The society of friends in Irish history

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/how-the-quakers-changed-ireland-for-good-29450045.html

Two other facts, worth remembrance

Mulcachy's mother was a Quaker

Per Tim Pat Coogan's the IRA there was a half baked scheme for Dev and Craig to reunite under the leadership of an Irish American Quaker

Irish neutrality

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/extract-the-daily-problems-in-maintaining-irelands-neutrality-during-ww2-933123-Jul2013/

Irish nuclear war leaflet

http://imgur.com/gallery/Zp2JE/


Irish government pamphlet what to do in case of a Nuclear war

Actually the leaftlet is  interesting as a piece of social history. The booklet talks about first aid. Saying
that the untrained first aider, oft does more harm then good. YET if someone is
clearly dying, then you SHOULD act

Also for post Nuclear  war story writes. 

Lots of advice directed at farmers. For example per the leaflet potatoes are
more or less safe-The heart of a hayrick is safe. 

Also artifical  insemanation is common on Irish farms, at this time

Yola and Fingalian

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-yola-and-fingalian-%e2%80%93-the-forgotten-ancient-english-dialects-of-ireland-985649-Jul2013/

Apart from the interesting use of the adjective multicultural. This is the tongue that the Butlers and Ormonds would have spoken,What John de Courcey would have spoken to his falconer in

Memoir of the Easter Rising

A British chaplain's memoir of the Rising. I did not know that Asquith visited so soon afterward
It also adds fuel to the fire if Connolly was reconciled to the Church before he died, argument

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/lost-memoir-tells-how-james-connolly-returned-to-his-faith-before-execution-29297110.html

Though Connolly would not rejoice, about the story being carried by the Independent.-His foes in the Lockout

News on the Potato blight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22596561

This year has been a bad year for the Irish potato as it happens
Note the BBC, simply mentions people starving but neglects any historical context. Surely the poor policies of Brian XI King of Ireland are to blame

The Down Survey

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/index.html

Sir William's Petty mapped Ireland for the commonwealth.
It has been reconstructed.