William Brown (1777-1857): Irish-born Argentine admiral
- Regarded as one of Argentina's national heroes for his victories in Independence War, Cisplatine War and at Río de la Plata
- Creator/first admiral of Argentina's maritime forces
- Known as the father of the Argentine Navy ht @seansaid_ @ThisDayIrish "This day 210 years ago - 25 May 1810 - William Brown, a native of Foxford, Co Mayo, founded the Argentine Navy"

https://twitter.com/ThisDayIrish/status/1264813451009863680

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A short thread on today's featured photo, how it got to where it is, and things to look at... Firstly, the sources: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_g…

There are two copies of the photo here, a cropped but higher resolution one, and a non-cropped one which looks to be an @nlireland copy 1/ We used DeOldify to colourise both, and then enhanced the faces... There are different tools to enhance faces: Topaz Gigapixel AI, Remini, StyleGAN-custom solutions. They work well for low-res or sometimes blurry photos, with a good amount of detail. They don't work so well... 2/

Yesterday, we shared a short video of Cork from 1948... Today, we have a better, longer one for you!

Views of Cork, Ireland, including inside and out of the Ford plant, the city, and more

1948-1949

Source: catalog.archives.gov/id/93704 US National Archives

"Panoramic view of Ford Motor Company on River Lee, County Cork, Ireland. Buildings, docks [@PortofCork] - map of Ford Estate, Cork - crane unloading cargo from steamer at Ford wharf"...

Some children...

Alexander Street, Waterford

2 February 1924

Photographer: A.H. Poole

Source: @NLIreland

Colourised/Enhanced/Restored with #DeOldify #Remini #Photoshop Some children... and their parents, grandmother...

Alexander Street, Waterford

2 February 1924

Photographer: A.H. Poole

Source: @NLIreland

Colourised/Enhanced/Restored with #DeOldify #Remini #Photoshop

Our next photograph is from quite a while back, the 19th century in fact!

Let's see if you can figure out the year... It was the year that Doc Holliday, American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, died.

We hope you enjoyed today's photographs, in fact, all of this week's photographs!

We're off for the weekend, but ICYMI, here's a megathread of what we had for you this past week...

Claddagh Swans, 1941
Waiting for Mass/Inishmaan
The Catalpa Six, 1866
Lady Gregory, 1900-1910

1/ Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete who held the world long jump record for 20 years, 1927
Countess Markievicz on her release from prison, 1919
Tomás Ó Criomhthain by Carl von Sydow, 1924
Tom Crean and his pups, 1914-1916

2/

@TomCreanBook Okay, so your premise is that the father made a mistake about the date of birth in this case. That is possible, even though it was a relatively short period of time since either baptism/birth. It is also possible that the priest did not record the date correctly.

Let me explain! @TomCreanBook Firstly, if you look at the page where Tom Crean's birth is recorded and the subsequent page, it is all out of sequence, which indicates baptisms were not recorded on the dates they happened.

If we start in February, the month Tom was born, this is the recorded order of dates...