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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 22h

#31DaysofGraves Day 8: Glass
On the old quarantine station of Grosse Île in Quebec's St Lawrence River, glass panels in the Irish Cemetery memorialise 5000+ Famine migrants from Ireland who died here during the terrible summer of 1847.
Many names are listed, others are "Unknown but not forgotten".

Photograph of part of the Irish Memorial on Grosse Île. Glass panels are inscribed with the names of those known to have died here in 1847 & who are buried in the field seen through the glass.
Anonymous deaths here from 1847 are described as "Unknown but not forgotten, your identity not yet surrendered from the past"
Artwork designed jointly by the artist Lucienne Cornet & architects France Laberge and César Herrera of the Émile Gilbert et associés architectural firm
https://www.luciennecornet-art.com/project/memorial-irlandais/

Photograph of part of the Irish Memorial on Grosse Île. Glass panels are inscribed with the names of those known to be buried in the field seen through the glass.

Photograph of the Parks Canada sign saying (in English & French) "Grosse Île & the Irish Memorial - National Historic Site of Canada"

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 14h

'The Port of London' (1920-24) by William Patrick Roberts

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 17h

Autumn colours in Abney Park Cemetery today 🍂🍃🍂

Enhanced colour photograph of two tall grave memorials covered in green & red Virgina creeper. Seen in Abney Park Cemetery, London N16 this morning.

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 17h

I can't be the only person incapable of looking at this footage without hearing Del Boy say "brace yourself Rodney"

Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 18h

St Patrick’s Hall in Dublin Castle is getting ready to welcome Ireland’s 10th President this November!
Go behind the scenes as chandeliers, some with over 500 pieces of crystal, are carefully lowered, cleaned, polished, & winched back into place. This painstaking process takes 2 weeks to complete!

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 22h

#31DaysofGraves Day 8: Glass
On the old quarantine station of Grosse Île in Quebec's St Lawrence River, glass panels in the Irish Cemetery memorialise 5000+ Famine migrants from Ireland who died here during the terrible summer of 1847.
Many names are listed, others are "Unknown but not forgotten".

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 23h

Something beautiful to start the day - L'abbé Agathon · Maria Listra · Tallinn Chamber Orchestra · Tõnu Kaljuste · Arvo Pärt
youtu.be/61iSKvuj-iU?...

L'abbé Agathon

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 23h

What an evening at the Barbican last night 😍 A celebration of 90 years of Arvo Pärt with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & a truly breathtaking performance by soprano Maria Listra

Photograph of the stage at the Barbican showing Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & conductor Tõnu Kaljuste at the end of their performance
https://www.barbican.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2025-10/Estonian%20PCC%20Pa%CC%88rt%20for%20web.pdf

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Ruhrlaubszeit @ruhrlaubszeit.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves Tag 7: Engel / Angel. Vermutlich auf dem Melatenfriedhof von Köln.

Grün patinierte Bronzefigur eines trauernden Engels, der auf einem Kreuz sitzt, umgeben von dichtem Farnwuchs.

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysofGraves Day 7: Angel
A few of the Angels of Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London N16 - too many pictures to choose from!

B/W photograph of an angel in front of a cross. In Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington London N16

Colour photograph of an angel covered with snow against a blue sky. In Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington London N16

Colour photograph of a white marble angel in front of a cross & surrounded by green foliage. In Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington London N16

Colour photograph of two angel monuments & trees in autumn colours on the main avenue in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington London N16

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Martine - much appreciated 💚

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly where I was just looking! I spent some time poking around the LBS database during my Public History studies at UCL but clearly time to take a more systematic look

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 1d

It certainly shakes up reductive narratives that paint we Irish as the ever oppressed 'good guys'.
I'm imagining now what a powerful addition your work would be to Cork Univ Press' "Atlas of..." series.

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 1d

Really impressive work Martine. It makes me think that this is a dimension I've overlooked in my explorations to date of #IrishLondonHistory

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 1d

There's something very powerful & disturbing about looking at familiar placenames in Ireland when they're connected with the names of Irish people who has legal ownership of enslaved people.
An important part of Ireland's complicated history that rightly challenges simplistic narratives.

Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 2d

#Slavery was a family business. Uncovering a network of familial relationships between #Irishslaveholders in South Carolina. tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep #speirgorm

Irish slaveholders, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania 1670-1865 - Google My Maps

Database (incomplete) created by Martine Brennan, Ireland. Star icon: names of enslaved people attached. Green tags: known or reputed county of birth in Ireland. Blue tags: unknown place of birth in ...

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh! During my time as a volunteer in Barts Hospital Museum, I got to see the Hogarth Staircase & Great Hall regularly. A wonderful spectacle if you've never visited before 😍
Now open to the public every Monday & Tuesday 10am-4pm, plus the first Sunday of every month, 10am-4pm

ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 1d

After several years of careful restoration, one of the City of London’s grandest historic interiors has opened for regular public visits.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bar...

Bart's nearly 300 year old Great Hall opens to the public for free visits

After several years of careful restoration, one of the City of London’s grandest historic interiors has opened for regular public visits.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 2d

Yep.

N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysofGraves Day 6: Gender
"A tender Mother, Sister, Friend & Wife
Such was KENMARE, her Sex's Boast & Pride
She lived respected & lamented died"
The tomb of Mary (d. 1806), the Catholic Countess of Kenmare in Ireland, inside the church of St.Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2 #IrishLondonHistory ☘️

Photo of the wall memorial to Ireland's Mary, Countess of Kenmare (d. 1806), buried inside the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2

Memorial text reads:
"This monument records the honoured Name
Of one who had Titles, Wealth & Fame
A Woman blest with every pleasing Art
A Mind exalted and a feeling Heart
A constant Advocate in Virtue's cause
She loved her Precepts & obeyed her Laws!"

Memorial text part 2 reads:
"The Widow's comfort & the Orphan's friend
To all she sought her Bounty to extend
Formed to adorn the foremost ranks of Life
A tender Mother, Sister, Friend & Wife
Such was KENMARE, her Sex's Boast & Pride
She lived respected & lamented died"

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 2d

TIL there's a Limerick-Antarctica connection, via the Irish peer Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, Viscount Adare, 3rd Earl of Dunraven & a key contributor to the foundation of Irish archaeological studies
www.dib.ie/biography/qu...

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly where we were planning to visit... 😭 It was meeting some Newfoundlanders on a visit to Toronto friends years back that spurred my interest - the accent sounded sooooo familiar!
Described on Irish radio a few years ago by Irish folklorist Michael Fortune
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Newfoundland Irish Accent

Folklorist Michael Fortune chats to Ryan about a new study which found that the most Irish people living outside of Ireland live in Newfoundland, hence the Newfoundland "Irish" accent.

www.rte.ie

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

In 2020, I was just about to book flights to Newfoundland to fulfill a longhead wish to explore its Irish migrant history - then Covid struck. Bridget Delaney's headstone from #31DaysofGraves makes me really want to get there!
Check out this 1981 Irish tv documentary ☘️
www.rte.ie/archives/exh...

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

We had the same inspiration for Day 5 😍
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysofGraves Day 5: Bird
"I am the swift uplifting rush of birds in circled flight
Remembering Dr Barnardo's children laid here to rest"
- Tower Hamlets Cemetery, London E3
513 East End children were buried here 1876-1924 by the children's homes charity founded in 1870s by Dr Thomas Barnardo 1/2

Photograph of the memorial "Sparrow" erected in Tower Hamlets Cemetery in 2016, on the site of the unmarked graves of children in the care of Dr Barnardo's & 3 of the children of the charity’s founder Dr Thomas Barnardo.
The memorial shows two hands supporting a Sparrow bird.
https://tomjnicholls.com/barnardos-memorial-sculpture

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wow. Definitely Dublin's O'Connell St this time! Was it taken from the top of Nelson's Pillar?

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

Morning Cerys, you might enjoy the Welsh-language posts for yesterday's #31DaysofGraves Day 4: Language
bsky.app/profile/n16b...

N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 4d

Another Welsh example for you - seen in Kinlough Old Graveyard, Leitrim #31DaysofGraves
3 crew members from the schooner Idwal "at Mullaghmore, loaded with sawn timber for Liverpool, but driven out by swell & wrecked near Tullaghan 24 Jan 1868, 3 drowned, 1 saved"
www.liverpool.ac.uk/~cmi/books/e...

Photograph of a slate headstone in the Old Graveyard of Kinlough, Co. Leitrim. Decorated with what appears to be the Welsh emblem of the leek, the inscription reads ""Sacred to the memory of Thomas Jones, aged 61 years, Master of the schooner Idwal of Bangor, who, with his nephew Thomas Jones, aged 22 years, son of John Jones of Tynrhos Farm, Parish of Llanwenllwyfo (Anglesey) lost their lives in the wreck of the above named vessel at Red Brae on the night of the 25th January 1868."
Followed by two lines of Biblical scripture (Matthew?) in the Welsh language

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

And part 2 of Day 5 #31DaysofGraves - now connected in the right order
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysofGraves Day 5: Bird
Dublin-born Dr Thomas Barnardo (1845-1905) dedicated his life to education & shelter for poor East End children known as 'Cockney Sparras'. You can learn more about them in the Ragged School Museum in Mile End 2/2
#IrishLondonHistory☘️
raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk/history/

Examples of photographs of poor East End children taken by Dr Barnardo. On display in the Ragged School Museum, Mile End
https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-doctor-the-photographs-amp

Photograph of Dr Thomas Barnardo alongside a printed sheet listing branches of the East End Juvenile Mission in Stepney, London.
On display in the Ragged School Museum, Mile End.

Photo of the exterior of the Ragged School Museum, Copperfield Road, London E3. This was the building where Dr Barnardo opened a free "ragged school" in 1877
https://raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk/history/

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure what's going on with Bluesky threading 🙄
Reposting Day 5 to follow on from Day 4 of #31DaysofGraves
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysofGraves Day 5: Bird
"I am the swift uplifting rush of birds in circled flight
Remembering Dr Barnardo's children laid here to rest"
- Tower Hamlets Cemetery, London E3
513 East End children were buried here 1876-1924 by the children's homes charity founded in 1870s by Dr Thomas Barnardo 1/2

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