Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺

Writer, Historical Fiction; Roman Archaeology & Ancient History, Winner #FNL #LFOW24 (@JerichoWriters), #UNWC 2023/24,

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Thanks so much to the judges who have selected my novel in progress for the Historical Adventure category.

#Manumission is set in the years following the global pandemic that ancient historians call the Antonine pandemic.

#HNS2026 #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction

[Historical Novel Society @histnovsoc]

CONGRATULATIONS to the writers who have been selected for the CATEGORY SHORT LISTS in the 2026 HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY’S First Chapters Competition! Visit https://t.co/CBySmX41Wt for the full lists
#historicalfiction #hnsfirstchapterscompetition

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

This torc is known as The Snettisham Great Torc named for where it was found. Other Iron Age hoards have been found close by. It is made of circa 1 KG gold mixed with silver. It was made c. 150-50 BCE, and buried around 50 BCE.
📷 Mine, British Museum.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

These frescoes adorn the covered walkway of the Majolica Cloister, in Santa Chiara, Naples. They date to the 17th C. Showing St Francis of Assisi, St Honorius, and above them the virtues Sincerity and Justice respectively. Pic 3-4: roof fresco plus aisle.
My 📷
#FrescoFriday

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Part of Roman dedicatory inscription from Hotbank on Hadrian’s Wall.
It translates:
Built by Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus...the Second Legion Augusta under Aulus Platorius Nepos, propraetorian legate.
Nepos was governor of Britannia AD 122-125.
#RomanFortThursday
My 📷

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Aerial shot of Vercovicium (Housesteads Roman Fort). The fort’s north wall is contiguous with Hadrian’s Wall. It was planned without auxiliary forts. Wall construction began by AD 122, but changed to include forts. Constructed by AD 130.
#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology
My 📷

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@KPW1453 The last time I was at Brinkburn Priory I met the peripatetic organist who plays in churches and abbeys throughout the region. He played for us and the other visitors. It was a wonderful experience. Here’s my shot of the entrance to #BrinkburnPriory

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@KPW1453 The last time I was at Brinkburn Priory I met the peripatetic organist who plays in churches and abbeys throughout the region. He played for us and the other visitors. It was a wonderful experience. Here’s my shot of the entrance to #BrinkburnPriory

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Diplomas are discharge certificates inscribed on bronze issued to auxiliaries after 25 years service, granting citizenship to soldiers & children plus legal marriage.

My 📷 Replica: from Trajan (AD 98-117) to Spanish officer, Reburrus, 1st Pannonian cavalry.
#RomanFortThursday

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Aerial shot of Vercovicium (Housesteads Roman Fort). The fort’s north wall is contiguous with Hadrian’s Wall. It was planned without auxiliary forts. Wall construction began by AD 122, but changed to include forts. Constructed by AD 130.
#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology
My 📷

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@TheRealSnuggler It’s a stunning piece of art.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

The marble statue called the Capitoline Galatian is maybe better known as The Dying Gaul. It’s a 1st C BCE Roman copy of a sculpture on a monument of Attalus I, king of Pergamon (230-220 BCE).
Found in an area once known as Caesar’s Garden.
📷 my own.
#Archaeology #Rome

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Look what’s landed in my postbox today!

Ireland, mapping, the year is 1865 - and all written by brilliant author, Maggie O’ Farrell.

I can’t wait to curl up to read #Land.

#AmReading #Books

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@sally_bromley Happy birthday 🎈

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

This village pub belongs to my son. He’s put heart and soul into bringing it back to life with a small team. It’s been 4 years of work to stay afloat against the tide of pub closures.
We need pubs like this.
Happy 4th 🎂🎉
Queen's Head, Great Whittington https://t.co/PW8B90v2CU

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Currently in The Capitoline Museums, Rome.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Santa Chiara was built 1313–1340 by Queen Sancha of Majorca and her husband King Robert of Naples, who is buried there. The complex was redecorated (17th C) in Baroque style by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro who also added majolica tiles to the cloister.
My 📷, #Naples
#TilesOnTuesday

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@BullMittens It really is.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Engagement here is fairly poor
I posted the same post on two platforms at almost exactly the same time this morning:

Photo 1 - the X post
Photo 2 - the BlueSky post
Click to see the different responses.

This X place isn’t showing many people my posts.

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@gmortonclassics It’s so gorgeous there. Naples is a manic place, but inside Santa Chiara and the cloisters it’s calmer even with other tourists.

I say book that flight. ✈️

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

Santa Chiara was built 1313–1340 by Queen Sancha of Majorca and her husband King Robert of Naples, who is buried there. The complex was redecorated (17th C) in Baroque style by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro who also added majolica tiles to the cloister.
My 📷, #Naples
#TilesOnTuesday

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

@LarryJones @LarryJones stop trying to find out how old we all are!

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

This quote from the finder bothers me:
“One of the boys I was with was screaming: ‘We’re rich, we’re rich.’”

Be excited, but are you detecting for reward? What about knowledge gleaned from finds recorded in context? The value isn’t just monetary. Don’t encourage ‘get rich fast.’

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

3rd C CE gold Roman ring with intaglio depicting winged Victory driving a chariot led by two horses. Destined for a local museum after touring local schools.
Found with other objects by detectorists who reported their finds.
#Archaeology #RomanBritain https://t.co/KvtafCbQk1

[Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺 @KatesfWriter]

A Wordiness Cluster 🖋️📑

[Anthony LaFauci @AnthonyLaFauci]

What do you call a collection of writers? An insecurity of writers? An anxiety of writers?