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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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Pat O'Mahony @patomahony1.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

When the view from the couch just isn't good enough. #COYBIG #irlbul With @jpobr29.bsky.social

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John OBrien @jpobr29.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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!

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John OBrien @jpobr29.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Survived my first academic conference presentation yesterday, thanks to ESHSI for the invite. Great to give my MA topic an airing finally

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John OBrien @jpobr29.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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.

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John OBrien @jpobr29.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Spotted in Kerry, 1911

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