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Astronomical Science Group of Ireland (ASGI) - This scientific collaboration body for astronomers, physicists and technicians across Ireland presents details of events, clubs and societies, research groups, contacts and links.
Astronomy Ireland - Details of this Irish national space-interest association, with sky and space news, including details of upcoming events, links and general information.
Dublin Night Sky Observer - Resource for (primarily Irish) astronomy and space buffs which features news, articles, local weather, "Skydiary", software and links to a range of astronomical and space-related subjects.
Dunsink Observatory - Information about the observatory, its archives and databases, staff and some good links.
Irish Astronomical Society - Founded in 1937, this organisation provides details of meetings and activities, membership, records of observations, including photos, and news and links.
Oiche - Ireland's night sky live and interactive.
Trinity Astronomy and Space Society - College society website with information about events, the society and links.
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It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Astronomy I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Astronomy Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Astronomy Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Astronomy The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Astronomy The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Astronomy Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Astronomy Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Astronomy "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Astronomy If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Astronomy I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Astronomy Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Astronomy Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Astronomy We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Astronomy To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Astronomy Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Astronomy What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Astronomy If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Astronomy As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Astronomy "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Astronomy A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Astronomy
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