God It Looks Like Daniel

On the 173rd anniversary of his death (today).

Finally emancipated from black and white.

Old Ireland in Colour writes:

…we bring Daniel O’Connell to life.

Combining AI techniques with human creativity to reimagine the Liberator, including: Colourising the only surviving photo of O’Connell; Animating portraits and Making him ‘talk’…

Meanwhile…

#OnThisDay in 1847 Daniel O’Connell died in Genoa.

🇮🇪 Founder of modern Irish nationalism
🗳️ Champion of democracy
👊 Fought for enfranchisement of Catholics
🗣️ Held “Monster Meetings” with crowds of 100k
🏛️ Elected but banned from seat at Westminster
🏰 Lord Mayor of Dublin pic.twitter.com/QNgQsu9bHH

— Tom Moylan (@moylato) May 15, 2020

Excellent O’Connell thread here.

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