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The Stone Twins, Ulysses 100 Stamp Series, [photographs from the JJ Clarke collection (courtesy of the National Library of Ireland)], An Post, 2022 [100 Archive. The James Joyce Centre, Baile Átha Cliath. Ulysses100, Museum of Literature Ireland, Baile Átha Cliath]

587 – St Brendan the Navigator, early transatlantic voyager, dies. In the Liturgical calendar, today is St Brendan’s Feast Day. 1907 – Birth of Robert Tisdall, gold medalist in the 400 meter hurdles at the 1932 Olympics. 1916 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as…

Like when I get the chance to be an inventor from the early 1900's I would purely be motivated by a dumb joke and providing an astounding experience to a pig who other wise would've barley been able to even see the sky, like that must fuck the wee man up so much. although this would be fitting as I once wrote a speech about how my superpower of choice would be making pigs fly (this was mostly just spiteful because I was force to write a speech about superpowers but it backfired and I had to perform it Infront of the school and almost died).

You know the Iris post service (An Post) is legendary for being able to deliver post with descriptive adresses. Basically you can send the mail man on a quest to locate the cousin of the red haired girl living next to the great oak tree. and they’d figure it out.