📖 Ancient Restoration

The greeting for 'Happy Christmas' in Irish is Nollaig Shona Duit or Nollaig Shona Daoibh (plural), word for word, it means “Christmas, happy, to you”. Grafton Street, Dublin.

Nollaig/Mí na Nollag, is the Irish month of December. The term 'Nollaig'(Irish word for Christmas) derives from the Latin 'natalicius', meaning 'birth' or 'birthday', & refers to the Birth of Christ.

Nollaig/Mí na Nollag, is the Irish month of December. The term 'Nollaig'(Irish word for Christmas) derives from the Latin 'natalicius', meaning 'birth' or 'birthday', & refers to the Birth of Christ.

Christmas cards from the Cuala Press, which was founded by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in 1908 in Dublin and ran until 1946, producing iconic Irish imagery. Late Christmas posts backed up but never posted

Classiebawn Castle at the foot of a cloudy Ben Bulben, Co Sligo, Ireland.

Classiebawn Castle at the foot of a cloudy Ben Bulben, Co Sligo, Ireland.

Lieutenant Michael Malone who during the Easter Rising commanded 16 men against two British battalions (1750 soldiers) during the Battle of Mount Street inflicting 240 casualties on the British.

An extract from 'The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland' by Douglas Hyde, 1892.

"Welcome" to the channel! Scots Gaelic: Fàilte! Irish: Fáilte! Manx: Failt ort! Welsh: Croeso! Cornish: Dynnargh! Breton: Degemer mat!

"Welcome" to the channel! Scots Gaelic: Fàilte! Irish: Fáilte! Manx: Failt ort! Welsh: Croeso! Cornish: Dynnargh! Breton: Degemer mat!

"Irish will scarcely be our language in this generation, not even perhaps in the next. But until we have it again on our tongues and in our minds we are not free" ~ Path to Freedom (Chapter 7: Distinctive Culture) - Michael Collins, August 1922

Young Irelander Thomas Davis, the intellectual forebear of Michael Collins. "He saw that unless we were Gaels we were not a nation." - M.C. #Davis #Collins