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Calling Ireland's 18-25-year-olds. Tell your generations story through your smartphone lens. Submit your entries of the place or object that helps, inspires or hinders you. 'Snap That' judges will select photographs for an online exhibition. Details https://t.co/18M0OPzg5H

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2020-07-29

📢Calling Ireland's 18-25-year-olds. Tell your generations story through your smartphone lens📱 Submit your entries of the place or object that helps, inspires or hinders you. 'Snap That' judges will select photographs for an online exhibition. Details https://t.co/18M0OPhEH7

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2020-07-21

Ireland's Night of the Big Wind, on the afternoon of Jan 6, 1839; was known to many as Judgement Day. rumoured that the end of the world would come about on the Feast of the Epiphany. So when this wild storm hit, many thought it was the end of days!

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2020-07-10

Cù chulainn: Ireland's child of light

21 year old Friendly writer

Dom / occasional Sub

18 + account

Limits: no scat, Gore, or vore

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2020-07-07

1978: Death Mary Swanzy HRHA. Artist; cubism, fauvism, orphism, & 1 Ireland's 1st abstract! Tutored by John Butler Yeats! Fluent French & German. Lived in Paris then Dublin. Travelled to Honolulu & Samoa then London! https://t.co/3DqCIR1nSG https://t.co/JE8a92Kzy2

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2020-07-07

Today marks the start of the Bloomsday Festival 2020! We honour James Joyce, one of Ireland's most influential and celebrated writers with his portrait by Louis le Brocquy, ‘James Joyce Study 54’, 1977, watercolour, 42.5 x 38cm, Butler Gallery Collection.

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2020-06-11

My 'Norwegian Wood' illustration. The piece was part of a huge Beatles exhibition. The show featured some of Ireland's most talented (and nicest) artists.. It was an honour to exhibit along side them!
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2020-06-05

A little thread about Ireland's kick-ass legendary heroine, Macha!
🎨Kellepics on Pixaby

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2020-04-30

The book my father meant to write but never got around to during his lifetime - a story of two generals, four sieges and Ireland's bloodiest battle. More at https://t.co/ab3JGVapeb

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2020-04-17

Only a few days left to watch the Oonah Keogh ep of HERSTORY: Ireland's on .

Learn about Dubliner Oonah Keogh, the first female member of a stock exchange!

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2020-04-01

A continuity: Henry VIII adopted the harp as a symbol of the Kingdom of in 1541 - it is still used in Ireland's Euro coins.

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2020-03-19

in 1785 Ellen Hutchins, Ireland's first female botanist was born. 'I am told,' she wrote in 1807, 'that I have made great progress for the time I have been learning, in a curious and difficult branch, that of marine plants.' See & https://t.co/JFPP1zKPuu

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2020-03-18

Brigid (& variants), "exalted one" were 3 sister goddesses of spring season, fertility, 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 &

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2020-03-16

Tune into HERSTORY: Ireland's on next Monday at 8.30pm to learn about Dubliner Oonah Keogh, the first female member of a stock exchange!

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2020-02-28

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

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2020-02-24

The Space Truckers was a *HUGE* deal in Ireland.

This was the 90's and I distinctly remember Irish entertainment shows going on about how it was Ireland's first sci-fi movie, the biggest movie of it's kind filmed in Ireland, people thought it was gonna be another Braveheart.

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2020-02-11