Bobby O'Brien

Galway, PhD in History and Archaeology at NUIG. Dissolution of the Monasteries, Reformation, Diocese of Ossory, History, hurling, architecture, tentative artist

[Bobby O'Brien @BPOBrien]

@BigbluBroadband after a substandard service not being able to get through by phone for 5 days and no response to emails am not happy and not paying another cent!!

[Ogham in 3D @NdeFaoite]

#oghamoftheweek from Churchclara, Co. #Kilkenny. Read by Macalister (1945) as TASEGAGNI [MAQ]I MUCOI MACORBO 'of Tadcán [son of] the descendant of M?' https://t.co/TyE1pnvMY9 via @sketchfab

[Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway @uniofgalway]

@NUIGLibrary will open the Maurice Hayes archive to the public today at 5.30pm with a lecture by Chris Patten. Maurice Hayes was an public servant who played a vital role in the search for peace in Northern Ireland. Register for this event: https://t.co/zwLEs32lDJ @nuigarchives

[The SETI Institute @SETIInstitute]

Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies. We now know that NGC 6052 actually consists of two galaxies that are in the process of colliding. | @NASA @esa @HubbleTelescope https://t.co/EkHmiS2wBd

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

[RPT] The Stars of the Triangulum Galaxy: https://t.co/sXPXBa0vOF by @NASA, ESA, M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton, and B. F. Williams (University of Washington)

[SPACE.com @SPACEdotcom]

The Most Amazing Space Photos This Week! https://t.co/11yObJXg2W

[Bobby O'Brien @BPOBrien]

@aaroadwatch Roadworks between clarinbridge and kilcolgan

[W. B. Yeats @DailyYeats]

When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars...

[TS Eliot @TSElibot]

People change, and smile: but the agony abides.

[W. B. Yeats @DailyYeats]

“Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
By those who are not entirely beautiful.”

[W. B. Yeats @DailyYeats]

"...and all the while I know that she made me and I her. She is my innocence and I her wisdom." (from journal entry concerning Maud Gonne)

[The SETI Institute @SETIInstitute]

This image shows a dwarf galaxy in the southern constellation of Phoenix named, for obvious reasons, the Phoenix Dwarf. Studies have shown it has an associated cloud of gas nearby, hinting at recent star formation, and a population of young stars. @ESO https://t.co/yZIGhBoB2Y

[W. B. Yeats @DailyYeats]

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned / By those that are not entirely beautiful;

[President of Ireland @PresidentIRL]

#OnThisDay 110 years ago, Patrick Pearse founded St Enda's school in Dublin.

In July 2016, President Higgins paid tribute to Pearse’s approach to education.

See: https://t.co/GLm3waSvrc

[The Guardian @guardian]

Lee Child on Birmingham: ‘The pollution was insane. Rivers would catch fire’ https://t.co/7j0rq7LGhg

[President of Ireland @PresidentIRL]

Today is World Literacy Day 2018.

Read the President's statement marking the day: https://t.co/hk6kYL4O0x #WorldLiteracyDay

[Europeana @Europeanaeu]

On #InternationalLiteracyDay dive into one (or more!) of our blog posts exploring evolution of reading&writing across Europe: https://t.co/vE7wCcTlSc 📚

#LiteracyDay #LiteracyDay2018 #InternationalLiteracyDay2018 #AllezLiterature

[Royal Irish Academy Library @Library_RIA]

Leabhar Mór Leacain / The Book of Lecan C14/15th Irish #manuscript of historical, genealogical, biblical and hagiographical material. On display this week. #ManuscriptMonday

[HUBBLE @HUBBLE_space]

ESA/Hubble #Flashback: A spiral in Andromeda Credit: @ESA / @Hubble_space / @NASA https://t.co/zslGpXprSb

[Royal Irish Academy Library @Library_RIA]

Sir Richard Colt Hoare's tour of Ireland is almost at an end - have you been following along? #TourIreland ⚡️ “Journal of a Tour of Ireland August 1806 by Sir Richard Colt Hoare ” by @Library_RIA

https://t.co/jqGGygiyNt