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New exhibition: Ireland and the Birth of Europe
Ireland and the Birth of Europe, an exhibition I co-curated for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs with Dr Damian Bracken of University College Cork, was launched by Tánaiste Micheál Martin TD in Cork on 28 April. The exhibition is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs cultural programme to mark fifty years of Ireland’s…
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John Lee’s Walking Tour of England and Wales, August 1806
See John Lee’s biography here. On 31 July 1806, 21-year-old John Fiott (later known as John Lee) set out on a seven-month walking tour of England, Wales, and Ireland. He walked almost every day and kept a detailed diary of the things he saw and the people he met. Those diaries, totalling over 540 manuscript pages,…