Join us for a day of great literary banter

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Delighted to share details of Irish Historical Fiction - a celebration on Saturday 4 April - talking books and what inspired them from some of the top writers in Ireland today. Free to attend. Spread the word!

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The musician Daniel Protheroe, conductor of several music societies in who is best known for composing anthems, hymn-tunes and children's hymn-tunes, died at 1934 https://t.co/PEFk7hmWIa Image:

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Zionist leader, political theorist, and early proponent of the kibbutz movement Nachman Syrkin was born in 1868 in Mohilev, Russia (now Belarus).
🧐 his correspondence via several collections.
📂 https://t.co/DhJcqYyJYR

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Executed in 1587, the tragic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
Trouble just seemed to follow her around.
Cut paper collage ©Amanda White

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Dinner in honor of Herbert Lehman given by American ORT Federation Labor Division in 1943 at the Hotel Commodore, NYC.
🧐 more via 's
ORT Photograph Collection, RG 380.
📂https://t.co/h8HYFmUGSz
📷 https://t.co/GUR2LkwaPW

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SIR THOMAS RANDOLPH

Sir Thomas was one of Bruce's loyal men and took with just 30 men by climbing the rock face he was also a top diplomat for Scotland

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Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, one of Wales' most influential and versatile composers, died in 2012 https://t.co/VYMq3GjwOW Image:

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Invitation to the Launch of 'Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House' edited by Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway Tues 28 Jan in the GAA Museum at All are welcome

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Alun Sbardun Huws, musician and composer of some of the most popular pop songs died at the Hospital, 2014 https://t.co/rJJAnEhBa9 Image:

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Take a trip back in time to Rhyl's East parade in the 1880s! ⬇️
https://t.co/y68I6ARFYV

Creator: Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)
Date: c. 1880
Collection: National Media Museum Collection

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Read how Captain Arthur Edwards from Blaenafon in south Wales oversaw the explosion of the first British mine on the Western Front in March 1915 ⬇️

https://t.co/gUSMV6NX8c
Via

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Maria Jane Williams of singer and harpist, and a pioneer in the field of folk music died at Ynys-las Cottage, 1873 https://t.co/Gan6mLbJYa

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The musician Daniel Protheroe, conductor of American music societies, remembered for composing anthems and hymn-tunes, was born at near 1866 https://t.co/PEFk7hmWIa Image:

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Yiddish author and playwright Sholem Asch was born in 1880
Yiddish writers at the Czernowitz Conference, 1908 (Asch standing)
🧐 more via 's Sholem Asch Papers, RG 602
📂 https://t.co/yOz62TSigT
📸 https://t.co/HdtQul5Oa2

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Cartoon William Wallace but make it "accurate". When I was wee, I went on a school trip to the Wallace Monument, where we found out he wasn't an anti-Semitic Australian.

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