{"id":438,"date":"2012-02-02T21:44:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:44:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:44:49","slug":"tipperary-book-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/tipperary-book-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipperary Book of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Holycross -The Awakening of the Abbey\u2019 by Willie Hayes has won the prestigious Tipperiana \u2013Tipperary Book of the Year Award 2011<\/p>\n<p>On last Saturday evening, 29<sup>th<\/sup> January, at a function in the \u2018Abymill\u2019, Fethard, the 2011 award was presented to the author, coincidentally a native of Fethard<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the 10<sup>th<\/sup> occasion on which the annual award, called the Tipperarania Award, was presented by the Fethard Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other popular 2011publications on Tipperary subjects in the running for the award were <em>Doyle, The Greatest Hurling Story Ever Told<\/em>, by John Harrington, and <em>Father John Kenyon, The Rebel Priest<\/em>, by Tim Boland.<\/p>\n<p>At the Fethard function, author Willie Hayes was presented with a pottery reproduction of the owl with outstretched wings that is on the north choir wall of Holycross abbey church.\u00a0 This notable carving of the life-size barn owl is the most realistic of the stone carvings to be seen in the abbey church which has a wealth of exquisitely carved decorative features.\u00a0 This apt pottery trophy, designed by the well-known Fethard potter, D\u00f3ir\u00edn Saurus,\u00a0 has the owl mounted on a stand containing the script <em>Holycross, The Awakening of The Abbey, by William J. Hayes, Tipperariana Book of The Year 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Holycross the Awakening of the Abbey\u2019 was launched in November 2011 to huge critical acclaim, and the first print run sold out completely in a number of weeks. A reprint of the paperback edition is now available in outlets in Holycross, Thurles and Nenagh.<\/p>\n<p>We pass on our congratulations to Willie on receiving this very well deserved prize which is a just recognition of his immense contribution to Holycross Abbey and indeed to the parish of Holycross\/ Ballycahill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6622.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[438]\" title=\"Tipperariana_6622\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-441\" title=\"Tipperariana_6622\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6622-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6622-300x267.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6622-1024x913.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6627.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6627.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[438]\" title=\"Tipperariana_6627\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-442\" title=\"Tipperariana_6627\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6627-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6627-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tipperariana_6627-1023x737.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Holycross -The Awakening of the Abbey\u2019 by Willie Hayes has won the prestigious Tipperiana \u2013Tipperary Book of the Year Award 2011 On last Saturday evening, 29th January, at a function in the \u2018Abymill\u2019, Fethard, the 2011 award was presented to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}