Tipperary town library is to host a free talk on Tuesday evening (7pm start time) about the late Christopher Power.
The talk will be given by his grandson also named Christopher Power – a staff member at the local studies section of Carlow Library. The talk is titled “Tipperary’s lost son – the extraordinary life of Christopher Power”.
Mr Power was born in 1901 and died in 1965. The talk will cover how the young man born in the parish of Solohead and brought up in Tipperary town was involved in and affected by the Irish Revolutionary cause. He worked as a tobacconist and had access to the British Army Barracks in Tipperary town where he collected information for the IRA. After Bloody Sunday in November 1920, he went on the run after evading arrest at Harvey’s on Tipperary’s Main street. He spent the rest of the War of Independence attached to various Flying Columns and was arrested during the Civil War but was released covertly by a soldier who knew him. He went to live in county Wicklow where he worked as a commercial traveller.
The talk which begins at 7pm in Tipperary town library will cover the nature of his complicated relationship with his home county of Tipperary and how he was displaced by circumstances.
