Architect/urban designer in Dublin. Also wrote and drew this: obrien.ie/bright-sparks Personal account.
Joined April 2010
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11 Sep 2019
Seriously honoured that Bright Sparks has been chosen for inclusion in the UN Sustainable Development Goals Book Club for young readers. Very, very humbled by the company I'm keeping: un.org/sustainabledevelopmen…
Thanks so much to @GlobalGoalsUN and @IBBYINT for this. @OBrienPress
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5 Oct 2025
Know any young people who love to draw? I'll be doing a workshop for 8-12s in Kevin St Library for @IAFarchitecture #openhousedublin next Sat 11th Oct. Come along and enjoy the lovely @dubcilib space while the young ones explore buildings through drawing
openhousedublin.com/location…
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23 May 2025
The proposed redevelopment of Dublin City Council’s St Andrews Court on Fenian Street in Dublin 2 recently reached a significant milestone, achieving Part 8 planning approval dublincityarchitects.ie/part… @housingdcc @dubcitycouncil #housing
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
14 May 2025
Climate Change & the Public Realm Walking Tour - DCC City Architects are giving a walking tour on Thursday 15 May as part of Dublin Climate Action week. Follow link to find out more: dublinclimatechange.codema.i…
@DubCityCouncil @housingdcc
#dublincitycouncil
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
6 Mar 2025
International Women’s Day site visit, to the Mansion House conservation and upgrade works.
This important project is led by architects Margret Glupker and Sarah Curran from the DCC City Architects Team.
#IWD #RIAI #architecture @LordMayorDublin @DubCityCouncil #IWD2025
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
7 Feb 2024
Closing date 9th February: Applications now open for position of Executive Architect in @DubCityCouncil @housingdcc Apply here: careers.dublincity.ie/Job/Jo… #jobfairy #jobalert #Irishjobs #vacancies #recruitment #WeAreHiring #architects
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
19 Jan 2024
.@DubCityCouncil has advertised the position of Executive Architect to join our team in City Architects - deadline 9th February 2024. For details including eligibility requirements please go to:
careers.dublincity.ie/Job/Jo…
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
27 Jul 2023
Tonight's Mystery Train with John Kelly
@johnkellytweets celebrates the musical legacy of a treasured Irish voice.
| An ode to Sinéad O'Connor.
Tune in... rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
7 Jul 2023
The Seven Stages of climate denial:
1. It's not real
2. It's not us
3. It's not that bad
4. We have time
5. It's too expensive to fix
6. Here's a fake solution
7. It's too late: you should have warned us earlier
Trolls use all of these stages to deny reality of #climatechange
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7 Jul 2023
Fascinating story of uncredited innovation and great paper uncovering its history
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9 Jun 2023
Great opportunity tomorrow to hear about design and planning in Dublin Port with Grafton Architects at this event in NCAD as part of the #NCADWorks2023 end of year show
9 Jun 2023
1/8 Looking forward to our event on Dublin Port @NCAD_Dublin #NCADworks23 tomorrow 10 June 2-3:30 pm - all welcome, just come to NCAD eircode D08 K521. Keynote speaker is Kieran O'Brien f. @graftonarchs speaking on their Port masterplan graftonarchitects.ie/Flour-M…
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
7 Jun 2023
As part of #NCADWorks23 this Saturday @ncad_dublin MA DesignHistoryMaterialCulture students present their research on Dublin Port & host Kieran O'Brien of Grafton Architects speaking on the practice's masterplan for @DublinPortCo - all welcome, dets: ncad.works/events/ro-ro-lo-l…
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
20 Mar 2023
Bright Sparks: Amazing Discoveries, Inventions & Designs by Women by @owenodoherty. Packed with fascinating facts by many forgotten women! 50 inventions explained & illustrated by Owen! Age 7 . Two of the inventors were age 12/13! Some of those features are Irish! Excellent book!
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
20 Mar 2023
Some more photos of the Irish inventors in this beautiful @OBrienPress book. Very very well done to @owenodoherty, who not only wrote his book, but illustrated it too, for his daughter Anna! "From the Earth's inner core to aquariums, from pulsars to pedal bins"! 5/5💫 #herstory
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
8 Mar 2023
Est-ce que vous connaissez ces compositrices ? 🤔
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Have you heard of these female composers? 🤔
#WomensDay
#CharlotteSohy
#AugustaHolmès
#AntoniaBembo
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27 Jan 2023
RTE news : Call for reversal of asylum accommodation policy
rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/012…
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
8 Nov 2022
On Marie Curie's birthday, the wonderful letter of solidarity Einstein wrote to her when she (yes, even she) was besieged by haters themarginalian.org/2016/04/1…
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16 Oct 2022
Is this news or a Philip K Dick quote?
"One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing."
propublica.org/article/yield…
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15 Sep 2022
As part of #OpenHouse and in association with @IAFarchitecture and @RSAInews, join me, @ClaudiaKinmont1, @thestreetfront and Priscilla Sonnier on 15 October for Four Little Talks on the topic of house and home in Georgian Ireland. openhousedublin.com/location…
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Owen O'Doherty retweeted
9 Sep 2022
We are delighted that Bright Sparks by @owenodoherty is included in @readwithsimbi's global library which encourages children to learn about the Sustainable Development Goals developed by @UN in a fun, engaging and impactful way.
1 Sep 2022
"Bright Sparks: Amazing Discoveries, Inventions, and Designs by Women" by @owenodoherty is at a Grade 5 reading level. 😍
Check it out for FREE on our library (link in bio). 🤗
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#freebooks #childrenreadingskills #childrenwhoread #adriennegear #readingforkids
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