#1916

Tony Wilshire

WilshireTony

In the Trentino: Austrian Advance & Italian Counter-AttackThe Great War Vol 7 Wilson / Hammerton 1916Tom, Andy, others, these vols were current of the time, here 1916, so of interest

UCD Archives

ucdarchives

The 1916 Rising began #OTD. This thread will highlight some of the many documents in UCDA on the Rising. Below is an original countermanding order issued by Eoin MacNeill on

Dr Mary McAuliffe 😷

MaryMcAuliffe4

1/Usually this time of year, I, like many historians of the revolutionary period (1916-23) would be giving public talks-mine focus on the activities and experiences of the revolutionary women. Because

Leicester Tigers History

HistoryTigers

46 TIGERS46 men who appeared for @LeicesterTigers lost their lives in the two world wars. We’ll take a little time to remember them. Sgt. JOHN TWIGGTigers Career: 1913-14Appearances: 37Tries: 2Points:

Forrest Maready

forrestmaready

Where did the COVID-19 coronavirus come from?A lot of speculation about the origins of this outbreak. If you're curious, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. In

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

Eva Gore-Booth is an important Irish woman who is frequently overlooked due to her proximity to her famous sister (Countess Markievicz). Her amazing papers can be perused @PRONI_DFC - I

BestOfJLThread

BestOfJLThread

[ THREAD ] LA BATAILLE DE VERDUN Le lundi 21 février 1916 à 7h30 du matin, les fantassins allemands commandés par le chef d'état-major Erich von Falkenhayn, se lancent à

Terry Fagan

Monto22

Sahara, born 1900 in the tenements on Gardiner Street, Dublin.Recalls some events in Irish History, 1913 Lockout. 1916 Easter Rising, she & a friend were looting from a sweet shop

Emmet Kirwan

EmmetKirwan

Disney plus needs to add teh Young Indiana Jones Chromicles. I want to watch the one where he winds up in Dublin meets a young Sean Lemass and takes part

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

Ota Benga was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo. Benga had been purchased from African slave

Dennis Burns

DWB55

ThreadThe tragic story of the Mullarkey family from Sydney. Frederick and Elizabeth Mullarkey were immigrants from Galway and Tipperary respectively.They had nine children.One son died in infancy.Six sons grew into

meg :)

LORDFUCKLEROY

the women of succession as john william waterhouse paintings gerri kellman - the crystal ball (1902) marcia roy - cleopatra (1888) karolina - i am half-sick of shadows, said

David Frum

davidfrum

I don't have time this AM to hunt it down, but posted on the Internet you can find an essay from 1916 by the pro-Woodrow Wilson Democrat Breckenridge Long -

Ollie Heppenstall

ORWH98

For William and Harry, uncle and nephew.For Alf, uncle. Harry was killed in autumn 1916 IIRC; the battalion war diary mentions B Company being shelled on the day he died

Sucheta Dalal

suchetadalal

Thread: here’s praying nobody has to look for a hospital bed in Mumbai. Spent the last hour trying to do that despite help from a ‘group’ of hospitals! Also help

Existential Comics

existentialcoms

The reason is simple. Lenin not only lucidly wrote about the contradictions in our own system, which go so deep that they cannot be resolved by minor alterations or incremental