Tipperary (city)
| Tipperary Town Tiobraid Árann Tipperary |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 28 '26 " N , 8 ° 9' 31" W | ||
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| Country | Ireland | ||
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| county | Tipperary | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | IE-TA | ||
| height | 102 m | ||
| surface | 3.4 km² | ||
| Residents | 4322 (2011) | ||
| density | 1,286.3 Ew. / km² | ||
| Website | www.tipperarytc.ie (English) | ||
 Tipperary Main Street
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Tipperary ( Irish : Tiobraid Árann; 'source of the Ara') is a town with 4,322 inhabitants (as of 2011) in the south of the Republic of Ireland , in the west of the county of the same name .
Tipperary became known worldwide through the song It's a Long Way to Tipperary .
history
The city was founded in the 12th century; the city's Augustinian monastery was founded in the 13th century. Tipperary has a long tradition as a market town and still has an extensive shopping street with many shops.
traffic
The city is on the N24 from Waterford to Limerick ; the N74 connects them to Cashel , a regional road with Charleville on the N20.
Trains to Waterford and Limerick run from the station, which opened in 1848 .
Tipperary Peace Prize
The celebrity of It's A Long Way to Tipperary has rubbed off on the city as well. In order to no longer be primarily associated with war, the city established a peace congress in 1983. Since 1984 he has awarded the Tipperary Peace Prize and the Tipperary Peace Song every year.
The winners include pop musician Bob Geldof , former Irish President Mary McAleese , former US President Bill Clinton , former South African President Nelson Mandela and the Cluster Munition Coalition , a global alliance against cluster munitions.
Town twinning
Mautern in Styria and Parthenay in the French region Nouvelle-Aquitaine are partner cities of Tipperary. There are friendly connections with Weinstadt in Baden-Württemberg .
sons and daughters of the town
- John T. Dunn (1838–1907), American politician
- Lumsden Hare (1875–1964), actor
- Raymond James Boland (1932-2014), Roman Catholic Bishop
- Frank Delaney (1942–2017), journalist, TV producer, author
- Frank Corcoran (* 1944), composer
- John Alphonsus Ryan (* 1952), Catholic religious, Bishop of Mzuzu in Malawi
- Alan Quinlan (born 1974), rugby player
Web links
- Tourism Website (English)
- Website of the Tipperary Peace Convention and Facebook presence of the Tipperary Peace Convention (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central Statistics Office: Census 2011 (PDF; 3.8 MB)