Great Grand Father's Obituary

This looks to be your ancestor in the 1901 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tipperary/Carrick_On_Suir/Strand_Lane/1695120/

and in 1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tipperary/Carrick_on_Suir__Urban_/Quay/839948/

I can see a possibkle marriage that might fit this couple. John Mahoney to Ellen Ryan, registered Clonmel 1866 volume 9, page 344. (The O & Mc prefixes in some Irish names can be detachable. Sometimes you find them used, and sometimes not. It's absence or presence doesn't always indicate a conscious decision about changing the name).

Bob,

Glad to help. I would order  acopy of the 1866 marriage cert to see where they were living at that time. It will also give you the fathers names and their occupations, all of which may help you research further.

You can order a photocopy from GRO Roscommon for ?4 per certificate. Put the place, year, quarter (where there is one), volume & page number on the application form (anywhere). Don?t worry about leaving some boxes blank. You don?t need to fill them all in if you have the reference details. http://www.groireland.ie/ You have to post or fax the form to them but they will e-mail the copy certificate to you if you wish. Tick the relevant box on the form.

Tradition was to marry in the bride?s church (assuming the couple attended different churches) so that may be the place to look for the bride?s baptism and that of any siblings. Unless it was a registry office marriage, the specific church and denomination will be on the certificate.

Elwyn

As I understand it, the Stone Throwers were youths from Tipperary Hill who, in the 1920s, objected to a new traffic light on Tipperary Hill because it sported the British "red" prominently placed over the Irish "green". Traditional "red-over-green" lights were interpreted as symbols of England over Ireland and offended the youths of the close-knit Irish neighborhood. I gather they kept breaking the red light till it was altered to have the red underneath the green.

(I assume there wasn?t a lot to keep the kids of Syracuse occupied in the 1920s if this was how they decided to spend their spare time? However it makes an amusing story.)

There?s a similar bit of fun in Glasgow involving the Duke of Wellington (Irish born of course). There?s a statue of him riding his horse on a plinth in the main square in Glasgow city centre. Most weekends people climb up and put a traffic cone on his head (or occasionally, to make it more interesting, under his arm instead). Sometimes his horse gets a cone too. The city authorities send someone along every Monday morning to remove the cones. This is reckoned to have cost thousands of pounds over the years. Recently the authorities proposed raising the statue higher up to make it harder to climb. There was a massive protest in the city, as it has become a national pastime. Tourists apparently now come specially to take photos of the statue, and naturally you can now buy sweatshirts with an image of the statue and a cone on Wellington?s head.

If you google ?Duke of Wellington statue Glasgow? you?ll get loads of pictures. Or you can read about it here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24907190