#GGA (Galway Geological Association) Zoom lecture: Advances on geochemical data collection - Tellus programme, on Tuesday, 10 Feb, 2026 at 7 pm. Speaker: Victoria Kavanagh (on behalf of Tellus, GSI). Map kindly provided by VK @geolsurvie.bsky.social For link email: [email protected]

February 1836: newspapers across the country report that #MaryAnning, defrauded of her savings, had been awarded £300 from the government after her friends at the Geological Society lobbied the Prime Minister. With a further £200 they had collected in Dublin in 1835, this gave her an annuity of £25.

Pleased to do honours at launch of ‘Booleying in Ireland’ by Theresa McDonald. Anything you will ever wish to know re. #booleying #transhumance in Achill & beyond is here. Fruits of years of interdisciplinary research @universityofgalway.bsky.social @globalgalway.bsky.social @nmireland.bsky.social

Great looking forward to #GGA lecture by Bernd Zolischka on Thursday 7pm. The Eifel volcanic field is spectacular; easily reached but also easily missed (nr Andernach on Rhine). Ash (#tephra) deposits from Laachersee eruption ca. 12900 y ago spread far & wide; local deposits an impressive sight

#GGA Z Lecture, Thursday, 22 January at 19.00 h ‘The Eifel volcanic field, Germany: type-location of "maars”, archives of exceptional palaeo records’ BY Prof. Dr. Bernd Zolitschka, Institute of Geography, @unibremen.bsky.social. For link email: [email protected]. @quaternaryirl.bsky.social

Happy New Year! At midnight on Hogmanay, the Watch Stone will move from its position guarding the approach to the Ness of Brodgar to take a drink from Stenness loch. (Or so it is said!) Wishing you all a wonderful 2026, filled with folklore, fun and many a hike to an ancient site 💚🪨🎉

It’s been so great to see the Tuatha community grow over the past year! Here's a short thread of some of what we've been up to: This year has seen the production of twelve brand new itineraries, helping you to explore landscapes like the Ards Peninsula, Galway, the Fermanagh Lakelands, and more.

It is indeed a fascinating account. Well worth a close read

Aithbhliain for shéan is fé mhaise daoibh uile. Happy New Year Earlier today in Loughshinny, nr. Skerries, Co. Dublin

The vibrant magnificence of #Earth: 22 breathtaking images from the 2025 #Landscape #Photographer of the Year awards. #landscapephotography #photography Be sure to take a look at all the amazing #photos by following this link: www.popsci.com/environment/...

Merry Christmas / Nollaig shona / & Happy New Year / Aithbhliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise díobh uile

2026 calendar by @corkgeological.bsky.social. Spendid photographs of geological structures, fossils, etc. from #Ireland & further afield. Several photos featuring memorable CGA/GGA trip to #Árainn (#InisMór), #AranIslands, led by @johnjfwalsh.bsky.social. @geolsurvie.bsky.social

The past is always present on the beautiful island of Inis Oírr. This is just one of the wonderful wealth of monuments that are featured on our itinerary, available now for Tuatha Members. Not a member yet? Start your Irish archaeological adventure today! www.tuatha.ie/join/

November 22, 1842, contemporary sources describe clouds of ash "rolling up in great masses, wreathing as smoke from a pipe does, but on an enormous scale" over Washington and Oregon - one of the early documented eruptive episodes of St. Helens (who repeated this spectacle 138 years later)🌋

You responsible for wielding the sledgehammer, @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social?

Nice to see Emain Macha / Loughnashade highlighted. A fine place to visit at any time of year. Photos taken on a fine June day 2015 during a visit to the Centre & this impresssive site. All the more memorable on account of the expert guidance by Prof Jim Mallory of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

#GGA lecture this evening at 7 pm: The Ethics of Mineral Extraction by Dr Nick O'Neill. The subject matter has seldom been more topical 😳

Panels of Irish ‘Marble’ in the foyer of what is now the Department of Justice in Dublin. Stunning example of #urbangeology

Climbed to the crater of #Vesuvius yesterday. Amazing to see gases emerging & smell S. Unfortunately, no explanations of the complex stratigraphy. Vegetation struggling to gain a foothold on the Volcanic deposits. Panoramic views of the Bay of Naples

Farming side by side with nature in an upland region of Teneriffe, although this type of farming is clearly on the decline. Curaíocht traidisiúnta i sléibhte Teneriffe. Cuireann sé i gcuimhne dhom sléibhte Conamara beagán, tá fiú raithneach ag fás sna áiteanna nach bhfuil curtha níos mó...

Tuesday, 11 Nov, 19:00 h, #GGA Zoom lecture: The Ethics of Mineral Extraction by Dr Nick O'Neill, #TCD. Earthrise (Dec 24 1968), by Bill Anders (NASA, Apollo 8), shows earth as a fragile blue marble in blackness of space. It inspired the 1st Earth Day 1970 & this lecture. www.galwaygeology.net

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trip to Boa Island on Lough Erne to visit two of the most enigmatic characters in Irish archaeology.

Although I can't be at today's @geolassoc.bsky.social event, my biography of Mary Anning, 'The Fossil Woman A Life of Mary Anning' which was published by The Dovecote Press five years ago today, will be there, available from the @hoggroup.bsky.social stand.

Not to be missed: public lecture on lives of the last Neanderthals by Prof Clive Finlayson, internationally renowed expert on Neanderthals & their role in human evolution - THIS EVENING 18:00h @uniofgalway.bsky.social

There are few places to match Glendalough in October 🍂 What a beautiful day at one of my favourite places!

A welcome reprieve from politics and sleep deprivation.

Reading William Whewell's 1832 review of Lyell's Principles of Geology, Vol 2, in which he coined "uniformitarianism", and I just love this passage summarizing what in many modern geological textbooks would describe as the principle of uniformitarianism. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv...

BGS' GeoIndex viewer has been given a major upgrade and is available as a beta release. It includes core geological data layers, such as 625K- and 50K-scale digital geological mapping and borehole datasets, to allow for focused user testing. Visit the app: geoindex.bgs.ac.uk?_ga=2.224738...

Reminder: this evening’s (Wed, 15 October at 7pm) GGA @galway-geol-ass.bsky.social Zoom lecture: Coastal boulder deposits on the #AranIslands BY Professor Rónadh Cox (Williams College, MA, USA). For Z link email: [email protected] 😉🌊 @wildatlanticway.bsky.social

#AdaLovelaceDay: that Ada's contemporary, Mary Anning, was much more than a fossil dealer is clear from her letters with her observations on coprolites, the orientation of Pentacrinites and their association with fossil wood, and her dissection of living marine molluscs to understand fossil sepia.

A fascinating article by BBC News about the Dewars Farm Quarry dinosaur trackway excavation by scientists from across the UK and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, including some fabulous computer generated animation. Great stuff! www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

#GGA #geology fieldtrip to Birr/Ferbane, #Offaly on Saturday started at a golf course & ended in a church. The strongly undulating landscape at #Birr golf course has its origins in the melting glaciers of c. 19k years ago. A fine esker (Riada), steep-sided & wood covered, forms the western boundary

We could all use do with a little well-being these days, so in today's edition of our #MonumentMonday newsletter we take a trip to County Kerry to visit Tober na Molt (also known as Wether's Well). This lovely holy well has associations with the famous St Brendan the Navigator, St Ita and St Erc.

GGA Zoom lecture (Wed, 15 October 2025 at 19:00 h): Coastal boulder deposits on the #AranIslands record at least 2000 years of extreme wave events BY Professor Rónadh Cox (WilliamsCollege Williams College, MA, USA). For Z link email: [email protected]

GGA #fieldtrip on Sat 11 October: Exploring Midland #Eskers (leader: Dr John Feehan). Start point Birr, Co Offaly. For further details email: [email protected]

#MolluscMonday: James Sowerby's illustration of Ammonites bucklandi from the Lias of the Bath district, in vol.2 of Mineral Conchology (1818), the description brightened by the tale of William Buckland being proclaimed an 'Ammon Knight' by his friends for his mode of carrying a large specimen.

Photos from recent travels to mark #InternationalGeodiversityDay. Dalradian metamorphic rocks with quartz veins #Connemara National Park, W Ireland; sandstone, slate etc, medieval tower house, St Marys & All Saints church, Conwy, Wales; dykes & Watt, Langwarder Groden, west of Bremerhaven, Germany

Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière a landmark of #Lyon. Delighted to find an #Ireland / #Hungary / #Lyon connection within (in crypt church). Bishop Walter Lynch surely points to connections with #Galway (cf. 'Lynch justice'. Agus 'Ave Maria' as Gaeilge!

#Briançon is noted for Vauban (AD 1700) fortifications. Lifts go to 2100 m. Climbed to 2566 Prorel peak. What stupendous views for relatively little effort. This just for starters ...

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we're going further back in time than we have ever done before. To around 380 million years ago, when Ireland was a radically different place! Check your inbox to delve into Ireland's deep time. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

On way from Briançon to Grenoble managed to stop briefly at La Grave to photo one of the most iconic mountains of the Haute #Alpes, La Meije (3982 m), associated glaciers & scoured rock faces. A raptor also included by sheer chance. Skyscape also dramatic. La belle #France

Late summer perfect time for #Connemara. On Thursday headed for the #ConnemaraNationalPark. First stop the Inagh Valley; the ice-sculptured #TwelveBens looking as spectacular as ever. Turf cutting, now largely no more, still to be seen. Connemara mountainy sheep seek out best grazing on road verges

also just for you -- not part of my set (by H.C. White) but a super image I came across -- Galway market women having a laugh with local constabulary www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

This Is Geoscience is a new campaign launched by @geolsoc.bsky.social to showcase the sector's societal value and highlight career opportunities for the geoscientists of tomorrow. Discover more here: geoscientist.online/sections/new... #geoscience #geology #careers

BGS has combined geological data, groundwater models and UK Climate Projections (UKCP) scenarios to produce maps showing areas with varying future vulnerability to shrink–swell subsidence. Information on our BGS GeoClimate datasets can be found on our website: www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/geo...

3 July 1824: Charles Lyell and French geologist Constant Prévost visit Lyme Regis seeking specimens for Cuvier in Paris. They were among the many visitors who descended on #MaryAnning after the @geolsoc.bsky.social Plesiosaurus meeting earlier that year. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Blanket bog peat - the youngest geological layer - contains much information on environmental change during the post-glacial period as shown by the investigations in #Kilmore Townland, south of the #Magharees, #Dingle, Co. #Kerry

Richard Owen's really quite pleasant History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds (1846). Judging by the excellent condition of this copy, students at Mason Science College Birmingham, est. 1880, had little use for a work of palaeontology then so long out of date.

The past is always present here on the beautiful Dingle Peninsula - you can certainly say that again. Corca Dhuibhne abú!

Three weeks to go - find those photos NOW! Enter MEPC 2025! Look out your best pictures and enter them! Two per category... We are really looking forward to seeing them... And I'm particularly eager to see your annotated pictures :) so don't let me down... please! ougs.org/photo-compet...