📖 Ancient Restoration

Robert Emmet led an armed insurrection against British rule #OnThisDay in 1803 to establish Ireland as an independent Republic.

'Freedom is a condition which can be lost and won and lost again; nationality is a life which, if once lost, can never be recovered. A nation is a stubborn thing, very hard to kill; but a dead nation does not come back to life, any more than a dead man.'

'Freedom is a condition which can be lost and won and lost again; nationality is a life which, if once lost, can never be recovered. A nation is a stubborn thing, very hard to kill; but a dead nation does not come back to life, any more than a dead man.'

Henry Joy McCracken, a leader of the United Irishmen rebellion was hanged in Belfast on this day in 1798

Mist rolls in at Drombeg megalithic stone circle in Co Cork

An Early Bronze Age funerary urn from Carrowntober East, Co. Galway. It dates from c. 2000 BC

An Early Bronze Age funerary urn from Carrowntober East, Co. Galway. It dates from c. 2000 BC

The village of Allihies at the tip of the beautiful Beara Peninsula, West Cork.

The old towers in the gardens of Blarney Castle, Co Cork.

Blarney Castle, built by the earls of Desmond in 1446, Cork. Home to the famous stone which gives the gift of the gab when kissed.

Misty morning at St Finbarr’s Oratory, Gougane Barra, Co Cork. One of the most beautiful places in Ireland.

Misty morning at St Finbarr’s Oratory, Gougane Barra, Co Cork. One of the most beautiful places in Ireland.