Sarsfield Homecoming Project

🚨#SarsfieldHomecoming Project🚨 1st trailer of a TV documentary dedicated to the project and produced by Scratch Films for RTÉ! Filming began last September and will end… when the project ends! Very grateful to Liam McGrath for his interest in our work. youtube.com/watch?v=fEodMu…

Enough. We’re leaving X. We won’t be publishing anything here anymore. Find us on @bluesky at sarsfieldhome.bsky.social for the latest news and updates about the project

And the great news is that our authorisation runs until 31 October 2026 which will (hopefully) save us having to worry about paperwork until full completion of the project! We’ll now organise our next trip asap in order to resume the search for Patrick Sarsfield. Stay tuned! 2/2

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Since our last trip to Huy we’ve been busy producing all the necessary reports and documentation required by Belgian authorities to renew our permit to conduct archaeological excavations. We’re delighted to announce that our authorisation has been renewed! 1/2

@thet21journey Soon…

@SarsfieldHome Was the authorisation renewed?

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update The results of the DNA test on the first skeleton exposed last March are finally in! Back then Prof. @MHDLarmuseau & his PhD student Noah Gaens from @KU_Leuven collected a molar from Skeleton #1 in order to extract and analyse its DNA… 1/

@thet21journey Everything is explained in this academic article 👇 dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/3…

@SarsfieldHome Really interesting trailer can't wait to watch this when the project comes to its hopeful successful conclusion. Just wondering what made you zero in on that location

🚨#SarsfieldHomecoming Project🚨 1st trailer of a TV documentary dedicated to the project and produced by Scratch Films for RTÉ! Filming began last September and will end… when the project ends! Very grateful to Liam McGrath for his interest in our work. youtube.com/watch?v=fEodMu…

@thet21journey @neesoni_liam Patrick Sarsfield’s life would certainly make a great action movie!

We’ve now more followers on @bluesky than here! We’ll soon suspend this account. Follow us on BlueSky at sarsfieldhome.bsky.social (our news will also be posted/shared on the FB, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts of Loïc Guyon, Alliance Française Limerick & the Wild Geese Festival).

Delighted to announce that the Sarsfield Homecoming Project is now on @bluesky at sarsfieldhome.bsky.social Join us there as we will soon stop posting here!

Any contribution (no matter how small) through our Go Fund Me page would be of great help obviously 🙏🏻 Stay tuned… /END gofundme.com/f/the-sarsfiel…

As already explained, the next excavation session is scheduled for early December (pending renewal of our authorisation to dig) & we hope of having completed the exploration of the cellar area by the Spring. In the meantime, our focus will be on raising the necessary funding… /5

Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks… gofundme.com/f/the-sarsfiel… /7

…. - That remains much older than those of the two anonymous French officers can be very well preserved (as are those of the 7-8 year-old child). So unless their graves were destroyed by the digging of later graves, we should find their remains in fairly good condition. 6/

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update NEW RADIOCARBON DATING RESULTS IN As you may remember, a 1st radiocarbon dating test was conducted in March on skeleton no1 (SK1, see picture) and revealed that it could potentially be that of one of the two French officers/Sarsfield… 1/