Celtic coin art showing the 'Lámhfada' or long arm. Depictions range from simple elongated arms, tree or vine outgrowths, to wand/hammers.

The main triad of Irish gods, Dagda, Ogma & Lugh, all possess the Long Arm - authority over spiritual knowledge & rule of the mundane world.

The Long Arm archetype takes on apocalyptic overtones in the Spear of #Lugh, which is to be "set down in Ireland at the world's ending."

The #Celtic Lámhfada lives on as an authority symbol in items such as the fasces or the striking 'long arm of the law' of the judges gavel.

Joke: Columbus discovered the Americas
Woke: Leif Erikson discovered the Americas
Bespoke: Saint Brendan discovered the Americas

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The “Burning of Cork” started on this day in 1920. The British Army and Black & Tans looted and set fire to the homes of Irish people. The Brits shot at those that tried to extinguish the blazes.

Otd 1928: First independent Irish coinage circulated. The 8 coins of the 1928 Irish coin set were designed by Percy Metcalfe.

This red-haired Indian lady is a fine example of resurgence in ancestral phenotypes (i.e. atavism). It might surprise you just how many blue eyed, fair-haired Indians still exist. And yes - the headline is definitely sensationalist.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5178549/amp/The-Indian-feels-like-foreigner-country.html?__twitter_impression=true

A flock of sheep making their way through heavy snow, Northern #Ireland

#Glendalough, Co Wicklow, early 1900's.

St Kevin's Kitchen in the low sun, Glendalough, Ireland.

Winter's evening sky over Glendalough, Co Wicklow, Ireland.

#Medieval #Monastery

"Irish will scarcely be our language in this generation, not even perhaps in the next. But until we have it again on our tongues and in our minds we are not free"
~
Path to Freedom (Chapter 7: Distinctive Culture) - Michael Collins, August 1922

"Welcome" to the channel!
Scots Gaelic: Fàilte!
Irish: Fáilte!
Manx: Failt ort!
Welsh: Croeso!
Cornish: Dynnargh!
Breton: Degemer mat!

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An extract from 'The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland' by Douglas Hyde, 1892.

Lieutenant Michael Malone who during the Easter Rising commanded 16 men against two British battalions (1750 soldiers) during the Battle of Mount Street inflicting 240 casualties on the British.

Classiebawn Castle at the foot of a cloudy Ben Bulben, Co Sligo, Ireland.

A picturesque winter's evening at Castleconnor, Co Sligo.

Christmas cards from the Cuala Press, which was founded by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in 1908 in Dublin and ran until 1946, producing iconic Irish imagery.

Late Christmas posts backed up but never posted