an exception for John Flanagan, the modest man from the Meelaghans, Puttaghan and New Road, Tullamore who has invested his whole life (so far) in making Tullamore a better place for people to live, work, bank and even pray in. We in Offaly History occupy offices at Bury Quay rebuilt for us in 1991-2 by the John Flanagan firm and now Offaly Archives, a...

Offaly people asked to be visual historians of Covid period Reporter: editor@tullamoretribune.ie Charlie and Danny Kinahan in their back garden maintaining social distancing from their inquisitive neighbours during the first lockdown in 2020 );  ); In these extraordinary times, it is more important than ever to recognise and document the changes to our environment due to the Covid-19 crisis. Offaly Libraries are encouraging everyone in County Offaly to help them create a visual archive of th...