Antiquities at Schull, west Cork, Souterrain and Ring Fort at Meenvane, Cillín, old Monastery, at Cusheen, Memory of Famine Corpses being brought uphill ‘astraddle’ on horse.
03 Saturday Jan 2015
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03 Saturday Jan 2015
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02 Friday Jan 2015
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By a Quinquagenarian, the Pre 1797 Four Courts at Christchurch, Dublin, Hell and ‘Our Four Courts, thank the Genius of our Isle, is still full of business; and as long as Erin remains the land of Ire, so long surely will Lawyers fatten, and Attorneys Batten on the Quarrelsome and Litigious Propensities of Our People, Big Bully Egan, Little Philpot Curran, Black Jack Fitzgibbon, Henry Grattan, Ned Lysaght, Lord Yelverton..
From 1832 Dublin Penny Journal in a book of the weekly issues owned by Dublin writer Sean O’Casey.
http://comeheretome.com/2013/03/20/an-interesting-account-of-hell-from-the-dublin-penny-journal/Note the Pre-1922 Four Courts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Penny_Journal
02 Friday Jan 2015
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Ripening Grapes in the Open Air in Bantry pre 1832, Mr. Kenny, Mr.Tuckey of Bantry, the late Mrs Taylor East of Bantry Mr Hutchins of Adnagashel near Glengariff. The botanist Ellen Hutchins was of this family the house is now gone but some rare plants remain.
From 1832 Dublin Penny Journal in a book of the weekly issues owned by Dublin writer Sean O’Casey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Penny_Journal
02 Friday Jan 2015
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Ancient Irish chair.
From 1832 Dublin Penny Journal in a book of the weekly issues owned by Dublin writer Sean O’Casey. This article is probably by George Petrie of Ordnance Survey fame..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Penny_Journal
02 Friday Jan 2015
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James Philpot Curran and the Miller’s dog
From 1832 Dublin Penny Journal in a book of the weekly issues owned by Dublin writer Sean O’Casey. This in turn quotes Jonah Barrington’s sketches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Penny_Journal
02 Friday Jan 2015
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Original signature William Penn. The letter comes from a correspondent in Ballitore, Co. Kildare which had a Quaker settlement and it was where Edmund Burke received part of his education.

From 1832 Dublin Penny Journal in a book of the weekly issues owned by Dublin writer Sean O’Casey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Penny_Journal
02 Friday Jan 2015
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Ancient Houses, Drogheda 1590, Castle Street and Marrowbone Lane, Dublin.
From 1832 Dublin Penny Journal in a book of the weekly issues owned by Dublin writer Sean O’Casey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Penny_Journal
01 Thursday Jan 2015
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01 Thursday Jan 2015
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Pre 1798 the Women’s Cloaks in West Cork and Kerry were Dark Blue after Grey, Custom of Greeting as a Benediction, the wench with the family of Bishop Berkeley who refused to carry out cinders as she was descended from the Ancient Kings of Ireland, Marriage Customs, Backaughs (Beggars) from Crofton Croker.
30 Tuesday Dec 2014
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