"I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible crown." Charles I died for his vision of sacred kingship at the hands of jealous oligarchs.

'Kingly rule alone can keep alive in a scoffing and licentious age the spirit of ancient loyalty..' - Archbishop of Tuam, 1909 Brian Boru - Former High King of Ireland pictured.

O'Connell Street, Dublin, circa 1960. #Dublin

College Green, early 1960's. #Dublin #Ireland

College Green, Dublin, 1890-1900. #Dublin

Statue of William III on College Green, May 1890. It was one of Dublin's finest equestrian staues until bombed in 1928. #Dublin

The Gap of Mamore, Inishowen, in the farthest north of Ireland. A place of beauty, tradition, and pilgrimage. #Inishowen

Wood cross on the sea cliffs, Malin Head, Inishowen. #Inishowen

The tower at Banba's Crown on Malin Head under a starry sky. Banba was a patron goddess & queen of Ireland, alongside Ériu. #goddess

'The Watcher' (1915), by Paul Henry. Painted on Achill Island, Co Mayo, Ireland's Atlantic west. #Mayo

'The Potato Diggers' 1912 - Paul Henry One of Ireland's most identifiable artists. His paintings were used by Bord Fáilte in the 1940's.

'The Fishing Fleet' - Paul Henry. His painterly reveries on mountain & cloud at times make you think of him as an 'Irish Nicholas Roerich'.

'The Lobster Fisherman at Dusk', Henry, Paul (1876-1958).

'A Connemara village', early 1900's. Paul Henry. #Connemara

Portrait of Michael Collins, painted following the truce of 1921, by Leo Whelan. #Collins

"We shall no longer have anyone but ourselves to blame if we fail to use the freedom we have won to achieve full freedom." - Michael Collins #Collins

Collins' ideas embody the self-sacrificial Christian ideal; by taking purifying actions, we prove ourselves 'worthy of the fullest freedom'. #Collins