Latest News Digest: March 2017.

Michael Viney discusses ancient Irish shipwrecks dotted around the Irish coast.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/michael-viney-how-ancient-is-the-thallabawn-shipwreck-1.2976468

“My colourful past”: Irish Artist’s work highlights the origins of today’s Americans, many of whose ancestors passed through Ellis Island.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/irish-artist-s-ellis-island-photos-highlight-origins-of-today-s-americans-1.2988282

Beauty lessons as you might have learned from your granny! Natural skincare from flowers, bark, leaves, roots, blossom and moss grown in Sussex, Cyprus and Scotland.

https://www.selvedge.org/blog/?p=26083&utm_source=ALL+CONTACTS&utm_campaign=22ac3b1ae6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4d59adca29-22ac3b1ae6-55650521&mc_cid=22ac3b1ae6&mc_eid=99980d70e1

When a letter from Mary Leonard in New Mexico arrived in Roscrea, the search for a family headstone began.

https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland/tipperary/roscrea-tipperary/news/so-where-are-dwane-family-buried

The dark side of the Irish “Wild Geese.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mercenary-conduct-an-irishman-s-diary-on-two-wild-geese-and-the-murder-of-albrecht-von-wallenstein-1.2981000

Did you know fuschia was only introduced into Ireland after 1492, in the ‘Columbian exchange’.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/michael-viney-the-mystery-of-the-irish-scots-pine-1.2952409