📖 Ancient Restoration

Saint Patrick's Purgatory is a legendary site on what is now Station Island, Lough Derg, Ireland.

The drinks company Guinness helped British forces suppress the Easter Rising by supplying large boilers, which were modified into armoured cars.

Ladies who lunch. Guinness employees enjoying their complimentary drink of the day, 1960's.

''We honour St. Patrick’s Day because in it we see the spiritual conception of the separate identity of the Irish race. On this Festival then our prayer is: Honour to St. Patrick the Irish Apostle, and Freedom to his people.'' - James Connolly

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins." Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1848

In 1966 Croke Park was transformed into a volkisch torch lit rallying ground to celebrate 50 years since the Easter Rising where episodes from Irish history from the Táin to Easter 1916 were acted out footage here: https://bit.ly/2Rp8cZZ

A Fianna Éireann Cert for service during the War of Independence 1919-21. Lar Farrell, went anti-treaty in the Civil War. Great men and women of their generation was common.

County Carlow gets its name from Old Irish cethrae ('cattle, herd, flock'), which is related to the word ceathar ('four') and therefore means 'plane of four-legged animals'. [Black Castle, Leighlinbridge]

County Offaly is named after the Gaelic kingdom of Uí Failghe, which existed from 500 AD up until the Tudor plantations. Failghe, its first king, was a contemporary of St Patrick, ‘whom the saint blessed and from whom the rulers of Offaly descend.’

County Longford gets its name from 'An Longphort', which means 'Viking stronghold'. However the Vikings never settled the county - Rather the name refers to Norse-style forts built up by the Irish on the River Shannon.

County Longford gets its name from 'An Longphort', which means 'Viking stronghold'. However the Vikings never settled the county - Rather the name refers to Norse-style forts built up by the Irish on the River Shannon.

The Hill of Uisneach, the ancient centre of Ireland and meeting point of the four provinces. The goddess Ériu, after whom Ireland is named, lies buried underneath the Cat Stone - an early kingship monolith. Co Westmeath