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@JohnBreslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley OLD IRELAND IN COLOUR 3 Out now in all good bookshops and booksellers. 18K Followers.

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It is Republic Day today. 72 years ago, Ireland 🇮🇪 became an internationally recognised republic for the first time. Lá na Poblacht inniú. Fógríodh é ar an 18ú Aibreann 1949. O’Connell Street, Dublin 18th April 1949

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20 seconds of magic from 1929 to brighten up your day A young girl singing in Irish while feeding ducklings (Probably Cork as other views include Shandon) Fox Movietone News Story 2-776 copyright University of South Carolina @DeOldify #RIFE @topazlabs

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On this day: 7 April 1926 Irish woman Violet Gibson shoots Mussolini in the nose as he walks among the crowd in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome - Born 1876, Dublin - Daughter of Irish lawyer/politician Baron Ashbourne - Lived rest of life in St. Andrew's Hospital - Died 1956

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We're often asked "what's the earliest photo that you have restored/colourised?" So far it's probably this one from 166 years ago, just five years after the Great Famine Two boys Templemore, Co. Tipperary 1854 Photographer: Alfred Capel-Cure Source: @GettyMuseum Open Content

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This photograph of Tom Crean [left] was taken 109 years ago today (16th May 1911) in Antarctica, during the British Antarctic Expedition from 1910 to 1913 Crean was an Irish seaman/explorer on three major expeditions to Antarctica, and was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving

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"Does any o' ye know him?" Possibly Liscannor, County Clare 1929 There's a clue in the name and occupation of his son... Movietone 2-916 © @UofSClibraries

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He was born in Co. Wexford 65 years BEFORE the Famine He was a commander in the 1798 Irish Rebellion He was a trusted lieutenant of Robert Emmet in 1803 He fought for Napoleon, awarded the Legion of Honour He is buried at Montmartre, Paris We bring you: Miles Byrne from 1859

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He was born into an Irish-speaking family in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork in 1831 As a child in 1843, he shook the hand of Daniel O'Connell He saw his father die of famine fever in Black '47 His mother and family had to emigrate to the US This is Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa c. 1865 1/

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Amazing news... We‘ve just received these photos of Kathleen Ryle (née Kavanagh) who lives in New York. She is one of the girls pictured on the cover of Old Ireland in Colour, and is shown here holding the book! Thanks @StatesidePortal for connecting us #smallworld #fourdegrees 💚

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Gweedore Natives, Gweedore, Co. Donegal between ca. 1865-1914 @nlireland

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One of the oldest silent movies of Cork City, now in colour and with added sound! April-May 1902 - Electric trams on St. Patrick’s Street, first appearing in Cork four years earlier - Street sweepers and a steam roller in the second segment - Standoff between an ass and a tram!

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He was born in Co. Wexford 65 years BEFORE the Famine He was a commander in the 1798 Irish Rebellion He was a trusted lieutenant of Robert Emmet in 1803 He fought for Napoleon, awarded the Legion of Honour He is buried at Montmartre, Paris We bring you: Miles Byrne from 1859

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Scenes from 1929 Cork, including women and men with asses and carts, and elderly woman with a milk churn on a cart ("g'wan boy, g'wan!"), the Shandon Bells and Tower, St. Anne's Church with bells a-ringing, a town crier ("pay tax down"), Macroom? Movietone 2-776 © @UofSClibraries

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O'Halloran Sisters Bodyke 1887 (NLI) "The bailiffs attacked the corner, and the sisters threw cans of boiling water on top of them, making them speedily retire... My sister was then in full possession of a rifle, bayonet and all, and sure she did use it."

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Antarctic explorer Tom Crean; born 1877 near Annascaul, Kerry; died 1938 In 1913, awarded the Albert Medal for bravery after undertaking a 35-mile solo march to save Lt Evans As 2nd officer to Shackleton in 1914-6, played a primary role in the rescue of his Endurance colleagues

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On this day, 100 years ago: Pádraic Súilleabháin of Inisherin is told by Colm Doherty that he just don't like him no more

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The provisional release date for our “Old Ireland in Colour” book is September-October 2020... and we are delighted to share this preview of our book cover courtesy of @MerrionPress ! Book page link here: @johnbreslin @SarahAnneBuckle

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Éamon de Valera addressing Sinn Féin supporters from the front of Ennis Courthouse during the East Clare by-election. During this campaign the Volunteers emerged as a significant force politically. 11 July 1917 Ennis, Co. Clare @nlireland Ref.: Ke 131

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Seven hours before his execution on 4th May 1916 by firing squad at the age of 28, Joseph Plunkett was married in the prison chapel to Grace Gifford. Grace's sister Muriel was married to his best friend Thomas MacDonagh, also executed for his role in the Easter Rising on 3rd May.

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Countess Markievicz, born Constance Georgine Gore Booth, Irish politician, #EasterRising revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, first female cabinet minister in Europe With Poppet and Fianna Éireann officers Waterford 1917 Source: @nlireland

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Irish writer James Joyce on the south coast of France 1922 Information: “Unknown photographer, James Joyce in a field in the south of France, 1922 Silver gelatin print The Rosenbach, EMs 1293/9”. Source: @TheRosenbach , Philadelphia (with permission) #Bloomsday #Bloomsday2020

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We can confirm that Irish🇮🇪 legend Peig Sayers did indeed smile! Here she is with English🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 linguist Kenneth Jackson having the craic... 1932-1935 Sources: @duchas_ie CC BY-NC 4.0

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Pearse's surrender One of Ireland's most famous historical images, now brought to life in colour! 29th April 1916 Parnell Street, Dublin Taken by an unknown British Army officer and amateur photographer on the scene (likely with an amateur box camera, hence the lower quality)

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And then there were three! We were delighted to get this photo today of Sean O'Sullivan, the third child from the left, in this 1946 photo used as the cover of our book Thank you to niece Mary Fitzgerald for sending this on, taken through the window of Dingle Community Hospital

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10-year-old Katie Leyden says her piece Liscannor, 1929 (Kate was born in Ballyherragh, Co. Clare in 1919) Movietone 2-915 © University of South Carolina Libraries @UofSClibraries @palettefm #ffmpeg

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15 seconds of Michael Collins in colour

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"Cycle Collins" Michael Collins, Irish 🇮🇪 revolutionary, soldier, politician, Joseph Plunkett's aide-de-camp at the GPO during the 1916 #EasterRising , #AndACyclist 🚲 Pictured with his Rudge Whitworth high nelly before 1922 Photographer unknown #Colourised #Enhanced #Restored

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"We'll play it by word." "What?" "We'll play it by word." "I will not." "Why don't you speak to them (why-donch-ye-speak-te-em) in Gaelic?" "Do it in Gaelic Caty (?)." 1929, Inis Oírr Movietone 2-921 © @UofSClibraries

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More scenes of girls playing games and singing songs in Irish Liscannor Girls' School, County Clare May 1929 Fox Movietone News Story 2-919 © @UofSClibraries

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A lesser-known photo of Kevin Barry wearing a Belvedere Rugby jersey, 1917-1919, from @gallicabnf -Born 1902 -Joined Irish Volunteers while at Belvedere -Went to UCD to study medicine -First to be tried/executed for a capital offence under Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920

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Members of the Irish Women Workers' Union on the steps of Liberty Hall 106 years ago Dublin c. 1914 Keogh Collection Source: @NLIreland Seated in the front row (middle of seated) is Delia Larkin, first secretary of the @TheIWWU , sister of Jim Larkin

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"Ó cailín beag 'sea mise, is cúig bliana d’aois, bíonn obair crua ag mamaí, bíonn sí traochta anois is arís." Two girls sing in Irish at Liscannor, Co. Clare 28 May 1929 Movietone outtake 2-919 © @UofSClibraries #DeOldify #DAIN #AfterEffects #TopazLabs

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Another 20 seconds of magic from 1929! "Katie Laden of Liscannor says her piece" Catherine Leyden: born in Ballyherragh, Co. Clare in 1919 Fox Movietone News Story 2-915 copyright University of South Carolina @UofSClibraries @DeOldify #DAIN @topazlabs

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Boy singing "My Uncle Dan McCann", 1929 Movietone 2-873 © @UofSClibraries

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Beirt chailíní ag canadh “Ó, cailín beag is ea mise” as Gaeilge (Two girls singing “Oh, I am a little girl” in Irish) Lios Ceannúir, Contae an Chláir, 1929 (Liscannor, County Clare, 1929) © @UofSCLibraries Movietone 2-919 @PaletteFM #ffmpeg #quicktime

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On this date, 21st May 1932, Amelia Earhart surprised the Gallagher family when she landed in their field in Ballyarnett, Co. Derry/Londonderry, instead of in France! She spent the night at their house @NLIreland Ref.: INDH2848 #DeOldify @ColorizeImages

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"We'll play it by word." "What?" "We'll play it by word." "I will not." "Why don't you speak to them in Gaelic?" "Do it in Gaelic Caty (?)." 1929, Inis Oírr, Oileáin Árann Movietone 2-921 © @UofSClibraries @palettefm @ffmpeg

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A 1902 “phantom ride” through Cork city centre on the tramway! Apr-May 1902 Starting from King Street, now MacCurtain Street, when the camera turns onto Bridge Street, you get a lovely panorama of St Patrick's Bridge and Cork's bustling commercial heart @deoldify @freesounddev

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On 20th May 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland, and landed her "little red bus" in Derry on 21st May. This flight broke several records. As well as being the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo, it was also the longest non-stop distance flown by a woman. Photo: NLI

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All seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic in colour (1/2)

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104 years ago, Dublin in ruins: Hotel Metropole demolished, GPO shelled, Nelson's Pillar, busy O'Connell Street, trams >17th May 1916 O'Connell Street, Dublin Photographer: Keogh Brothers Source: @nlireland Ref.: Ke 121 Link:

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The Riley family from Bradford, survivors of the Lusitania sinking off Kinsale Head in Co. Cork, photographed in Cobh on this day (8th May) 105 years ago: Annie and Edward Riley and their 4-year-old twins Ethel and Sutcliffe 764 of the ~2000 souls aboard the Lusitania were saved

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#OnThisDay 104 years ago, the #EasterRising began At 12:45 PM, PH Pearse read out the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from the steps of the GPO OIIC has colourised, enhanced and restored photographs of the seven proclamation signatories for today #IrishHistory #BroughtToLife

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110 years ago today! This photograph of Tom Crean (L) was taken on 16th May 1911 in Antarctica, during the British Antarctic Expedition from 1910 to 1913 Crean was an Irish seaman/explorer on three major expeditions to Antarctica, and was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving

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The Irishwoman who shot Mussolini 95 years ago today -Violet Gibson shot him in the nose as he walked among a crowd in Rome -Born in 1876, daughter of Dublin lawyer/judge Baron Ashbourne -After the attempted assassination, lived out her life in St Andrew’s Hospital, dying in 1956

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Died 100 years ago today 25 October 1920 Terence MacSwiney After 74 days on hunger strike, his death brought Irish republicanism to international attention At Rochestown Monastery w/ Frs Bonaventure, Coleman, Berchmans, Francis, 30 May 1920 Courtesy of @CorkPMuseum @StPetersCork

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Óige agus aois 1946 An Fheothanach, Co. Chiarraí Grianghraf: Caoimhín Ó Danachair C-D: Tom Mhaurice O'Sullivan, Agnes O'Sullivan (?), (?), Cáit Tady Griffin, Cáit Kavanagh, Josie Kavanagh, Eileen O'Sullivan, Tomás Ó Corráin. Foinse: @duchas_ie CC BY-NC 4.0

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Edith Anne Stoney, considered to be the world's first woman medical physicist - Born in Dublin in 1869 - Appointed a physics lecturer at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1899 - Later she became a pioneering figure in the use of x-ray machines on the front lines of WWI

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Ag damhsa, Oileáin Árann Dancing on the Aran Islands 1929 Movietone 2-919 © @UofSClibraries @palettefm @ffmpeg

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Wow! We've received a photo of a second girl from the 1946 cover of our book [NFC], Eileen Fergus (née Sullivan) in Chicago: last girl on the right, beside Kathleen previously featured; thank you to nephew Pat for connecting us and sending us this photo! 💚

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Amazing news... We‘ve just received these photos of Kathleen Ryle (née Kavanagh) who lives in New York. She is one of the girls pictured on the cover of Old Ireland in Colour, and is shown here holding the book! Thanks @StatesidePortal for connecting us #smallworld #fourdegrees 💚

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Girls' Dress, Inis Meáin / Inishmaan, Co. Galway / 1930s-1950s / Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh Source: @duchas_ie CC BY-NC 4.0 #DeOldify #Photoshop #AI

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Happy 174th Birthday to Irish author Bram Stoker, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula

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Éamonn Ceannt, republican, uilleann piper, executed this date, 8th May 1916 Born in Galway in 1881, prior to the Rising Ceannt was an employee of the Dublin Corporation. He was a co-founder of the Irish Volunteers, partaking in the successful Howth gun-running operation of 1914.

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A tragic grey day for Irish suffragette/nationalist Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (right), shown arriving with Meg Connery, sisters Mary Kettle and Kathleen Cruise O'Brien at Richmond Barracks for the court martial of Bowen-Colthurst who murdered her husband Frank in April 6/7-6-1916

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Ladies chatting on the side of the road in Omeath, Co. Louth circa 1890. 📷 Credits: Robert French, @NLIreland #louthchat @TheRealZeRoY

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Died 100 years ago today Kevin Barry; republican; born 1902 in Fleet St; joined Irish Volunteers while at Belvedere; went to UCD to study medicine First to be tried, executed for capital offence under Restoration of Order in Ireland Act, 1920 A verse cites his "fair blue eyes"

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The Big Fellah (Michael Collins) and the hotelier (Kitty Kiernan) were to marry in November 1922. Sadly, it never came to pass. In August 1922, Collins was fatally shot in an ambush by anti-Treaty forces. @gallicabnf @wikicommmons

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Tea 🫖 and coffee ☕️ van 110 years ago! Ballybricken Fair, Waterford City Wednesday, 4th May 1910 Photographer: Poole Studio Source: @nlireland NLI Ref.: POOLEWP 2103 #DeOldify + @ColorizeImages MJ Phelan's Hotel in background

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Some children... Alexander Street, Waterford 2 February 1924 Photographer: A.H. Poole Source: @NLIreland Colourised/Enhanced/Restored with #DeOldify #Remini #Photoshop

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On the 105th anniversary of his death, we bring you both full-size photos 📷 of Brother Walfrid in colour for the first time! Andrew Kerins, Brother Walfrid, was an Irish Marist Brother and the founder of @CelticFC 🍀 #2 from c. 1910, wearing a ��️ #1 at

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Ag damhsa, Oileáin Árann Dancing on the Aran Islands 1929 Movietone 2-919 © @UofSClibraries

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Echoes in the Gap of Dunloe A man blows a small trumpet which echoes in the mountain pass. County Kerry 15 May 1929 Movietone 2-872 © @UofSClibraries

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1/2 Various scenes of girls playing games and singing Irish songs. Long shot of two couples dancing, with man playing accordion on side. May 28, 1929 Fox News outtake 2-919 copyright University of South Carolina Looks like Aran @AranSongs @MVNaomhEanna

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Mrs Flynn and children 21 September 1933 Leperstown, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford Poole Studio Francis (boy standing), Bridget (mother), Margaret (toddler), Philomena (girl standing), Norbert and Mary seated Source: @nlireland Ref.: POOLEWP 4003 Link:

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Scenes of a young boy, Dennis Donahue, singing “My Uncle Dan McCann” 1929 This is Take 4 of 6, we will share the rest of the takes later! Movietone News Story 2-873 © University of South Carolina Libraries Colourised with #DeOldify To ~60fps with #RIFE Upscaled x2 with #Topaz

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Thomas McDonald, Poppet, Constance Markievicz and Theobald Wolfe Tone Fitzgerald 1917, Waterford Source: @nlireland

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Maud Gonne, who died on this day in 1953 (27th April) She was an English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette, actress Of Anglo-Irish descent, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars She actively agitated for Home Rule

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Old Ireland in Colour 3 Book Giveaway! We have 3 signed copies of this beautiful book up for grabs: for your chance to win, all you have to do is like, comment and share our post. (Be aware of scams: we’ll never ask for bank details or personal info relating to a free giveaway).

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Irish Antarctic explorer Tom Crean with puppies Roger, Nell, Toby and Nelson Shackleton Expedition 1914–1916 Just one of the 170+ colourised photographs contained in our forthcoming book "Old Ireland in Colour" which you can pre-order now from @easons at

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Water chute erected on the River Lee for the Cork Exhibition Date: 1st May 1902 to 31st October 1903 Photo: Robert French Likely sometime during the summer months given that the trees are in full leaf @nlireland Ref.: L_NS_00017 #DeOldify #GigapixelAI

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Tenements in Michael's Lane Date: 1865-1914 Location: Michael’s Lane, Dublin Photographer: Robert French This is close to Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin Many of the buildings have since been replaced by others Source: @nlireland Ref.: L_CAB_08895

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Waiting for Mass, Inis Meáin Inishmaan, Co. Galway 1930s-1950s Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh Source: @duchas_ie @bealoideasucd CC BY-NC 4.0 @DeOldify #Photoshop #Remini

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Died #OTD : 15th July 1927 New version! Constance #Markievicz (née Gore Booth), Irish politician, Easter Rising revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, female cabinet minister With her dog Poppet and Fianna Éireann officers Thomas McDonald (L) and Theo Fitzgerald (R)

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🌠 New colourisation! Republicans on Grafton St, Dublin in 1922 📷 A unit of anti-treaty IRA gunmen is photographed patrolling Grafton St in an Ireland on the brink of civil war 📚 Order our book @AmazonUK , books shipping soon: Courtesy of @mercierpress

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Charles Stewart Parnell: our best picture of him yet! - Irish nationalist politician and land reform agitator - MP 1875 to 1891 (took seat 145 years ago today) - Founder of Irish National Land League in 1879 - Leader of Home Rule League 1880-82, Irish Parliamentary Party 1882-91

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Woman and girl salvaging wood from a military barracks in Cork after it had been destroyed by fire Probably taken after Collins (then Victoria) Barracks was burned by retreating anti-treaty forces in August 1922 Photo: WD Hogan (HOGW 140) @nlireland

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We hope you found yesterday's photo of a 1916 Dublin in ruins interesting Today, we have a new photo that shows the devastation from another angle, also from @nlireland (KE 119) Abbey Street and O'Connell Street shelled, rubble remains >17th May 1916 #DeOldify @ColorizeImages

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I drove through Maam Cross yesterday thinking of this photo Woman smoking a pipe in front of a turf fire Interior of house of M. [Micheál] Breathnach Maam Cross [Roads], Co. Galway 1935 Caoimhín Ó Danachair @duchas_ie CC BY-NC 4.0 #DeOldify #Photoshop

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Chicks and ducks in the Galway Market Titled: "A Market Square, Irish Studies, Irish Life" Beside St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Lombard Street, Galway c. 1910 Source: @nlireland NLI Ref.: EAS_4051 #DeOldify #Photoshop #Remini

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William Brown (1777-1857): Irish-born Argentine admiral - Regarded as one of Argentina's national heroes for his victories in Independence War, Cisplatine War and at Río de la Plata - Creator/first admiral of Argentina's maritime forces - Known as the father of the Argentine Navy

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Thrilled to be the only Irish book to hit €1M in sales! It's incredible given the book came out less than three months from year end... We must thank our readers, publisher @merrionpress and publicist @peterocmedia for believing in this project to bring our past back to life 💚

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We are so delighted to win this award for Best Irish-Published Book: this is a huge honour and we have to thank our fantastic publishing team of Conor, Pa, Maeve and Grace at @MerrionPress and Peter our publicist. We’d also like to thank our families for all of their support! 1/4

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Some damhsa ar an sean-nós from Árainn in 1929 to get you going today! 👞 This is Pádraig Ó Maoláin dancing old style as someone off camera plays a reel on a melodeon 🪗 Movietone outtake 2-890 © @UofSClibraries #DeOldify #AfterEffects #DAIN #TopazLabs

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Elderly woman at Doon Well in a shawl/cloak, probably bandages in the background Kilmacrenan, County Donegal Photographer: Possibly James Simonton or Frederick Holland Mares Source: NLI Ref.: STP_1720 Link: @nlreland #Donegal

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39 seconds of colourised magic from over 121 years ago!! 1902 in Ireland, where an array of local characters around the Wexford Bullring Market peer at a motion picture camera, likely for the first time The man in a pale hat at the end may be Hugh McCarthy, Whites Hotel manager

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Muriel MacSwiney: nationalist, activist 98 years ago Born in Cork (Murphy's brewery/distillery family) Spoke in USA after husband Terence died on hunger strike First woman to get freedom of NYC Helped break Annie Smithson out of prison @librarycongress @DeOldify @ColorizeImages

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20 seconds of magic from Ireland in 1929 to brighten up your day A girl sings “Sail Óg Rua” (“Young Red-Haired Sally”) as Gaeilge (in Irish) while feeding ducks Movietone 2-776 © University of South Carolina Libraries @UofSClibraries @palettefm #ffmpeg

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Fisherstreet, Doolin, Co. Clare 86 years ago: 1935 In the middle of this photo is O'Connor's Pub, established ~100 years earlier (1830s) Can someone explain the walled areas beside the (dry at this time) Aille River? Albert Eskeröd @duchas_ie CC BY-NC

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Farming in Northern Ireland, 1941 From a film on the impact and contributions of Northern Ireland's industrial and agricultural sectors to the Allied war effort during WW2 ( @BritishCouncil CC BY-NC 3.0)

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𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓 This 1920s photo of two Straw Boys - from our new book 📘 “Old Ireland in Colour 3” - is 1 of 10 in a sneak preview at [scroll to end of page] Also known as Guisers at Halloween, as well as Biddy/May/Wren Boys in Feb/May/Dec

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As we in the northern hemisphere are tilted nearest to the sun today, we'd like to mark #SummerSolstice2021 with this c. 1910 photograph of a girl at the entrance to Newgrange, Co. Meath Photographer: Tempest Family Source: @nlireland Ref.: TEM 129 Link:

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Barefeet women outside a cabin 1914 Glencolumbkill(e) [Glencolmcille], County Donegal Photographer: Robert J Welch Source: @PRONI_DFC Ref.: D1403_2~024~A #DeOldify #Photoshop Possibly here acc. to PRONI's Flickroonies (O Mac)

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(This photo is at least 163 and possibly 171 years old!) Admiral William Brown (1777-1857) - Irish-born founder and first admiral of the Argentine Navy - Regarded as one of Argentina's national heroes for his victories in Independence War, Cisplatine War and at Río de la Plata

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A 1902 “moving picture” of the Cork and Muskerry Light Railway. The railway, opened in 1887 and closed in 1934, was built to exploit tourist traffic to Blarney Castle. The film shows the train travelling through Leemount, Carrigrohane, the Western Road. @DeOldify @freesounddev

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Lifeboat men from Wexford in the aftermath of the events of the Norwegian "Mexico" shipwreck where 10 people died but a three-day epic rescue resulted in 12 lives being saved on the Keeraghs 107 years ago 24 Feb 1914, Imperial Hotel, Waterford @nlireland

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Remember when steam trains ran through Cork City? This 1962 photo at @nlireland was taken at the Ship St/Lr Glanmire Road junction The train link connected GS&WR (Kent Station) and CB&SCR (Albert Quay) lines St Patrick's Church in background Note the bell in the driver's hand

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No photographs of the Famine in Ireland exist, yet this portrait taken around 1858 by an unknown photographer, shows a nameless Irish agricultural labourer who would have lived through those famine years. (Original image SXT1190679 licensed from Bridgman Images, London)

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It is Republic Day today. 71 years ago, Ireland 🇮🇪 became an internationally recognised republic for the first time Lá na Poblacht inniú. Fógríodh é ar an 18ú Aibreann 1949. O’Connell Street, Dublin 18th April 1949 Source/Foinse: @LeoVaradkar #DeOldify

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69 years ago today Ireland became an internationally recognised Republic for the first time. @FineGael will mark the anniversary tonight with a special seminar and reception

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