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WithRiceNDrink: Going by build and lore: Sojourn/Pharah - Martha (front line, p solid) Dva - Tracy (just the mech really and baby dva, symm and brigitte could also be) Widow - Vera (sad purple French woman) Rein - William/Percy (big dashy boy) Sombra - Luca (hacking things in da map bishes)

RuthCan75563366: This one intrigues me - not sure what to make of the writing on the bridge.

RuthCan75563366: Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge by William Percy French, via Wikigallery. The Four Courts in the distance tantalisingly out of sight in the dusk, or is it the dawn, but we'll forgive him.

McinnesH: Mountains o'Mourne by William Percy French (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

bs_on3: William Percy French - Phil the Fluter's Ball

serbiaireland: I love this watercolour. It's called "SHEEP IN MOONLIGHT" and was painted by the Irish songwriter, entertainer and painter William Percy French (1854-1920). I particularly love the eyes of the sheep, wide open and shining on their black faces...

weareji: Violence solves naught! 1877 music hall song, Abdul Abulbul Amir, written by William Percy French during the Russo-Turkish war, where Abdul clashes with his Russian foe, Ivan Skavinsky Skavar

FlandersWW1: This image, taken by official war photographer for the Canadian Army, William Rider-Rider, was originally captioned "Tres Bon Canadians eh? French Gleaners talking to Canadians". He posed his assistant (Corporal Percy Reeves) and driver (Driver Burstall) in this typical....(1/2)

GSheehy: The Bank has no fortune of mine to invest But there's money enough for the ones I love best; All the gold that I want I shall find on the whins When I'm in Connemara among the Twelve Bens. ~ William Percy French

Rathcroghan: William Percy French was born on 1st May 1854 at Cloonyquin, just to the west of Tulsk village and in the shadow of the historic Rathcroghan. One of Roscommon’s favourite sons, he would go on to study engineering at Trinity College Dublin where his forays into.../1

achahistory: The ACHA recently presented the Monsignor John Tracy Ellis award to Mitchell E. Oxford, of the College of William and Mary, for his proposal “The French Revolution and the Making of an American Catholicism 1789 through 1870.” 1/2

AlGetzWrestling: More for the "wrestling ad typos" file...I figure someone called in the results and said Brunzell & George beat French & Pringle in a *tag team* match and the person at the paper heard something else entirely (fyi the Percy Pringle here is NOT William Moody/Paul Bearer)

EllePeace2: "But for all that I found there I might as well be Where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea" . - William Percy French.

AniSWISSarts: William Percy French 1854 - 1920 NEW YORK

HistFest: Today’s events include a talk at 5.30pm by Dr Eoin Kinsella about auxiliary hospitals in Leopardstown and Blackrock treating shell shocked soldiers. For music lovers, Teresa O’Donnell will be discussing the life and music of William Percy French in an online talk/performance.

HistFest: At 7 on Wednesday to mark the 100th anniversary of William Percy French, Teresa O’Donnell will be performing a talk/recital on the music and words of the legendary musician

RuthCan75563366: Grand Canal, Dublin' by William Percy French During his life, French was not only an artist, but a journalist, songwriter and entertainer - and inspector of drains!

RuthCan75563366: 'Nassau Street, Dublin,' by William Percy French. From about 1900. How it would have looked in Joyce's time.

RuthCan75563366: The man himself: William Percy French (1854-1920)

RuthCan75563366: 'The Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin,' by the polymath William Percy French.

northumbriana: ‘Algernon’ derives from the Norman-French sobriquet ‘Aux Gernons’, meaning ‘with moustaches’ - and was brought over to these shores by the moustachioed William de Percy, a knight in the retinue of William the Conqueror.

PatrickHawe: Died 24th January, 1920, (William Percy French (born 1854) author, artist, entertainer and "Inspector of Drains". The Ghost-ship / W. P. French. The first Lord Liftinant and other tales / Sketched by R. Caulfield Orpen ; written by W.P. French. Dublin: Mecredy & Kyle, 1890.

GazetteLimerick: LIMERICK BY WILLIAM PERCY FRENCH (1854-1920) VISIT THE ARCHIVE HERE:

JorgensenArt: A selection of watercolours & drawings from our Christmas Exhibition - Mainie Jellett, Walter Osborne, William Perc...

SirWilliamOrpen: Mr Flanagan's Polka - A cartoon in The Jarvey magazine by Richard Orpen, brother of William Orpen. The magazine was...

VintageAnchor: In 1921 New Orleans' The French Quarter becomes a literary bohemia: "This glamorous, fabulous old town"-Tennessee W...

weary37: Remember Me Poem by William Percy French - Poem Hunter.

SatanicTempleAZ: In the wake of the Enlightenment and its subsequent revolutions, Romantics such as Percy Shelly, William Blake,...

AshAstaroth: In the wake of the Enlightenment and its subsequent revolutions, Romantics such as Percy Shelly, William Blake,...

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Geoffroycottin: William Percy French, "Bembridge".

_SpiderJohn_: "But who can say that they rest alway  On that still celestial shore?" From Celestial Painting by William Percy Fre...

tomsigafoos: Percy French Meets William Allingham



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