Crossword clues for tipperary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place in Ireland, from Irish Tiobraid Arann "well of the Ara (river)."
Wikipedia
Tipperary (; ) is a town and a civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland. Its population was 4,415 at the 2006 census. It is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and is in the historical barony of Clanwilliam. The town gave its name to County Tipperary.
'''Tipperary ''' is the name of:
"Tipperary" is the name of an Irish-oriented love song written in 1907 by Leo Curley, James M. Fulton and J. Fred Helf. It is not to be confused with the much better-known song from 1912, " It's a Long Way to Tipperary". Both were sung at different times by early recording star Billy Murray.
The full lyrics can be found at 1 and 2.
Chorus
Faith, it's me that's nearly crazy From me Tipperary daisy All the day me heart's "un-aisy" [uneasy] Sure, the thing I find That's on me mind Is the darlin' girl I left behind Far off in dear old Tipperary.The term "ferninst" which appears in the second verse is an old-fashioned expression meaning "beside" (as in "she sat ferninst me").
Tipperary, also known as Tipperary County, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Tipperary is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2016 general election. The constituency elects 5 deputies ( Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV). Another constituency of the same name existed between 1923 and 1948.
Tipperary was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.
Usage examples of "tipperary".
Tempers, however, brightened at sunrise, and by the time the hundred men under the command of Captain Cartwright and Lieutenants Fraser and Maycock arrived at the Tipperary station every one was in a good-humoured, contemptuous frame of mind.
Marguerite Ryan is no Tipperary Joan of Arc, but sooner or later she might have had to defend her life with that husband the way he was.
The priest who married the Ryans below in Tipperary had the best of intentions, as did the Ryans themselves.
Cahir, County Tipperary by a small crowd, almost exclusively women, after receiving a suspended sentence for manslaughter.
In county Cork and Tipperary we found Protestant landlords who had sold their estates.
Pallas on the Tipperary border, I determined to drive over and visit the scene of action.
The very little cheerfulness there is in Connaught is quite absent from Munster, or at least the Tipperary border of county Limerick.
Yesterday, the whole border-folk of county Limerick and county Tipperary turned up at Pallas, and the conduct of the crowd was such as to lead persons by no means of an alarmist character to expect an ugly morrow.
While the 48th came on from Tipperary the 9th came on also by rail from Limerick, together with a half battery of the Royal Artillery.
Limerick, Cork, or Tipperary, this account might appear to English readers rather as an imaginative and highly-coloured picture, painted for the Christmas market from a number of models, than as a simple sketch in neutral greys as exactly and faithfully drawn as is possible to the writer.
Milligan, or the Tipperary Boy, as he was more often called, soon spread through the township, and, in consequence, by the time we faced each other in the centre of the floor, from which the furniture had been removed, as I have already described, the large room was packed to the point of suffocation, and the air was rank with the odour of stale smoke, drink, and wet clothes.
Cleary, Bridget: Tipperary woman burned to death by her husband in 1895.
A job with wages every week, it was, so we left Tipperary to live in Clare.
Last I heard, you were helping reorganize the Republicans in Tipperary town.
Fifteen years earlier, a young Tipperary woman called Bridget Cleary had been tortured over the grate of her own kitchen fireplace, soaked with paraffin oil and burned alive.