Irish History Bitesize!さんのイラストまとめ

Thread: #Birds (our feathered & winged friends) for #BirdDay & #MythologyMonday! 🎨John as the eagle in the Book of Kells @BookOfKellsTCD, in @TCDResearchColl Dublin. 🎨The Morrigan (Irish goddess of death, with her ravens) by Ameluria. #folklore #Ireland https://t.co/fjeM58vj1F

#Otd 1836: Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organisation founded at St James RC Church📷, Manhattan, NYC. Assisted immigrants, esp those who faced discrimination or harsh coal mining working conditions. Focus of political activity. https://t.co/0sVr1MtEcV

#Otd 1858: Birth in Corfu of Edith Somerville. Novelist & painter. From 1, grew up in #Drishane, #Castletownshend, Co #Cork. Wrote with cousin Violet Martin e.g. The Real Charlotte & books on an Irish R. M. (made into TV) & solo! https://t.co/etTySswb7u https://t.co/uO7Mm8LdBS

#Otd 1791: Birth in #Dublin of William Theobald Wolfe Tone, son of Theobald Wolfe Tone. Raised in France. Joined Grand Army in Germany. His nom de guerre was le petit loup, the little wolf! Received Legion of Honour. After Battle of Waterloo, emigrated to US (Captain in US Army).

#Otd 1718: Birth of Nathaniel Hone the Elder RA, portrait & miniature painter. Son of Dublin-based Dutch merchant. Moved to England as young man & settled in London. Founder member @royalacademy. Relation of Evie Hone🎨1st: himself https://t.co/m3BOolYczs https://t.co/5bmTSFzDYy

#Otd 1926: Birth in NYC of JP Donleavy (d 2017). Irish parents. Novelist & playwright. @tcddublin for while. The Ginger Man initially banned for obscenity. A Fairy Tale of New York gave title of song! Lived at Levington Park, #Mullingar, Co #Westmeath. 📚 https://t.co/Uz37Cs4txD

St Ibar/Iberius/Ivor buried on #Beggerin island, #Wexford under a large flat stone. Monastery there until 1160. Flat cross stone & a rock with a sign of the cross (🎨Du Noyer) preserved in museum, Enniscorthy & @NMIreland. 📷Ibar dedicated pilgrimage church on Lady's Island.

#Otd 1991: Death of #Cork's Seán Ó Faoláin. Saoi of @Aosdana writer novels, short stories, biographies, travel books, translations, literary criticism (90x!). @Cork_PBC @UCC @NUIMerrionSq @Harvard. '40-46 editor The Bell. '56-59, director @artscouncil_ie. https://t.co/BDkSPbmEOl

As well as horse Enbarr (could go over land & sea) who'd been lent to him by his father the sea god, the Irish god Lugh also had the magic "hound-whelp" named Failinis. He could change his bath water to wine, was invincible in battle & caught every wild beast! #FolkloreThursday

#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.🏥