Tag: Ireland
20 Posts
Ireland’s Alcatraz: Spike Island was once “Hell on Earth.”
David Lawlor’s The Best Streets in the World.
Historic Photo: Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland, about 1900.
Announcing “Second Decade” history podcast, Episode 3: The Last Frost Fair.
Metal for Friday: Riot “Liberty” [audio].
Interiors: Sean’s Bar, Athlone, Ireland, the oldest pub in Europe.
Earth: Wreck of the MV Plassey, Inisheer Island, Ireland.
Earth Tour: Three medieval battle sites in (less than) two minutes. [video]
The long reach of war: the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
Earth, Haunted Places, History
Earth: Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, where something tragic once happened.
Skuldelev 3: Viking merchant shipping in the 11th Century
The vanished emerald city: the Dublin of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”
An Gorta Mór (the Great Famine): the manmade environmental disaster that changed the world.
