Lorraine Mulholland

@lorraineelizab6

Ex-teacher loves all things Irish!-History, , statues, saints 😇, stamps, castles 🏰, poetry, actors, music, art, authors 📚 ☘️

Ahoghill, Northern Ireland
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2016.
Rođen/a 16. rujna 1972.

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    Vowels ploughed into other: opened ground. The mildest February for twenty years Is mist bands over furrows, a deep no sound Vulnerable to distant gargling tractors. Our road is steaming, the turned-up acres breathe. Glanmore Sonnets 🚜🧑‍🌾

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  2. It's been going up to 9/10C or more lately, at my house outside Ahoghill, in Co Antrim, N , so it's no wonder my daffodils are coming up! I think this might be the earliest year! My photo taken this morning! 💐🌦️

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  3. Bullaun made into beautiful baptismal font, in Belfast, N ! One I didn't know about! Thanks Andy.

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  4. A bullaun /bullán has a depression which is often water filled. Often a belief that the rainwater has healing properties! Many found near early churches. Often fascinating stories about them! Here's my thread for extra info!

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  5. A thread on Irish & , for ! 📷Beltany stone circle (marked sunrise/sunset?), Giant's causeway (made by Fionn mac Cumhaill), Poulnabrone portal dolmen (bed for Diarmuid & Grainne) & Lia Fáil/Stone of Destiny (gave king powers)!

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  6. A short thread of mine, on Irish , for ! Skellig Michael, Croagh Patrick, Rock of Cashel & Slemish! ⛰️

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  7. 1911: Death (TB) of 's Robert Noonan (born Robert Croker). Writer known by pen name Robert Tressell. Best known for his semi-biographical novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. Also sign writer & house painter. Lived in England & S Africa.

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  8. 1896: Death of 's Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (née Elgee). Poet as "Speranza" & supporter of nationalist movement. Special interest in Irish folktales, which she helped to gather. 3 children: William, Oscar & Isola (died as child). 📚

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  9. 1537: Execution at Tyburn of Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare/"Silken Thomas" & 5 uncles. Revolt caused Henry to pay more attention to Ireland & factor in creation Kingdom of Ireland 1542. Power lords deputy curbed. Royal Irish Army established

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    1919: Éamon de Valera, Sean McGarry & Sean Milroy escaped from Lincoln Prison! Here's a good article on it, along with a cartoon Christmas card drawing of 1 of the keys that were used & photos of places involved.

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    1919: Éamon de Valera escaped from Lincoln Prison! De Valera managed to make a copy of the prison chaplin’s key using candle wax. Christmas letter was sent with an outline of the key, but the replica key made from this was too small as the wax had shrunk! x2 more attempts!

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    1919: Éamon de Valera, Sean McGarry & Sean Milroy escaped from Lincoln Prison! De Valera managed to make a copy of the prison chaplin’s key using candle wax & sent it to outside. Then on 3rd attempt it was smuggled inside, in a cake (i.e. 3rd cake)!!! 📷:

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    1927: Birth in Co of Val Doonican (d. 2015), singer & entertainer. Big success in Ireland & Britain in 1960s, when he had 5 successive top 10 albums, & hit singles! I used to love his BBC show, The Val Doonican Show (1965-1986)!

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    1813: Birth of entrepreneur, lawyer & judge in , Co . Founder of Bank & patriarch of the Mellon family of . The original family house now forms the centrepiece of the Ulster American Folk Park Museum, .

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    1729: Foundation stone laid of Parliament House, College Green, . Was home to world’s 1st purpose built 2 chamber parliament house! After the Act of Union, housed . So admired that & Capitol Hill in Washington copied!

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    1922: Death of Co 's John Butler Yeats, painter & father of W B, Jack B Yeats & 2 daughters. No. of his portraits of Irishmen & women are in the Yeats museum in . 🎨: Self portrait (1919), W B Yeats (1900), John O'Leary (1904) & Mary Lapsley Caughey

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  17. 3 Feb: St Ia/Ives/Hya of Cornwall. 5/6th C Irish princess, sister of St Euny/Uny & St Erc of Slane. Transported across Irish Sea by a leaf! Joined St Gwinear & St Felec; had c 777 companions! Martyred by King Tewdwr Mawr & buried at St Ives📷. Plouyé, Brittany named after her!

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  18. 3 Feb: St Cuanán Ghlinne (d. 742/6) of Mag Bile/📷, near , Co . Abbot for 10/11 yrs? 15th C ruins of Abbey that St Finnian founded 540 AD can still be seen. Their copy of Vulgate was only complete copy of Bible in whole of Ireland!

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  19. , Co 's Brooke Scullion! , Co 's ! , Co 's Elly O'Keeffe! 's ! Cat Cavelli! , Co 's Darci Wilders! , Co 's ! 7 Irish in so far!

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    🦔Cut CD-size holes in fences so they can roam 🦔Build log/twig piles 🦔Leave out shallow dishes water 🦔Don't use slug pellets Here's my 2! There are 17 species of in 5 genera found in Europe, Asia, Africa, & New Zealand by introduction! 🦔🥰🐾💕

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