Margaret Pearse requested the return of her sons' bodies (executed 3 & 4 May 1916) for burial. Gen Maxwell: These graves will be turned by Irish sentimentality into the shrines of martyrs & there will be a constant irritant in the country caused by annual procession etc. to them.

There's no-one like Jane, lads

The latest @ucdlibrary cultural heritage blog post by Orna Somerville, Archivist with UCD Archives provides a glimpse into the lives of a young couple during a period of separation before their marriage in the 1950s ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2024/05/02/let…… #love 💘

A beautiful blog post by UCD Archives University College Dublin to mark the release of love letters my parents wrote to each other in the year before their marriage in Harvard where my father was studying for his Masters

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The latest post on the UCD Library Cultural Heritage Blog is about a new collection which will soon be available in our reading room: UCDA P358 Letters of Brian Farrell and Marie-Thérèse Dillon. It is written by Orna Somerville, Archivist, UCDA.

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Against the advice of Frederick Boland, Dept of External Affairs, Eamon de Valera called on Dr Eduard Hempel, German Minister to Ireland, to offer condolences on Hitler’s death #OTD 1945. De Valera explains why he did so, in this letter to Robert Brennan, Irish Rep in the USA.

Our Document of the Month is online. William Wentworth Fitzwilliam to Henry Addington re the Folly Hall and Pentridge risings, 8-9 June 1817: “In no part of the Riding can I discover any symptom of conspiracy or revolutionary combinations”.

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Article on Norman invasion here facebook.com/TheIrishStory/…

Actor and UCD Architecture graduate Dan O'Herlihy was b. #OTD 1919. His papers are in UCDA. This photo is a still from Luis Buñuel’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe in which he played the title role and for which he was Oscar nominated for best actor in 1955. He lost to Marlon Brando.

#Vaccines  have been 🔑 to controlling major #bacterial diseases for >120 years - but early  #vaccine  testing could be controversial. This June, explore the history of  #typhoid  vaccine #innovation & #clinicaltrials in what was Dublin's Richmond District Lunatic Asylum…

Francis Sheehy Skeffington was killed #OTD 1916, following his earlier arrest but without a trial. General Maxwell to Lord Kitchener, below, attributes Sheehy-Skeffington's execution, and other less serious incidents, to the inexperience and ‘jumpiness’ of the British troops.

#PoetryDayIRL #OTD

Liam S. Gogán's thoughts on writing poetry: I wrote ... in Irish because I detested English. Beginning about 1914 I have no doubt that my first verses owe their birth to the fertilising spirit [of] Irish freedom that possessed us all at that time.

The Easter Rising began #OTD 1916. In the interview below, Liam Manahan recalls his involvement in the Rising to Ernie O'Malley. He refers to the confusion caused by MacNeill's countermanding order.

The Easter Rising began #OTD 1916. We hold fragments of an original proclamation which were ‘pasted on the wall of the G.P.O. Dublin. April 24th 1916.'

Mick O'Farrell digitally restored our fragments to their original place, and wrote about them here:
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I wonder if the 'absolutely reliable source' mentioned in this 'Secret' document was 'Granite' or 'Chalk' ?
In 1916, as the rebels prepared for rebellion, 2 spies were observing them, codenamed Granite & Chalk.
They've never been identified.
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The Easter Rising began #OTD 1916. Original countermanding order issued by Eoin MacNeill on Easter Sunday 1916 addressed to Eamon de Valera.