MA in Irish Studies - UCC

150 years of Irish history in photos goes online Incredible images depicting major moments in Ireland’s history have been made available online thanks to Getty and family history website Ancestry.

For the weather that's in it.

The Aran Knit onesie

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Prehistoric promontory fort in Kerry damaged in storm A large portion of a prehistoric promontory fort has fallen into the sea in Co Kerry due to recent storm damage.

The artist who captured Ireland in the 1800s with thousands of watercolours George Victor du Noyer travelled around Ireland drawing various features, accompanied by his spaniel Mr Buff.

Dublin stone masons given 14 pints of ale a day in 1565 Beer was ranked alongside bread as the most important dietary staple in early modern Ireland, and some workers were granted a daily allowance of 14 pints of ale, a study has found.

Laurel & Hardy on holidays with their wives in Ireland c.1950.

Photo thanks to Bernie Mullins.

"In 1966 Heinrich Gerl, a German designer won an international competition to design a new set of postage stamps for Ireland. For some denominations an image of a dog in stylised form was used, it was based on a decoration on an ancient brooch from Killamery, Co Kilkenny, which was in the national museum. The stamps are peculiar in that the E in the word Éire does not have a fada. The same design was carried through on decimalisation in 1971 but the colour on the ½p stamp was changed from orange to green and the p was dropped. My uncle Gerry was the postmaster in Drimnagh post office at the time and he persuaded me to purchase a sheet of the older orange ½p stamps at a cost of ten shillings. He said that between their introduction in 1968 and being discontinued in 1971 there was not a great number being sold. He believed that they would be a good investment. Whatever their monetary value, I find them a very interesting work of art which i would very much like to share with you."

Thanks to Bobby Carty

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Tom Murphy receives highest arts honour from President New Aosdána Saoi described as the ‘great playwright of the emigrant’