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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

A lovely evening at @druidtheatre.bsky.social as @galwaycity.ie/Galway County Council welcomed senior EU policymakers, business leaders, regional authorities, researchers and enterprise agencies for the 10th External ECON Commission meeting. OIIC was the backdrop to Irish dancing by Ronan O'Connell!

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/12/2024

New! EDWARDS AND MAURIAT 1912, Paris [Gallica BnF] The French rugby captain Paul Mauriat from near Lyon meets the Irish rugby captain Billy Edwards from Strandtown before the 1912 international in Paris. The next year, Edwards became the first person to swim across Belfast Lough. [...]

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 20/12/2024

Paddy [Maureen Patricia] O'Sullivan (b. 1918, Dublin, d. 1994) was an undercover agent, wireless operator and member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. Her schooling in Ireland, Belgium and France made her fluent in French and English with strong Dutch/Flemish ...

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 19/12/2024

Oscar Wilde 1882, New York Library of Congress Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 and died in Paris in 1900, where he is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. He was a poet, writer and dramatist, who is known for his works The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the comic masterpieces ...

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 17/12/2024

𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣! Margaret Kelly 1930 and 1945, France and Monaco (with her son) [Wikimedia Commons] Margaret Leibovici OBE (née Kelly; 24 June 1910 – 11 September 2004), known as Miss Bluebell, was an Irish dancer who was the founder of the Bluebell Girls dance troupe.

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 16/12/2024

𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣! Jammet Hotel and Restaurant 1900-1920, St Andrew’s Street, Dublin NLI www.flickr.com/photos/nlire... From Aude to Ireland, Ireland’s most famous French restaurant of the 20th century was established by the Saint-Julia-de-Bec-born Michel and François Jammet in 1901. [...]

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 10/12/2024

Settlement: the dwelling-house Date: 1945 Location: Clonmelsh, Co. Carlow Photographer: Caoimhín Ó Danachair Archival information: The Dwelling-house: House at Clonmelsh. Source: duchas.ie/en/cbeg/5587 duchas.ie CC BY-NC 4.0

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 05/12/2024

We've been asked where can you buy Old Ireland in Colour 3 - so here are some links: www.siopaleabhar.com/en/tairgi/ol... www.books.ie/old-ireland-... booksupstairs.ie/product/old-... chaptersbookstore.com/products/old... www.kennys.ie/shop/old-ire... www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/old-...

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 01/12/2024

Then and now c. 1937, Cappoquin, County Waterford Norrie Ahearne, Barrack Street, Cappoquin, canvassing for Fianna Fáil with her donkey and two placards at The Square, Cappoquin. Source: Waterford County Museum Ref.: UK5262 Link: www.waterfordmuseum.ie/exhibit/web/...

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 01/12/2024

From "Old Ireland in Colour 3", out now in all good bookshops: c. 1926, Ardara, County Donegal This photograph has been restored from the original colour (autochrome by CR Adams), and is not colourised

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 30/11/2024

"Old Ireland in Colour 2" now available for €22.46 at Eason www.easons.com/old-ireland-...

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 29/11/2024

Markets: Dundalk market day. 1935, Dundalk, Co. Louth Original B&W by Maurice Curtin Colourised by Old Ireland in Colour “The Photographic Collection, C050.15.00005” by Dúchas © National Folklore Collection, UCD is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 28/11/2024

There are just two days left to see the Old Ireland in Colour photography exhibition at the L'Hermine Cultural Space in Sarzeau, Brittany!

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 27/11/2024

From "Old Ireland in Colour 3": John Butler Yeats was an Irish artist and the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lollie" Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. Photo from 1910, colourised by Old Ireland in Colour.

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 26/11/2024

Old Ireland in Colour (Paperback) now on sale at Bookstation for €16.99 www.bookstation.ie/product/old-...

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 25/11/2024

ありがとうございます！Thank you to everyone who visited our Old Ireland in Colour: Japan exhibition in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka over the past two weeks, including most recently the Chair and members of the Japan Celtic Society, shown on the right and also... (1/2)

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/11/2024

@johnbreslin.bsky.social talks to Garry Talks about the #1 Irish bestselling book series Old Ireland in Colour and the many positive ways it has impacted people. ✨📸 🏞️ 📺 Watch the full video on garrytalks.com 🎙️ Or listen wherever you get your podcasts. (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Podbean)

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/11/2024

From "Old Ireland in Colour 3": The Irish Brigade and Future Irish Presidents of the University of Notre Dame July 1862, Union Army Camp, Harrison’s Landing, Virginia, USA War Chaplains with two officers from the Irish Brigade was taken at the main eastern theater of the American Civil war...

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 16/11/2024

We were delighted to see Old Ireland in Colour on display when we visited the Jackie Clarke Collection in Ballina recently... Such a great museum, a must visit for those interested in Irish history!

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 15/11/2024

It is lovely to see our France exhibition making its way to Brittany for the "Regarde sur l'Irlande" event at Espace culturel l'Hermine in Sarzeau. You can view the photographs there until the end of November 2024. Thank you to Catherine Gagneux and Galway Lorient Twinning Committee for supporting.

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 15/11/2024

🇮🇪 BIG IN JAPAN! 🇯🇵 The Old Ireland in Colour: Japan exhibition is now on at the Dazaifu City Tourist Information Centre, beside Nishitetsu Gojo Station in Dazaifu: maps.app.goo.gl/hwiq7dk4fAfh...

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/12/2023

And that’s a wrap... We hope you’ve enjoyed all of our colourisations over the past year; indeed, over the past 4½ years! We leave you with the cover photograph from “Old Ireland in Colour 3”, a harvest scene from 1947 in Wilton, County Cork; original B&W courtesy of the Irish Examiner

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/12/2023

Colourised for our new book “Old Ireland in Colour 3”, out now in all good bookshops and booksellers: EVICTION SCENE 30 July 1888, Co. Clare

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/12/2023

New colourisation for Old Ireland in Colour 3 📘 CYCLING TO WORK 1952, Westmoreland St, Dublin By the 1950s, cyclists commuting to work in Dublin were a regular sight. While the number of cars had increased dramatically, the use of the bike to commute to work remained a popular and affordable option.

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/12/2023

From “Old Ireland in Colour 3” 📘: The Lartigue Monorail in Ballybunion Photograph from late 19th to early 20th century by Robert French 2x upscaled from version at www.flickr.com/photos/nlire... (NLI Ref. L_ROY_04275)

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/12/2023

This is he in later years, an engraving based on a photo (from his book www.loc.gov/item/05007329/)

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 22/12/2023

From “Old Ireland in Colour 3”: 📘 James Redmond O'Gorman (left) and Edmund (Edward) O'Donovan (right), later a famous war correspondent c. 1866, Mountjoy Prison From the Thomas Larcom album of felons and Fenian political prisoners, dated November 1866 (1/x)

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 21/12/2023

Restored/enhanced, not colourised, for “Old Ireland in Colour 3”: One of the earliest actual colour autochrome photos of Ireland, taken a dozen or so years after the Mespoulet/Mignon-Alba ones of 1913. ”Three generations in Connemara” c. 1926, Lettergesh, Galway (Clifton R. Adams) So who are they?

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 21/12/2023

From “Old Ireland in Colour 2” by John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley: 📗 Four cockle pickers 1890s, Woodstown Beach, Waterford 📷 © and courtesy of the Breslin Archive

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 21/12/2023

Grianghraf nuashonraithe le haghaidh an chlúdach bog nua de “Old Ireland in Colour 1” / Updated colourisation for the new paperback edition of “Old Ireland in Colour 1”: 📕 1893-1895 - Inis Mór - Na Fir Boilg Óga (The Young Firbolgs)

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 21/12/2023

Mrs Bridget Monaghan May 1938 Ros Dumhach / Rossport, Co. Mayo Colourised, restored with lines and marks removed Photographer: Séamus Ó Duilearga B&W source: www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/13602 CC BY-NC 4.0 National Folklore Collection

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 21/12/2023

A new colourisation from our book “Old Ireland in Colour 3”, available in all good bookshops for Christmas: 🐴 🛷 ❄️ 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓵𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓱 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓷𝓸𝔀! ❄️ 🛷 🐴 1890s, Woodland House, County Waterford 📷 © and courtesy of the Breslin Archive

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 21/12/2023

The Coombe, Co. Dublin March 1980 Photo: Séamas Mac Philib Children coming from school, including Mandy and Tracey O'Neill (front) and Mr John and Mrs Clare Dunphy (Meath Square) (back). Colourised from a black and white source: duchas.ie/en/cbeg/52810 CC BY-NC 4.0 National Folklore Collection

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 21/12/2023

From “Old Ireland in Colour 2”: 📗 “Peggy is earning what Paddy is burning--a typical Irish home” c. 1900, location unknown Source: Getty Museum Ref. 84.XC.979.10931

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 20/12/2023

Michael Collins (16-10-1890 — 22-08-1922) Colourised by us last year on the 100th anniversary of his death, and as seen in “Old Ireland in Colour 3”

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 20/12/2023

Waiting for Mass 1930s-1950s, Inis Meáin, Co. Galway Photo: Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh Source: www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16142 CC BY-NC 4.0 National Folklore Collection

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 20/12/2023

From Old Ireland in Colour 3 📘🎁🎄 ꪻꫝꫀ ᦓꪻꪗꪶꫀ ADA REHAN (1860–1916); 1897, USA Rehan was one of Ireland’s most celebrated actresses. Born in Limerick, she grew up in Brooklyn. The Times dramatic critic wrote, ‘when Ada Rehan was in her prime, she was without a rival in her province on the comic stage’

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 19/12/2023

From our new book “Old Ireland in Colour 3”: 📘 Hanging Out 1969, Cumberland Street, Dublin Elinor Wiltshire, National Library of Ireland Three children hanging out in a Ford Escort Mark 1 panel van (thanks to the excellent work of the NLI Flickroonies for spotting the model). #IrishBlueSky

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 18/12/2023

From “Old Ireland in Colour 3”, out now 📘: Waiting To Go Ashore Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland 1962 Photographer: Harold Strong (used with permission)

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 17/12/2023

New colourisation from “Old Ireland in Colour 3”: Hills of Cobh, 1926 Two girls, possibly members of the Packham family, stand outside a house on Cottrell’s Row, previously Queen’s Street.

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 16/12/2023

Our new paperback / lighter weight version of ”Old Ireland in Colour”, along with our new book ”Old Ireland in Colour 3”, as seen in Dublin Airport - for those looking for a Christmas present to bring to the Irish abroad... along with the Taytos of course!

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 16/12/2023

We have an extended Global Irish section in our new book Old Ireland in Colour 3, including this fascinating photo from c. 1863-65, USA:Sgt Thomas Plunkett lost both his arms during shelling when he bore the national colour in Fredericksburg, VA in 1862.

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 14/12/2023

Thank you to the Sligo Weekender for featuring this lovely Robert French NLI photo from Co. Sligo as colourised for “Old Ireland in Colour 3” - and congratulations on your 40th Birthday!! 🎈

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 13/12/2023

From “Old Ireland in Colour 3” 📘: Margaret Skinnider (centre), republican, teacher, and trade unionist, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to immigrant parents from Co. Monaghan c. 1916, Dublin If you want to find out more about Skinnider, we recommend the book by Mary McAuliffe

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 13/12/2023

Thanks to the Irish Post for the big feature in this week's newspaper!

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 12/12/2023

From our new book “Old Ireland in Colour 3”: 📘 Dennis Dennys Taken before November 1866 Mountjoy Prison, Dublin Identified as felons and Fenian political prisoners, the subjects of these photos include some of the leaders of the Fenian Brotherhood and its Irish wing, the IRB

Bearded man in three piece suit with shirt and a gingham scarf

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 10/12/2023

Titanic leaving Belfast for her sea trials on 2 April 1912 Photo by Robert John Welch Colourised for “Old Ireland in Colour”, now out in paperback 📕 in all good bookshops

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