Young Historian

Young Historian: helping TY students connect with their personal & local history, and learn the skills of history - research, fact-finding, storytelling

[Young Historian @YoungHist]

Massively impressed by entries for the 2022 Young Historian Awards. Brianna Faughnan’s winning entry on Jimmy Gralton is a great story well told, using multiple sources to unearth new details and tell an unbiased story.
@LibraryLeitrim @LeitrimLive
See https://t.co/dN1090lnUn

[MohillHistory @MohillHistory]

Leitrim Observer celebrating #YoungHistorian 2024 programme.
Massive credit to students, teachers, @HistoryFiona and @LibraryLeitrim. Fascinating histories revealed and new additions to our local studies archive - see https://t.co/qgTftEYVdT
Thanks to @LeitrimLive @leitrimcoco

[Emily MarkFitzGerald @emilymfg]

Calling all Junior and Senior Cycle history teachers! I’m part of a webinar on 27 Sept (along with Prof Mike Murphy, UCC and @ciaranjreilly) exploring how to integrate the #IrishFamine into teaching, including the range of online resources now available:

https://t.co/DBc9bBbZuo

[Young Historian @YoungHist]

Fantastic entries from Leitrim TY students for the 2023 Young Historian programme sponsored by @LibraryLeitrim.
Read about some of the entries in the @LeitrimLive article of 7 June 2023, and see the https://t.co/8t5wroeYMq website for more.

[Fiona Slevin @HistoryFiona]

8 May was a big fair day in parts of Leitrim and the ‘Flax-Seed Fair’, when ‘farmers dug the ground and sowed the flax-seed’, later spun into linen.
One of 175 mentions of Flax in #Leitrim in the The Schools’ Collection, © @bealoideasucd.
#OTD Full entry https://t.co/upGvyBQ2xx

[Fiona Slevin @HistoryFiona]

Love rural shops and this post from ⁦@NIVAL_NCAD⁩: this collection from the Kerr family shoe shop in Mohill, Leitrim, 1956-90s. Amazing range of gorgeous shoes - mostly Irish-made, and many Leitrim-made. A ‘vital social record’ indeed. https://t.co/Uld1Pozsce

[Fiona Slevin @HistoryFiona]

Wow! Muintir Eolais Chalice given to Jamestown friary in 1644; secreted after the town fell to Cromwellian forces in 1653; somehow ended up in Cincinnati, Ohio in C19; discovered by local Msgr Kelly in 2017; now returned to #Leitrim.
https://t.co/h5iPM4mB5r

[Fiona Slevin @HistoryFiona]

Great day at Mohill Historical Society #DecadeofCentenaries symposium. As usual, inspired choice of speakers: artist @SineadGuckian dug deep in @LibraryLeitrim oral histories; @FionnualaMaxwe1 showed the power of ballads and sang. Both gave voice to the untold stories of women.

[Sinéad Guckian @SineadGuckian]

When an older person dies a library burns down-
Thanks all for coming&for listening to my brief intro to the lives of 10Leitrim women who lived during the #CivilWar&inspired the piece.
#culturenight #VoicesofWomen #DecadeofCentenaries
@LibraryLeitrim

[Fiona Slevin @HistoryFiona]

@IrishWorkhouses At least 45 girls were shipped from Mohill Workhouse to Sydney in 1848 - 1850. Most aged 15-18, not all orphans, but selected for their good health and moral character. Their box of supplies included petticoats, gowns, shoes, a shawl and bonnet, 2lbs of soap and a prayer book.

[Fiona Slevin @HistoryFiona]

In London #otd 1851 as the Great Exhibition opened in London, Letitia Veevers from Mohill, Co Leitrim 'excited much attention' (Kerry Examiner) for her 'very curious and useful products' made from nettle, hemp, sweet pea, honeysuckle, nasturtium and Marshmallow.

[Leitrim Library @LibraryLeitrim]

A Meeting for kids from Ukraine, Friday, 29th April, 3.30pm in Carrick on Shannon Library.
Children of any age are invited, with supervision of an adult. Come along to meet new friends, chat, sing together & create.
#Leitrim @leitrimdevco @leitrimppn

[Fiona Slevin @HistoryFiona]

Looking forward to this by the excellent Dr Padraig McGarty on Friday. This time he will cover Leitrim 1922, where widespread lawlessness pervaded, with some local opposition to pro-Treaty forces and cross border raids in Fermanagh.
Mohill Library, 21:15 29 Apr @LibraryLeitrim

[History Ireland @HistIreHedge]

The ‘Decade of Centenaries’ All Island History Competition for Primary and Post-Primary Schools 2021/2022

https://t.co/V2XzJrSFDV

[Young Historian @YoungHist]

Impressed and excited at level and range of submissions for this year’s #YoungHistorian awards: grandparents’ recollections; local buildings & structures; personal links with international events. Our future is in good hands when young people understand the past like this.

[Young Historian @YoungHist]

The 2022 #YoungHistorian programme has begun with five Leitrim TY classes and teachers working to bring the history on their doorstep to life.
See our new website https://t.co/dN1090lnUn for a wide range of research sources on #Leitrim history.
In partnership with @LibraryLeitrim

[Young Historian @YoungHist]

And thanks @LeitrimLive for publishing the story.

[Young Historian @YoungHist]

Wonderful to see this pilot #YoungHistorian project come to fruition this year. Students and teachers deserve massive credit for their great research and discoveries. As does @leitrimcoco Library for driving it.
Love to see more schools involved next year.
@Education_Ire @msletb

[Leitrim County Council @leitrimcoco]

Carrigallen Vocational School & @BallinamoreCS TY students uncover 'History on the Doorstep'.  Winners of Young Historian of the year awards announced in this week's Leitrim Observer.  Well done to all the participating students!👏
@YoungHistorianIE @LibrariesIre @BallinamoreCS