Bringing #Ireland‘s History to Life. 🇮🇪🗝️
My restored and colourised 1916 photo of Michael Collins and his fellow Irish Volunteers in Stafford Prison, Staffordshire, England after the failed 1916 Easter Rising. Michael Collins is fifth from the right with an ‘x’ over his head. pic.twitter.com/NtFSLncxWD— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) January 24, 2021
That’ll learn them.
Previously: Republican prisoners Released From British Jailss (Century Ireland)
Bringing #TheWayWeWere to Life. 🇮🇪🚍
My colourised footage which was part of a CIE Dublin Bus training video shot in 1965 featuring their bus driving down #Dublin‘s Grafton Street, College Green, Westmoreland Street, and O’Connell Street. pic.twitter.com/dTSiV0tNLr— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) January 10, 2021
Oh yes.
Oh God yes.
Bringing #Ireland‘s Sporting History to Life. 🇮🇪📸
My colourised 13 July 1952 Munster hurling final photo of a bruised and bloodied from battle #ChristyRing as he leans on the Rita Lowry (nee Fenton), who is trying to capture the moment with her own box camera.#Cork #GAA #RTEgaa pic.twitter.com/EneeioUAfO— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) December 17, 2020
Bringing #Ireland‘s History to Life 🇮🇪⛪️
My restored and colourised c1890 photo of the Achill Mission or ‘the Colony’ at Dugortm on Achill Island in Co. Mayo featuring St. Thomas’s Church designed by architect Joseph Welland in 1851 with the Slievemore mountain in the background. pic.twitter.com/SRpEqqXCqT— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) December 2, 2020
1890.
Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised photo taken on June 16 1954, the first Bloomsday, featuring poets Patrick Kavanagh & Anthony Cronin at the church – and Goggin’s pub – in Monkstown [County Dublin] with the carriage in which they’d been traveling about Dublin in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
Previously: Rob Cross on broadsheet
Rob Cross writes:
My restored August 27, 1922 photo featuring Seán Collins (centre) beside the coffin of his brother, Michael Collins in Dublin’s City Hall where he lay in state for three days following his death at Béal na mBláth in Cork on August 22.
Top pic: Getty
Eamon de Valera after winning the East Clare by-election for Sinn Féin held on July 10, 1917
Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised July 11, 1917 photo of Éamon de Valera aka The Long Fellow in full flight electioneering wearing his Volunteers uniform on the steps of Ennis Court House, County Clare….
‘England has her answer’: landslide win for de Valera (century Ireland, RTÉ)
Top pic: National Library of ireland
No change there then.
Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised mid-1920s photo featuring a silent and empty Dáil Chamber in Leinster House, Kildare Street in Dublin City.
The Dáil Chamber was once the RDS 700 seater Lecture Theatre which was bought outright from the RDS in 1924.
Upoate:
— Aaron McAllorum 🏳️🌈 (@AaronMcAllorum) March 5, 2020
Ye olde vote counting machine gathering dust in Leinster House.
‘sup?
Rob Cross writes:
No need for brown bins with these guys around! My restored and colourised 1900 photo featuring pig herding on Friar Street in Youghal, County Cork.
Oink.
Top pic: Wikipedia
Meanwhile…
Bringing the lost history of Ireland to life!
My restored and colourised 1916 photo featuring road works being undertaken on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin with the statue is of William Smith O’Brien in the background.
Google View🧐https://t.co/Ivt9KDJBfI#Dublin #Ireland #DeOldify pic.twitter.com/LGR7aw2QnA— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) March 3, 2020
My colourised footage of a Pathé newsreel from March 1922, during the Irish War of Independence showing invading forces, occupy houses, The Glenworth Hotel and the Shannon Rowing Club and marching through the streets of Limerick City armed. #Limerick #Ireland #Dublin #History pic.twitter.com/MeyvQOSGOW
— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) January 30, 2020
In fairness.
