Tom Byrne

History, scribbling, chocolate brownies, coffee, occasional rants.......also now at:

[email protected]

[Tom Byrne @TomByr]

I'm over on Bluesky now at:

[email protected]

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[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Today is the feast of St Barnabas, which (before the Gregorian calendar reform) used to be the date of the summer solstice, and the longest day in the year. There was an old rhyme:

'Barnaby bright,
The longest day and the shortest night.'

[Lisa Stewart @LStewart_books]

Sunset on Newhaven Lighthouse
#sunset #lighthouse #harbour

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Hello again
I couldn’t resist this little gem
Kimmi Dallimore Illustrations

[Daily Dutch Masters 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

City View Alkmaar
Cornelis Springer, 19th century

[Dee Neeson🇪🇺🇮🇪🇵🇸 🇶🇦 @DeeNeeson1]

The first of the new season Wexford potatoes - salt & a bit of butter, dinner sorted! 😀

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map shows annual truck traffic on European main roads, colored by route distance. The map gives a sense of on which corridors the long distance traffic travels and how far the infrastructure interdependencies within the network road reach. Very helpful information when planning charging infrastructure. Source: https://t.co/UxbVIPHAeq HT Jakob Rogstadius

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

Good luck to everyone starting their leaving cert today! A little bit of addition to warm the brain, from 'Records Arithmetick', a manual to teach simple & practical maths.

[Richard Jones @lluniaurich]

Porth yr Aur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Monument in St Mogue’s graveyard to young women of Fethard on Sea who drowned after ‘having attended divine service’ #otd 3 June 1787. “In death not divided” #Wexford

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

It's very lovely to see all the irises in bloom around Dublin 8 at the moment. These lovely hand-coloured ones are from a mid-16th century herbal.

[Lisa Stewart @LStewart_books]

Happy Tuesday from Corstorphine Hill Community Garden

#community #gardens #flowers

[Susan J Hodgetts (Sue) @hodgetts_susan]

Sergei Vinogradov (Russian, 1869-1938)
~ Women by the Sea
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#Art
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[Frank McNally @FrankmcnallyIT]

Duelling church bells, Zürich.

[Tom Byrne @TomByr]

A good foundation is half the battle! 😀

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[Razan Ibraheem @RazanIRL]

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine
#Ireland #Dublin

[Met Office @metoffice]

Today is now the hottest day in May on record with Heathrow and Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35.0°C

Until yesterday the highest temperature in May was 32.8°C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius 🌡️

[Marty Whelan @martylyricfm]

Headline of the day

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

A happy looking dog at court! From the engraved title page of Hugo de Groot's Introduction to Dutch jurisprudence, printed in 1636.

[Sean Scanlon @sscanlon07]

Early morning commuters #sunrise #sea #boats #wicklow #Ireland

[Tom Byrne @TomByr]

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The perfect day for it! 🤣

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