Irish History Bitesize!さんのイラストまとめ

Why don't you give Evana Bjöurson @EvanaBjourson a follow?! Married to @AdrianMargeyArt & shares a studio with him in #Portrush, N Co #Antrim, N #Ireland! Has own lovely style! Her portraits of children are adorable! Also loves to paint the sea! #IrishArt https://t.co/vXkbvAWP2T

#Otd 1752: Gregorian calendar adopted in Ireland & Britain, 170 years after mainland Europe! 2nd Sept followed by 14th! Changed from Julian so Easter date would be more accurate. Named for Pope Gregory XIII who commissioned it. 3rd picture detail from his tomb, celebrating it.

Adrian Margey @AdrianMargeyArt inspired by a visit to Ecuador, is so colourful & captures N #Ireland so well! Based #Portrush, north coast Co Antrim! However he's got different styles & colour palettes as you can see from these four of #Portstewart Strand! https://t.co/oPsMqfLubi

#Otd 2003: Death of Patrick Procktor RA. #Dublin born artist. Moved to London as boy. @highgate1565 @RoyalNavy @SladeSchool! Princess Margaret loved his work! "The Guardian Readers" cover art @eltonofficial's 1976 album Blue Moves! https://t.co/cQ9ImA48qD https://t.co/VcKpwaIr8n

#Otd 1958: Death in #Bray of Paul Henry, artist. Born Belfast. @MethodyBelfast @oldinstonians @BelfastSchArt Paris. 9 yrs Achill island, Mayo; depicted post-impressionism. Dublin designed popular railway posters! Last 13 yrs blind. https://t.co/OqzBpm17dt https://t.co/TwqMbYouiT

#Otd 1908: Birth in #Dublin of Mervyn Wall (d 1997). Novelist, playwright, short stories & Ireland Today. @BelvedereSJ, Civil servant @rte & Secretary @artscouncil_ie. 2 of novels are humorous fantasy about the misadventures of a monk in Dark Ages Ireland! https://t.co/SNuvucqSlm

#Otd 1798: Birth in #Dublin of Richard Robert Madden. Doctor, writer, abolitionist & U.I. historian. Active role in trying to impose anti-slavery rules in Jamaica on behalf British government. Had 20 siblings! 🎨undercover in Syria exploring Turkish Empire https://t.co/wfrzIvZhM0

22 Aug 565: St Columba saved man swimming from being killed by the Loch Ness monster! He made sign of cross & said to Nessie, "You will go no further"! At this she fled! All the Picts who witnessed this were amazed & converted! My thread on St Columba! https://t.co/tUgszBjCKj

21 Aug: St Mogin Mór. "Mór"=great, in the Martyrology of Tallaght. It seems to indicate that he was a person of distinction. However, in the O'Cleary's calendar he is called simply Moghin (Canon O'Hanlon). 🎨Jörg Breu

#Otd 1784: Death 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