Bringing #Ireland‘s History to Life 🇮🇪 🇫🇷🏊♀️
My restored and colourised 1964 photo featuring the Martello Tower at Seapoint in #Dublin. The tower was one of a series of towers and batteries built between Bray and Balbriggan in 1804–1805 to repel a threatened French invasion.#Eire pic.twitter.com/PVLqE3Kgxx— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) July 9, 2020
1964.
Seapoint, County Dublin.
Early ‘budgie smugglers’ (top left).
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The French weren’t coming to invade us, they were on their way to help us drive out the invader. Anyone nearby got a history book you could borrow and maybe colour in too after you’ve read it?
Yes, but the Irish didn’t build them, the British did.
To repel an invasion by a hostile third party.
beat me to it Bill, merci ;)
I do love these pictures though
From the perspective of the people who built them, they were built “to repel a threatened French invasion”, exactly like he said.
Do you want me to pick you up some markers on the way home from the shop while I’m at it?
Is this your work Rob ?
No, i would not like to claim credit for this fine colorisation; i just found that Bill’s rather rude response based on his own very reductive reading of history stuck in my craw.
fair enough, it’s easy to get annoyed on here ;)
these are done by Rob Cross
our’s is Cross Rob
hahaha
– you had better not cross Rob…
lol
They were built by the British (occupiers) to repel the French (liberators).