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Gobbins Cliff Walk, Co Antrim
On the very edge of the Irish Sea lies The Gobbins cliff path, one of the ‘best kept secrets’ along the north of Ireland’s Causeway Coastal Route and just 20 miles north of Belfast on the Islandmagee peninsula. This breathtaking and challenging cliff-face path combines spectacular tubular and suspension bridges, caves, steps, and tunnels carved through the rock.
Originally built in 1902, The…
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'Another serving police officer charged with 'Misconduct in Public Office' by accessing sex allegation files '.
‘Another serving police officer charged with ‘Misconduct in Public Office’ by accessing sex allegation files ‘.
http://seachranaidhe-irishandproud.blogspot.com/2022/08/another-serving-police-officer-charged.html
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Irish dress history sources online:
A list of sources for Irish dress history research that free to access on the internet:
Primary and period sources:
Text Sources:
Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT): a database of historical texts from or about Ireland. Most have both their original text and, where applicable, an English translation. Authors include: Francisco de Cuellar, Luke Gernon, John Dymmok, Thomas Gainsford, Fynes Moryson, Edmund Spenser, Laurent Vital, Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn
Images:
The Edwin Rae Collection: A collection of photographs of Irish carvings dating 1300-1600 taken by art historian Edwin Rae in the mid-20th c. Includes tomb effigies and other figural art.
National Library of Ireland: Has a nice collection of 18th-20th c. Irish art and photographs. Search their catalog or browse their flickr.
Irish Script on Screen: A collection of scans of medieval Irish manuscripts, including The Book of Ballymote.
The Book of Kells: Scans of the whole thing.
The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne by John Derricke published 1581. A piece of anti-Irish propaganda that should be used with caution. Illustrations. Complete text.
Secondary sources:
Irish History from Contemporary Sources (1509-1610) by Constantia Maxwell published 1923. Contains a nice collection of primary source quotes, but it sometimes modernizes the 16th c. English in ways that are detrimental to the accuracy, like changing 'cote' to 'coat'. The original text for many of them can be found on CELT, archive.org, or google books.
An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish By Joseph Cooper Walker published 1788. Makes admirable use of primary sources, but because of Walker's assumption that Irish dress didn't change for the entirety of the Middle Ages, it is significantly flawed in a lot of its conclusions. Mostly only useful now for historiography. I discussed the images in this book here.
Chapter 18: Dress and Personal Adornment from A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland by P. W. Joyce published 1906. Suffers from similar problems to An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish.
Consumption and Material Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland Susan Flavin's 2011 doctoral thesis. A valuable source on the kinds of materials that were available in 16th c Ireland.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy Volumes 1 and 2 by William Wilde, published 1863. Obviously outdated, and some of Wilde's conclusions are wrong, because archaeologists didn't know how to date things in the 19th century, but his descriptions of the individual artifacts are worthwhile. Frustratingly, this is still the best catalog available to the public for the National Museum of Ireland Archaeology. Idk why the NMI doesn't have an online catalog, a lot museums do nowadays.
Volume I: Articles of stone, earthen, vegetable and animal materials; and of copper and bronze
Volume 2: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of Gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy
A Horsehair Woven Band from County Antrim, Ireland: Clues to the
Past from a Later Bronze Age Masterwork by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett 1998
Jewellery, art and symbolism in Medieval Irish society by Mary Deevy in Art and Symbolism in Medieval Europe- Papers of the 'Medieval Europe Brugge 1997' Conference (page 77 of PDF)
Looking the part: dress and civic status and ethnicity in early-modern Ireland by Brid McGrath 2018
Irish Mantles, English Nationalism: Apparel and National Identity in Early Modern English and Irish Texts by John R Ziegler 2013
Dress and ornament in early medieval Ireland - exploring the evidence by Maureen Doyle 2014
Dress and accessories in the early Irish tale, ‘The Wooing of Becfhola’ by Niamh Whitfield 2006
A tenth century cloth from Bogstown Co. Meath by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett 2004
Tertiary Sources:
Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia edited by Sean Duffy published 2005
Re-Examining the Evidence: A Study of Medieval Irish Women's Dress from 750 to 900 CE by Alexandra McConnell
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Not from the ask list but the characters in ur fics as Irish counties and why?
anon, this has absolutely sent me. i have genuinely never seen something more up my alley.
let's start with characters we can pull from the series for ireland's six superior counties, shall we...
antrim = oliver wood
a county full of lads who've never met a spivvy tracksuit they don't think is the height of fashion, and who have a vastly inflated sense of their success at sports.
armagh = tom riddle
armagh has a [deservedly] bloody reputation. he could settle down in the murder triangle. he'd like that.
down = draco malfoy
people who live in co. down really like thinking they're better than the rest of us just because it's easy for them to get to belfast [lads, how's that something to boast about?], so they have to be the series' whiniest flop.
fermanagh = rubeus hagrid
fermanagh is full of docile lads who build things, in my experience.
londonderry = ron weasley
canonically gorgeous, gorgeous girlies live in this fine county - by which i mean, of course, that i do. we deserve to be represented by the series' most gorgeous girly. and a ginger sweetheart with six siblings [so you know which side of the sectarian divide his parents are on...] would go down a storm with our mams.
tyrone = harry potter
my brother once had his nose broken in a pub in strabane, which doesn't sound particularly interesting until you realise that my brother is a priest.
by which i mean - a county filled with people who are reckless, quick-tempered, and always ready to throw hands? it can only be represented by one man...
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and then the rest...
carlow = quirinus quirrell
the most interesting thing there is a big rock.
cavan = percy weasley
everyone i've ever met from cavan has been really boring and really tight. so there's that.
clare = ginny weasley
because it's gorgeous, in a not like other girls way.
cork = albus dumbledore
look at this canon line and tell me dumbledore's not a cork man...
"In fact, being — forgive me — rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
donegal = sybill trelawney
always away with the fairies up there... and always drunk too.
dublin = walburga black
everyone you've ever met who lives in dublin is genuinely shocked to discover that the rest of the world exists beyond the m50. it's not not giving "has never set foot in muggle london and would die before she did".
galway = arthur and molly weasley
galway is the home of the nation's sophisticated [and, apparently, sexually adventurous] culchies - which fits two people from clearly quite distinguished backgrounds who nonetheless live the way they do...
kerry = gilderoy lockhart
you will never see american tourists get scammed more glamorously than in kerry.
kildare = regulus black
considerably less interesting than - and devoid of identity in comparison to - its neighbour, dublin.
kilkenny = charlie weasley
all they do is have red hair and hurl.
laois = daphne greengrass
on account of her irrelevance.
leitrim = sally-ann perks
on account of her irrelevance.
limerick = bellatrix lestrange
limerick used to be known as "stab city". she'd fit right in.
longford = mungundus fletcher
gombeen men abound.
louth = myrtle warren
because they [by which i mean the two people i know who were born there...] are always fucking moaning.
mayo = remus lupin
perpetually mopey, unless they reckon they're great at something.
meath = cormac mclaggen
they wish they were as class as the lads in dublin.
monaghan = cuthbert binns
genuinely couldn't locate it on a map.
offaly = grawp
i mean, who fucking knows? the entire place is a bog.
roscommon = aberforth dumbledore
you can guess why...
sligo = fred and george weasley
wheeler dealers, the lot of them.
tipperary = fleur delacour
the home of gorgeous, gorgeous girlies with striking accents.
waterford = dobby
they love a good strike.
westmeath = hermione granger
not somewhere you'd expect you'd choose to live if you were a bit of a know-it-all. and yet.
wexford = neville longbottom
they love to bang on about the soil.
wicklow = marge dursley
she drives a range rover and looks down on anyone who farms, change my mind.
[other answers from this ask game]
#asks answered#very normal fic writer asks#northern ireland posting#republic of ireland posting#why have i done this
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NEW!!
Two-time Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz popped into a Belfast restaurant for dinner at the weekend.
The Austrian-German star, known for his work with Quentin Tarantino, visited The Chubby Cherub in Chichester Street.
The Italian eatery shared an image of its famous customer, perhaps best known for playing SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in 2009 blockbuster Inglourious Basterds, on social media.
A Facebook post said: "Attention all foodies and movie buffs. We had a very special guest at our restaurant over the weekend.
"None other than the talented actor Christoph Waltz, known for his unforgettable performances in Spectre and Django Unchained, graced us with his presence.”
It's understood he is filming a new action-comedy called Old Guy in Belfast which will see him play an aging contract killer tasked with training a Gen-Z newcomer. However, he later learns their employers want to eliminate older assassins.
Waltz won an Academy Award, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.
He also played 007's nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in 2015’s Spectre, starring alongside Daniel Craig.
Staff at the city restaurant eatery managed to keep their cool.
“Our team was thrilled to serve him and we couldn't be more proud of the experience we provided,” The Chubby Cherub said.
"We hope he enjoyed his visit with us as much as we enjoyed having him.
“To all of our valued customers, we hope you feel just as excited as we do to have had such a prominent figure in our midst. Come dine with us and you never know who you might run into.”
It comes just days after a Co Antrim hotel welcomed Harry Potter star Helena Bonham Carter.
The actress, who played Bellatrix Lestrange and has had starring roles in Les Miserables and Fight Club, stopped off at the Salthouse Hotel in Ballycastle last week.
Ms Bonham Carter was filming in the area for romance movie Four Letters of Love, where she will appear alongside Pierce Brosnan, who was spotted shooting scenes on the north coast in February.
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January 31st marks 70 years since the sinking of MV Princess Victoria with the loss of 134 lives.
Built in 1946 by Wm Denny & Bros, Dumbarton, The Princess Victoria was one of the earliest roll-on, roll-off ferries to go into service.
British Railways used the ferry on the crossing from Stranraer in Scotland to Larne and was the first purpose-built ferry of her kind to operate in British coastal waters.
The short crossing from Scotland was made on a stormy morning. The sinking of Princess Victoria occurred during a severe storm that also caused the North Sea Flood of 1953, claiming 531 fatalities in the UK alone, although this was the worst single incident in that storm.
Sadly, no women or children on board nor the Captain survived with just 44 people escaping the tragic incident that occurred off the Co Down coast, which is often regarded as "a generation's Titanic".
The wreckage can still be found lying at the bottom of the Irish Sea, northeast of the Copeland Islands.
Commemorations are held annually in Larne as many of the victims were from Northern Ireland and many families from the area are said to have been affected by the incident.
There were 128 passengers and 49 crew thought to be onboard, but just 44 – all men, survived. Perhaps most tragically, two lifeboats with survivors inside were destroyed in the storm. One of the lifeboats which was the carrying women and children crashed against the side of the ship, resulting in all of its occupants being thrown into the icy waters with none of them surviving. The other lifeboat was overcome by the waves and flooded resulting in it sinking.
Of the 44 survivors, some 33 were rescued by the Donaghadee Lifeboat Sir Samuel Kelly The final resting place of the Princess Victoria, was just 5 miles North East of Copeland Island, near Donagadee itself. The Sir Samuel Kelly now occupies a plot in the carpark behind Donaghadee harbour, but is fenced off and unfortunately in an increasing state of disrepair. 7 people were rescued by the destroyer HMS Contest, while a further 2 were rescued by the Portpatrick lifeboat Jeannie Spiers which was the last vessel to arrive.
Rescue efforts were hugely hampered by the storm and by the fact that until just a few minutes before her sinking, the Princess Victoria was radioing her position as being off the coast of Scotland. Only once the coast of Northern Ireland was visible to those onboard were rescue vessels sent to the correct area. As soon as it was clear that the vessel was close to Belfast Lough, 4 vessels (the cattleship Lairdsmore, the trawler Eastcotes, the coastal oil tanker Pass of Drumochter, and the coastal cargo ship Orchy) which were sheltering from the storm in Belfast Lough rushed to the vessels aid. Unfortunately, due to the ferocity of the weather, they were unable to get close enough to rescue survivors from the lifeboats without risking damaging the lifeboats themselves. However, they were able to shelter the survivors from the worst of the storm. Importantly, Eastcotes was the first vessel to accurately broadcast the position of the stricken vessel.
Despite being the biggest single loss of life in UK waters during peacetime, the Princess Victoria disaster is almost unknown outside of Scotland and Northern Ireland. There are memorials at Stranraer, Portpatrick, Donaghadee, and Larne however. This is an annual memorial event organised by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes MV Princess Victoria Lodge in conjunction with Mid & East Antrim Borough Council.
You can read much more on this all but forgotten tragedy here https://www.midandeastantrim.gov.uk/things-to-do/causeway-coastal-route/mv-princess-victoria
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Agnes McCloy Craig, the earliest photo I have of a direct ancestor. My grandfather's great-grandmother from Glenarrim, Co. Antrim, Ireland. Undated photo but likely from the 1880s. I love how severe and stern she looks in this photo. I wonder what her smile looked like.
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Please tell me more about your OCs, Fredrick, Sarah and Annie?
Sure!!! They are main characters in the vague sequel story to my wip red & riotous light that I'm writing + they are tenant farmers on a vaguely located estate owned by a fictious marquess somewhere in co. antrim, ireland, in the mid 1790s. Their family situation is best explained I think by this diagram but to shorten it, Frederick and Annie are the nephew + niece of Sarah's toxic boyfriend Jem, who she basically adopted after she moved in with them. She also has 2 more younger kids but she sent them off to help F&A's father on his search for work in scotland, so they don't factor in to the actual story much. I will go through them in depth one at a time.
Frederick
Frederick is 11 and he's like. one of those annoying street urchin artful dodger type characters but in an almost wholly rural setting. He's def. got what would be today recognised as undiagnosed ADHD and he's working through a lot of complicated feelings surrounding his relationship with his mother (which swings between loving and being like a cage fight like a pendulum) as well as his place in the world and what he's meant to be doing about the incredible violence he's witnessing around him daily. In some ways this manifests as him having grown up far too quickly -- he's already an active member of 1 of the most feared gangs in his area and him stabbing a man without batting an eye is what starts the plot -- in other ways it's him acting at all times like he knows exactly what's up and like he's 100% in control even when he's obviously just a helpless kid.
Some facts about Frederick:
When he grows up he wants to join the army, ideally as an officer + ideally in the cavalry
He is a narrative foil to another character, Seamy, who I went into detail on here
He slowly develops the ability to see snatches of the future in his dreams, although he doesn't typically tell anyone about these dreams so for now it's more of a mounting dread situation than something with any massive effect on his life.
Sarah
Probably the main facet of Sarah's character, imo, is that she really does not give a shit. About anything. She has been utterly miserable due to the fact that she and Jem both despise each other (but she won't leave cos she wants the children to grow up with some kind of father figure + is too exhausted to find anything or anyone else. not answering questions on whether or not this was inspired by anything I have witnessed in real life at this time) for so long that she crossed the threshold of not caring about people's opinions/consequences/moral implications wrt any of her actions years ago. This typically does not end well for people who anger her, especially when taken with the fact that she spent so long blaming herself for things other people did to her that she swung to the opposite extreme + the fact that she is living most of her life now in survival mode, and therefore no longer regards a single one of her actions as her own fault. It does not take much to push Sarah over the edge. If she decides you are jeopardising her survival AND aren't useful for anything otherwise that's you done with this mortal coil and good luck trying to talk her out of it.
Some facts about Sarah:
She is fluent in english, irish, and latin + she can read + write in all 3, and though her family members only know english she often says simple commands and asks simple questions in latin to her children. Her favourite book (a copy of which is owned by a local schoolmaster) is ovid's metamorphosis
She is also a narrative foil to another character called Lady Durham, who I've not made a big post on yet
For many years she sang all the psalms at the local chapel (before she got into a fight with the priest and stopped going)
Annie
Ah, Annie. She is a 12 year old eldest daughter and she has all of the complications that implies. Tbh, she's probably the most capable in her family, or she would be if she didn't spend most of her time wandering around climbing trees and pretending to be a wolf or whatever. She and her mother tend to both blame each other for every single thing that is wrong with the world + fight constantly about everything, but ironically they're very similar -- Annie, too, is very independent and a loner by choice, though she doesn't necessarily dislike company if it's someone who can keep up with her, and she has more than a little of Sarah's ruthless streak in her. Her head is often in the clouds but she isn't incapable of being more practical, nor is she not razor-sharp, she just chooses to get a little whimsical with it. If the rest of the world wants to know what she's talking about they should simply come up into the clouds with her.
Some facts about Annie:
She has a tortoiseshell kitten called Chicken which Sarah gets her early in the story to patch things up after a fight
There is some kind of bizarre cosmic horror monster following her around and doing whatever she tells it to. This manifests as the ability to kill people basically with her mind, though the trade-off is that Annie spreads plague and misfortune wherever she goes as a result of its malign influence leaking out. More lore posts on this coming soon 👍
She enjoys going to see plays &c a lot. Her current favourite is shakespeare's titus andronicus, which she saw when a troupe of players came to perform it for the Marquess (he was so scandalised he nearly perished on the spot) and the local innkeeper Lazarus managed to entice them into doing a cheap showing of it at his inn
#there is more Lore but this is a good introduction to them imo!!!#c: sarah connolly#c: frederick craig#c: annie craig#wip: 8gog#jory.txt
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Come up and see me....Make me smile! 🦢😃🪿
☘ Lough Shore, Co Antrim ☘
Love Ireland
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Morning mist at The Dark Hedges in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
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#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.
#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.
James “Jemmy” Hope fought in the 1798 and 1803 rebellions against British rule in Ireland and born to a Presbyterian family originally of Covenanter stock. He was apprenticed as a linen weaver but attended night school in his spare time. Influenced by the American Revolution, he joined the Irish Volunteers, but upon the demise of that organisation and further influenced by the French Revolution,…
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Altar of the Gods by National Library of Ireland on The Commons The Druids Altar in the Giant's Ring, Belfast, Co. Antrim looks impressive and no doubt was even more impressive when the capstone was in place. There are so many of these, what we always called "Cromlechs" when I was young, about the island and they hark back beyond the mists of time to a simpler age. I wonder what it looks like now and what has been found out about it? Photographer: Unknown Collection: Eason Photographic Collection Date: between 1900-1939 NLI Ref: EAS_0462 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie https://flic.kr/p/2o9KP7W
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Portrush Beach, Co. Antrim. Northern Ireland
by Mark Fitzsimons
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Hellooo it is time for me to force you all to listen to my obsession with Edward John Newell's disappearance again. where we last left off, I had explained that I think he was most likely drowned, and that from this bit from Richard Robert Madden's writing we have the name Robert Orr as one of two of Newell's probable killers.
So I decided today to do a bit more research on this Robert Orr. it did not go well. information on Orr is scant, because other people have been named that, because he's overshadowed completely by his more famous relative, and because apparently in the 90s a UDR soldier and former policeman called Robert Orr was killed in a car bombing and people are (shockingly!) more concerned about that than they are about a relative of William Orr's.
I did manage to find a few things, though. This is from Francis Joseph Bigger's William Orr biography:
Bigger doesn't elaborate at all and honestly I don't know if he even knew any more about the meaning of that engraving than I do. however, this is a mildly interesting piece of information about Robert Orr, because it confirms that he was somehow involved with the United Irishmen before Newell's death.
This website goes into as much detail as it can on all of the Orrs, and it identifies Robert as an uncle of William, who lived in Co. Antrim like the rest of William Orr's family. other than that apparently nobody knows anything about him, which. awesome. but this does give us a birth year and approximate location, which is pretty great. it also confirms that nearly all of the Antrim Orrs were United Irishmen, again adding credibility to the idea that the leaders might have sent him to execute Newell.
The last thing I found related to Robert Orr is this. I don't know if this is the Robert Orr they're talking about but I thought I'd add it anyway for completion. there was something else that indicated that a fellow called Robert Orr and a fellow called John Orr (which was the name of one of Robert Orr's brothers) worked for a Mr. Paisley at a mill processing cotton in Antrim in the... late 18th century at some point. I don't know if that's related either though and I'll be honest the article was paywalled and I'm not paying for it just for one sentence. so make of that tidbit what you will.
So Robert Orr was... pretty much a dead end, but at least we know that there was definitely someone called Robert Orr who definitely could have killed Edward John Newell in 1798. I like knowing that even if I don't know anything more about the man tbh.
And now that we've got that, I just wanted to quickly say that I have no clue who the other person who came to collect and presumably kill Newell might have been. I'll tentatively throw the guess of possibly Dr. McGee of Belfast himself out there, solely based on him knowing so many incredibly specific details about what happened. I have to stress though that's a completely baseless accusation, that's purely me speculating.
#edward john newell#robert orr#william orr#united irishmen#1798 rebellion#tw death#tw violence#jory.txt
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i'm going to be in northern ireland for a week next month! looking forward to it but it seems like there's a lot of really great sights and things to do - is there anything you think people absolutely should see? trying to narrow it down a bit.
anon, congrats on your excellent holiday choice!
the place in northern ireland that i am an absolute shill for is dunluce castle in co. antrim.
if the weather's good - which, i'll concede, isn't always a given in ni in springtime... or any time - the views are unbelievable. you can have some cracking walks along the coastline, which will give you a look at the sea and the cliffs and so on which are completely impossible to experience in a car.
the castle is obviously best known for being used as a location in game of thrones, but to keep this vaguely on theme... i use it as my headcanon location for where cygnus and druella black live, and where bellatrix, andromeda, and narcissa are raised. it just looks ruined to muggles.
happy st patrick's day!
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