📖 Ancient Restoration
Balor Of The Evil Eye was the Irish mythical king of the Formorians. He was a giant with one large eye in the middle of his forehead, when opened the eye wreaks destruction. He ruled all Ireland from his foreboding glass tower at Dún Bhaloir, Tory Island.
Akin to the Nazgul, Irish deathbringer fairy (fae) Dullahan is associated with Halloween:
“We ride the horses of Donn. Although we are alive, we are dead”
“We ride the horses of Donn. Although we are alive, we are dead”
Medieval Irish sympathy for Caesar:
"Marbsat Romain in rig rain
ina nglordail cen glanbaig;
tucsat i n-échtaib a alt,
tria cheithre créchtaib tríchat."
The Romans killed that splendid king
in their glorious assembly without a clean contest...
by means of thirty-four wounds.
Source: P. Mac Gabhann, 'Flann Mainistrech’s Flaithius Rómán ríge glonn ‘The sovereignty of the Romans was a kingship of feats of prowess’. '
In 'Classical antiquity and medieval Ireland' (2024)
"Marbsat Romain in rig rain
ina nglordail cen glanbaig;
tucsat i n-échtaib a alt,
tria cheithre créchtaib tríchat."
The Romans killed that splendid king
in their glorious assembly without a clean contest...
by means of thirty-four wounds.
Source: P. Mac Gabhann, 'Flann Mainistrech’s Flaithius Rómán ríge glonn ‘The sovereignty of the Romans was a kingship of feats of prowess’. '
In 'Classical antiquity and medieval Ireland' (2024)
An eviction scene in County Clare, 30 July 1888
An eviction party at the house of John Flanagan in Tullycrine, led by Sheriff Turner and DI Hill. The doors, the windows and the furniture had been removed in advance of the Sheriff’s arrival. One of the girls told the group, ‘Battles were won abroad by smaller forces than Balfour sends here to turn out old men and children.’
As well as soldiers from the Royal Berkshire Regiment, there are many onlookers in this photograph. The contents of the house can be seen behind the horse just to the right of the house. It is assumed that it is Mrs Flanagan who is greeting the eviction party at the entrance to the house.
Photograph by Timothy O’Connor
An eviction party at the house of John Flanagan in Tullycrine, led by Sheriff Turner and DI Hill. The doors, the windows and the furniture had been removed in advance of the Sheriff’s arrival. One of the girls told the group, ‘Battles were won abroad by smaller forces than Balfour sends here to turn out old men and children.’
As well as soldiers from the Royal Berkshire Regiment, there are many onlookers in this photograph. The contents of the house can be seen behind the horse just to the right of the house. It is assumed that it is Mrs Flanagan who is greeting the eviction party at the entrance to the house.
Photograph by Timothy O’Connor