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Clíodhna Queen of Banshees of S Munster & goddess love/beauty, & patron Co Cork. Has 3 brightly coloured birds who eat apples from otherworldly tree! Their song #heals the sick! Put to sleep by music played by sea god's minstrel & drowned in Glandore harbour! 🎨? #MythologyMonday

Brigid (& variants), "exalted one" were 3 sister goddesses of spring season, fertility, #healing, poetry & smithcraft. Celebrated at Imbolc (1 Feb). Many of her attributes transferred to St Brigid of Kildare (d c 525), one of Ireland's patron saints & #healer!🎨? #MythologyMonday

#Otd 1907: Death of #Tipperary's John O’Leary, lead Fenian. @tcddublin (law & medicine) but didn't take degree. In IRB; sentence 20 yrs penal servitude. In exile lived mainly in Paris & visited US. "Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;" WB Yeats. https://t.co/wa1LtQkuz2

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/vXkbvBeqrt

#Otd 10-15 March 1814: Battle of Martín García. #Foxford, Co #Mayo's Admiral William Brown led Argentine maritime forces into battle for 1st time; they won! Hércules, Zephyr, Nancy, Juliet, Fortuna, San Luis & Nuestra Señora del Carmen faced Spanish fleet! https://t.co/ed8zMKH2Sc

@sarahwebbishere @oneillustration @OBrienPress @AnPostIBAS @MagicalEurope @HerstoryIreland @EdinburghUni @NCAD_Dublin @TheHughLane @LissadellHouse @theRCVS @V_and_A @MuseumModernArt @NMIreland @OfficialCamogie @NGIreland @TheRoyalBallet @ucl @AbbeyTheatre @USArmy Maeve Kyle. Ireland's 1st female Olympian! Born 1928 in Co Kilkenny. In hockey played for Ireland 58x! Set up Ballymena & Antrim Athletics Club. 100m & 200m in 1956 Melbourne Olympics, & 1960 Rome & 1964 Tokyo! >30 medals in international championships! Became coach to help young

@OldDublinTown @glasnevinmuseum @IrelandB4UDie @LissadellHouse @TheAcademy Arthur Griffith 1871-1922. Writer, newspaper editor & politician. Founded/led Sinn Féin. Chairman Irish delegation at London negotiations that produced 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty. President Dáil Éireann Jan-Aug 1922. Died (51) 10 days before Collins' assassination! Buried Glasnevin.

#Otd 1317: Edward Bruce’s army reaches Castleknock, within sight of Dublin. Mayor of Dublin imprisoned Earl of Ulster, suspected of being sympathetic to Bruce. Dublin citizens burn some of N & W suburbs to prevent use as base! @irelandbattles: might be why flames on coat of arms!

#Ireland is full of myths about women of bravery & powerful goddesses! Here's my thread on a few of them! 📷goddess Ériu at @UisneachFire, Co #Westmeath. 🎨The Morrigan by Ameluria. #FolkloreThursday ♀️ https://t.co/hibf9UWAB0

One of #Ireland's greatest heroes, Cú Chulainn was born Sétanta. He gained his better-known name as a child, after killing Culann's fierce guard-dog in self-defence & offered to take its place until a replacement could be reared! Name Cú Chulainn=Culand’s hound! #MythologyMonday