Irish History Bitesize!さんのイラストまとめ

1 Feb: St Brigid. 5/6th C founder of Cell Dara/#Kildare, & others! One of Ireland's patron saints, along with Patrick & Columba! Many miracles even from when she was a girl! 43 Kilbride placenames in Ireland, & places in Scotland/Wales/Isle of Man/Antarctica! "Mary of the Irish"!

#Otd 1939: Death in Menton, S France of #Dublin & #Sligo's WB Yeats. Poet! @NobelPrize Lit! Co-founded @AbbeyTheatre. Senator of Irish Free State 2 terms. 🪦@DrumcliffeCOI since 1948. Epitaph from last lines of "Under Ben Bulben". https://t.co/tmjey1APcq https://t.co/qfG8qwJsqi

'Ulster Fairytales and Legends'.

Authors: Peter Heaney & @Heaney28. Illustrator: @ConorBusuttil. Publisher: @OBrienPress.

Looks wonderful! One legend from each county of Ulster!

Watch Peter read an extract of The Red Hand of Ulster, in the link: https://t.co/z9OkihVj3P

#Otd 1747: Death in #Dublin of #Thurles, #Tipperary's James Latham. Portrait painter, who Anthony Pasquin dubbed “Ireland’s Van Dyck”!🧑‍🎨Spent a year in Antwerp & maybe some time in England. Several @NGIreland 🎨self-portrait (left) https://t.co/DLBQ8zTOlV https://t.co/eqppM8KoAD

#Otd 1679: Narcissus Marsh, future Archbishop of #Dublin & founder of @MarshsLibrary, Ireland's 1st public library, is sworn Provost of @tcddublin. 🎨unknown 📷TCD (their own) https://t.co/6BhW1j3j97

Percy French's 'The Mountains of Mourne' about 19th C London as seen from point of view of a labourer from near Mourne Mts, Co Down!🎶2 statues in Newcastle celebrate it. Percy also painted the Mournes!🎨🏔️ https://t.co/64xRyl2SfE https://t.co/roFwVlfmOP https://t.co/o8Rv5NNbfE

Robert Gibbings (23 March 1889 Co #Cork-19 Jan 1958 England). Raised #Kinsale.🧑‍🎓@UCCMedHealth @SladeSchool @csm_news. Wood engraver (major influence on it's revival, co-founder @woodengravers), sculptor, ✍️travel/natural history📚! Lecturer @UniofReading. https://t.co/3ZsCRSXxKX

Sheila Tinney RIA (15 Jan 1918 #Galway-27 March 2010 #Dublin). née Power.👩‍🎓@UCDMathStat @EdinUniMaths. 1st Irish♀️PhD Maths! Lecturer @UCDMathStat @DIAS_Dublin @the_IAS. 1st courses on quantum mechanics at UCD! Always encouraged♀️! https://t.co/Zg7TKVC7iO https://t.co/A7gkb7fiN8

#Otd 1779 or 1781: Birth in #Newry, Co #Down of Julia Glover (left).🎭actress. Started as child. Competed for tragic parts with Dublin's Maria Ann Campion (right) so favoured comedy. Dad sold her in marriage. Unhappy 👰 & only 4/8 kids survived childhood. https://t.co/cPnh1WFLyT

#Otd 1916: Death in NYC of Co #Limerick's Ada Rehan (Bridget Crehan). Stage actress. Family emigrated to US when child. Widely admired in US & Europe (Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, London, Edinburgh, Dublin & Stratford-on-Avon)! WW2 Liberty ship named for her!🎭 https://t.co/zeyPtyyFdO