Important National GSI Awards supporting undergraduate field research Mary Russell 🇮🇪

January 6, 1912, in a public lecture at the Geol. Assoc. of Frankfurt am Main, 32-year-old meteorologist Alfred Wegener presents his theory that the continents can move and once formed a single supercontinent he named Pangea 🌍 forbes.com/sites/davidbre…

January's image of the month is Trá an Choma, Corca Dhuibhne, Co Chiarraí. 🟢🟡 The cliffs are made of steeply dipping sandstone and siltstone beds of the Eask Sandstone Formation. Photo by: Robert Fairfield

Let the sight of Vesuvius gently erupting in 1638 warm you on this chilly January morning! From Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus, printed in 1678.

🤍 #nabeannabeola #Connemara

Seen today in a pristine river, #Mayo ,Ice circles,a first for me. They were mesmerising!

Our next zoom talk Finding Unmarked Graves of all Ages Across the World Joint BNFC-BGS talk 14th January 7.00pm By: Benjamin Rocke (PhD Student, Queen’s University, Belfast) & Alastair Ruffell (QUB) contact our secretary [email protected] for the zoom link

The photos I took in 2024 have been uploaded and are available for free download. Simply follow the instructions and link in my pinned (first) post. The new photos are located under the folder "NewPhotos2024", and Aurora photos are under the folder "AuroraPhotos".

O'Brien, William, 1994. Mount Gabriel: Bronze Age Mining in Ireland. Galway University Press, 371 pp. (10.8 MB) academia.edu/126984710/Moun…

#GGA lecture (Z): Irish Peat as an Atmospheric Archive by Dr Lucy Blennerhassett iCRAG Centre UCD Earth Sciences Tue 21 January 19.00 h Dr Lucy speaks on new techniques that interrogate the environmental archives provided by bogs in Ireland. For link email: [email protected]

Wow. Was that really 20 years ago. Geology on another world.

The Great Men of the Sea... Aran oarsmen arrive in a fleet of currachs to collect goods and passengers from the Galway tender (I think more likely to be the earlier Dun Aengus and not the MV Naomh Éanna), before rowing back to the islands (either Inis Meáin or Inis Oírr).

Feeling like leaving Twitter/X? Please don't! Follow Irish History Bitesize! ( Irish History Bitesize!) for a dose of Irish history, & some folklore! RTs really appreciated! Lost c. 50 followers yesterday! 📷Low back car, Carnlough, Co. Antrim c. 1890s ©NLI

Reminder: #GGA Z lecture at 7 pm this evening by Dr Lucy Blennerhassett, author of recent prize-winning paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jq… in #JournalofQuaternaryScience. For link email: [email protected]

Construction finished on this Martello tower on #BereIsland in 1805. It overlooks the entrance to Bantry Bay and has survived countless Atlantic storms including Oíche na Gaoithe Móire, the Night of the Big Wind in 1839. Hoping it will survive for many more storms.

January 26, 1884, birthday of American naturalist and explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, famous for the discovery of the first nesting sites of dinosaurs in the Gobi desert and a possible real Indiana Jones 🦖🥚 forbes.com/sites/davidbre…

Tour guide book which shows Michaelín Pheait Bearthlín Ó H'Iarnáin (God rest his soul) out on his bicycle accompanied and led by his faithful mada named Cliff, down the bóithrín in Bun Gabhla, Inis Mór, Árainn. We think about 1990/1991.

Mary Griffin's dresser filled with shiny delph. Your best cups, milk jugs and plates was a very familiar sight in a traditional thatched cottage and was a sight to behold to any visitor. Taken on Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, Co. Galway, Ireland. © Photo Josef Tornick

"Local Worlds: Early Settlement Landscapes and Upland farming in South-west Ireland" by William O'Brien" includes descriptions of Crumpane and Reentrusk bronze-age copper mines on the Beara Peninsula. (Paper pages 46-48, 171-181 and 466) academia.edu/127465554/Loca…