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OTD 1598 The Pale stood open to Tyrone.The Rising Out (Old English militia) could not stop him and the 2k men who survived Yellow Ford were unfit as they were 'not weaponed , and they are not yet free from the fear they took at the late disaster at Armagh'

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2020-09-13

week 352: The genus ‘Romneya’ was named in 1845 by the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey, Director of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, who named it after his friend John Thomas Romney Robinson, Director of the Armagh Astronomical Observatory. https://t.co/6CIwVlMMoI

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2020-08-22

30 July 1660: John Bramhall, bishop of royalist exile, writer against nominated as Archbishop of (Sidney Sussex/ his throne, 1661, in cathedral, JMcC)

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2020-07-30

Russell was too ignorant or arrogant to notice Tyrone was playing him. The earl had burned every church in the borderlands but when Russell reached Armagh Cathedral it was already well-stocked with lime, timber, and wood-almost like someone wanted them to build a garrison there🤔

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2020-07-04

27 Apr 1613: d. Luke Challoner, an important figure in the establishment of Trinity College and father-in-law, through his daughter Phoebe, to Archbishop James Ussher of (NLI)

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2020-04-27

1867: Birth in Co of George William Russell. Writer (Æ/AE/A.E.), editor, critic, poet, painter & nationalist. Family moved to at 11. Follower theosophy. 📷self-portrait, Bathers, bust in Merrion Square. https://t.co/YuLztgC3u3 https://t.co/ejK4H1josN

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2020-04-10

“ A hare with green legs and a long red drifting mane and tail. Aed was loathe to mount such a creature but Esirt reassured him and the two sped across the waves on the steed of Lubdan, King of Lepra and Leprechaun”

cover art. Armagh folk tales

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2020-02-27

24 Feb 1616: A commission of 11 theologians, chaired by Peter Lombard, Archbishop of in find Galileo's cosmology heretical (JMcC, from a volume now held in )

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2020-02-24

The Derrynaflan Chalice is part of a 9th C liturgical group (it includes a paten & strainer) that was found in Tipperary in the 1980s. It is characterised by a more restrained approach to decoration & comparison between the Armagh & Derrynaflan chalices shows artistic development

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2020-02-16

OTD 1597 As Norreys gathered forces to break through to the garrison in Tyrone suddenly relented, allowing the English to pass. The earl had deliberately drawn the English out of the west, clearing O'Donnell's path to raid all the way to suburbs

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2020-01-19

3 Jan 1625: d. Christopher Hampton Church of Ireland Archbishop of James Ussher Bishop of was nominated his successor on the 29th - one of James VI & I's very last appointments and a rare promotion at this level for a born Protestant (Bodleian)

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2020-01-03

Michael Boyle died 10 December, 1702.

Archbishop of Dublin 1663-79
Archbishop of Armagh 1679-1702

Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1665–86

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For more see A. Coleman's PhD thesis 'The Career of Michael Boyle, Archbishop and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1660-86'

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2019-12-10

Book launchings this week in N.I! Collaborative writing projects with young people from Portadown & Armagh working with funded by ARTiculate Young People & Wellbeing Arts Programme. Autism Services(CAMHS)

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2019-10-14

This into Armaghedillo/itself

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2019-07-24

‘There’s one fair county in Ireland....’ 2/32 - Co. Armagh is the recorded findplace of this LBA disc. Decorated with concentric circles and bosses like a miniature Lough Gur shield it may have been part of a gorget or ear-spool. .

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2019-02-22

Some works from last years George Russell Art exhibition at the Armagh County Museum, an amazing collection and a great lecture by the late RIP

"Ah to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise"

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2018-04-11

Opening tonight 50 Shades of Red White and Blue in Armagh,Mon marketplace let's be having ye😀😁

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2015-09-06

Beautiful Armagh will be the setting for day 3 of the Giro D'Italia :)

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2014-04-02