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Fionnuala Collins as Grace O'Malley
Fionnuala Collins in Grainne Uaile: The Movie (2021)
© Loose Gripp Films
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Attic Calendar
Fragments of Attic Calendar re-used in the church facade. According to Deubner first Thargelion, then Gemini, then Skirophorion, then the sacrifice of an oxen at the Dipolieia, then Cancer, then Hekatombaion, then a personification of Theoria...
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Powhatan Stone
The Powhatan Stone, a historical marker erected by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in Chimborazo Park, Richmond, Virginia, USA. It was placed by the Mayo family of Richmond who once owned the property where...
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Coal Pits & Factories
An illustration showing the increasing industrialisation and urbanisation of Britain during the Industrial Revolution. (From Griffith's Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain, 1873)
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Guinevere and Lancelot
Illustration from the book Tales of the Round Table (1908 CE), based on the tales in the Book of Romance (1902 CE).
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Thorvald, Son of Erik the Red, is Killed
Artist's rendition of the story from the Vinland Sagas in which the Viking Thorvald, brother of Leif Erikson and son of Erik the Red, encounters natives in North America while on expedition there, and dies after being pierced by one of their...
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Jamestown Massacre, 1622
The Great Massacre, illustration from page 237 of An illustrated history of the New world: containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ... and a complete history of the United States...
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The Treaty between Governor Carver and Massasoit
The Pilgrim-Wampanoag Peace Treaty between Plymouth Colony governor John Carver and Wampanoag chief Massasoit, 1621 CE. Image from page 145 of "A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day"...
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Portuguese Malacca Drawing
A drawing showing Portuguese Malacca in Malaysia. The colony was Portuguese from 1511 until 1641. (From The Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe : 1480-1521, by Guillemard, F. H. H. et al, published in 1891...
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Samoset
Samoset (c. 1590–1653 CE) walking into Plymouth Colony and greeting the colonists in English.
Image from page 155 of "Young folks' history of the United States" (1903 CE)