IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio)

Family historian delivering daily doses of what happened #Onthisday in #Ireland & unearthing old photos

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Patrick Street #Cork in 1902 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Main Street #Castlebar #Mayo c.1880📸NLI

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Died #Onthisday 2021 Muriel McCarthy 'the first female and first Roman Catholic keeper of Marsh’s Library, Ireland’s oldest public library' more @IrishTimes https://t.co/DZV9JhGhgX

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Timewarp photo of Parliament Bridge & Holy Trinity Church then (1900s) and now #CorkLike #LoveCork #PureCork #TimewarpCork https://t.co/5igefeg1Ja

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Died #Onthsiday 1938 #Kerry man & Antarctic explorer #TomCrean from infection following a burst appendix https://t.co/2OvX7cIeXc B&W📸via Getty, Crean at the helm of the 'Endurance' leaving Millwall Dock on Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1/8/1914 Colour by me

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

#Onthisday is Reek Sunday when Croagh Patrick #Mayo is climbed by thousands of pilgrims in honour of St Patrick, a custom which goes back to at least the Middle Ages.📸c.1910 Capuchin Archives

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Glanmire village #Cork in 2003 with Barry's Shop📸Joe Healy #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Died #Onthisday 1865 Dr James Barry, born Margaret Ann Bulkley in #Cork c1794, Surgeon & who performed the first caesarean section in British Empire & described by Florence Nightingale as ‘the most hardened creature I ever met throughout the army’ https://t.co/BLpvPjnoWo

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

St. Patrick's Church #Cork with 'over 1300 men of the Leinster Regt go to mass for the last Sunday before going to the front' Sad to think what was in store for them #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

#Onthisday is the feast day of St Declan of #Ardmore #Waterford📸from 1900 via Duchas with a story from the Schools Collection #IrishFolklore

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was Templemichael Iron Works, Upper Glanmire #Cork. These are knives produced at the mills & some of the workers from c.1965 - more about the history of the mills https://t.co/4yIszD5Dbi #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

#Onthisday 290 years ago Dr Steevens’ Hospital was founded in #Dublin by Griselda Steevens under the terms of her brother's will. Griselda was involved in managing the hospital until she died aged 93. https://t.co/53AiD116jK

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

I'll be very impressed if anyone can identify this old mill located in #Cork (about 10km from the city) & pictured here in 1945. Although the building & industry the builing still exists ... #WhereinCork #WhereinCork #CorkLike #PureCork

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Died #Onthisday 1885 Countess Rosse, astronomer & photographer who lived in@BirrCastle& built a 6-foot telescope (‘Leviathan of Parsontown’) the world’s largest telescope for + 70 years & mentioned in Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon https://t.co/6YPB6j16aI

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Timewarp of Pope's Quay #Cork now & then (c.1900 no Christy Ring Bridge or traffic jams) #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #TimewarpCork https://t.co/5igefeg1Ja

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

#Onthisday 1974 the #Dublin City Women’s Invasionary Force took to the Forty Foot in Sandycove to protest the fact that the swimming spot was traditionally for men only https://t.co/TwQrypuvfq

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Mardyke Walk circa 1880 #Cork #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W📸Hulton Archive https://t.co/d3Fo389srR

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

#Onthisday 1972 Muhammad Ali fought Al "Blue" Lewis @CrokePark #Dublin winning by a TKO B&W📸@IrishMirror https://t.co/bIOFot07MC

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

St Augustine's Church #Cork in 1940. The church closed last Sunday, 12 July. #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike https://t.co/w3nHDLkNGo

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Died #Onthisday 1930 #Cork born Leonora Kearney Barry Lake. She emigrated to the US & in 1886 was elected General Investigator of Women’s Work, becoming the the 1st paid female labour investigator in America - more https://t.co/UwjrTIoprB B&W📸@nyhistory

[IrishFamilyDetective on Bluesky (see link in Bio) @Fiona_Forde_Irl]

Sunday's Well #Cork 1960 taken from possibly O'Donovan Rossa Road with Eye Ear and Throat visible #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday📸Capuchin Archives