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

Coincidentally, it was also six years ago to the day that the first Old Ireland in Colour book was published.

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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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy Bloomsday! (From the book @oldirelandincolour.bsky.social.)

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026

Some of the healthcare staff at the Irish Hospital in Saint-Lô around 1945. The rightmost is Samuel Beckett. Colourised for @oldirelandincolour.bsky.social in 2024. #beckett120 www.wikimanche.fr/Fichier:StLo...

Some of the healthcare staff at the Irish Hospital in Saint-Lô. On the right is Samuel Beckett.

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 26/02/2026

It was an honour to speak in Kylemore Abbey's Fordham Law Great Hall last Saturday alongside my @uniofgalway.bsky.social colleague and co-author Dr @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social at the @oldirelandincolour.bsky.social finale event.

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Catherine Gagneux @franceconnacht.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Amazing venue in Kylemore Abbey to host @oldirelandincolour.bsky.social exhibition with some west of Ireland flavours. With @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social & @johnbreslin.com Check it out & enjoy Connemara!

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Scratch but spooky @scratching92.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If I remember correctly, this was the one where they'd done one version, then corrected it when relatives of one of the men (I wanna say Theo?) contacted them about his eye colour. It's mad to think about how recent some of this stuff is!

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

That's right... It was thanks to the Murphy family, grandchildren of Theo Fitzgerald: they advised regarding the correct eye colour!

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 23/12/2024

Nollaig faoi shéan agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh uilig! Wishing you and yours a very happy holiday season! And now, a puzzle: what is Kate holding in the photo below? "Kate at a rock in the snow", Waterford, 1890s breslinarchive.omeka.net/items/show/219 @oldirelandincolour.bsky.social

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Irish Radio Canada 🇮🇪📻🇨🇦 @irishradioca.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Streaming 8am & 1pm Podcasts and more. Get all links at linktr.ee/irishradioca... John Breslin - Old Ireland in Colour: Bill Meulemans - Belfast Flashbacks: Music From Sean Keane -Paddy Reilly - The Wolfe Tones- Tommy Sands

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Old Ireland in Colour @oldirelandincolour.eurosky.social · 23/12/2024

It was a pleasure to talk to Austin Comerton from Irish Radio Canada @irishradioca.bsky.social about Old Ireland in Colour recently! Listen back...

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

[...] He died fighting near Jerusalem in 1917 during World War I while serving with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

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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

Her cover was blown by the Daily Mail and Sunday Express in 1945, much to the displeasure of the SOE, and she was posted to Calcutta to work with the French. She was awarded the Croix de guerre and an MBE.

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

as she arrived with a wireless set inside a case strapped to her bike. After he remarked that she looked like a Fraulein he knew at home, she replied that her mother was German and arranged a date with him for the next day, moving on swiftly with the case forgotten. ...

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

22 containers of arms to distribute to the French Resistance. The rough drop concussed her, but she claimed her life was saved by the backpack of money. She often posed as a Belgian woman searching for a husband or parent, but one famous story has her stopped by a German soldier at a roadblock ...

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

and working German skills. Various training school reports described her as undisciplined with a temper, but also purposeful, independent, popular, and well able to manage people. She was dropped into France in 1944 with 2 million francs strapped to her back, plus two wireless radio sets and ...

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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

He was imprisoned a number of years prior to his death, from 1895 to 1897, after which he sailed immediately to France. He wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, in both France (Berneval-le-Grand) and Italy (Naples).

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

Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He was a spokesman for the Aesthetic Movement in England and was involved in a number of court cases, both criminal and civil, involving the ‘crime of homosexuality’.

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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

François Truffaut's film "The Last Metro" is inspired by the life of Kelly and her husband Marcel Leibovici, whom she hid from the Nazis in Paris after he fled an internment camp at Gurs with the help of the French Resistance. She received the Legion of Honour, France's top civilian award, in 2000.

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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

We used the colours from a painting by Irish artist Harry Kernoff, who also frequented Jammet’s, for this colourisation.

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

It was originally located on St Andrew’s Street, later moving to Nassau Street in 1926. Michel’s son Louis and his wife Yvonne, a Paris-born landscape painter and sculptor, took over the restaurant in 1927. [...]

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

Their mother was from a famous hatmaking family, the Bourrels of Quillan, Espèraza and Carcassonne. The restaurant was mentioned twice in James Joyce’s Ulysses, and virtually every Dublin and visiting celebrity ate there at some point. [...]

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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

The nearby graveyard in Clonmelsh “is the last resting place of the ancestors of Walt Disney, the great pioneer of the American animation industry.”

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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

According to Turtle Bunbury Histories, this is Nellie Boyle who lived on Main Street, Ardara www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

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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

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/D... www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/D...

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National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911

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

The wording of this sentence is a bit ambiguous, in terms of the girl being Susan or working for Susan, but if it is Susan, there was a Susan McNelis, 16 years old and a dressmaker, in Straleel South in 1911, as well as another 13-year-old Susan in the same townland, about 20 km from Ardara.

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National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911

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

“The knitting of woollen garments has long been a household art in Donegal, and at Ardara, the home of this colleen, the Irish Industries Association fosters weaving and knitting in the cottages Many of Susan McNelis’ sweaters and golf hose find a market in the United States”.

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National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911

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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

... Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) assistant language teachers (ALTs) Eolann Davis [Dublin] and David Bolger [Kilkenny]. Our sincerest thanks go to Irene Morgan (Irish Quest) who coordinated/made this international exhibition happen 🇮🇪🇯🇵 (2/2)

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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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