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#Otd 1681: Death of Count Redmond O'Hanlon. Rapparee/bandit! Took to hills of Slieve Gullion as confiscated lands not returned by King. Received protection💷to pay spies/clansmen. @dublincastleopw put price on head/wanted posters! Shot by his foster-brother near #Hilltown #Down.
#Otd 1718: Birth Nathaniel Hone the Elder RA. Portrait/miniature painter. Dad #Dublin-based Dutch merchant. Settled in London. A founder @royalacademy. Had 1 man shows! Gr-grand-nephew Nathaniel Hone the Younger! Relation Evie Hone https://t.co/m3BOolYczs https://t.co/5bmTSFzDYy
#Otd 1926: Birth in NYC of JP Donleavy (d. 2017). Irish parents. Lived at Levington Park #Mullingar #Westmeath. Novelist/playwright.👨🎓@MicrobiologyTCD. The Ginger Man initially banned for obscenity. A Fairy Tale of New York gave song title! Hon Litt.D TCD https://t.co/Uz37Cs4txD
23 April: St Ibar (d. 500/2) of Becc Ériu/Beggerin Island, Co #Wexford. Bishop before St Patrick. Now part of Slobs (wildfowl reserve). 🎨Du Noyer. In Enniscorthy museum & @NMIreland. 📷Ibar dedicated pilgrimage church on Lady's Island ©Andreas F. Borchert https://t.co/0dup30gLYc
20 April: St Sobarthain a bishop, Sedrach a bishop, & Flann. Little-known saints in medieval Irish martyrologies. 🗺️CofI dioceses ©Wikidwitch 🗺️RC dioceses ©Sheila1988
(Dioceses set up by Synod of Rathbreasail 1111. Modified by Synod of Kells 1152. Replaced monastic model.)
Can you match🖼️to correct artist👩🎨?
Anne Acheson
Lilian Davidson
Wilhelmina Geddes
Grace Gifford
Letitia Marion Hamilton
Evie Hone
Mainie Jellett
Norah McGuinness
Lillias Mitchell
Róisín Madigan O’Reilly
Sarah Purser
Nano Reid
Una Watters
♀️ #Ireland #IrishArt #WorldArtDay 🎨
#Otd 1896: 1st x-ray taken in Ireland in De La Salle College in #Waterford city, by Michael Francis O’Reilly/Brother Potamian (discovered by German Wilhelm Röntgen). Born in #Bailieborough Co #Cavan in 1847 in Famine so emigrated. Entered Jesuit Novitiate in Montreal, Canada.🏥
#Otd 1876: Birth in #Belfast of Paul Henry.👨🎨artist.👨🎓 @mcbformerpupils @oldinstonians @BelfastSchArt Paris. 9 years on Achill island, Mayo; shown in post-impressionism. Dublin, designed popular railway posters! Last 13 years blind! https://t.co/OqzBpm17dt https://t.co/TwqMbYouiT
Brigit/Brigid/Bríg "exalted one" is a goddess in Irish mythology. 9th C Cormac's Glossary written by monks, says she was "the goddess whom poets adored" & that she had 2 sisters: Brigid the healer & Brigid the smith. Some say they were syncretised with St Brigid! 🎨? #SiblingsDay
Fiacha, Ollom, Ériu, Banba, Fódla, Badb, Macha, Anann, Glonn, Gnim & Coscar are all brothers & sister gods & goddesses in Irish mythology! Fiacha wasn't just the brother of Ériu, Banba & Fódla; he was their father by their mother Ernmas! 🎨Jane Brideson & Jenn Rose? #SiblingsDay