1534: "Silken Thomas" Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, heard rumours his father executed. Rode to St Mary's Abbey, Dublin with 140 gallowglasses! Renounced allegiance to cousin King Henry VIII! Henry confined his father to the Tower! Revolt followed! Father d. months later!

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You have NO clue how much I love these and want to see them more than anything

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Close ups of the backgrounds cause I like em! The string is doing my commute to Kildare that I used to do on a weekly basis to see my boyfriend! (Pre quarantine obviously 💔)

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1234: Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke & Lord of Leinster (left), defeated by knights loyal to King Henry III of England (right) at Battle of the Curragh, Co Kildare. Braveheart filmed there! Died 16 April at Kilkenny castle from his wounds. ⚔️ https://t.co/BsVV1pusWW

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https://t.co/rnleMcvJ3y This collection feature three classic films starring screen legend Barbara Stanwyck. INTERNES CAN’T TAKE MONEY (1937) – Young Dr. James Kildare (Joel McCrea, Four Faces West), interning at a clinic, falls for his patient Janet Haley...

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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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one of bob clampett’s many retakes. PATIENT PORKY is a much more inferior remake of THE DAFFY DOC, with dr. chilled-air (kildare) in place of daffy. hearing mel do his marvin voice is pretty amusing, though.

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The serpent will come from the hole
On the brown Day of Bríde,
Though there should be three feet of snow
On the flat surface of the ground.

a bit of weather divination on St Biddy's Day St Brigid of Kildare to you, who once might have been the goddess Brigid of

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Also, have a quick doodle of Viss'Kildare from the campaign I am in This one is for the lovely <3

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They came from Kildare,Belfast,Edinburgh,Gernsbach,Nottingham,Forres,Dunloy,Glasgow,Skelmersdale,Derry,Ballymena,Hamburg,Bathgate,Athens,Livorno,Forres,Laois toname a few,on the 1 road to Rome 🍀😎🍀🍷🍀and Dumbarton and Paisley and the Port

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INTERNES CAN’T TAKE MONEY (1937): The first Dr. Kildare movie is a wild tale of gangsters, barroom surgery, and a desperate mother. Stanwyck rips your heart out (as usual). Exactly the kind of old movie I love: 78 minutes and hardly a dull moment.

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haha i love kildare

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in 1916 the Battle of the Somme begins. Visit our free exhibition, World War Ireland, in No.2-3 Kildare Street to learn more about the Irish involvement in Zoom in here:https://t.co/KHGC8hmnAZ

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On This Day - April 24th, 1916 the ‘James Caird’ lifeboat was launched.
Aboard Tom Crean (Co. Kerry), Sir Ernest Shackleton (Co. Kildare), Tim McCarthy (Co. Cork), "Chippy" McNish, John Vincent & Frank Worsley. available from

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