[1] It is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and is in the historical barony of Clanwilliam.

The other is the Maid of Erin statue, erected to commemorate the Irish patriots, Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, who are collectively known as the Manchester Martyrs.

The Maid of Erin is a freestanding monument; erected in 1907, it was relocated to a corner site on the main street in 2003.

[citation needed] The first engagement of the Irish War of Independence took place at nearby Solloghead Beg Quarry on 21 January 1919 when Dan Breen and Seán Treacy led a group of IRA volunteers in an attack against Royal Irish Constabulary members who were transporting gelignite.

[citation needed] On 30 September 2005, President of Ireland Mary McAleese, in a gesture of reconciliation, unveiled the newly refurbished Memorial Arch of the barracks in the presence of several ambassadors and foreign emissaries, military attachés and town dignitaries; a detachment of the Local Defence Force, the Number 1 Irish Army Band and various ex-service organisations paraded.

The Arch is the only remaining porch of what was the officers' mess and has panels mounted bearing the names of fallen members of the Irish, American, British and Australian militaries.

It has a large agricultural catchment area in west Tipperary and east County Limerick and was historically a significant market town.

[15] Among the other recipients are Live Aid founder Bob Geldof[14] for 1985,[15] Irish senator and peace campaigner Gordon Wilson[16] for 1987,[15] former Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev[14] for 1988,[15] South African president Nelson Mandela[14] for 1989,[15] former US president Bill Clinton[14] for 2000,[15] former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani[14] for 2001,[15] John O’Shea, founder of the charity Goal[16] for 2003,[15] Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto[14] for 2007,[15] US Senator Edward Kennedy[14] for 2009,[15] Afghan human rights campaigner Dr Sima Samar[14] for 2010,[15] former Irish president, Mary McAleese and her husband, senator Martin McAleese[16] for 2011,[15] Pakistani activist for female education and youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai for 2012,[15] former US envoy to Northern Ireland Richard Haass for 2013,[16] the former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for 2014,[17] and Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos for 2017.

[19] A song of remembrance is "Tipperary So Far Away", which commemorates one of its famous sons, Seán Treacy; in an address to the people of Ballyporeen on 3 June 1984, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, quoted a line from this song: "And I'll never more roam, from my own native home, in Tipperary so far away".

Gary Moore's song "Business as Usual" tells about him and his love: "I lost my virginity to a Tipperary woman".

Shane MacGowan's song "Broad Majestic Shannon" includes the lyric "Heard the men coming home from the fair at Shinrone, their hearts in Tipperary wherever they go".