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In the 1650's Cromwell's Government issued large bounties of £5-6 per dead wolf: By 1700, wolves were extinct in most of Ireland.
In the 1650's Cromwell's Government issued large bounties of £5-6 per dead wolf: By 1700, wolves were extinct in most of Ireland.
📖 Ancient Restoration
In the 1650's Cromwell's Government issued large bounties of £5-6 per dead wolf: By 1700, wolves were extinct in most of Ireland.
The Tireragh Stone depicts the slaying of 'the last wolf in Ireland' by a wolfhound in Co Leitrim. Graphic:
📖 Ancient Restoration
The Tireragh Stone depicts the slaying of 'the last wolf in Ireland' by a wolfhound in Co Leitrim. Graphic:
The Scottish Wulver and Irish Faoladh were a species of werewolf that inhabited the British Isles. Unlike its continental cousins, the wulver was a protector of children, the wounded & lost persons. Irish werewolves were even recruited by kings in time of war.
On This Day 1607: The Flight of the Earls. Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone & Red O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell and their followers leave Ulster for mainland Europe. They sailed out of Rathmullan, Lough Swilly for Spain, never to return. It was the end of Gaelic Ireland.
📖 Ancient Restoration
'We have in our keeping the hopes of all the children yet unborn, and that those hopes must be safeguarded and shepherded to fulfilment.' - James Connolly
James Connolly denouncing Irish politicians who agree with partition parliaments functioning in Ireland.
📖 Ancient Restoration
Farmers stack hay on their farm in County #Cork - 1927.
Irish traveller(gypsy) family by the roadside, County Kerry, 1954.
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Irish traveller(gypsy) family by the roadside, County Kerry, 1954.
Fishermen from the Aran Islands dress up in their Sunday best 'for the photographer' John Hinde. Ireland, 1969.
📖 Ancient Restoration
James Connolly denouncing Irish politicians who agree with partition parliaments functioning in Ireland.
'A free nation is one which possesses absolute control over all its own internal resources and powers...Is that the case of Ireland? - James Connolly
'Ireland is in the throes of a new invasion..It is a new plantation, this time with the blessing and connivance of the Parliamentary leaders of the Irish race'.
- James Connolly speaking against the influx of foreign workers into Ireland, March 1916.
- James Connolly speaking against the influx of foreign workers into Ireland, March 1916.
📖 Ancient Restoration
Dublin’s O’Connell Bridge and street as seen from Westmoreland Street in the 1940s.
St James' Walk in Rialto, Dublin, 1950's.
This part of the Grand Canal once led to the Guinness barge harbour, supplying the brewery with grain and hops. Today it's a Luas Tram Line.
This part of the Grand Canal once led to the Guinness barge harbour, supplying the brewery with grain and hops. Today it's a Luas Tram Line.
The word Gael, or 'Gaelic' is derived from meaning ‘forest people'.
Irish people were always noted their high regard for trees: Forested areas once covered the whole country; they were religious centres, providers of food/fuel, & protected by Brehon law. Part of Irish identity.
Irish people were always noted their high regard for trees: Forested areas once covered the whole country; they were religious centres, providers of food/fuel, & protected by Brehon law. Part of Irish identity.
" A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.
A nation should guard its language more than its territories — 'tis a surer barrier, and more important frontier, than fortress or river. "
Thomas Davis in his essay Our National Language, 1st of April 1843
A nation should guard its language more than its territories — 'tis a surer barrier, and more important frontier, than fortress or river. "
Thomas Davis in his essay Our National Language, 1st of April 1843