Irish History Bitesize!さんのイラストまとめ

@CartonHouse @pciassembly @Love_Antrim #Otd 1798: Execution in #Lisburn, Co #Down of Henry Munro, U.I. leader & Presbyterian linen merchant. Tried by court-martial & hanged in front of his home, in front of wife & sisters. "behaved with marvellous coolness to the last" & settled a money account https://t.co/uVAVE4agdW

@CartonHouse #Otd 1798: Scullabogue Barn massacre near #Newbawn, Co #Wexford. Some rebels massacred 100-200 noncombatant men, women & children, mostly Protestant, held prisoner in a barn which was then set alight. Due to burning alive of rebel prisoners at New Ross? https://t.co/ejvVscYAIN

#Otd 1823: Daniel O’Connell founded Catholic Association. Organised large-scale public protests in Ireland. PM Wellington, "If we cannot get rid of the Catholic Association, we must look to civil war in Ireland sooner or later." So Wellington & Peel passed Catholic Emancipation.

#Otd 1844: Philadelphia nativist riots contd. St Michael's Catholic Church & rectory, & St Augustine's Church burned by Irish Protestants. Didn't attack German Catholic church under construction! c 14 killed, c 50 injured, 200 fled homes. Damage equivalent $4.03 million in 2016!

#Otd 1316: Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick (younger brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland) crowned himself king of Ireland near Dundalk, Co Louth. Had invaded Ireland the previous year. Stayed another 2 1/2 yrs but killed Oct 1318 at Battle of Faughart (near where crowned).

#Otd 1768: Birth in #Dublin of Melesina Trench (née Chenevix). Writer, poet & diarist. Known for her beauty in life. Travelled Germany esp with cream of European society after 1st husband died. One of her sons published her diaries posthumously & her work received notice.

#Otd 1800: Birth in #Ennis, Co #Clare of Charles James Patrick Mahon. Extremely colourful character who was nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian & international mercenary! Claimed to have instigated & fought 13 duels! Favourite of royalty who travelled the world!

#Otd 1689: Williamite War in Ireland began. In Irish it is known as Cogadh an Dá Rí, "war of the two kings", James II and VII (left) & William III ("William of Orange") (right). It lasted 2 years, 6 months & 3 weeks. Part of European Nine Years' War/War of the Grand Alliance.

#Otd 1882: Birth in #Rathgar, #Dublin of James Joyce. Novelist, short story writer & poet e.g. Ulysses (1922), short-story collection Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Finnegans Wake (1939), 3 books poetry, a play & published letters! #IrishAuthors

In a well that still flows close to #Killala, Co #Mayo, beside the sea, local legend tells that St Patrick baptised in a single day 12,000 converts & in presence of the crowds, raised to life a dead woman whom he also baptised! #FolkloreThursday