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It's publication day for "Green & Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military: 1861-1865"! Now available for purchase in hardcopy/ebook. It examines the experience of the c.250,000 Irish Americans who served in U.S. forces, making use of 100s of letters by or for enlisted men.

Demonstrating trad crafts today at the Clare Garden Fest in Ennis today on behalf of CELT Weekend in the Hills w Slieve Aughty Centre

Royal Engineers WW1 saw: a generous donation to my mobile museum from Niall McNelis

Today we remember Éamonn Ceannt, Seán Heuston and Con Colbert and Michael Mallin who were executed #OnThisDay in 1916

#OTD, 8 May 1916, there were four further executions in the Stonebreakers Yard of Kilmainham Gaol when Con Colbert, Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin and Seán Heuston were shot by firing squad.

Cloister candy at Office of Public Works Sligo Abbey

#OnThisDay 1916 Éamonn Ceannt was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. He wrote to his wife: "I die a noble death for Ireland’s freedom." He also penned "Ireland has shown she is a nation. This generation can claim to have raised sons as brave as any that went before". #Ireland #History

12.05.1916

Séamus Ó Conghaile | James Connolly Born 1868 Edinburgh Executed 12th May 1916 Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin Connolly was commander of the Dublin division during the Easter Rising and was claimed by Pearse to be 'the guiding brain of the resistance'.

First step in scabbard making for Albion Swords ‘Hersir’. The wool lined wood core is poplar

Boyne Valley Viking Fest armoury demo last weekend 🔥🔥Slane Castle

Boyne Valley Viking Fest armoury demo last weekend 🔥🔥Slane Castle

Manning Monea Castle Co Fermanagh over 10 years ago

Studio shot from over 10 years ago when the Elizabeth Fort statues were made

The stage area in my hay day w Dave Swift T/A Claíomh 🇮🇪 at the fort compared w the new arrangement 😄Elizabeth Fort

#OnThisDay 1892 Margaret Skinnider was born near Glasgow. Margaret, a maths teacher smuggled detonators around her body to Dublin, was a sniper in the Rising (shot thrice), ran safe houses in WoI & was Paymaster General of the IRA during the Civil War. #Ireland #History

Alastair MacColla d. 13.11.1647 - murdered while in custody in the aftermath of the Battle of Knocknanuss

Profile of my da in the paper looks like a court report. In all seriousness, his brilliant and well-researched book on the 1875 whiskey fire will be on shelves soon. Expanded and updated. Like his work on the 1916 fires and the Custom House burning, it brings unique knowledge.

#OTD in 1944, Maureen Flavin (21) sent a weather report from Blacksod Lighthouse, Co. Mayo, showing falling pressure and strong winds. It led Eisenhower’s chief meteorologist to advise postponing D-Day to 6 June—a decision that helped change the course of WWII. #DDay #NIWM