John OBrien
@jpobr29.bsky.social
Amateur historian, genealogist, musician. Pro consultant, lecturer. Sometimes tennis player. Interests Dingle peninsula farm life, Sallins-Tullow railway, early-Dublin tennis, Eustace & Latouche families, Kildare & Wicklow, Irish in US Civil War.
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March 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
You learn something new every day, yesterday morning playing a league tennis match .. the Nelson’s pillar rubble was used as landfill when St. Anne’s tennis club was laid down in Raheny in 1966. There is a little bit of granite on view still, left of steps. Fascinating!
February 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You learn something new every day, yesterday morning playing a league tennis match .. the Nelson’s pillar rubble was used as landfill when St. Anne’s tennis club was laid down in Raheny in 1966. There is a little bit of granite on view still, left of steps. Fascinating!
Survived my first academic conference presentation yesterday, thanks to ESHSI for the invite. Great to give my MA topic an airing finally
November 30, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Survived my first academic conference presentation yesterday, thanks to ESHSI for the invite. Great to give my MA topic an airing finally
On the day that’s in it, reports of “competitive” elections in the rotten borough of Harristown in 1715 and 1727 need some context, all four candidates in both elections were in fact Eustace family in-laws. The borough was controlled respectively by the Eustace, Fitzgerald and LaTouche families.
November 29, 2024 at 12:39 PM
On the day that’s in it, reports of “competitive” elections in the rotten borough of Harristown in 1715 and 1727 need some context, all four candidates in both elections were in fact Eustace family in-laws. The borough was controlled respectively by the Eustace, Fitzgerald and LaTouche families.
Spotted in Kerry, 1911
November 21, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Spotted in Kerry, 1911