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#Otd 1316: Second Battle of #Athenry, Co #Galway, when the Connacht Gaels allied with Edward Bruce (younger brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland) against the Anglo-Irish victors. 1,500 Connacht men decapitated inc 2 kings! Site of battle uncertain https://t.co/bFSqusZjnx
Some basics about the Battle of the Boyne! #DYK that the battle was fought 1 July 1690, not 12 July when it is remembered by @OrangeOrder?! The Julian calendar was changed to the Gregorian calendar-dates skipped forward by 11 days in Britain & Ireland! https://t.co/j3AMczmzVv
Book of Durrow is a medieval illuminated manuscript gospel book in Insular art style, created 650-700 AD. #Otd Feast Day of Mark the Evangelist-here's beginning of Gospel of Mark & it's symbol, an eagle (unlike Book of Kells=John)! In @TCDResearchColl. @MagicalEurope #Ireland
#NationalUSPostagestampDay! I love stamps-there's so much you learn from them! #postagestamp #USpostagestampDay #otd