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Alison Dickson 🖌

'Alison, born in 1961 grew up on the family farm near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh 🇮🇪. Her work is in collections throughout Ireland, the UK and further afield.'

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2023-03-22

OTD 1594 Dowdall re-edified Enniskillen & put 30 men in garrison. Castle was isolated at the end of vulnerable supply line, but assured by his spies that Hugh Maguire has 'not 8 horse and 20 foot' & all in Fermanagh loyal saving 1 or 2- Dowdall needed better spies

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2023-02-15

OTD 1599 Capt Humfrey Willis proposed forts in Ulster, inc. Derry, Lifford, Armagh & Toome. His incursion into Fermanagh sparked war in 1593. Fought throughout but killed in mopping up op. summer 1602. So crucial at the start, his passing went almost unremarked

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2022-12-19

Cethlionn of the twisted teeth, once threw a javelin that mortally wounded the Dagda (still it took him 120 years to die!) The town of Enniskillen in Fermanagh is named after her. (Inis Cethlinn, ‘Cethlenn’s island’). A mighty woman of Irish mythology.

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2022-09-13

OTD 1600 As Mountjoy prepared to push into Ulster as a feint for the the Foyle landings, report of dissent in the Irish camp as the Maguire succession feud leaves hundreds dead in Loyalty of Turlough MacHenry, Arthur O'Neill and John O'Doherty doubtful

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2022-05-10

OTD 1594 Dowdall re-edified Enniskillen & put 30 men in garrison. Castle was isolated at the end of vulnerable supply line, but assured by his spies that Hugh Maguire has 'not 8 horse and 20 foot' & all in Fermanagh loyal saving 1 or 2- Dowdall needed better spies

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2022-02-15

Conor Roe Maguire wanted Capt Willis appointed to him, never mind it was Willis' 1593 depredations as sheriff in Fermanagh which lit the blue touch paper of war in the first place. Willis was an appalling character but he gets his-killed in the last months of war in 1603.

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2022-02-05

OTD 1599 Enfant terrible Capt Humfrey Willis proposed plot of forts in Ulster, inc. Derry, Lifford, B'shannon, Cavan, Armagh, C'fergus, Coleraine and Toome. His incursion into Fermanagh sparked war in 1593. Fought throughout but killed in mopping up op. summer 1602

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2021-12-19

The Nordic Gnome disappeared yesterday, no word at all, then I get a ping they decided to take a stroll up to Boa Island in Fermanagh for a chat with the Lustymore Man an old friend.

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2021-12-10

OTD 1593 Sir Ralph Lane, contrary to the glowing reports of Bagenal's campaign in Fermanagh, reported Hugh Maguire's army had 'lost very few of his own followers at the passage of Belleek by the Marshal', moreover he was now reinforced with Scots redshanks & troops from Connacht

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2021-12-04

"The Story of Conn-eda"/"The Golden Apples of Lough Erne". Conn-eda goes on a quest to find 3 golden apples, a black steed & a supernatural hound from a city underneath Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh (ruled by king of Fir Bolg) 🎨Katharine Pyle ©Lough Erne Resort

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2021-11-28

OTD 1600 Report that Cuconnacht Maguire had drawn his forces against succession rival Conor Roe Maguire in Fermanagh '& burnt all his country, being the upper part of Fermanagh, and killed some of his men, so that they are both in arms one against the other'

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2021-06-27

OTD 1600 As Mountjoy prepared to push into Ulster as a feint for the the Foyle landings, report of dissent in the Irish camp as the Maguire succession feud leaves hundreds dead in Loyalty of Turlough MacHenry, Arthur O'Neill and John O'Doherty doubtful

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2021-05-10

1981: Hunger striker Bobby Sands won a parliamentary seat in the Fermanagh & South Tyrone by-election. He won the seat with 30,493 votes to 29,046 for the Ulster Unionist Party's Harry West. He became the youngest MP at the time (27). He died 26 days later. 🎨Andre Mooney

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2021-04-09

This is the Face of a little Hammy who has just been caught hanging from the bird feeders. And this is not too long after he got a two course breakfast banquet! Does he look guilty? Not one bit!

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2021-03-30

29 March: St Fergus/Ferghas, son of Enda, of Inis Caín/#Inishkeen, Lough Erne, Co 3 tales about lake's origins, & prince Conn-eda went on quest to get 3 golden apples, black steed & supernatural hound from city under lough, ruled by Fir Bolg king!🎨Katherine Pyle.

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2021-03-29

The most well-known appearance of Tiobraid ‘a fountain, well or spring’ is in Tipperary (Tiobraid Árann ‘the well of Ara’), but it is also seen in Tubbrid (Tiobraid 'well') in Co. Fermanagh, and in Kiltubbrid (Cill Tiobraide ‘church of the well’) in Co. Armagh.

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2021-01-13

OTD 1599 Enfant terrible Capt Humfrey Willis proposed plot of forts in Ulster, inc. Derry, Lifford, B'shannon, Cavan, Armagh, C'fergus, Coleraine and Toome. His incursion into Fermanagh sparked war in 1593. Fought throughout but killed in mopping up op. summer 1602

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2020-12-19

OTD 1593 Sir Ralph Lane, contrary to the glowing reports of Bagenal's campaign in Fermanagh, reported Maguire's army had 'lost very few of his own followers at the passage of Belleek by the Marshal', worse still he was now reinforced with Scots redshanks & troops from Connacht

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2020-12-04

OTD 1600 As Mountjoy prepared to push into Ulster as a feint for the the Foyle landings, report of dissent in the Irish camp as the Maguire succession feud leaves hundreds dead in Loyalty of Turlough MacHenry, Arthur O'Neill and John O'Doherty doubtful

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2020-05-10