Qualla: Tipperary (town) https://qualla.com/tipperary-town en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/4/tipperary-town-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tipperary (town) https://qualla.com/tipperary-town Tipperary (town): Introduction https://qualla.com/tipperary-town/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. "It's a long way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go..." The British soldiers who marched off to the trenches of France in 1914 sang it as they boarded the troopships. The song was a music-hall novelty by Jack Judge - whose grandparents had come from this town - and Harry Williams. They had written it for fun in 1912. Within two years it was the unofficial anthem of the British Expeditionary Force. The lyric attached the name of a small market town in south-central Ireland to one of the great choruses of the twentieth century. The town itself, Tipperary, has spent the century since trying to make peace with the war it accidentally became famous for. Its International Peace Award, founded by locals, has been given to Bob Geldof, Ban Ki-moon, and Juan Manuel Santos. The town is the county seat of nothing - that honour belongs to Clonmel - but it is the place whose name everyone knows.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/4/tipperary-town-wp/gc64-tipperary-town-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tipperary (town): A barracks, a song, and an ambush https://qualla.com/tipperary-town/ Photo credit ArnoutVos, CC BY-SA 3.0. Between 1874 and 1878 a large British Army barracks went up in the town. It would shape Tipperary's twentieth-century reputation more than anything else. The barracks trained soldiers for the First World War, and during the Irish War of Independence it became a base for the Black...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/4/tipperary-town-wp/gc64-tipperary-town-a-barracks-a-song-and-an-ambush.mp3 0:06 2 full Tipperary (town): New Tipperary https://qualla.com/tipperary-town/ Photo credit ArnoutVos, CC BY-SA 3.0. The other great drama of Tipperary's nineteenth century was the Land War. Between 1888 and 1889 tenants of Arthur Smith-Barry, the local landlord, withheld their rents in solidarity with his tenants in County Cork - a tactic borrowed from the wider Plan of Campaign organised by I...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/4/tipperary-town-wp/gc64-tipperary-town-new-tipperary.mp3 0:06 3 full Tipperary (town): Mountains, a racecourse, butter https://qualla.com/tipperary-town/ Photo credit ArnoutVos, CC BY-SA 3.0. The town sits on the N24 between Limerick city and Waterford city, with the Galtee Mountains rising visibly to the south and the Slievenamon range to the east. It is a long-established market town with a large agricultural catchment in west Tipperary and east Limerick. Today it s...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/4/tipperary-town-wp/gc64-tipperary-town-mountains-a-racecourse-butter.mp3 0:06 4 full Tipperary (town): The Tipperary diaspora https://qualla.com/tipperary-town/ Photo credit ArnoutVos, CC BY-SA 3.0. The list of people the town has produced is unusually international. Peter Campbell was a naval officer who became the founder of the Uruguayan navy. George Thomas, called the Raja from Tipperary, was an Irish adventurer who established his own independent kingdom at Hansi in nor...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/4/tipperary-town-wp/gc64-tipperary-town-the-tipperary-diaspora.mp3 0:06 5 full Tipperary (town): From a marching song to a peace prize https://qualla.com/tipperary-town/ Photo credit ArnoutVos, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Tipperary International Peace Award was founded by locals who wanted to counter the association between their town and war. The song It's a Long Way to Tipperary had attached the name of their home to one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, and they tried to detach i...

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