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@thewildgees For the Campaign 'Women on Walls' @RIAdawson & Accenture commissioned a series of paintings by artists Vera Klute & Blaise Smith. Phyllis Clinch was one of them. https://t.co/tlA3jJLPBm
#OTD 1922 Michael Collins, revolutionary leader, chairman of the Irish provisional government & commander-in-chief of the provisional government army was killed during an ambush in the remote valley of Béal na mBlath, close to his birthplace. https://t.co/fMfVd9JmzL #DIBLives
United Irishman Fr James Coigly made at least 2 crossings to France in 1797 in an attempt to rekindle French interest in Ireland after the failure at Bantry Bay. After his arrest he refused to incriminate Arthur O'Connor & was executed #OTD 1798. https://t.co/z3JqJEnqMT #DIBLives
Today is the feast of Brendan the Navigator, a saint in the Irish tradition, famed throughout Europe as a monastic founder & voyager. Legends of his voyage to ‘the promised land of the saints’ form part of the 'Navigatio Sancti Brendani abbatis'.
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Artist Lilian Davidson, born #OTD 1879, was internationally renowned. She exhibited widely & in 1940 was elected associate of the RHA. She was also a talented writer and produced plays, short stories & monologues under the pseudonym Ulick Burke.
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📣We've created a resource for Leaving Cert. students comprised of forty biographies of major Irish figures from Daniel O'Connell to Seamus Heaney #lchist #edchatie. Find out more and download the PDF here: https://t.co/wxVlAZZxtL
A new series of @Library_RIA #lunchtimelectures on Thomas Moore commences on Wednesday 9 October with a talk by Professor Harry White MRIA, and DIB Board member. Read White's comprehensive DIB entry on Moore here: https://t.co/sTMQy5DRli
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (d.1916) "himself agreed that he was a crank—‘a small instrument that makes revolutions'” https://t.co/YKEvnjR1u6