irishfamilydetective
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Family historian delivering daily doses of what happened #Onthisday in #Ireland unearthing old photos & adding a splash of colour www.irishfamilydetective.ie @fiona_forde_irl
Sunday's Well #Cork 1960 taken from possibly O'Donovan Rossa Road with Eye Ear and Throat visible #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday📸Capuchin Archives
Born #Onthisday 1875 in #Birr #Offaly Alice Cashel, Nationalist & Author & a founding member of Cork Cumann na mBan - more @dri_ireland repository.dri.ie/catalog/j098... Public Museum (she is to the left of Terence MacSwiney)
Yesterday's #WherinCork was the interior of the Church of the Annunciation built on the site of a former church, St Nicholas’. The stonework, tabernacle & other items were designed by Seamus Murphy. #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday📸Echo 1953
Born #Onthisday 1925 in #Mallow #Cork actor Joe Lynch - more dib.ie/biography/ly...
#WhereinCork would you find these sculptures by Seamus Murphy born #Onthisday in Mallow in 1907 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike
Born #Onthisday 1907 in #Mallow #Cork #IrishSculptor Seamus Murphy www.dib.ie/biography/mu...
Carlisle Building, Eucharistic Congress, #Dublin, 1932📸Capuchin Archives
#Onthisday 1999 Fidelma Macken, former judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland, became the first woman appointed to the European Court of Justice - more @TheBarofIreland lawlibrary.ie/about/histor...
Timewarp of Sheares Street #Cork (named for John & Henry Sheares, who were executed #Onthisday 1798 for their part in organising the #1798rebellion) & Mardyke #Cork then (1940) & now (2023) #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #TimewarpCork 📸Capuchin Archives irishfamilydetective.ie/timewarp
Born #Onthisday 1894 Monica Wichfeld who was raised in #Fermanagh. Later she was a leading member of the Danish resistance during t#WW2 & was the 1st woman in Denmark to receive a capital sentence for resistance against the Nazis -she died in Waldheim Prison in 1945
#OnThisDay 1929 the refurbished GPO reopened 13 years after being gutted during the #EasterRising, when it served as the Volunteers’ HQ. The building & much of #Dublin’s inner city centre had been destroyed by British artillery during the week ifiarchiveplayer.ie/the-gpo-afte...
Today would be a lovely day to take a train ride to the beach like these people on 21 May 1977 at #Youghal Railway station #Cork on #LoveCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday 📸Irish Railway Archives
#Onthisday 1927 Vice-President of the Executive Council & Minister for Justice was fatally wounded by the IRA men while walking from his home, ‘Dunamase’, in Booterstown, Co. Dublin, to a noon mass at his parish church www.dib.ie/biography/oh...
Yesterday's #WhereinCork was Christchurch (Triskel) - this is an old image of Christchurch Lane #Cork #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday triskelartscentre.ie/christchurch...
Born #Onthisday 160 yrs ago Elizabeth Gould Bell. She & her sister Margaret were the 1st women admitted to the Medical Faculty of Queen’s College, Belfast & they were among the 1st women to obtain a medical degree in Ireland📸Ulster History Circle
#Whereincork is this church? The📸(via NLI) was taken before 1914 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike
Born #Onthisday 1877 in #Mayo Elizabeth Bloxham, teacher, suffragette & a founding member of Cumann na mBan. In 1916, she was dismissed from her teaching post in Newtownards, a decision she believed was based on her outspoken nationalism catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...
Born #Onthisday 1874 in #Cavan Agnes O'Farrelly, Professor of Irish@ucddublin, a founding member of Cumann na mBan, a Life President of the Camoige Assoication & the 1st woman to publish multiple novels in Irish digitalcollections.dcu.ie/s/ofarrelly/...
Timewarp photo of South Mall #Cork then (1870s) & now. On the botton left you can see a horse drawn fire tender #TimewarpCork #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike www.irishfamilydetective.ie/timewarp
#Onthisday 1907 the Irish Crown jewels were discovered to be missing. They were stolen from #Dublin Castle on July 6, 1907. The jewels, valued at over £30,000 at the time, and remain unrecovered to this day. dublincastle.ie/the-theft-of...
#Onthisday 1828 #Kerry born #DanielOConnell won the #Clare by-election, the first time since the reformation that an openly Roman Catholic MP, Daniel O'Connell was elected as an MP, although the Act of Union prohibited Catholics from sitting in Westminster
Born #Onthisday 1897 in #Kerry Tom Barry, #WestCork Flying Column Leader during the Irish War of Independence - new blog 'TOM BARRY - From Mesopotamia to Macroom to the Mardyke' irishfamilydetective.ie/post/tom-bar...
#WhereinCork would you find this semi-circle pattern? It represents the location of a well long since demolished #Cork #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike
#Onthisday 110 yrs ago the 1st Battle of the Somme began, a costly & largely unsuccessful Allied offensive on the Western Front during #WW1 with over 20k British soldiers dead or missing by the end of the 1st day, including brothers John & Joseph Burke from #Monaghan
O'Connell Street, #Limerick in the 60s #PostcardTuesday
Died #Onthisday 2003 #Limerick (plaque in People's Park in her native city) born actress Constance Smith - you can read her tragic but intriguing story @irishamerica www.irishamerica.com/2022/03/wild...
This week's #WhereinCork was the old Tax Office on Sullivan's Quay - more about its demolition in 2018 echolive.ie/corknews/arid-… #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday