For some #IrishLondonHistory ☘️, check out Bram Stoker's research for Dracula in the London Library
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/dracula

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Sharing much appreciated @oispooky.bsky.social 😍

GRMA @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social 💚

Go raibh maith agat [thank you] ☘️ @oneplacestudies.bsky.social for sharing 💚

Buy tickets – The Reed Celtic Cross: One thousand years of Ireland's history in Abney Park Cemetery – Sutton House The Reed Celtic Cross: One thousand years of Ireland's history in Abney Park Cemetery – Sutton House, Sun 10 May 2026 - Entering Abney Park Cemetery from Stoke Newington Church Street, one of the most...

The majestic Celtic Cross in Abney Park Cemetery & Hackney's Reed family create a web which connects Early Christian Ireland with the Cromwellian Conquest, Ulster Plantation, Gaeilge printing in London & much more! ☘️
Tix only £3 - Sun 10 May at Sutton House. /2
www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...

Photo of a page of The Irish Post newspaper. Read my article here https://www.irishpost.com/features/1000-years-of-irelands-history-in-a-london-cemetery-307401

Photo taken (by me) on a sunny day of the Reed Celtic Cross in Abney Park Cemetery, London N16

For a preview of my upcoming #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ talk at the 2026 @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social - "One Thousand Years of Ireland's History in Abney Park Cemetery" - check out this week's issue of The Irish Post 💚 /1
www.irishpost.com/features/100...

Monumental Mayhem | The Monument The Monument to the Great Fire of London was one of the battlegrounds of the Women’s Social Political Union (WSPO), better known as the Women’s Suffrage Movement, headed by the formidable Emmeline Pan...

#OnThisDay in London monumental herstory, 1913: Ethel Spark & Gertrude Shaw climb 311 steps up The Monument, haul down the City of London flag & hoist the suffragette flag, & scatter hundreds of Votes For Women leaflets over the crowd below.
www.themonument.org.uk/history/disc...

#Spéirghorm

Peter McLagan (1823-1900): Scotland’s first Black MP This is the first article in a new series for the Victorian Commons on Peter McLagan (1823-1900), by Dr Martin Spychal, Senior Research Fellow on our House of Commons 1832-1868 project. McLagan was…

Later this month we will have a new article from @martinspychal.bsky.social as part of his series on Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP. Here's a reminder of Martin's first article on McLagan and the process of researching his background: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/p...

Photo of the exterior of 'The Kingsland' pub, (no longer there) in Dalston, London E8 showing "Céad Míle Fáilte" on the sign

Title page of the New Testament which was printed in London in 1681 using an Old Irish Cló Gaelach typeface, which was financed by the Anglo-Irish scientist Robert Boyle.

James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde. Image © National Portrait Gallery, London. The 17th century head of Kilkenny's great Anglo-Norman Butler dynasty and 4 times Lord Deputy of Ireland for Charles I and Charles II. He learned Irish as a teenager in the 1620s while living on Drury Lane near Covent Garden.

Depiction of the Irish poor of St. Giles-in-the-Fields in an 1875 history of the London City Mission "Round the Tower". Protestant missionaries used preaching in Irish as a core part of their evangelical strategy to convert London's Catholic Irish poor.

Seeing #SnaG26 #SeachtainNaGaeilge posts prompted me to look back through my #IrishLondonHistory☘️ research for evidence of Irish being spoken in London's past.
#Spéirghorm feedback on this 1605-1896 timeline of what I've found so far would be very welcome 💚
www.irishlondonhistory.com/post/finding...

Republic of Ireland Football Squad – ‘Put ‘Em Under Pressure’ 31 May 1990 The first of those ’90s monsters: the event single that stays at number one for months on end. ‘Put ‘Em Under Pressure’ topped the Irish charts for a then-record…

RIP Moya Brennan. Clannad never had a chart-topping single in Ireland, but her voice kicks off one of our most iconic number ones: irishnumberones.com/2022/04/27/r...

Many years ago, quizzing my mother & aunt about the lives of their father (sec of local branch of Sinn Féin) & mother (member of Cumann na mBan) in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick. They recalled hearing about the *scandal* in town when one of the locals marched through the streets waving a red flag 🚩

Photo of the exterior of 'The Kingsland' pub, (no longer there) in Dalston, London E8 showing "Céad Míle Fáilte" on the sign

Title page of the New Testament which was printed in London in 1681 using an Old Irish Cló Gaelach typeface, which was financed by the Anglo-Irish scientist Robert Boyle.

James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde. Image © National Portrait Gallery, London. The 17th century head of Kilkenny's great Anglo-Norman Butler dynasty and 4 times Lord Deputy of Ireland for Charles I and Charles II. He learned Irish as a teenager in the 1620s while living on Drury Lane near Covent Garden.

Depiction of the Irish poor of St. Giles-in-the-Fields in an 1875 history of the London City Mission "Round the Tower". Protestant missionaries used preaching in Irish as a core part of their evangelical strategy to convert London's Catholic Irish poor.

Seeing #SnaG26 #SeachtainNaGaeilge posts prompted me to look back through my #IrishLondonHistory☘️ research for evidence of Irish being spoken in London's past.
#Spéirghorm feedback on this 1605-1896 timeline of what I've found so far would be very welcome 💚
www.irishlondonhistory.com/post/finding...

Now that's a blast from the past!

Painting of a sitting white woman wearing a warn shawl in an interior with hands together

The Rosary (c.1912) by Irish artist Grace Henry #womensart

GRMA @queen-crafty.bsky.social for sharing 💚

GRMA @siobhandowling.bsky.social for sharing 💚

GRMA Ian. I've found this so far - which seems a possibility?
bsky.app/profile/n16b...

Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): suarachán Everything about 'suarachán' in the Ó Dónaill Irish-English Dictionary

Could 'sarragchows' perhaps be a corruption of this?

Suarachán, m. (gs. & npl. -áin, gpl. ~). Petty, insignificant, person; mean, contemptible, person.
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/suara...

Screenshot of a few lines from 'Round the tower; or the story of the London City Mission' (1875) by John Matthias Weylland. Text reads: "In one of the rookeries the missionary had been badly treated, and whenever he entered the cry of Sassenach sarragchows (Protestant wretch) was raised, and effective visiting became impossible". Source: https://archive.org/details/MN41578ucmf_4/page/n185/mode/2up?q=irish

Could any #Spéirghorm #Gaeilge linguists help with this phrase "Sassenach sarragchows (Protestant wretch)"?
Said by the 19th century Irish in the Rookery of St Giles about members of the London City Mission.
I know that 'Sassenach' was a synonym for Protestant and English - but what's 'sarragchows'?

Have you seen the Hollywood treatment of Parnell & Katherine O'Shea's story? Hypnotic in a car crash kind of way 😵‍💫
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A juvenile cormorant sunbathes on a pipe in Hackney Marshes

Leyton Jubilee Park in bloom

The Reed beds in Hackney Marshes

A fine day on Hackney Marshes today, w a sidebar visit to Leyton Jubilee Park 💚

Advertisement in the Dublin Gazette of 9 February 1754 for: A voyage to the moon: with some account of the solar world. A comical romance. Done from the French of M. Cyrano de Bergerac. By Mr. Derrick. The book was available from Richard James at the Newton's Head, Dame Street, Dublin.

Title page of : A voyage to the moon: with some account of the solar world. A comical romance. Done from the French of M. Cyrano de Bergerac. By Mr. Derrick. 1754 On Archive.org https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-voyage-to-the-moon-wi_cyrano-de-bergerac_1754

#ArtemisII
Feb. 1754, available at Newton's Head, Dame Street, Dublin: 'A Voyage to the Moon' by C. de Bergerac (trans. Mr Derrick)🌝🌔
incl. a connection with Gulliver's Travels!
👉 www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/DGZ-175...

👀 More www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...
@ollopa11.bsky.social @dias.ie

Love this! As we say in Irish 'go hiontach ar fad' - really wonderful

For more on the Pauper Removals process in #IrishLondonHistory ☘️, check out this analysis of the parish of St Clement Danes!
You can drill into the detail of 43 people removed back to Ireland during the 18th century.

You see the darnedest things on the tube.

Great story here of guerilla #SheelaNaGig art activism in leafy Sussex 💚

Thanks for sharing @djrgrey.bsky.social - if you haven't seen it already, it's a great exhibition. So many perspectives on crime & policing in London life over the centuries.

A notice prohibiting Londoners gathering, issued during the time of the 1780 Gordon Riots

Image of the mob attacking Newgate Prison during the 1780 Gordon Riots

Photo of the display about the imprisonment of Irish author, poet & playwright Oscar Wilde

Closeup of the entry for Oscar Wilde in the 1895 Wandsworth Prison Register

Not mentioned in the display, Irish Whitechapel was one of the areas attacked by the mob during the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780.
And one of the most poignant exhibits is the entry in the 1895 Wandsworth Prison register of inmates for Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Mills Wilde /2
#IrishLondonHistory☘️