The Presbyterian Church in Birr grew in numbers in the 1840s following the Crotty Schism. Fr William Crotty (with his cousin Fr Michael Crotty) led this breakaway Catholic congregation to join the Presbyterian Church. Crotty's Church built to emulate a Presbyterian Hall was erected in Castle Street in 1839. A new church building for the Presbyterian congregation was erected in 1885 in John's Mall, not now in use.
Daingean Town Hall Committee is a voluntary community group which oversees the running of the town hall, formerly the town's courthouse, as a community centre.
Edenderry Poor Law Union Industrial and Agricultural Society
Founded in 1925 and acquired by the Williams Group through B. Daly & Co. Ltd. in 1966. The company was established as a wholesaler of poultry, rabbits and game and specialises since 1966 in poultry and game processing. The brand of the ACE chickens was one of their best known products.
It supplied the of principal supermarket chains and frozen food distributors in Ireland in the 1970s (a quarter of the Irish broiler chicken market - ca. 6 million birds per year).
The company was incorporated in 1962 and acted as the controlling company of the retailing division. In the 1970s there were around 30 Five Star Supermarkets opened, with off-licence sections offering the range of wines, spirits and mineral drinks manufactured by the Williams Group.
In the 1975 the company acquired 13 Allied Suppliers Stores trading under the Lipton name.
Quinnsworth acquired the chain in 1979. 2008 the company was dissolved.
Parish councils were based on Roman Catholic parishes and were operating during the Second World War Emergency.
They were set up by Muintir na Tíre ( "People of the Country" - national voluntary organisation promoting community development) as an urgent initiative to deal with the threat of foreign invasion, food shortages and unemployment.
James Rogers set up his practice at High St., Tullamore in 1908 or 1909. Following his appointment to the post of county registrar for Offaly in 1926, his partner in the firm James A. Ennis took over its management. In a neat swap, Ennis succeeded Rogers as county registrar in 1943 and Rogers returned to private practice at Rogers & Co. Eugene Hunt took over the firm in 1967 following Rogers death but it was wound up by the Law Society in 1982 due to Hunt's bankruptcy.
While working in Tullamore Distillery since 1864, D. E. Williams had also established his own grocery business in 1891 in Tullamore. This rapidly expanded to 26 bars, groceries and hardware stores all within a 30-mile radius of Tullamore. The branch houses, mostly licensed, were located in neighbouring towns, and the company expanded into an important wine and spirit business, general wholesale, tea and mineral waters. D. E. Williams Ltd. also had interests in malting and seed/corn dealing, which expanded in the 1950s as it became the supplier of malt to other distillers and brewers through the Midland Malting Co. Ltd. in 1968.
In 1961, D. E. Williams Ltd. expanded into the supermarket business and established the chain of Five-Star supermarkets, some on the sites of the original Williams branch shops. In 1966, the Williams Group Tullamore Ltd was incorporated and comprised the companies D. E Williams Ltd., B. Daly & Co. Ltd, Keily & Co. Ltd., and Irish Mist Liqueur Company.
In 1997 both companies were sold to Greencore plc.
Tullamore GAA Club was founded on 26 May 1888 and won its first title in 1890 when it defeated Banagher in the final of the Offaly Championships (football). Its club colours were initially red and green, but inspired by the 1916 Rising, the club changed its colours to green, white and gold in 1917. In the early 1920s, Tullamore gave the county team the right to wear the tricolour as the county colours and adopted the blue and white colours which are still used today.
Having played in rented fields at Church Road, and then Tinnycross, the club acquired land at Ballyduff Park in the 1910s. In 1932, it developed a site on the Arden Road and in 1934, O'Connor Park was opened. Following the decision in 2001 to let Offaly County Board lease O'Connor Park, O'Brien Park was developed for use by Tullamore GAA Club.