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Patrick Sarsfield, First Earl of Lucan

Patrick Sarsfield played an important role on the Jacobite side during the Williamite war in Ireland.

Courtesy of 'The History of County Dublin, 1906'.

Shop Street, Tuam

A photograph of Shop Street Tuam from the Eason collection.

Courtesy of Galway Public Library

Badger

They are one of several land mammals in Ireland. Badgers dig their setts in many different habitats, woodlands and hedgerows are good places to find badger setts.

Copyright Mike Brown

French Landing at Bantry Bay

In late December 1796 Wolfe Tone and a fleet of about 43 ships with 15,000 men set sail from France towards Ireland with the intention of over throwing English rule. However, despite Wolfe Tone's preparations in France, the weather was victorious on this occasion. Before the ships could leave Brest harbour one ship had already been separated from the main fleet. During the night that followed, across the English Channel, 7 other ships separated from the main party. One of the 7 included the ship of General Hoche, one of the Commanders-in-chief of the rising. Bad weather continued splitting the fleet further and preventing Tone and his men from landing, resulting in only 7 'Sail of the line' or war ships and one frigate remaining after a week of bad weather in Bantry Bay. The rebellion was abandoned and Wolfe Tone returned to France.

Mercy Convent, Tuam.

A photograph of the Mercy Convent, Tuam; the photograph is part of the Eason collection at Galway library.

Courtesy of Galway Public Library

Longford Workhouse

The Irish poet Pádraic Colum was born in 1881 at Longford Workhouse, where his father was workhouse master.

Image courtesy of www.workhouses.org.uk

Coal Tit

Close your eyes when listening to the Coal Tit's song. Does it sound like the whistle of a bicycle pump - a rapid pitchew, pitchew, pitchew?

Copyright Mike Brown

Bank Vole

The Irish Bank Vole is not a native Irish mammal, but rather an alien or introduced species. The first Irish sighting was in 1964.

Copyright Mike Brown

Blue Tit

These noisy but tame birds are most common in western Europe. They are typically woodland birds but have adapted well to living in close association with man.

Copyright Mike Brown

Burren walkers

The County Clare landscape is home to buckets of biodiversity and is one of the largest Karst landscapes in Europe. Walkers, climbers and the locals all get huge pleasure from the area but without measures to help halt the decline of biodiversity, beauty spots like this one are in grave danger.

Copyright the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government