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#Mythology | #Esoterica | #Ireland | Classic #Scifi. Tweeting about what I've learned along the way. Theology grad @StPatsMaynooth

Dec 1, 2016, 7 tweets

Farmers stack hay on their farm in County #Cork - 1927.

A family stands outside their cottage in county #Cork, Ireland, 1927.

Two fishermen take a break in Spidéal, #Galway, 1913.

The boy is dressed in a skirt; a common safeguard against the fairy-kind.

A young girl knits a colourful woolen garment in Ardara, Co #Donegal, 1927.

A pair of girls collect turf for the fire - June, 1963, #Ireland.

A way of life that existed for hundreds of years but has now vanished.

"Irish children with their pony 'Gypsy' in Clondalkin, #Dublin - a metropolis where cars still dodge horse-drawn carts hauling vegetables to market."

- National Geographic, 1994

Street parties in #Dublin. Now extinct!

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