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Lorraine Mulholland. Ex-teacher! Author! My book Saint Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women @ColumbaBooks ! Tweets: History/Herstory #folklore #otd 😇🪦🎶📚📽️ 🎨

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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!
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For May day, don't forget to leave flowers outside your door this evening (30 April)! Important Bealtaine tradition to keep you safe from the fairies! Yellow flowers popular; marsh-marigolds, primroses, buttercups, gorse! #Beltane #Ireland #FolkloreSunday
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#DYK the Irish flag was made by French women, sympathetic to the Irish cause! It was meant to symbolise peace between Irish Catholic Nationalists & Protestant Unionists. They presented it to Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848. Happy #BastilleDay ! Liberté, égalité, fraternité ! 🇫🇷🇮🇪
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In Ireland more than 40,000 sites have been identified as ringforts, & thought that 50,000+ existed once! Nowadays many are preserved as fairy forts🧚‍♀️, with hawthorn trees! 📷Grianan of Aileach, Donegal (in myths, built by the Dagda, a Tuatha Dé Danann king god!) #MythologyMonday
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For 23 years at #Samhain a fire-breathing man of the Tuatha Dé Danann, Aillen, would lull the men of Tara to sleep with his music before burning the palace to the ground! Fionn mac Cumhaill stayed awake through a special spear & killed him. Made leader of Fianna! #MythologyMonday
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Cat names from Old Irish legal texts: Bréone = ‘little flame’ Cruibne = ‘little paws’ Glas Nenta = ‘nettle grey’ Méone = ‘little meow’ 🎨Book of Kells in @TCDResearchColl . Source: Kelly, Early Irish Farming #InternationalCatDay 🐱
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#DYK the Irish flag was made by French women, sympathetic to the Irish cause! It was meant to symbolise peace between Irish Catholic Nationalists & Protestant Unionists. They presented it to Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848. Happy #BastilleDay ! Liberté, égalité, fraternité ! 🇫🇷🇮🇪
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#DYK the Irish flag was made by French women, sympathetic to the Irish cause! It was meant to symbolise peace between Irish Catholic Nationalists & Protestant Unionists. They presented it to Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848. Happy #BastilleDay ! Liberté, égalité, fraternité ! 🇫🇷🇮🇪
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Clocha na hÉireann/The Stones of Ireland. Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal. This project was a collaborative 1916 commemoration work between stone masons from every county on the island of Ireland. Co. Antrim is black basalt! Do u know what your county is?! #InternationalRockDay
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Cat names from Old Irish legal texts: Bréone = ‘little flame’ Cruibne = ‘little paws’ Glas Nenta = ‘nettle grey’ Méone = ‘little meow’ ©Stephanie Lahey. 🎨Book of Kells in @TCDResearchColl . #InternationalCatDay 🐱
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#DYK the Irish flag was made by French women, sympathetic to the Irish cause! It was meant to symbolise peace between Irish Catholic Nationalists & Protestant Unionists. They presented it to Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848. Happy #BastilleDay ! Liberté, égalité, fraternité ! 🇫🇷🇮🇪
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Irish warrior Oisín hunted a #hare & wounded it in leg. He followed through the bushes & found a door leading underground, eventually emerging into a huge hall where he found it transformed into a beautiful young woman sitting on a throne bleeding from the wound! #FolkloreSunday
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Cat names from Old Irish legal texts: Bréone = ‘little flame’ Cruibne = ‘little paws’ Glas Nenta = ‘nettle grey’ Méone = ‘little meow’ 🎨Book of Kells @TCDResearchColl @tcdlibrary . Source: Kelly, Early Irish Farming #InternationalCatDay 🐈
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Irish warrior Oisín hunted a #hare & wounded it in leg. He followed through the bushes & found a door leading underground, eventually emerging into a huge hall where he found it transformed into a beautiful young woman sitting on a throne bleeding from the wound! #FolkloreSunday
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#Otd 1976: £5 note issued with image of John Scotus Eriugena (c 800-c 877). Irish theologian, neoplatonist philosopher & poet. Head of Palace School, Aachen, #Germany . One of few Western European philosophers that knew Greek! Stabbed to death by his students with their pens????!
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Clocha na hÉireann/The Stones of Ireland. Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal. This project was a collaborative 1916 commemoration work between stone masons from every county on the island of Ireland. Co. Antrim is black basalt! Do u know what your county is?! #InternationalRockDay
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#Ireland is a land of many stories of #monsters & monster slayers! Great map from Puca Print House, and link to their article here! #MythologyMonday
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#Otd 1649: Cromwell sailed for Dublin with 35 ships. Ireton landed 2 days later with 77! By end war <41% Irish population died (some say 83%!). Also transported c 50,000 as indentured labourers & war resulted in famine, worsened by bubonic plague! Brutal!
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Thread: 1/5. Jack of Jack-o'-lantern fame, started as a shoemaker in the Irish version! Walking through a dark bog one evening he met a leprechaun, who gave him a magic bag! It was small but could hold anything of any size! Jack took it home & forgot about it! #SuperstitionSat
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Thread: History of cows in Ireland! In most of Ulster townlands were known as "ballyboes" from baile bó "cow land/"land of a cow"! Since yearly rent of a cow ( @placenamesni )? Co Cavan similar units called "polls", & in Co Fermanagh & Monaghan known as "tates" or "taths"! ©mine 🐄
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#Otd 1606: Co #Wicklow was shired (from land in Co Dublin & Co Carlow)! It was the last of the traditional 32 counties to be formed! Named after the town of Wicklow, which derives from the Old Norse name Víkingaló, meaning "Vikings' Meadow". Known as the Garden of #Ireland !
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#Otd 1847: Choctaw Indians collected $170 to donate to starving Irish Famine victims, despite own poverty & having recently endured 'Trail of Tears' in 1830s (removal west of Mississippi). 'Kindred Spirits' statue at Bailick Park, #Midleton , Co #Cork by @AlexVbap pays tribute!
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The Irish god The Dagda has a cauldron (Coire ansic) that never goes empty! Those who eat of it are always satisfied! It is 1 of the 4 treasures (or jewels) of the Tuatha Dé Danann which they brought from 4 cities Murias, Falias, Gorias & Findias! #food #WyrdWednesday 🍜🥣
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In Irish mythology, Clíodhna (Queen of the Banshees, goddess of love & beauty, & patron of Co. Cork) has 3 brightly coloured birds who eat apples from an otherworldly tree! Their song heals the sick! 🎨Tammy Wampler #birds #Ireland #FairyTaleTuesday 🐦🐦🐦
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Caribbean pirates Anne Bonny née Cormac (Irish) & Mary Read (English) statue in the Bahamas. Anne born in Old Head of Kinsale, Co Cork c 1697. Had red hair & 'quite a catch'! Mary died in jail but what happened to Anne is unknown! #FolkloreThursday #TalkLikeAPirateDay ⚔️🏴☠️🦜
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#Otd 1928: 1st independent Irish coinage circulated. 8 coins: woodcock, sow & litter, hen & chicks, hare, wolfhound, bull, salmon & horse! Committee that chose winning designs (from relatively unknown Englishman Percy Metcalfe) headed by Senator WB Yeats.
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#DYK the Mournes are the highest mountains in N #Ireland ?! Made up of 12 mountains & 15 peaks! People say they are the inspiration behind Belfast born C S Lewis' Narnia! @theirelandguide @nmdcouncil @MagicalEurope #TheChroniclesOfNarnia #NI #Mournes #Narnia #CSLewis
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Irish warrior Oisín hunted a #hare & wounded it in leg. He followed through the bushes & found a door leading underground, eventually emerging into a huge hall where he found it transformed into a beautiful young woman sitting on a throne bleeding from the wound! #BookWormSat 🐰
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Fáil Inis was a young hound owned by the god Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann (Irish gods & goddesses). The hound was invincible in battle, caught every wild beast it encountered & could magically change any running water it bathed in, into #wine ! #Ireland #NationalWineDay 🍷
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Caribbean pirates Anne Bonny née Cormac (Irish) & Mary Read (English) statue in the Bahamas. Anne born in Old Head of #Kinsale , Co #Cork c 1697. Had red hair & 'quite a catch'! Mary died in jail but what happened to Anne is unknown! #TalkLikeAPirateDay ⚔️⛵️🏴‍☠‍⚓️🦜
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Well, I'm finally showing actual me! Gone is the 7 year old pic, now its a 49 year old! Thought I'd better show my face before its shown to the world with my children's book on Irish female saints! My eyes were damaged by my thyroid so I don't show my photo often! #NewProfilePic
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Limavady, Co. Derry means "Leap of the Dog"! On one occasion when under siege by their enemies, the O’Donnell clan from Co Donegal, the O’Cahans, sent for reinforcements across River Roe via faithful wolfhound who leapt across river to deliver message! #Ireland #FolkloreSunday 🐶
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#Otd 1688: Hanging of Ann Glover for "witchcraft" (last in Boston, US). Born Ireland & raised RC. Spoke Irish; some thought demonic. At trial she had to say Lord's Prayer. Recited it in Irish & broken Latin, but couldn't in English; mark of witch?! & small "idols" found in home!
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Beltany stone circle, near Raphoe, Co. Donegal. 64 stones c. 2100-700 BC? Linked to marking sunrise & sunset at Beltane/Bealtaine & other 3 celtic agricultural festivals? May also have lunar orientation, yet to be calculated. Name of site linked to Beltane. #MythologyMonday
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#Otd 1914: The Starry Plough flag was unveiled! Designed by Æ Russell for the Irish Citizen Army. Flown during the Easter Rising. Co-founder James Connolly said that a free Ireland would control its own destiny from the plough to the stars! Depicts the constellation Ursa Major.
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In parts of Ireland a lit🕯️is placed in the window on Christmas Eve! It is a symbolic welcome to Mary & Joseph as they travelled looking for shelter. Also indicated a safe place for priests to perform mass in the past, as during Penal Times this was not allowed. #FolkloreSunday
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Beautiful scene from Dromluska, The Black Valley/Cummeenduff, Co Kerry. One of the last places in mainland #Ireland to be connected to the electricity & telephone networks (1976) due to its remoteness! 📷: @darrenjspoonley . @MagicalEurope @Failte_Ireland @wildatlanticway #WAW
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#Otd 1928: 1st independent Irish coinage circulated. 8 coins: woodcock, sow & litter, hen & chicks, hare, wolfhound, bull, salmon & horse! Committee that chose winning designs (from relatively unknown Englishman Percy Metcalfe) headed by Senator WB Yeats.
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#Otd 1652: ‘Act for the Settlement of Ireland’ passed in London parliament. Land confiscated from RCs by Cromwell to meet promises! c 7,000 soldiers settled out of 12,000 offered! Including Merchant Adventurers, = >10,000 Parliamentarians settled! Aka “To Hell or Connacht” Act!
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31 Jan: St Brigid's Eve! Don't forget to leave a cloth or scarf outside to be blessed by Brigid as she passes! Known as a brat Bríde or Bratóg Bríde the cloth or scaarf is then believed to cure headaches or sore throats! 📷Joe McGowen & @irarchaeology .
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For May day don't forget to leave flowers outside your door this evening, 30 April! Important Bealtaine tradition to keep you safe from the fairies or worse (witches)! Yellow flowers popular; marsh-marigolds, primroses, buttercups, gorse! #FairyTaleTuesday
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#Otd 1649: Cromwell sailed for Dublin with 35 ships. Ireton landed 2 days later with 77! By end war <41% Irish population died (some say 83%!). Also transported c 50,000 as indentured labourers & war resulted in famine, worsened by bubonic plague! Brutal!
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Fabulous mural of St. Brigid in Kildare town, on the side of Mc Hugh's chemist at the corner of The Square and Station Road. 🎨: Mister Copy (S African man who lives in Paris). 📷: Roches Barbers. #FindingBrigid
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The goddess Cailleach gathers her firewood on St Brigid's Day (Lá Fhéile Bríde)! If she intends to make the winter last a good while longer, she'll make sure the weather on 1 Feb is bright & sunny & she'll gather lots of firewood! But rain means a short winter! #FolkloreThursday
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In Irish mythology the Tuatha Dé Danann (Irish gods & goddesses) brought 4 magical treasures with them to #Ireland , one apiece from their 4 cities: Dagda's Cauldron The Spear of Lugh Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny) Claíomh Solais (The Sword of Light) @MagicalEurope #FolkloreThursday
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23 June bonfires originally lit as part of Celtic celebration to honour goddess Áine, who was associated with the sun, fertility & protecting crops/animals. But with many pagan festivals, the Catholic Church took over the event & linked it to the birth of St John! #FolkloreSunday
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Thread: The Great Famine/An Gorta Mór 1845-50 1-1.5 million died. 1-2 million emigrated. [estimates vary greatly, especially as whole families died so no one left to tell their story, & census figures underestimated as it was not compulsory to record births/deaths pre-1864]🥔😢
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Most scholars think that the Book of Kells was completed or started on Iona, in what was the Irish kingdom of Dál Riada, c 800 AD! Due to Viking raids it was then moved to Kells, Co. Meath. Contains 4 Gospels in Latin, mostly from the Vulgate. Its illustrations out of this world!
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An exhibition dedicated to one of Ireland's greatest cultural treasures, the Book of Kells, has opened at Trinity College in Dublin
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Sordraige (Meath/Monaghan)=‘People of the Boar’ Dartraige (Monaghan)='People of the Calf' Artraige=‘People of the Bear’ Cattraige (Tipperary)=‘People of the Cat’ Grecraige (Sligo)='People of the Horse' Osraige (Kilkenny)=‘People of the Deer' Partraige (Mayo)=’Crab People'
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Sorry folks if you find it even harder than usual to see my tweets! Bit silly tweeting this I guess since if you see this, you see me! Got locked out as X thought I was a robot. Its now saying my tweets are spam. For those who see me have a lovely St Patrick's Day weekend folks!
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In Irish myths, Balor was a leader of the Fomorians (malevolent supernatural beings). He was a giant with a large eye that wreaked destruction when opened. Some say he had 1 eye, others say 2 or 3! One of his names is Balór na Súile Nimhe (Balor of the Evil Eye). #MythologyMonday
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Cat Shepherd/Bodacious @1CatShepherd was a hard working, professional cat in charge of a flock of Zwartbles sheep @ZwartblesIE by the banks of the River Nore in Co Kilkenny. RIP Bodacious. 📷: Suzanna from @ZwartblesIE . #Caturday
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In 1606, Co #Wicklow shired (from land in Co Dublin & Co Carlow)! Last of the traditional 32 counties to be formed! Named after the town of Wicklow, which derives from the Old Norse name Víkingaló, meaning "Vikings' Meadow". Known as the #Garden of Ireland! #FolkloreSunday 🌸🌼🌹
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#Otd 1784: Opening of #Belfast 's 1st Catholic church, St Mary's. Previously Penal Laws made this impossible. Presbyterian & CofI communities took up an offering for the 365 Catholics in Belfast (1782 census). Father Hugh O’Donnell was 1st parish priest.
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Dawn light began stealing Through the cold universe to County Meath, Over weirs where the Boyne water, fulgent, darkling, Turns its thick axle, over rick-sized stones Millennia deep in their own unmoving And unmoved alignment. Seamus Heaney, A Dream of Solstice.
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#Otd 1798: Matthew Tone was hanged at Arbor Hill Prison, #Dublin . He was the brother of the United Irishmen leader Theobald Wolfe Tone. Matthew was captured after the Battle of Ballinamuck & was one of several hundred Irish prisoners to be hanged (MT @irelandbattles ).
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Irish warrior Oisín hunted a hare & wounded it in leg. He followed through the bushes & found a door leading underground, eventually emerging into a huge hall where he found it transformed into a beautiful young woman sitting on a throne bleeding from the wound! #FairyTaleTuesday
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#Otd 1688: Hanging of Ann Glover for "witchcraft" (last in Boston, US). Born Ireland & raised RC. Spoke Irish; some thought demonic. At trial she had to say Lord's Prayer. Recited it in Irish & broken Latin, but couldn't in English; mark of witch?! & small "idols" found in home!
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The River Shannon is the longest river in #Ireland ! It is named after Sionna, Irish goddess granddaughter of Lir. She went to Connla's Well to find wisdom & fell in! She became a river! 1 of 7 rivers flowing from the well! 🎨? #FolkloreThursday
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New Thread! 'Wolves In Ireland: A Natural & Cultural History'! I will be using my new book of the same name by Kieran Hickey as my main reference point! If you love #wolves , keep checking for new tweets! It will be full of myths, folklore & superstitions! @MagicalEurope #Ireland
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I have 15.5K followers yet an hour after I've tweeted them, I have FIVE tweets that not one single person has liked or retweeted. That's the majority of what I've tweeted this morning. No-one seeing my tweets! Does a tick get your work seen? If you have one, let me know folks!✔️
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#Otd 1941: 1st flight over "Donegal Corridor", a strip of Irish airspace linking Lough Erne to Atlantic Ocean through which Irish Government permitted flights by British RAF in #WW2 . Contravention of neutrality; not publicised at time! Led to destroying Bismarck in 1941! 🛩️
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FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY! To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my book, & the upcoming St Brigid's Day (1 Feb), I'm giving away one signed copy of Saint Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women! 1/ Like 2/ Retweet or Quote tweet Postage: International Deadline: 1 Feb 2024 🥳🪅🎉🍾🎂🍰🧁
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Lily Kempson (17 Jan 1897 Co #Wicklow -21 Jan 1996 Seattle, US, age 99). Moved to Dublin when young. Last surviving participant in 1916 Rising! Trade union activist & Irish Citizen Army. Got to US using relative's passport & married!
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My children's book on Irish female saints is ready for you to pre-order! Saint Brigid and Other Amazing Irish Women. €19.99. HB. By me, Lorraine Mulholland! Publisher @ColumbaBooks ! Illustrations inside & front by my super talented nephew Matthew Jackson!
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When St Brigid wanted land for her church the king of Leinster laughed, saying she could only have land her cloak covered! But miraculously her cloak grew out to cover miles! The area became Kildare in Ireland! Perfect spot near a forest & lake! 🎨Clonard Church #FairyTaleTuesday
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#Hollywood Stone, a #granite boulder from Co #Wicklow c 550 AD. Earliest classical #labrynth pattern in British Isles! @irarchaeology @MagicalEurope #Ireland
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#Otd 1976: £5 note issued with image of John Scotus Eriugena (c 800-c 877). Irish theologian, neoplatonist philosopher & poet. Head of Palace School, Aachen, #Germany . One of few Western European philosophers that knew Greek! Stabbed to death by his students with their pens?!
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At 17, Cú Chulainn single-handedly defended Ulster from the army of Connacht in the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Queen Medb of Connacht had invaded to steal the stud bull Donn Cúailnge! Cú Chulainn invoking right of single combat at fords & held them off for months #heroes #FolkloreThursday
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This is my 'seriously happy and shocked silly' face! I'm in this week's Ballymena Guardian newspaper! My Saint Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women in its 2nd print! In all good bookshops and @ColumbaBooks website! Happy days as we say in Co. Antrim!
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#Otd 2019: Death of Bodacious @1CatShepherd , a hard working, professional cat in charge of a flock of Zwartbles sheep @ZwartblesIE by River Nore, Co Kilkenny, #Ireland . Ovenmitt doing great job now📷Suzanna @ZwartblesIE #Caturday 🐱
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At Samhain, otherworldly beings emerge from Oweynagat, "cave of the cats", Rathcroghan, Roscommon! Queen Medb, Ellén Trechend (x3 headed monster), red birds (wither plants they breathed on), magical wildcats, sinister pigs, The Morrígan all associated! #portal #FairyTaleTuesday
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A #wolf stole the baby future king Cormac mac Airt & suckled him in the caves of Kesh, Co Sligo! His mum found him & took him back but, while crossing a mountain at night, wolves gathered to steal him back! But they were thwarted by a herd of wild horses! #Ireland #BookWormSat 🐺
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2 Irish Wolfhounds outside a lovely Irish thatched cottage! @MagicalEurope #Ireland #NationalMuttDay
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Drunk Jack offered up his soul in exchange for payment of his pub tab! When the Devil came to collect, he climbed a tree! Carved a cross to stop the Devil who forgave Jack's debt & granted him an ember from fires of hell to light his way! Hence Jack-o'-lantern! #FolkloreThursday
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#Otd 1882: Maolra Seoighe/Myles Joyce hanged for Maamtransa Murders. 8 convicted on perjured evidence & 3 condemned to death: Maolra Seoighe (dad of 5 children), Pat Casey & Pat Joyce. Court case entirely in English, which he did not speak. Pardoned 2018.
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#Otd 1901: Census showed population of Ireland to be 4,458,775! Ireland's population was probably halved by an Gorta Mór, the Great Famine/Hunger! It still hasn't recovered! At least 8.17 million in 1841 (probably 8.5 million or more as inaccurate then)!
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Irish god Óengus/Aengus, son of the Dagda traditionally described as having singing #birds circling head! Shaped his kisses into 4 birds that followed Cairbre wherever he went to mock him each day before sunrise! Until his druid enchanted a tree to detain them! #FaustianFriday
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#Otd 1572: Birth of Hugh Roe O'Donnell. "Red Hugh" (d. 1602). Escaped 5 years in Dublin Castle. Ruler of Tyrconnell. Along with his father-in-law Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, led rebellion against government from 1593 & fought Nine Years' War 1595-1602
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Thread: 1/5. Jack of Jack-o'-lantern fame, started as a shoemaker in the Irish version! Walking through a dark bog one evening he met a leprechaun, who gave him a magic bag! It was small but could hold anything of any size! Jack took it home & forgot about it! #MythologyMonday 🎃
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According to Irish mythology, the warrior Nera disappeared into Tír na nÓg at Samhain, the beginning of winter, yet returned bearing summer flowers: wild garlic, golden fern, & primroses (Sabhaircín in Irish), to convince Medb & Aillil of where he'd been! 📷mine #FolkloreThursday
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#Otd Wren Day. Lá an Dreoilín. A fake wren is "hunted" (in the past a real wren was used) & put on top of a decorated pole. Then the crowds of mummers/strawboys, celebrate the wren (or wran), by dressing up in masks, straw suits etc. They parade. These crowds are the wrenboys.
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Fáil Inis was a young hound owned by Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The hound was invincible in battle, caught every wild beast it encountered & could magically change any running water it bathed in into wine! @MagicalEurope #FolkloreThursday #NationalDogDay
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📷Beltany stone circle, near Raphoe, Co Donegal, #Ireland . 64 stones c 2100-700 BC. Linked to marking sunrise & sunset at #Beltane & other 3 celtic agri'l festivals? May also have lunar orientation, yet to be calculated. Name of site linked to #Bealtaine (Irish) #FolkloreThursday
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In old Irish Brehon law they wrote the bee-judgements, 'bechbretha'! These covered all sorts of issues such as what to do if bees trespassed (!), how to decide who owned bees, how to punish bee or honey theft & how much honey a beekeeper should offer neighbours! #HoneyBeeDay 🐝🍯
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Irish goddess Tailtiu is said to have died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture. Lugh (foster-son) established harvest festival & funeral games, Áenach Tailteann, in her honour which continued to be celebrated as late as the 18th C. #FolkloreThursday
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Thread on 'Castles in Connacht'! (Counties Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon & Sligo.) Who can name all 8 in the collage?! @MagicalEurope #Ireland 🏰💚
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#Otd 1876: The Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language (SPIL) was founded. Irish faced with extinction until they succeeded in having it included on the curriculum of primary, secondary schools & third-level colleges in 1878.
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Fáil Inis was a young hound owned by the god Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The hound was invincible in battle, caught every wild beast it encountered & could magically change any running water it bathed in, into wine! #Ireland #FairyTaleTuesday #NationalWineDay 🍷
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January is named after the Latin for door since it is the door (ianua) to the year but some also believe it is named after the Roman god Janus who had 2 heads to see into past & future like these figures on Boa Island, Co. Fermanagh! 📷Jon Sullivan
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#Otd 1580: Battle of Glenmalure in Desmond Rebellion. Catholic Gaelic clans from #Wicklow Mts led by Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne & Viscount Baltinglas of the Pale, defeated English under 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, at their mountain stronghold! Commemorated in Follow Me up to Carlow! ⚔️
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Irish warrior Oisin hunted a hare & wounded it in the leg. Oisin followed through the bushes & found a door leading underground, eventually emerging into a huge hall where he found a beautiful young woman sitting on a throne bleeding from a wound in her leg! #FolkloreThursday
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#Otd 2007: Bono of @U2 made (KBE) Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, United Kingdom. #U2 🎶🎵
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Dawn light began stealing Through the cold universe to County Meath, Over weirs where the Boyne water, fulgent, darkling, Turns its thick axle, over rick-sized stones Millennia deep in their own unmoving And unmoved alignment. Seamus Heaney, A Dream of Solstice.
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On the beach at Bettystown, Co Meath in 1850 a local woman claimed to have found the Tara Brooch in a box buried in the sand! Dated to about 700 AD. Most impressive of the more than 50 elaborate Irish brooches discovered, in @NMIreland , Dublin, #Ireland ! #DayOfTheGirl
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Grace O'Malley (d. 1603) "Pirate Queen", lord of Ó Máille dynasty in W Ireland, following in footsteps of her father despite having a brother! Owned 1,000 cattle & horses! Legend; refused to bow to Elizabeth I.🎨Patricia Byrne #TalkLikeAPirateDay ⚔️🏴‍☠‍🦜
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🏡🐱 Beautiful thatched cottage, roses around the door & the biggest ginger kitty ever ....puuurfect!! 😍😁🐈 Clogherhead, Co Louth, #Ireland ! 📷Rosemarie Ryan. @MagicalEurope #caturday
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The entrance passage to the Mound of the Hostages/Dumha na nGiall, Hill of Tara, Co Meath, is aligned with the rising sun around Samhain! A magical time! The passage tomb is Neolithic; 3350-2800 BC! 📷Poleary91, The Irish Store 🪄🌅⛅️ #Ireland #Halloween #FolkloreSunday
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#Otd 1654: Oliver Cromwell's commissioners were appointed to allot land in Connacht to transplanted Irish! N.B. a belt 1 mile wide around the coastline was reserved for English settlers! 📷Connemara, Co Galway © @racheldubber
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@sarahwebbishere @oneillustration @OBrienPress @AnPostIBAS @MagicalEurope @HerstoryIreland @EdinburghUni @NCAD_Dublin @TheHughLane @LissadellHouse @theRCVS @V_and_A @MuseumModernArt @NMIreland @OfficialCamogie @NGIreland @TheRoyalBallet @ucl @AbbeyTheatre @USArmy @alexcollege @tcddublin @Cambridge_Uni @NobelPrize @PhysicsNews @StadeDeReims @SerieA @SerieA_eng @FAIWomen @FAIreland @IrelandFootball @FAIreland__ @FaIreland_ @AVIVAStadium @AvivaStadium_ @NiallORegan29 @sueronan @irishathletics @Harvard_Law @UN @MaryRobinsonCtr @TheAcademy @BAFTA @goldenglobes . @GinaAkpeMoses . Born 1999 in Lagos, Nigeria. Arrived at 3 in Dundalk, started athletics at 8 in St Gerald's AC. Specialised in 100m & 200m. European Athletics Junior Championships, European Youth Summer Olympics, gold at 2017 European U20s, & Youth World U-20 Championships! 🏃‍♀️🥇
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