Irish History Bitesize!さんのイラストまとめ

#Otd 1905: Death of #Cork's Lucy Everest Boole FRIC. 1st♀️Prof Chemistry in Ireland or Britain; London School of Medicine for Women @RoyalFreeNHS! 1st♀️Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry! Research croton oil. 1st♀️to research pharmacy in England! https://t.co/XfFCiaugYR

#Otd 1865: Death (42) in London of #Ballysillan #Belfast's Francis Fowke RE.👨‍🎓@RoyalDungannon, RMA Woolwich. Captain @Proud_Sappers & architect eg @RoyalAlbertHall parts @V_and_A @NGIreland @NtlMuseumsScot & 1862 International Exhibition! Renaissance style https://t.co/qST53ur6k6

#Otd 1893: Death #Leighlinbridge #Carlow's John Tyndall. Proved CO2/Greenhouse Effect link. Explained why the sky is blue in the day & red at sunset; "Tyndall Effect"! >12 science books; physics to wide audience. Prof Physics @Ri_Science. Keen climber Alps https://t.co/SuINhshoA9

Sadbh enchanted into doe for 3 yrs for refusing love of dark druid. Told if set foot in the dún (fort) of the Fianna the spell would be broken! Met & married Fionn mac Cumhaill! But later she was turned back into a doe! Fionn searched 7 yrs but never found her! #FairyTaleTuesday

"The Story of Conn-eda"/"The Golden Apples of Lough Erne". Conn-eda goes on a quest to find 3 golden apples, a black steed & a supernatural hound from a city underneath Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh (ruled by king of Fir Bolg) 🎨Katharine Pyle ©Lough Erne Resort #Ireland #SwampSunday

#Otd 1905: Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin as a political party in #Dublin. They advocated for an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy unified with the British Crown (inspired by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867). They didn't become popular until after the 1916 Easter Rising.

Valentine Greatrakes (14 Feb 1628 #Affane Co #Waterford-28 Nov 1683). "Greatorex"/"The Stroker"! Toured England 1666; said he could cure people by the laying on of hands. Summoned to Whitehall by Charles II! Then went back to farming. Mentioned in Ulysses! https://t.co/Ov3S4m9RBj

The Irish god, the Dagda, had 2 pigs, one of which was always growing whilst the other was always roasting, & fruit #trees that were always full of fruit! Perfect! As his "un-dry cauldron" said to be bottomless!🎨Jane Brideson ©Recenseo (pigs), mine #Ireland #SuperstitionSat

Irish sayings about❄️! If it snowed Christmas Eve🎅, children told geese being plucked in heaven! New moon lucky omen🌑. Mild weather on Christmas Eve was cause for concern because, "A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard"!😲 ©mistletoediary, my house #snow #FolkloreThursday

#Otd 1713: Birth #Clonmel #Tipperary Rev Laurence Sterne. CofE clergyman & novelist eg 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy' & sermons/memoirs https://t.co/rxJtZgGk9x https://t.co/EQQpZDDK1l https://t.co/0V3nndrpoi