Helen Litton

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Happy Birthday to us 🎉 We're 933 years old today!

On 11 August 1093, the first stone was placed by the then Bishop of Durham, William of St Calais, and 40 years later it was complete!

[newzy.com @realnewzy]

The real reason Odysseus took 10 years to get home

[Daragh Cassidy @DaraghCassidy]

They’ve made a dog’s dinner out of half the city at this stage. Everything’s a mess. There’s no proper vision or care as to how things look anymore.

“Council accused of making a ‘complete dog’s dinner’ out of Dublin's Capel and Parliament Street”.

https://t.co/Ie1WEdYylU

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Almost 200,000 historical records will be newly released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available
https://t.co/MUA7AZWvvX

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Exhibits detailing the life of Eva Gore-Booth, a lesser-known sister of Constance Markievicz, who championed campaigns that paved the way for women to stand in election, vote and achieve equality have gone on display at Lissadell House in Co Sligo
https://t.co/Di0aBycRSB

[Limerick Castle @limerickguide]

Desperately sad to see the English language school on Patrick Street close without any notification to its students.
They’re left in limbo without a voice.

#Limerick

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

If there is a group that doesn't deserve thugs terrorising its streets it is the people of Belfast. Their city bears the scars of decades of violence and unrest. Shame on the louts subjecting them to more and the cretins encouraging them.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world - the ancient city of Tyre - designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its incredible historical sites. This is what it looks like today following multiple Israeli airstrikes.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Russia threatened to do this if Ukraine attacked the May 9 parade on the Red Square. After Trump’s intervention on Putin’s behalf, Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire so Russia could hold the parade. Two weeks later, Putin unleashed the ballistic missile barrage on central Kyiv anyway.

[The Little Museum of Dublin @littlemuseumdub]

"Where history lets its hair down" – The New York Times.

We get lots of press. Most of it is forgotten in a week or two.

This one won't be.

To all the brilliant people who support our work: thank you.

@DeptCultureIRL @DubCityCouncil @Failte_Ireland

[Timeless Colours @timelesscolours]

The Daly Family, 1901

Remarkable portrait of the Daly siblings before revolution reshaped their lives & Ireland. Deeply woven into Irish history. Kathleen Daly would marry Tom Clarke, while her brother Ned Daly would command the Four Courts garrison during the Easter Rising.

[Paul Howard @AkaPaulHoward]

Oh!

[Timeless Colours @timelesscolours]

Kathleen Clarke

Widow of executed 1916 leader Thomas Clarke. Republican activist, prisoner, and the first woman to serve as Lord Mayor of Dublin (1941).

📷 National Library of Ireland

[Timeless Colours @timelesscolours]

Group portrait of Kathleen Clarke in mourning clothes and her sons John Daly Clarke, Tom Clarke and Emmet Clarke, taken in the aftermath of the execution of her husband Tom Clarke in 1916.

The price of the Rising was not paid by the dead alone.

[An Claíoṁ Solais @AnClaiomhSolais]

"There has been to my mind no man in Irish history, that could equal the work that this man of steel did for Ireland, Tom Clarke."
Tom Barry

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

100 years old and still the coolest person alive. Happy birthday, Sir David!

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough

Thank you for being a friend to all animals and for helping the world to cherish us x

[Helen Litton @LittonHelen]

@timelesscolours @1916Relatives John Daly died of natural causes. It was his nephew Edward who was executed.