N16Breda Corish

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Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/ Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter

Nighttime photo of London terrace rooftops illuminated by a very bright moon
Photo of a Jersey Tiger Moth with diagonal black & white striped wings & a flash of red underneath
Statue of Isaac Watts in Stoke Newington's Abney Park Cemetery - in early summer
Photo of an archival box in Hackney Archives containing battered & water-damaged handwritten grave registers for Abney Park Cemetery, London N16
The same scrimshaw depicting Eliza O'Neill, now shown alongside a mezzotint which appears to be the image source
A piece of scrimshaw engraved with an image of a woman wearing a short-sleeved, high-waisted formal dress.
Screenshot from 'London Labour & the London Poor Vol.1' by Henry Mayhew, p. 110 in this edition https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.37797/page/106/mode/1up?q=irish Text reads "She also joined “the Association of the Blissed Lady,” (and bought herself the dress of the order “a beautiful grane vilvit, which she had now, and which same cost her 30s.”), and then she was secure against want in old age and sickness".
Photo of the front cover of "A Handy Book of Reference for Irishwomen"
Photo from the tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, showing Giles & Buffy in the library of Sunnydale High School
Photo of document bundle E/GOR/51-55 in the Gort family papers held at the London Archives
Photo of E/GOR/248-252 document bundle in the London Archives
Part of the front page of The Limerick Chronicle, 24 Oct 1846 showing a large ad for James Rowand's wine merchant business at William Street, Limerick city. Source: British Newspaper Archive
Photo of document bundle E/GOR/248-252 at the London Archives
Photo of the exterior of the Round Chapel in Clapton. A Hackney History Festival banner on the railings
Advertising board outside the Philip Mould Gallery showing Elizabeth I as a new queen
Short video of the advertising for the Elizabeth I portrait exhibition outside the Philip Mould Gallery, 18-19 Pall Mall, London SW1
Photo looking up at the antlers of the Irish Elk skeleton inside the Market Hall Museum, Warwick
Photo of the book "The Story of Us"
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 of the exterior of 'The Kingsland' pub, (no longer there) in Dalston, London E8 showing "Céad Míle Fáilte" on the sign
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
A juvenile cormorant sunbathes on a pipe in Hackney Marshes
Screenshot of the map of Removals created by digital historian Sharon Howard https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdrv-pauper-removals-map.html
A notice prohibiting Londoners gathering, issued during the time of the 1780 Gordon Riots
Brochure for the exhibition 'Londoners on Trial: Crime, courts and the public 1244-1924'
Photograph of the gravestone in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey for Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab https://www.dib.ie/biography/odwyer-sir-michael-francis-a6732
Photo taken inside gallery screening room showing a film still - a ballet dancer in a white tutu stands on pointe beside a pyre of burning books
Me looking askance at a white marble bust of Oliver Cromwell
A page of the Decrmber 1848 burial records for the Anglican Church of St Mary Matfelon. The entry for Patrick Sheen is highlighted in green at the bottom of the page
The edge of St Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery on a very hot summer's day. A Central Line tube train passes on the other side of a wire fence
A stained glass representation of St Patrick in The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree 86 Leadenhall St, London EC3A 3BP
Samples of Old Irish (Cló Gaelach) type - Pica Irish, Small Pica Irish No.2, Long Pimer Irish, Small Pica Irish (Moxon's) - from the records of the typefoundry business owned by Sir Charles Reed, Hackney's first MP.
Photo of the ceiling of Barnard's Hall
Photo taken in the archway of the Barts North Wing, with The Square visible behind a sign for Barts Hospital Museum
Photo of one page of Sarah Cecilia Harrison's letter with the reference to Sylvia Pankhurst’s "Irish girl" highlighted Source: https://auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lot/fe1eb361487e60992a95d08e3aa866ea/8a390ef7ce02b4a94fa666f3e767067e/books-ephemera-sale-lot-5268/
Screenshot 1 of letter transcript available at https://auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lot/fe1eb361487e60992a95d08e3aa866ea/8a390ef7ce02b4a94fa666f3e767067e/books-ephemera-sale-lot-5268/
Screenshot of paragraph from "Maria Edgeworth, letters from England 1813-1844" by Christina Colvin Source: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/mariaedgeworthle0000chri/page/119/mode/1up?q=stoke+newington
Screenshot of a paragraph from "Gale force 10 : the life and legacy of Admiral Beaufort" by Nicholas Courtney, describing the 1834 burial of Alicia Beaufort nee Wilson in St John-at-Hackney. Source: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/galeforce10lifel0000cour_n1e8/page/289/mode/1up?q=hackney
B/W photo of the memorial tablet to Frances Maria Wilson nèe Edgeworth which was erected in St John's Church, Edgeworthstown, Co. Ireland. It states "Her remains were deposited in the vault of her maternal uncle Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort KCB at Hackney in Middlesex"
Picture of Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort from the Maria Edgeworth Centre in Co. Longford, Ireland
Photograph of the exterior of the Maria Edgeworth Centre in Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, Ireland
Photo of a hand holding a mermaid's purse egg case, some shells & stones on a stony part of Grattan Beach, Galway
Photo of the Mutton Light Famine Memorial
Photo taken on Grattan Beach, Galway with Celia Griffin Memorial Park in the distance
Title page of the 1843 score & libretto for "The Bohemian Girl", by the Irish 19th-century composer Michael William Balfe
Nighttime photo of the exterior of Wilton's Music Hall, an original 18th century music hall building in London E1
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