Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 152
July 29, 2015
Colmcille’s Well
Originally posted on Ed Mooney Photography:
This place really brings back memories, as a kid I remember spending many summer days up at the Hell Fire Club up on Montpellier hill. It was a good hour and a half of a hike and we would spend the best part of the day there exploring the ruin and running around the forest. We would pack our bags with sweets crisps and drinks and off we would go. Now the trouble is that half way up we would have finished all our drinks. So we would always stop of...
July 28, 2015
Ireland’s Forgotten Famine Generation
Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:
The Great Famine is an event seared into Irish national memory. Although the victims of the Great Hunger are rightfully remembered and commemorated, as is the physical fact that vast numbers of people were forced to leave, Ireland today largely leaves the memory of these emigrants at the dock, as they boarded ships to a new life far from home. Preserving the memory and experiences of emigrants once they arrived in their new countries has...
Scalping, Big Braves & Butchery: An Irish Indian Fighter Writes Home to His Mother in Dublin
Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:
I recently came across the remarkable letters of Sergeant Thomas Mangan, which are here transcribed for the first time. The 22-year-old Dubliner was a recent emigrant from Ireland, who within a year of arriving in his new home found himself in the midst of the savage and brutal struggle for control of the Western Plains. Written from an isolated military post in Colorado Territory in 1866 and 1867, Thomas’s letters travelled over 4,000 mi...
Australian Icons: Max Dupain’s ‘Sunbaker’
Originally posted on A R T LR K:
On the 27th of July 1992, Australia’s most celebrated twentieth-century photographer Max Dupain died in Sydney, Australia. From 1924 – the year a Box Brownie camera was given to him by his uncle – right up to his very last days, he had taken hundreds of thousands of pictures capturing the daily life of Sydney. The city determined his whole life and career. “It’s all here,” he used to say. “Why do I need to go anywhere else?” Such pictures as Draughts in Belmo...
turning heads since 189 BC.
Originally posted on History Witch:
Chiomara was the wife of the Galatian Cheiftan, Orgiagon. Rome invaded (what would now be somewhere in Turkey) their land (as the Romans did) so the tribe rebelled causing the Galatian War of 189 BC.
During the war, Gnaeur Manlius Vulso (pig) beat down the Galatians and took a bunch ofhostages. One of which was described as “a woman of exceptional beauty”. This woman was Chiomara. Needless to say, she was raped, tortured and held for ransom. Even during t...
My own Holy Grail: Wagner’s great opera “Parsifal.”
Love this
Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:
One hundred and thirty-three years ago today, on July 26, 1882, the great operaParsifal by Richard Wagner premiered at the Bayreuth Festival in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany. The opera and its premiere represented the crowning achievement of Wagner’s creative life, and also its closing one: barely six months later the great composer was dead of a heart attack. I love opera, which may not seem strange to those of you who like heavy m...
26 July 1940: Italy Claims Malta’s Strategic Role is Over
Originally posted on Malta: War Diary:
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ITALIAN PROPAGANDA CLAIMS MALTA NEUTRALISED
Power Station hit today: brief interruption to power supply
The Stefani news agency of Italy has claimed that Malta “has lost for ever its efficiency for England”, Hinting that military installations on the Island have been destroyed by Italian bombing, the announcement a...
William Parsons: 18th Century highwayman, swindler and rogue
Originally posted on All Things Georgian:
When the sun of my life is in its zenith, and I should be expected to shine in meridian lustre, behold me, like a fair opening flower, blasted by a Southern wind. See me, in a shattered bark, ready to launch in a tempestuous Sea; no chart to guide, no compass for to steer my course by, but left to the rough waves and the howling winds, till that I sink beneath the dreadful storm. How shocking is the prospect! And was a dismal night-piece is here!
Th...
July 27, 2015
Struggling to be Neutral in a Tudor Squabble for the Protectorate
Originally posted on tudors & other histories:
“Because the trouble between us and the Duke of Somerset may have been diversely reported to you, we should explain how the matter is now come to some extremity. We have long perceived his pride and ambition and have failed to stay him within reasonable limits.” -October 9, 1549 to the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth.
Mary had been one of the many who had been asked to aid in Northumberland’s plot to overthrow the Protectorate under Somerset....
Regency Personalities Series-James St Clair-Erskine 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
Originally posted on The Things That Catch My Eye:
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
James St Clair-Erskine 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
6 February 1762 – 18 January 1837
James St Clair-Erskine
James St Clair-Erskine 2nd Earl of Rosslyn was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Erskine, 5th Baronet, and Janet, daughter of Peter Wedderburn (a Lord of Session under the judicial title of Lo...
