#1916

🇦🇺 Peter Wallace

PeterWallaceAU

On ANZAC Day 100 years ago, my grandfather, Private Laban Ernest William Wallace (Crab), was in France fighting the Germans on the western front. He enlisted in the New England

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Ameenu_IG

How do you wear your wrist watch? Do you wear them on the Right or Left wrists? The accepted convention is to wear a watch on the left wrist (or

Step up Not out

Shelkybean

Don't wait for someone to write your story. Don't do a 1916 on Repeal and be too traumatised to document it (in whatever way you find easiest). We need it

Malcolm X Movement

mxmovement

Thread: Remembering the greatest revolutionary this island has produced: #JamesConmolly joined and led the #EasterUprising against British colonialism in Ireland. #Connolly was a radical anti colonial socialist, born in Edinburgh

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

(1/2) 19th century silver Algerian bracelet, donated to the V&A Museum by J. B. Clarke-Thornhill. The note with it reads "Bought from an Ouled Naїl girl in a brothel at

silvanus

SilvanusDuke

Some of the worst epidemics and pandemics to hit mankind1. Plague of Athens, 430 BC - 100,000 deaths2. Antonine plague, AD 165-180 - 5 million deaths3. Plague of Cyprian, AD

Seán Napier

Seanofthesouth

#TheQuietMan Along with John Wayne & John Ford is Arthur Shields who fought in the #EasterRising under Connolly at the GPO & retreated to Moore Street alongside Patrick Pearse in

Jake Walker

Jake_W

What I really want to know about #covid19 beyond the fatality rate:>R0: is it 2.7? 3? 5?>Hospitalization rate among infected>Temp/Perm disabling rate among infected.Many people don't realize that a disease

Irish Warrior

VeteranIrish

1/5 Military History- Amazing story. The little girl in this photograph is Ruby Crane.....from the age of 3 years old Ruby walked blinded soldiers around a rehabilitation centre called St

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ademharakat

Iyasu Mohammed Ali (ልጅ ኢያሱ) - the young uncrowned Ethiopian Emperor who attempted to unite the Horn of Africa under the banner of Islam and rule with Shariah. (Thread )

Old Ireland in Colour

irelandincolour

This Limerick-born woman was one of the most famed stage actresses in the world by the end of the 19th centuryShaw, Twain and Wilde ("a brilliant and fascinating genius") were

DOMara

croonaert

#OTD 4 July 1916, in an indication of how things were to become, & in part, due to the situation to the north, the struggle started to become tougher for

Otto Saumarez Smith

OSaumarezSmith

Sandbag structures built to protect Venetian artworks during the First World War The facade of San Marco was boarded up & the bronze horses taken down I particularly like the

Paulette Kennedy

etteluap74

Sometimes I’m asked why I wrote THE GLOAMING VEIL. There’s the dry answer, and there’s the fun one. The fun one is that I actually lived in a haunted house.

ISTOR Treviso

ISTOR_Treviso

In questi giorni la parola #casa assume sensi contrastanti. Perché casa sono anche persone, luoghi cui apparteniamo e che oggi non possiamo raggiungere.Noi questa domenica vi portiamo su fra Busa

Tim Godden

TJGodden

There are certain days in history that change everything. 28 June, 1916 was one of those. In the early hours of that day my Great, Great Uncle Thomas Wilson clambered