Irish History Bitesize!
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Lorraine Mulholland. Ex-teacher! Author! My book St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women @ColumbaBooks! Tweets: History/Herstory #folklore #otd 😇🪦🎶📚📽️ 🎨
Saint Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women is OUT NOW! Publisher @ColumbaBooks! Whether you're a teacher, church leader, parent/grandparent, any adult, or age 9+...its for you! 23 stories, tonnes of facts & quiz! An encyclopaedia of ALL Irish female saints! columbabooks.com/product/saint-…
A wee moan...my thyroid (stable 2 years) has gone underactive & I feel awful. Just started a dose of thyroxine. For those who pray, prayers for writing my next book appreciated! Meanwhile instead of work some comfort reading...in book 2 of AOGG she is "half-past sixteen" now. 🙏
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Wolfwalkers! Follows Robyn, a young apprentice hunter who journeys to Ireland with dad to wipe out the last wolf pack! Meets Mebh (member of tribe said to have ability to transform into wolves) & her mum goes missing! Weird animated #film #WyrdWednesday 🐺 youtube.com/watch?v=gj72cf…
Brig Gen Patrick Henry Jones (20 Nov 1830 #Westmeath-23 July 1900). Lawyer, public servant, Postmaster of NYC. Civil War; 30 major battles & many skirmishes. 1 of 10 Irish-American Brig Com'dr & 1 of 4 Irish born officers to become a divisional commander. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_H…
Ella Young (26 Dec 1867 Fenagh #Cullybackey / #Galgorm #Antrim-23 July 1956 CA). Poet & Celtic mythologist. Raised Dublin; Royal University @tcdalumni. C na mB; smuggled guns. Chair, Irish Myth/Lore @UCBerkeley. Dressed as druid! Sister=scholar Rose Maud dib.ie/biography/youn…
Old Thread: Irish rebellion of 1803: In opposition to Acts of Union 1800, Robert Emmet led an armed outbreak with #Dublin's working classes, that was easily suppressed. Thomas Paliser Russell & James "Jemmy" Hope also leaders of it. Lasted just 1 day. ⚔️ x.com/lorraineelizab…
#Otd 1803: 1803 Irish Rebellion: Following explosion at his arms depot on this date, @tcddublin's Robert Emmet brought forward his planned rebellion in Dublin to 23 July. Emmet had been leader in U.I. 1798 rebellion but fled to continent to escape & try to get help from France!
#Otd 1803: In opposition to Acts of Union 1800, Robert Emmet led an armed outbreak with #Dublin's working class. However, it was easily suppressed. Thomas Paliser Russell & James "Jemmy" Hope also leaders. Lasted just 1 day! Emmet executed Sept. ⚔️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_reb…
Richard Sutcliffe (26 Jan 1849 #Tipperary-23 July 1930). Moved to Barnsley, Yorkshire. Invented 1st coal cutting machine & underground conveyor belt! Greatly reduced labour needed to transport coal!⛏️Descendants run a company making playground equipment! horburyhistory.org/Richard-Sutcli…
23 July: Ss Lassar "a bright comely champion", Banbnat "whom thou hast proclaimed" & Crónsech. 3 female little-known saints. O'Hanlon thought this was St Lassar of Killasseragh, Kilmeen parish, Co. Cork. 🎨 @HHU_de's Eva Schlotheuber @Medievalists article. medievalists.net/2013/03/best-c…
23 July: St Fethchú, a bishop. O'Hanlon identified bishop Fethchú as one of St Columba/Colmcille's 12 companions to Iona, Scotland. So, he would be 6th C, a brother of St Russen/Rus/Russus/Russenus & a son of Rodan. But identification is uncertain. 📷© @ionacommunity
23 July: Ss Runach of Inis Mór & Fuillén of Áth Innich/ind Eich. Little-known saints in Irish martyrologies. Inis Mór may be one of these, or an unknown island: -Inishmore, in Aran Islands -Deer Island, in Shannon Estuary -Church Island, in Lough Gill! aranislands.ie/inis-mor-inish…
