Oliver O'Hanlon

List of Oliver's writings - book chapters, book reviews, newspaper and magazine articles oliverohanlon.weebly.com/writings.html

They found evidence of human occupation and development from as far back as the Mesolithic period (8,000-4,000 BC). Nice to see some of the finds including a pygmy cup and silver coins from England and Scotland

Great to hear Trish Long from @rubiconarchaeo describe excavations on the M28 road in #Cork at @CorkHistArchSoc in #UCC today 1/2

Montréal is home to Canada’s longest-running #SaintPatricksDay parade, a tradition that began in 1824. Learn more about the cultural ties between the Irish and the Québécois in our podcast: canada.ca/en/library-arc… 📷 3192737 #IrishHeritageMonth

This #StPatricksDay, take a closer look at a rare object from early medieval Ireland ☘️ Known as the Emly Shrine—named for its 19th-century owner, Lord Emly of County Limerick—this example is one of only nine complete Irish house reliquaries that survive today.

Contemporary commentary on French paintings from the 1920s - 'newspapers report that artists are trying original approaches' 'That building is straight, what is it..' The Tower of Pisa gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… @GallicaBnF

During Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's survey flights in the 1930s, they collected coins from several countries as souvenirs. They acquired this Irish florin, now in our collection, during their 1933 transatlantic trip. #StPatricksDay

1st international sporting event held in the Free State was a world light-heavyweight boxing title clash on St Patrick's Day 1923 - read about the match between Battling Siki and Mike McTigue rte.ie/brainstorm/202… #StPatricksDay

☘️ A St Patrick's Day themed cartoon in Washington DC's Evening Star newspaper #OTD 1926 loc.gov/resource/sn830… #ChronAm Happy #StPatricksDay ☘️

Les phares irlandais de St John's Point et de Tory Island vous souhaitent une bonne Saint-Patrick! 🇮🇪 🍀 📸 @Gardien2Phare

1/📽️Oral History Film Screening📽️ 📅Tuesday 31 March, 7pm 📍Boole 1 (Boole Lecture Theatres), University College Cork All are welcome to a screening of 'Voices of the Valley', a film from the Mealagh Valley Oral History Project capturing the memories of a West Cork community

100 YEARS AGO... Le Petit Journal illustré gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… @GallicaBnF Tout-Ank-Hamon sort de sa tombe

Raymonde de Laroche of France became the first woman to earn a pilot’s license #OTD in 1910. Later that year she was the only female participant in the Reims air meet and in 1913 she won the Femina Cup. #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth

100 YEARS AGO... Le Petit Journal illustré gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… @GallicaBnF Un pari original et dangereux

"Then suddenly I had a revelation and clearly saw these wonders on my pond. I took up my palette and paintbrush. And since then, I’ve hardly used any other subject.” —Claude Monet In 1893, artist Claude Monet bought land with a pond next to his home in Giverny, France, wanting to build something "for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint." The result... his water-lily garden. In 1899, he started painting a series of views of the wooden bridge over the pond, completing twelve that summer. In this painting, the unusual vertical shape makes the water lilies and their reflections the main focus. Monet returned to this subject repeatedly, trying to capture the changing light, colors, and reflections on the water. By the late 1910s, his style had become looser and more fluid, and his water-lily paintings began to look almost abstract. ——— 🌸 Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny), "Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies," 1899. Oil on canvas. In our European Paintings collection on view in gallery 819.

Research Master’s scholarship in French for 2026-7. ucc.ie/en/french/post…

100 YEARS AGO... Le Petit Journal illustré gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… @GallicaBnF Une bataille dans un théatre

1 March 1926 'Evening Star' newspaper cartoon - March is 'thrice welcome if you've brought gentle spring in your luggage' loc.gov/resource/sn830… #ChronAm

Spring has sprung - nice to see a wee bit of colour around Cork

Abbey Theatre riot (11 Feb. 1926) in French illustrated newspaper 'Le Petit Journal' #OTD 1926 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… @GallicaBnF @AbbeyTheatre

The story of a Celtic cross in Ieper (Ypres) Belgium (with a #Cork link) and Ireland's memory of World War 1 - read my latest piece on @RTEBrainstorm rte.ie/brainstorm/202… @ToerismeIeper #Ieper