One of her best #Corkwoman

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What happens when an insufferable jerk with an improbable name makes up a fake country to scam people out of their money? Nothing good, as it turns out. 🗃️https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/gregor-macgregors-paper-kingdom

AHOY THERE! IT’S INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY! EVERY DAY IS CATURDAY ON THE FERRYS

All the best to Sam Kinirons, Research Ireland PhD Scholar, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and the other speakers at the 26th Medieval Dublin Symposium. Oct 4, 9:30–5:00, Robert Emmet Theatre, Trinity College. dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/26th-m...

#Cork #Youghal #DutchBilly Uniake House #familyhistory

A great day yesterday @corkgenealogysoc.bsky.social conference. Three great speakers. Especially impressed by Zoë Reid, Keeper with National Archives of Ireland giving us a preview of what to expect from the 1926 census #Genealogy #Cork

Keep cool in the Arboretum at #Fota House @fotawildlife.bsky.social #BigTrees #BigHouse #Cork

Road bowling, Ethan Rafferty, a kingpin. #CúlBáire #ArdMhacha #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/sport/footba...

Canada, New Zealand and Ireland have been named among the safest countries in the world for women travellers.

#Speirgorm starting now RTEOne or plus one and player 1/2

If you're after a cross-over #RailwayHistory & #FamilyHistory podcast - and let's face it, why *wouldn't* you be?! - then this is for you! Family Tree Talk takes #Railway200 as its starting point - great that we could discuss all sorts, & well worth a listen! 👇

CGS Conference October 4th 2025 in Cork City tickets and information on our website. All welcome ❤️‍🩹 www.corkgenealogicalsociety.com

#onthisday, 13 July 1870, Dr Richard Barter opened the last of several #TurkishBaths provided for patients at his St Ann's Hydropathic Establishment near #Blarney, Co #Cork. He was to die 3 months later. Opened by his eldest daughter, & designed by his architect namesake Mr Richard Barter. 🗃️ #C19th

For #StunDay and #StandingStoneSunday... Two Standing stones, a five stone circle and a small cairn in Kealkill, Co Cork, Ireland Image: 2024 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Photography #Infrared #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Cork

How did early medieval Ireland connect with the continent? From sacred texts to sea routes, explore the cultural currents that linked Irish monks to Europe. Read about the major new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland @currentarchaeology.bsky.social‬ the-past.com/feature/word...

Galway name Ó Loingsigh/Lynch is set to feature in this Sunday’s episode of Sloinne, the TG4 series exploring the history of some of Ireland’s most widespread surnames www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

Brilliant read about now: makes me [re]consider research & writing about people from the past. Their life can be played out in newspapers, letters, diaries, but this is an incomplete story, & my selecting bits to share is disingenuous, maybe even harmful #OnePlaceStudy vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/j-...

John Mitchel Escapes from Van Diemen’s Land on June 8, 1853, with the assistance of Patrick James (“Nicaragua”) Smyth | seamusdubhghaill.com/2025/06/08/j... via @seamusdubhghaill.bsky.social | #IrishHistory #3505

Church Street #Youghal Medieval streetscape #EastCork #EarlOfCork

69,000 railway company records released!🔗 Great news from @rwldproject.bsky.social‬ the Railway Work, Life & Death project as its database of railway staff accidents grows to around 125,000 cases! Check out the new records, all from England and Wales. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies

#AncestryHour #GenHour James Tanner shows the new symbol used by FamilySearch to indicate when a record is available in full-text search collections. I'm going to keep an eye out for it! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2025/06/fami...

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One stop shop 😻 books in the bath 📚🛁

I’ve spent 2 years trying to track down a primary source book. Only about 5 surviving copies exist in the world. Then I finally reached out to my librarian and she was able to track down a copy within a week. For every of historian, there are librarians making our work possible. 🗃️

Also #Cork ❤️‍🩹

For more information on the pioneer women who settled in Montreal, the ordinary as well as the prominent, read The Women of Ville Marie, available on Amazon in the USA, Canada, and the UK. #FrenchCanadian #FamilyHistory

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Fire, water, light and luck: Bealtaine traditions in Ireland #mayday

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If you're in Didsbury , the Station Inn 🎶🪗🎻

Still time to sign up for this tomorrow - online round table discussion about what happens to churches’ histories & stories when buildings have to close. Sign up using the link below 👇

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Damien Shiels and Megan in conversation 💕

Man who bought a military uniform about 5 years ago finds a letter from December 1945 in the pocket written by a woman to her sweetheart in the RAF. 👇 BBC News - Bid to reunite family with letter to RAF darling found 80 years on - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/4 Harry Clarke was an Irish stained glass artist & illustrator. He was asked to design a window for the International Labour Court in Geneva to celebrate 15 Irish writers. Saint Joan Heritage Geneva Window redbubble.com/shop/ap/3729... #StainedGlassSunday #art #Irish #writers #homedecor

Michael Collins was a 26 y.o. Officer at GPO headquarters for the #EasterRising #1916Rising #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History collinsassassination.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/m...

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PANGAEA is rescuing numerous datasets scheduled for decommissioning in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources. If you become aware of other endangered datasets, please contact them. Importantly, let others know where to find the data. www.pangaea.de

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#ArchiveMyths for #Archive30 - archivists and researchers very rarely wear white gloves to handle collections, this is often a media request. We do wear non-latex gloves for handling photographic material, which is more sensitive to residue on your fingers.

His family in Argentina worked for a Cork family who'd settled there ❤️‍🩹

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