John McGoldrick

One of our neighbours across the back court in Dalmuir went to support his team and tragically didn’t return. Thoughts with all affected on this anniversary.

And so we visited @burrellcollect And found it rather accessible and engaging ✅

Irish welcome chez McGoldrick in Clydebank

@michellecorry @BNArchive And 1999

@michellecorry Sad, and all too familiar situation. A Gill from Ballyleague, near Lanesborough (from @BNArchive 1988. Hope some family can be traced.

Please share to try to find this man's family

Pre-emptive calorie strike out in ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ country

And then we sang a song… youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8

@archaeologyman Good decision Ralph.

Absolutely manic around those shops today, I believe.

RESPECT ✊🏽 Tonight at #CELLIV they’re shouting #WomanLifeFreedom in 20th min to raise awareness of #AmirNasrAzadani the footballer set to be executed imminently for standing up for women’s rights in #Iran Absolutely fantastic solidarity from @CelticFC & @LiviFCOfficial fans 👏

@BronaghDaly Wonderful. Hope to do similar next summer, GW

Lovely taking my kids back to the farmhouse my granny grew up in. #homeforChristmas #Ireland #Tyrone #TirEoghan

A form of unconscious colonialism that is sadly too familiar, in my experience. ‘If only it actually served pints’. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

@Historiamagoria ‘They’ being the trade rather than any particular company

@Historiamagoria I’d want to watch them too. They rarely, if ever, follow their own RAMS.

@supertanskiii Any tour plans?

I have no musical talent at all but I’m in the charts. This is how it must feel to be Milli Vanilli.

Steaming canal this morning at the museum 💨💨💨

Houses for objects: Andrew, our multi-talented senior engineer, has been busy building protective structures for our objects ahead of essential building works at the museum. I think these could catch on 😍

Anyway, on the subject of penalty kick triumphs, I have to admit to scoring the winning penalty in the 1990 Mull 7 - a- side championships on this pitch. At the time the pitch had a large rock protruding from the turf in the centre circle. Proper football.

More peril and plot twists promised than even the real world TOCs can deliver.

1. Irish Shilling, designed by Percy Metcalfe 2. United Irish League of Great Britain membership card 3. Portrait of Grace Maturi (c) Corinne Silva 4. Portrait of Socialist pioneer and Poet Tom Maguire, born of Irish parents in the Bank area of Leeds en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Magui…

#OTD 100 years ago the #IrishFreeState was formed, marking a significant step for Ireland towards independence from the British Empire. Here are some of the amazing objects from our collections representing Leeds’ Irish community: