📖 Ancient Restoration

Wren Day celebrated on St Stephens Day (26 Dec). Fake wren is put on top of a decorated pole & 'hunted'! Crowds of mummers/strawboys dress up in straw suits, form music bands & parade. Crowds called wren boys. Dingle, Co Kerry, Ireland. #Folklore

If Ireland wanted at any time post independence the Irish state could have very easily replicated Pearse's Scoil Éanna for most Irish schools. Every child in Ireland given a Gaelicised Spartan education. Instead they choose a 2nd rate version of the English…

John Devoy Irish Fenian and a forgotten architect of Easter Rising forced to flee Ireland in 1866 leaving his fiancee Eliza he thought to be dead after 1870 Following Independence he discovered her still alive after 58 years and they spent their final few…

John Devoy Irish Fenian and a forgotten architect of Easter Rising forced to flee Ireland in 1866 leaving his fiancee Eliza he thought to be dead after 1870 Following Independence he discovered her still alive after 58 years and they spent their final few years together

On This Day 1883: Birth in Dublin of Peadar Kearney, songwriter, revolutionary & house-painter! Best known for writing the words of "The Soldier's Song" ("Amhrán na bhFiann"), the Irish national anthem. Uncle of Irish writers Brendan Behan, Brian Behan & Dominic…

On This Day 1883: Birth in Dublin of Peadar Kearney, songwriter, revolutionary & house-painter! Best known for writing the words of "The Soldier's Song" ("Amhrán na bhFiann"), the Irish national anthem. Uncle of Irish writers Brendan Behan, Brian Behan & Dominic Behan.

Anti-communist oratory from IRA volunteer Jimmy Steele that saw him purged from IRA by Cathal Goulding in 1969. "One is expected to be more conversant with the teaching of Chairman Mao than those of our dead patriots"

This day 96 years ago – 6 December 1922 – the Irish Free State was formally established. As reported on the day: “The Irish people will make their own laws, shape their own progress, establish their own traditions of government. Their future will be what they choose to make it.”

The Floozie in the Jacuzzi. O'Connell Street in the 1980's. Otherwise known as Anna Livia, who was a character in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. She is the personification of the River Liffey.

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

St James' Walk in Rialto, Dublin, 1950's. This part of the Grand Canal once led to the Guinness barge harbour, supplying the brewery with grain and hops. Today it's a Luas Tram Line.

Balor Of The Evil Eye was the Irish mythical king of the Formorians. He was a giant with one large eye in the middle of his forehead, when opened the eye wreaks destruction. He ruled all Ireland from his foreboding glass tower at Dún Bhaloir, Tory Island.