Dr Paul O’Brien

Sign in a library that reads, “Read these dystopian novels before they became non-fiction.” - photo from @readwhatever on Substack

Read a dystopian novel from your local library. I’m begging.

🪐📚💙 #BookSky

Can anyone identify this family coat of arms?

The view from the archives of Kings College Cambridge, where I was working today. I came in search of an Irish novelist's 1928 affair with a talented photographer - and found more than I bargained for.

A common use of Generative A.I. cleverly summed up.

A spot of #OrdnanceSurvey bench marking in Kilrush yesterday evening. Thanks to @drpaulobrien.bsky.social for pointing out the BM on the west side of Teach Ceoil

Special powers to force the rezoning of land for housing ‘will see houses built closer to town centres’ Special powers are going to be used to rezone large tracts of land for building houses.

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1. This is a great opportunity for Limerick and Clare, specifically the "Limerick Shannon Metropolitan Area". We have a fantastic plan for commuter rail, and the good news is that (unlike the other regional cities) most of it is already built.

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Alliance Française of Limerick, Limerick Literary Festival & Limerick Quimper Twinning host a film evening: Thurs 20th Feb @ 8pm,101 O’Connell St, Lk.
Daraya: A Library Under the Bombs-a documentary by Franco-Iranian journalist Delphine Minoui.
#llfkob2025 #limerickevents
@aflimerick.bsky.social

More Irish Country Towns. Clarecastle, Co. Clare

Anna Abney will be in discussion with Paul O’Brien @drpaulobrien.bsky.social about her new book The Prisoner of Measham Hall on Saturday 22nd February 4.15pm @belltable
More info and book tickets www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

#llfkob2025 #writer #readers #limerickevents #literaryfestival

Submissions are now open for the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 - for an academic book on an Irish / Irish Diasporic historical subject published by an Irish resident in 2024 as their first scholarly book #IrishHistory. Closes 1 March.
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Recovering a lost masterpiece by James Pain (1779-1877). All are welcome to attend. I appreciate all shares.

A real pleasure to have been at todays event to mark the 30th anniversary of Cormac Ó Gráda’s Ireland: A New Economic History

Couldn’t have written by PhD with that book.

The ruins of the Grange, Co. Limerick.

On Christmas Eve - a pendant in the form of a sledge, c. 1600, South German

(Rijksmuseum)

Happening in #Limerick today

@drpaulobrien.bsky.social I saw you on RTE news. I will get my cabbage patch doll, if I can find it for next year’s shop front exhibit.

There we have it… Eoin Hayes received €199,000 pre-tax when he divested his shares in Palantir in JULY of this year.

This is despite telling journalists earlier he did so before entering politics.

Soc Dems now reviewing the issue.

Eoin Hayes, welcome to Fianna Fáil!

10 Dec 1562: William Piers is granted a lease of the former Augustinian Priory of Tristernagh Co. Westmeath #otd
In the 1560s & 1570s he also developed Carrickfergus (JohnArmagh/BL) Father of Henry, convert to #Rome, whose amazing travelogue has been edited by Brian MacCuarta

Seven items for a memory box exercise. Do you remember any of them?

Pretty respectable. #SpotifyWrapped

The Liberator stands sentinel in #Limerick

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

This is huge.

The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
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Crook of Clonmacnoise Crozier, decorated with interlocking snakes / Photo by Elva Johnston

The 15th-c drop plate on the crook of the Clonmacnoise crozier, showing a bishop impaling a dragon / Photo by Elva Johnston

Metalwork for a Monday: details from the crook of the 11-century Clonmacnoise Crozier, a beautiful object in Hiberno-Scandinavian style. It is 97cm tall & is very well preserved; the plaque of the bishop impaling a dragon is a 15th-c addition; now on display in @nmireland.bsky.social

Behind the Ballot Politics Podcast · 15 Episodes

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For all my new Irish friends, because of the strangest case of mistaken identity in the history of Irish-American relations, I've been invited to be interviewed by Katie Hannon. The taping is tomorrow and I'll let you know when it's scheduled to be aired

Winter sun lights up the sky over #Limerick

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts

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