#connacht

[leocadra]

Inis Mór | Connacht | Ireland.

[mothmiso]

Sligo (2) (3) (4) (5) by Diane Greene Lent

[jadeseadragon]

The Meeting of Grace O'Malley, the Pirate Queen of Connacht, and Queen Elizabeth I of England.

"In September 1593, (Gráinne O'Malley, also known as) Grace O’Malley was granted an audience with Queen Elizabeth I. “They sat down as elderly, experienced women (both in their sixties), both leaders in what was perceived to be a man’s world.”"

"Despite the evidence against her as a rebel and a pirate, Grace’s meeting with the Queen was successful. Contrary to the advice of her own military governor, Elizabeth granted Tibbott [her son] his freedom, Grace’s stolen lands were returned, and she was allowed to continue with her career at sea."

A map of Britain and Ireland, circa 1550.

• Born in 1530 in County Mayo, western Ireland, Gráinne O'Malley was the daughter of the O'Malley chieftain, Owen 'Dubhdara' (Black Oak) O'Malley, and Margaret O'Malley. 

• Early life: Gráinne O'Malley grew up at the family castles of Belclare and Clare Island. It’s likely that she would have been educated at the local monastery. 

• Piracy and politics: Both on land and at sea, Grace became a key figure on the west coast of Ireland in the 16th century. A letter to the Tudor court describes her as “the nurse to all rebellions in the province for 40 years” 

• Meeting with Elizabeth I: In September 1593 Grace was granted an audience with Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich.

• Died: in 1603 at the age of 73, most likely at Carraigahowley castle. She is buried in the ruins of the Cistercian abbey on Clare Island.

[lichtschimmer]

Europe, Irland, Connacht, Galway - webcam 

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question : Medievalish 2

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[stairnaheireann]

The Celts of Ancient Ireland

The first historical record of the Celts was by the Greeks about 700 BC, the Celts were a loose grouping of tribes that lived in an area north of the Alps around the Danube river in central Europe. Over the next few hundred years they spread east and west across Europe. The Celts first arrived in Ireland about 500 BC, there is no reliable information on how or when the Celts became the dominant…

[khaperai]

[danbusler]

Connacht Presented An Irish Holiday Special at The Fallout Shelter

An Irish Christmas at The Extended Play Sessions

Connacht Presented An Irish Holiday Special at The Extended Play Sessions Fallout Shelter in Norwood MA on December 8, 2023.The group features Johnny Coe, Stuart Peak, Wynter Pingel, Michael McDonagh, and Steve Devany, with special guests that include Jerry Lehane and Peter O’Halloran from the Dogmatics, Jane Monahan, and step dancers.It was a night filled with traditional joyful Christmas songs…

[leocadra]

Inis Mór | Connacht | Ireland.

[hldky]

Eva of the Nation by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: A rather bleak looking Georgian House with 8 windows to the front is titled "Killeen House (Residence of Eva of the Nation). Situated in Tynagh, Co. Galway it makes one wonder who was Eva, should her name have been Aoife and what is it like now? Photographer: Irish Tourism Association Photographer Collection: Irish Tourism Association Photographic Collection Date: 1942 NLI Ref: NPA ITA 490 (Box III) You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

[aleck-le-mec]

Source: The Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend by Miranda J. Green (1992)

[annaghdown]

Handball Connacht Title for Ella Sweeney & Runner up for Daniel Finnerty - Well done !

Congratulations to Ella Sweeney who won the Girls U16 Connacht B Championship in Mulranny recently . Ella representing Galway beat Sarah Boyle from Roscommon in the final ! Well done Ella ! Well done to Daniel Finnerty who was runner up in the U17 Boys B Connaught championship recently in Newport . Daniel representing Galway was narrowly beaten by his Leitrim opponent in the tie breaker . See…

[stairnaheireann]

Rathcroghan | Tulsk, Co Roscommon

Rathcroghan, Cruachan Aí, is known as the Ancient Capital of Connacht, where the festival of Samhain (Halloween) is said to originate. This majestic landscape is the oldest and largest unexcavated Royal Site in Europe.  The Rathcroghan landscape boasts over 240 identified archaeological sites, spanning a staggering period of over 5,500 years of human history. It is the location of numerous…

[thismustbetheblog]

me if another player retires

[alternativeulster]

more people need to know about irish mythology. it's just balls to the walls insane. if you thought greek mythology was wild let me introduce you to:

nessa and her 12 gay dads

queen medb cheating on everything and everyone, starting a war over a cow, ruining innumerable lives and then getting killed by cheese

fionn gets raised by 2 random lesbians

fionn kills a guy for stealing his girlfriend, drops the magic healing water several times on purpose

oisín goes to live in the immortal fairy land with his immortal fairy wife, misses ireland, comes back to visit, falls off his horse and fucking dies (may or may not have gotten in a fight with saint patrick before dying)

fuck them kids, they're swans now

guy accidentally gets job of "being the king's dog" at age 5, changes name to dog