📖 Ancient Restoration

James Connolly denouncing Irish politicians who agree with partition parliaments functioning in Ireland.

Irish traveller(gypsy) family by the roadside, County Kerry, 1954.

Farmers stack hay on their farm in County #Cork - 1927.

'We have in our keeping the hopes of all the children yet unborn, and that those hopes must be safeguarded and shepherded to fulfilment.' - James Connolly

On This Day 1607: The Flight of the Earls. Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone & Red O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell and their followers leave Ulster for mainland Europe. They sailed out of Rathmullan, Lough Swilly for Spain, never to return. It was the end of Gaelic…

On This Day 1607: The Flight of the Earls. Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone & Red O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell and their followers leave Ulster for mainland Europe. They sailed out of Rathmullan, Lough Swilly for Spain, never to return. It was the end of Gaelic Ireland.

The Scottish Wulver and Irish Faoladh were a species of werewolf that inhabited the British Isles. Unlike its continental cousins, the wulver was a protector of children, the wounded & lost persons. Irish werewolves were even recruited by kings in time of…

The Tireragh Stone depicts the slaying of 'the last wolf in Ireland' by a wolfhound in Co Leitrim. Graphic:

In the 1650's Cromwell's Government issued large bounties of £5-6 per dead wolf: By 1700, wolves were extinct in most of Ireland.

In the 1650's Cromwell's Government issued large bounties of £5-6 per dead wolf: By 1700, wolves were extinct in most of Ireland.

Irish werewolves are almost certainly 'in maccrad' (youths) - free, young, but landless Cú (hound/wolf) warriors. A Cú receiving Communion:

The Irish werewolf is very different from the Germanic or European werewolf: