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I'm starting a new detailed thread on Irish boys names (girls a separate thread)! As my main resource I'm using my copy of The Book of Irish Names: The Origins
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There were 3 Irish sisters: Ériu, Banbha & Fódla. According to 8th C manuscript now lost, they were some of 1st 'people' to set foot in #Ireland before flood! Each
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#Otd 1941: Death of #Rathgar, #Dublin's James Joyce. Novelist, short story writer & poet e.g. Ulysses (1922), short-story collection Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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#DYK the Mournes are the highest mountains in N #Ireland?! Made up of 12 mountains & 15 peaks! People say they are the inspiration behind Belfast born C S Lewis'
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Thread: The Great Famine/An Gorta Mór 1845-50 1-1.5 million died. 1-2 million emigrated. [estimates vary greatly, especially as whole families died so no one left to tell their story, &
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The earliest leprechaun story is medieval (Adventure of Fergus son of Léti): Fergus mac Léti King of Ulster falls asleep on beach & is dragged into the sea by 3
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New Thread! 'Wolves In Ireland: A Natural & Cultural History'! I will be using my new book of the same name by Kieran Hickey as my main reference point! If
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#Otd 1691: The Battle of Aughrim, fought between Jacobite Irish Army & forces of William III near #Aughrim, Co #Galway. > 7,000 killed. Meant effective end of Jacobitism in Ireland
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