Mick O'Farrell
@mof1916.bsky.social
Amateur historian, 1916 author.
Keeper of world’s largest private collection of Easter Rising-related publications.
#MOF1916
Got any rare 1916 publications?
Keeper of world’s largest private collection of Easter Rising-related publications.
#MOF1916
Got any rare 1916 publications?
Talk with us about history, or ...
Listen to us talking about history !
The next meeting of our Casual Historians is happening this Thursday, 6 November - 8pm, The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Come along and chat history with us -
Spread the word!
Newbies always welcome. 🙂
Listen to us talking about history !
The next meeting of our Casual Historians is happening this Thursday, 6 November - 8pm, The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Come along and chat history with us -
Spread the word!
Newbies always welcome. 🙂
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Talk with us about history, or ...
Listen to us talking about history !
The next meeting of our Casual Historians is happening this Thursday, 6 November - 8pm, The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Come along and chat history with us -
Spread the word!
Newbies always welcome. 🙂
Listen to us talking about history !
The next meeting of our Casual Historians is happening this Thursday, 6 November - 8pm, The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Come along and chat history with us -
Spread the word!
Newbies always welcome. 🙂
In a 1940 edition of a French magazine, "La Semaine", General Maxwell is referred to as
"The Leader of the Black & Tans"...
(Le Bourreau = The Executioner)
"The Leader of the Black & Tans"...
(Le Bourreau = The Executioner)
October 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In a 1940 edition of a French magazine, "La Semaine", General Maxwell is referred to as
"The Leader of the Black & Tans"...
(Le Bourreau = The Executioner)
"The Leader of the Black & Tans"...
(Le Bourreau = The Executioner)
History can't talk by itself ...
So come along next Thursday and talk for it !
The 33rd meet-up of the Casual Historians will happen on Thursday 2 October, 8pm in The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
We're super casual, so come along and say hello.
Cheers!
So come along next Thursday and talk for it !
The 33rd meet-up of the Casual Historians will happen on Thursday 2 October, 8pm in The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
We're super casual, so come along and say hello.
Cheers!
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
History can't talk by itself ...
So come along next Thursday and talk for it !
The 33rd meet-up of the Casual Historians will happen on Thursday 2 October, 8pm in The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
We're super casual, so come along and say hello.
Cheers!
So come along next Thursday and talk for it !
The 33rd meet-up of the Casual Historians will happen on Thursday 2 October, 8pm in The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
We're super casual, so come along and say hello.
Cheers!
Sorry, but I laughed...
The "CGPO" pin from Deadly Pins.
"The GPO + C3PO = CGPO
Dublin’s iconic Post Office combined with the galaxy’s campest robot to create this pin."
(deadly.ie I haven't a clue who they are & I don't think they're on twitter.)
@gpowithistory
The "CGPO" pin from Deadly Pins.
"The GPO + C3PO = CGPO
Dublin’s iconic Post Office combined with the galaxy’s campest robot to create this pin."
(deadly.ie I haven't a clue who they are & I don't think they're on twitter.)
@gpowithistory
September 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Sorry, but I laughed...
The "CGPO" pin from Deadly Pins.
"The GPO + C3PO = CGPO
Dublin’s iconic Post Office combined with the galaxy’s campest robot to create this pin."
(deadly.ie I haven't a clue who they are & I don't think they're on twitter.)
@gpowithistory
The "CGPO" pin from Deadly Pins.
"The GPO + C3PO = CGPO
Dublin’s iconic Post Office combined with the galaxy’s campest robot to create this pin."
(deadly.ie I haven't a clue who they are & I don't think they're on twitter.)
@gpowithistory
The Casual Historians group are a little away from announcing the "1st Conference of Casual Historians".
But we are looking forward to our "33rd Monthly Get Together to Chat History" meet-up in The Oval Bar on Thursday, 2 October, at 8pm.
No registration necessary - come along!
But we are looking forward to our "33rd Monthly Get Together to Chat History" meet-up in The Oval Bar on Thursday, 2 October, at 8pm.
No registration necessary - come along!
September 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Casual Historians group are a little away from announcing the "1st Conference of Casual Historians".
But we are looking forward to our "33rd Monthly Get Together to Chat History" meet-up in The Oval Bar on Thursday, 2 October, at 8pm.
No registration necessary - come along!
But we are looking forward to our "33rd Monthly Get Together to Chat History" meet-up in The Oval Bar on Thursday, 2 October, at 8pm.
No registration necessary - come along!
Meet Mrs Agnes Newman, sister of Roger Casement.
This photo was taken after she arrived in the US, & published in the "Chicago American" newspaper on 3 August, 1916, under the heading "Mourns Brother".
Casement's last letter to his sister was dated 25 July, just 9 days earlier.
This photo was taken after she arrived in the US, & published in the "Chicago American" newspaper on 3 August, 1916, under the heading "Mourns Brother".
Casement's last letter to his sister was dated 25 July, just 9 days earlier.
August 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Meet Mrs Agnes Newman, sister of Roger Casement.
This photo was taken after she arrived in the US, & published in the "Chicago American" newspaper on 3 August, 1916, under the heading "Mourns Brother".
Casement's last letter to his sister was dated 25 July, just 9 days earlier.
This photo was taken after she arrived in the US, & published in the "Chicago American" newspaper on 3 August, 1916, under the heading "Mourns Brother".
Casement's last letter to his sister was dated 25 July, just 9 days earlier.
Visited the Capt Noel Lemass Memorial recently, as the sun was setting. (Noel was the brother of future taoiseach Sean Lemass.)
Very calm, quiet, beautiful location.
But at the same time, a brutal, desolate, lonely place to be dumped after being murdered…
Very calm, quiet, beautiful location.
But at the same time, a brutal, desolate, lonely place to be dumped after being murdered…
July 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Visited the Capt Noel Lemass Memorial recently, as the sun was setting. (Noel was the brother of future taoiseach Sean Lemass.)
Very calm, quiet, beautiful location.
But at the same time, a brutal, desolate, lonely place to be dumped after being murdered…
Very calm, quiet, beautiful location.
But at the same time, a brutal, desolate, lonely place to be dumped after being murdered…
Rebel execution, 1916
A propaganda drawing from "Das Interessante Blatt", an Austrian magazine from May 1916.
It's supposed to show the execution of a rebel leader from the Easter Rising, but almost everything about it is wrong...
(Featured on Century Ireland.)
A propaganda drawing from "Das Interessante Blatt", an Austrian magazine from May 1916.
It's supposed to show the execution of a rebel leader from the Easter Rising, but almost everything about it is wrong...
(Featured on Century Ireland.)
June 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Rebel execution, 1916
A propaganda drawing from "Das Interessante Blatt", an Austrian magazine from May 1916.
It's supposed to show the execution of a rebel leader from the Easter Rising, but almost everything about it is wrong...
(Featured on Century Ireland.)
A propaganda drawing from "Das Interessante Blatt", an Austrian magazine from May 1916.
It's supposed to show the execution of a rebel leader from the Easter Rising, but almost everything about it is wrong...
(Featured on Century Ireland.)
1910 letter from "The General's House, Cairo" -
in which Sir JG Maxwell offers to pay for the engraving of the Duke of Connaught's Cup, if Major John Ponsonby's Mess won it "at the last Rifle meeting".
(Maxwell commanded the British troops during the 1916 Easter Rising.)
in which Sir JG Maxwell offers to pay for the engraving of the Duke of Connaught's Cup, if Major John Ponsonby's Mess won it "at the last Rifle meeting".
(Maxwell commanded the British troops during the 1916 Easter Rising.)
May 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
1910 letter from "The General's House, Cairo" -
in which Sir JG Maxwell offers to pay for the engraving of the Duke of Connaught's Cup, if Major John Ponsonby's Mess won it "at the last Rifle meeting".
(Maxwell commanded the British troops during the 1916 Easter Rising.)
in which Sir JG Maxwell offers to pay for the engraving of the Duke of Connaught's Cup, if Major John Ponsonby's Mess won it "at the last Rifle meeting".
(Maxwell commanded the British troops during the 1916 Easter Rising.)
A life-saving Field Pocket Book...
This belonged to Captain Annan Dickson, who was fighting with the Sherwood Foresters against the rebels in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising.
A bullet aimed at Dickson struck his Field Pocket Book & stayed there.
(Imperial War Museum)
This belonged to Captain Annan Dickson, who was fighting with the Sherwood Foresters against the rebels in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising.
A bullet aimed at Dickson struck his Field Pocket Book & stayed there.
(Imperial War Museum)
May 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A life-saving Field Pocket Book...
This belonged to Captain Annan Dickson, who was fighting with the Sherwood Foresters against the rebels in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising.
A bullet aimed at Dickson struck his Field Pocket Book & stayed there.
(Imperial War Museum)
This belonged to Captain Annan Dickson, who was fighting with the Sherwood Foresters against the rebels in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising.
A bullet aimed at Dickson struck his Field Pocket Book & stayed there.
(Imperial War Museum)
Mayday! - Mayday!
The next Casual Historians meet-up is on May Day, Thursday 1 May, 8pm.
Come along and talk history with people who love history ... but are casual about it.
🙂
Every first Thursday at The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Old and new Casual Historians welcome!
📚
The next Casual Historians meet-up is on May Day, Thursday 1 May, 8pm.
Come along and talk history with people who love history ... but are casual about it.
🙂
Every first Thursday at The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Old and new Casual Historians welcome!
📚
April 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Mayday! - Mayday!
The next Casual Historians meet-up is on May Day, Thursday 1 May, 8pm.
Come along and talk history with people who love history ... but are casual about it.
🙂
Every first Thursday at The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Old and new Casual Historians welcome!
📚
The next Casual Historians meet-up is on May Day, Thursday 1 May, 8pm.
Come along and talk history with people who love history ... but are casual about it.
🙂
Every first Thursday at The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Old and new Casual Historians welcome!
📚
Some historical ephemera from a different era …
A punch-out postcard promoting “Strictly Handbag”, Mondays at Rí-Rá, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
“On the floor since ‘94”…
A punch-out postcard promoting “Strictly Handbag”, Mondays at Rí-Rá, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
“On the floor since ‘94”…
April 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Some historical ephemera from a different era …
A punch-out postcard promoting “Strictly Handbag”, Mondays at Rí-Rá, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
“On the floor since ‘94”…
A punch-out postcard promoting “Strictly Handbag”, Mondays at Rí-Rá, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
“On the floor since ‘94”…
Smithsonian Associates is holding an event today on "The Easter Rising: Dublin 1916" with historian Jennifer Paxton.
Good news = it's online
Bad news = it's $40!
Unfortunate news = I won't be online to correct their accompanying pic caption.
smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
Good news = it's online
Bad news = it's $40!
Unfortunate news = I won't be online to correct their accompanying pic caption.
smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
April 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Smithsonian Associates is holding an event today on "The Easter Rising: Dublin 1916" with historian Jennifer Paxton.
Good news = it's online
Bad news = it's $40!
Unfortunate news = I won't be online to correct their accompanying pic caption.
smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
Good news = it's online
Bad news = it's $40!
Unfortunate news = I won't be online to correct their accompanying pic caption.
smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
Saturday, 12 April -
This promises to be a great day out for anyone interested in the 1916 EASTER RISING -
including previously unseen documents from the archive of a very prominent rebel.
I'll be tagging along for sure!
This promises to be a great day out for anyone interested in the 1916 EASTER RISING -
including previously unseen documents from the archive of a very prominent rebel.
I'll be tagging along for sure!
April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Saturday, 12 April -
This promises to be a great day out for anyone interested in the 1916 EASTER RISING -
including previously unseen documents from the archive of a very prominent rebel.
I'll be tagging along for sure!
This promises to be a great day out for anyone interested in the 1916 EASTER RISING -
including previously unseen documents from the archive of a very prominent rebel.
I'll be tagging along for sure!
This Thursday!
3 April, 8pm!
Join us to talk about history, or listen to others talking about history. 🙂
Come along to The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
First Thursday of every month.
Old and new Casual Historians welcome. 📚
3 April, 8pm!
Join us to talk about history, or listen to others talking about history. 🙂
Come along to The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
First Thursday of every month.
Old and new Casual Historians welcome. 📚
April 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This Thursday!
3 April, 8pm!
Join us to talk about history, or listen to others talking about history. 🙂
Come along to The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
First Thursday of every month.
Old and new Casual Historians welcome. 📚
3 April, 8pm!
Join us to talk about history, or listen to others talking about history. 🙂
Come along to The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
First Thursday of every month.
Old and new Casual Historians welcome. 📚
Are Irish authors & publishers aware of this?
Meta (ie, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) used a huge database of books to train their AI systems.
I don't mind my books being read for free, but a multi-billion $ company profiting from them?
Nope.
@mercierpress.bsky.social
Meta (ie, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) used a huge database of books to train their AI systems.
I don't mind my books being read for free, but a multi-billion $ company profiting from them?
Nope.
@mercierpress.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Are Irish authors & publishers aware of this?
Meta (ie, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) used a huge database of books to train their AI systems.
I don't mind my books being read for free, but a multi-billion $ company profiting from them?
Nope.
@mercierpress.bsky.social
Meta (ie, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) used a huge database of books to train their AI systems.
I don't mind my books being read for free, but a multi-billion $ company profiting from them?
Nope.
@mercierpress.bsky.social
And sure, while we're at it, here's another Ireland/Hawaii crossover / mashup...
"'O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian'"
From 1917, & includes the lyrics -
With his "Ar-rah Ya-ka Hu-la
Be-gor-ra Hick-I-Du-lah"
And his Irish "Ji-ji-boo."
"'O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian'"
From 1917, & includes the lyrics -
With his "Ar-rah Ya-ka Hu-la
Be-gor-ra Hick-I-Du-lah"
And his Irish "Ji-ji-boo."
March 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
And sure, while we're at it, here's another Ireland/Hawaii crossover / mashup...
"'O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian'"
From 1917, & includes the lyrics -
With his "Ar-rah Ya-ka Hu-la
Be-gor-ra Hick-I-Du-lah"
And his Irish "Ji-ji-boo."
"'O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian'"
From 1917, & includes the lyrics -
With his "Ar-rah Ya-ka Hu-la
Be-gor-ra Hick-I-Du-lah"
And his Irish "Ji-ji-boo."
My occasional searches for Irish 1916-related publications can throw up some odd items.
One thing that often comes up is this - sheet music published in 1916 for:
"Since Maggie Dooley Learned The Hooley Hooley"!
And there's a version on Spotify!
(It's just as you'd imagine it...)
One thing that often comes up is this - sheet music published in 1916 for:
"Since Maggie Dooley Learned The Hooley Hooley"!
And there's a version on Spotify!
(It's just as you'd imagine it...)
March 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My occasional searches for Irish 1916-related publications can throw up some odd items.
One thing that often comes up is this - sheet music published in 1916 for:
"Since Maggie Dooley Learned The Hooley Hooley"!
And there's a version on Spotify!
(It's just as you'd imagine it...)
One thing that often comes up is this - sheet music published in 1916 for:
"Since Maggie Dooley Learned The Hooley Hooley"!
And there's a version on Spotify!
(It's just as you'd imagine it...)
Happened last night!
If you couldn't make your way in for a good old history chat yesterday, maybe we’ll see you next month - Thursday 3 April.
Cheers!
If you couldn't make your way in for a good old history chat yesterday, maybe we’ll see you next month - Thursday 3 April.
Cheers!
March 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happened last night!
If you couldn't make your way in for a good old history chat yesterday, maybe we’ll see you next month - Thursday 3 April.
Cheers!
If you couldn't make your way in for a good old history chat yesterday, maybe we’ll see you next month - Thursday 3 April.
Cheers!
Was it for this ... ?
Etc. 🤔
"Fine 999.9 gold" coins in 1 ounce, 1/2 ounce and 1/4 ounce weights, produced by the Dublin Mint Office, for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in 2016.
Very expensive - and not in my collection!
Etc. 🤔
"Fine 999.9 gold" coins in 1 ounce, 1/2 ounce and 1/4 ounce weights, produced by the Dublin Mint Office, for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in 2016.
Very expensive - and not in my collection!
March 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Was it for this ... ?
Etc. 🤔
"Fine 999.9 gold" coins in 1 ounce, 1/2 ounce and 1/4 ounce weights, produced by the Dublin Mint Office, for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in 2016.
Very expensive - and not in my collection!
Etc. 🤔
"Fine 999.9 gold" coins in 1 ounce, 1/2 ounce and 1/4 ounce weights, produced by the Dublin Mint Office, for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in 2016.
Very expensive - and not in my collection!
This Thursday!
Come along and chat with the Casual Historians -
Every first Thursday of the month - we talk nothing but history, and we like to listen as well. 🙂
New and old Casual Historians welcome - see you at 8pm in The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Cheers!
Come along and chat with the Casual Historians -
Every first Thursday of the month - we talk nothing but history, and we like to listen as well. 🙂
New and old Casual Historians welcome - see you at 8pm in The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Cheers!
March 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This Thursday!
Come along and chat with the Casual Historians -
Every first Thursday of the month - we talk nothing but history, and we like to listen as well. 🙂
New and old Casual Historians welcome - see you at 8pm in The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Cheers!
Come along and chat with the Casual Historians -
Every first Thursday of the month - we talk nothing but history, and we like to listen as well. 🙂
New and old Casual Historians welcome - see you at 8pm in The Oval Bar, Abbey St, Dublin.
Cheers!
Oh, you're interested in the 1916 Easter Rising?
Tell me, do you have the 2003 book:
"Heroes of Ireland's Founding - fosusing on the 1916 Rising",
by Ryohei Suzuki?
🙂
Tell me, do you have the 2003 book:
"Heroes of Ireland's Founding - fosusing on the 1916 Rising",
by Ryohei Suzuki?
🙂
February 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Oh, you're interested in the 1916 Easter Rising?
Tell me, do you have the 2003 book:
"Heroes of Ireland's Founding - fosusing on the 1916 Rising",
by Ryohei Suzuki?
🙂
Tell me, do you have the 2003 book:
"Heroes of Ireland's Founding - fosusing on the 1916 Rising",
by Ryohei Suzuki?
🙂
Found the culprits -
February 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Found the culprits -
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre.
February 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre.