Irish History Bitesize!さんのイラストまとめ

#Otd 1957: Death of Jack Butler Yeats. 3rd most expensive Irish artist & Olympic medallist; "The Liffey Swim"! Siblings: WB, Lily, Lolly. Father: artist John Butler. Landscapes & figures, mainly from W, esp boyhood home of #Sligo! https://t.co/A9QDRq35Ne https://t.co/1r50yBQebO

Louth was originally the site of a shrine to the Irish god Lugh, so St Mochta would have had a battle! His monastery📷 gained nationwide reputation. He was an accomplished scholar, especially learned in scripture. He wrote a rule for monks, but no trace of it has survived.

Mrs Catherine O'Leary was an Irish immigrant living in Chicago, Illinois, US. The story is that an alleged accident involving her cow started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871! Fact or urban myth?! 🎨1871 from Harper's Magazine. #fire #MythologyMonday🔥🐮☘️😲 https://t.co/3n3VRsyr1k

Drunk Jack offered up his soul in exchange for payment of his pub tab!🍻When the Devil came to collect Jack climbed a tree! Carved a cross to stop the Devil who forgave Jack's debt & granted him an ember from #fires of hell to light his way! Jack-o'-lantern! #MythologyMonday🔥🎃

#Otd 1889: Birth Co #Cork Robert Gibbings. Raised #Kinsale. @UCC (medicine) @SladeSchool @csm_news. Artist/author esp wood engraver, sculptor & travel/natural history books @HodderBooks @HMHCo @PuffinBooks! Co-founder @woodengravers. Lecturer @UniofReading https://t.co/fUiv4UfMJR

#Otd 1768: Death (54, in London) of #Clonmel, Co #Tipperary's Laurence Sterne. CofE clergyman & novelist e.g. 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy', & sermons/memoirs https://t.co/f2Ma3s0wIe https://t.co/6kSVdoxVZV

#Otd 1940: Death of #Milltown, #Castleplunket, Co #Roscommon's Roderic O'Conor. Loved France; much of later career in Paris, part of Pont-Aven movement. Mainly Post-Impressionist. Influenced by Van Gogh & his friend Paul Gauguin!🎨🧑‍🎨https://t.co/lONLXCZ1pK https://t.co/wNmqlLmd96

St Fridianus/San Frediano known for miracles! River Serchio often flooded! With a rake, he commanded the waters to follow his rake! The river followed him as he cut a path away from the city of Lucca, & cultivated land on its outskirts! 🎨Filippo Lippi @UffiziGalleries Florence🇮🇹

#Otd 1990: Birth in #Bray, Co #Wicklow of Andrew John Hozier-Byrne @Hozier. Musician, singer/songwriter. Grew up near #Delgany. Fact for Take Me To Church fans; raised Quaker (now says he's agnostic)! @tcddublin (started Music). 🎶https://t.co/qWIQn0jH9z https://t.co/ELSJz0uLPV

#Otd 1853: Ossianic Society founded to preserve/publish MSs of Fionn cycle. Founding members: John O'Daly, William Elliot Hudson, John Edward Pigot, Owen Connellan, John Windele, William Smith O'Brien, Standish Hayes O'Grady. 1860, 746 subscribers.🎨Oisin by @jimfitzpatrick & ?