📖 Ancient Restoration

Kylemore Abbey in beautiful Connemara, Co Galway. Founded in 1920 by Benedictine nuns who fled Belgium in World War I. #Connemara#Galway

"Educate that you may be free" Michael Collins believed true freedom lay in our personal & collective understanding of our Gaelic heritage. #Collins

Collins' views evolved from the thinking of Thomas Davis: Armed struggle, nonsectarianism & national revival at 'the fount of Gaelicism'. #Collins

'The Path to Freedom', a collection of political, historical, & cultural essays by Michael Collins. Available here: http://celt.ucc.ie/published/E900001-001/ #Collins

Collins' ideas embody the self-sacrificial Christian ideal; by taking purifying actions, we prove ourselves 'worthy of the fullest freedom'. #Collins

"We shall no longer have anyone but ourselves to blame if we fail to use the freedom we have won to achieve full freedom." - Michael Collins #Collins

Portrait of Michael Collins, painted following the truce of 1921, by Leo Whelan. #Collins

Portrait of Michael Collins, painted following the truce of 1921, by Leo Whelan. #Collins

'A Connemara village', early 1900's. Paul Henry. #Connemara

'The Lobster Fisherman at Dusk', Henry, Paul (1876-1958).

'The Fishing Fleet' - Paul Henry. His painterly reveries on mountain & cloud at times make you think of him as an 'Irish Nicholas Roerich'.

'The Potato Diggers' 1912 - Paul Henry One of Ireland's most identifiable artists. His paintings were used by Bord Fáilte in the 1940's.