📖 Ancient Restoration

1900 photo featuring pig herding on Friar Street in Youghal, Co. Cork.

Fr Browne’s image of a Traveller family in Saggart, South Dublin in 1925.

Travellers at Cahirmee horse fair, Cork in 1954.

Castletownshend, Cork in 1910. Coloured and restored.

A family of survivors from the Lusitania in Cobh, Cork. RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew.

A family of survivors from the Lusitania in Cobh, Cork. RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew.

The Sack of Baltimore, as it became known, had a significance beyond Ireland as it was one of a centuries-old series of such raids by north African slavers on coastal towns and sea-going vessels. Those abducted were part of an estimated million or more Europeans…

Most of those abducted were part of an English settlement which had been established in the middle of a region that was part of the Ó Drisceóil clan territory. It was a part of the violent colonisation of that part of Ireland which had resulted in the victory…

ON THIS DAY: 20 JUNE 1631: A village in Ireland was taken into slavery by north African raiders. On that date in 1631, north African corsairs, or pirates, raided the village of Baltimore on the west Cork coast and took at least 107 of the villagers captive…

ON THIS DAY: 20 JUNE 1631: A village in Ireland was taken into slavery by north African raiders. On that date in 1631, north African corsairs, or pirates, raided the village of Baltimore on the west Cork coast and took at least 107 of the villagers captive to be sold as slaves in Algiers.

"They stand for the honour of Ireland, As their sisters in days that are gone - They, the soldiers of the Cumann na mBan!" #loyal #sisters

The Caves of Kesh, Sligo, Ireland. The ancient Irish believed this place a gateway to the Otherworld and buried their dead inside to help guide them to the afterlife.