Martha O'Brien @marthalobrien Twitter profile

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

4 years

my mum discovered a spreadsheet my dad made to plan his week off work in 2000

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many wondering if my dad has yet seen Stuart Little - he sadly died in 2015, but i can confirm he was a lovely man and amazing dad who loved the beach, the farm, the park and - of course - kissing mum

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i thought about 10 people would see this, so FAQs - OBVIOUSLY this list was made for children's eyes, my dad did not call my mum "mum" alone lmao - yes baseball is played all over the world - yes he was an electrical engineer - i am in fact potty trained also follow @nawrmag 🌻🌼

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@neufunkaum 2 kisses for mum, 0 potty training for martha

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@thelucylist would like to make it clear to the general public that i am proud to be potty trained!

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@neufunkaum finding myself defending my status as potty trained more than i'd like this tuesday morning

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@marthalobrien

3 months

yesterday i passed my viva and became Dr Martha O’Brien!!! first doctor in my family and I couldn’t have done it without them & everyone else who has so generously supported me❤️❤️ ymlaen!

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@marthalobrien

5 years

ok thought pandemic couldn't get weirder but on today's walk in CATHAYS i saw a CHICKEN

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@marthalobrien

5 months

after nearly 4 years, I have submitted my PhD thesis! ‘“Wee wenhonourGhosetrayn”: The Spectres of Welsh writing in English 1989-2019’. still got the viva to go before it’s done and dusted but feeling v happy and grateful to be here ❤️

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3 years

so this is christmas x

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4 years

@StephenDonophan low expectations, high reward

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@marthalobrien

4 years

saw a dead rat outside my house on my walk this morning and when I got back someone had laid a flower on him, if anyone's wondering how the people of cathays are doing

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@marthalobrien

4 years

absolutely no words for this witnessed in Abergavenny today

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@marthalobrien

4 years

today I found out I've got PhD funding for a research project in Modern Welsh Writing in English!! I'm gonna be the first doctor in my family!! AND my daily walk was this pretty!! some lockdown days are much better than others 🌻🌸🌳🌞

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4 years

@smanfarr sometimes you get around to the potty training but not filling in the spreadsheet!!

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@BustingFree i'm going to need to get my hands on the hard drive

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@marthalobrien

4 years

hi to everyone who followed me because of my dad's spreadsheet. i usually tweet about Wales and dead rats in my local area. i accept your soon-to-be unfollows graciously ❤️

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@marthalobrien

2 years

finally got a roll of film from the summer in the Lake District developed and discovered my favourite photo I’ve taken so far 🐑

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@marthalobrien

3 years

there's still no direct train line connecting south and north wales but ok

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@marthalobrien

4 years

did some cut and stick about being really really bored

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@marthalobrien

4 years

officially finished my MA and got this card from my mum to prove it

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@marthalobrien

4 years

not going to debrief 2020 but a lowlight was when my tweet went viral, got reposted to Facebook and everyone in the Facebook comments was just saying "WHO calls a baby Martha"

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@marthalobrien

4 years

me, age 11, looking like a small boy in the 1970s

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what is your favourite ever photo of yourself? you’re only allowed 1, but you can be any age in it

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4 years

This is the most painful cancellation I have had yet. From someone I spent 10 years working with, many lovely family dinners and lots of laughs. Someone I thought was a friend.

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@marthalobrien

2 years

precarious PGRs on the picket ✊we want contracts, fair pay and pensions now! @bethpyner @Oncomingsmith13

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@marthalobrien

3 years

get as far away from home as possible without leaving Wales challenge

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@marthalobrien

4 years

ah yes, because when i am groped in a club the first thing i do is seek out another male stranger for help

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@marthalobrien

2 years

rain can’t stop us! we’re on strike for fair pay and fighting to be recognised as vital members of staff that keep this uni afloat. end casualisation now! @JohnMc555 @bethpyner

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@marthalobrien

4 years

ardderchog!! @MULLET_FAN_NEO

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@marthalobrien

4 years

and there it is - by a landslide, Daisy May Cooper becomes the 2020 angel!! until next year 🎄

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@marthalobrien

4 years

my nana trying to remember dominic cummings' name: "who's the man with the face like an egg? the sinner?"

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@marthalobrien

4 years

currently quarantined but it did force me to finish crocheting this (accidentally) Christmassy blanket which makes things mildly less shit

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@STUBZx @nawrmag let it be known that yes, even if it wasn't that week, he did in his lifetime see Stuart Little

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@marthalobrien

3 years

got some holiday pics back, particularly enjoying this one of me looking like i just gambled away my farm

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@CreepyVirgo @PrincessMissDee @Bleddyn79 @_DHOTYA imagine faking that my dad wanted to watch Chicken Run and play baseball in 2000 lmao

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@marthalobrien

3 years

never fails to amaze me that if i just sit down and actually do my work, the work gets done. incredible stuff

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@marthalobrien

3 years

my fave bit of the quest was when frodo and legolas went to Roath

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@marthalobrien

2 years

finished a zine i've been stuck on for a long while last night + feels good!! a collection of blackout poetry entitled 'nice touch' 🥰

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@marthalobrien

4 years

what's the most deluded thing you've backed yourself on? last night i suggested I could run 20mph "if under pressure" before learning the world's fastest woman runs 21mph

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@marthalobrien

4 years

all 3 of my grandparents got their first vaccine today!!

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@marthalobrien

2 years

came to my brother’s house spontaneously after the pub and discovered that he has had my undergrad graduation photos (that I’ve never seen) in his room for 2 years . he doesn’t know how he came into possession of them

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@marthalobrien

7 months

four years since @Anna_blaandd and i started @nawrmag , it's finally in our hands!! very surreal moment - on sale soon 🩷🩷🩷

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@marthalobrien

2 years

it was nice to officially graduate from my Master's yesterday two years after finishing the degree, but the real achievement of the day was my mum putting on this monkey mask in the three second gap between photo booth pictures

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@marthalobrien

3 years

dunno if this painting at Abergavenny castle is of Norman ambushers or Wales away fans at euro 2016

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@marthalobrien

3 years

for someone who has never said 'indeed' in a serious sentence in my life i really do love to write it in academic drafts

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@marthalobrien

2 years

it's so weird having grown up working class and seeing things like buying second hand, wearing clothes for years/until they wear out etc. being marketed as "sustainable fashion trends". like, it's good (and true) but i truly thought that was just what you do with clothes

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@claricebailey i did, very lucky!

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@marthalobrien

4 years

when i was 17, i was doing sixth form 5 days a week, working weekends for Primark for £4.87 an hour, my dad died two weeks into me working there and my manager used to ask me mid-shift "why I looked so sad". idk susan you tell me xx

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

3 years

ah yes, the two genders

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@marthalobrien

3 years

sometimes I think I'm sensible with money and then sometimes I go to the shops and come home with an geometrical yoga garden gnome because it's so ugly I felt sorry for it

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@marthalobrien

3 years

as a kid i pointed out a house by roath park lake that i liked, and my Dad told me that in the 90s Pringles had run a competition called 'Pringles Dream House' where the winner would design their dream home, and that house had won. unreal fast-paced lying skill

The author, Séamas O'Reilly

@shockproofbeats

3 years

When I was a childz my dad claimed he'd never heard of the Easter bunny because "he doesn't operate in Northern Ireland", as if it was Granada TV or Waitrose. In that same spirit, I would like to know: WHAT'S THE BEST, WORST, OR MOST MEMORABLE LIE YOUR PARENTS EVER TOLD YOU?

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@marthalobrien

2 years

lots of fun filming today and meeting the lovely @nestjenkins and @yomadene ! excited to see the episode + the rest of the series 🤩

nawr

@nawrmag

2 years

Very exciting to film for ITV Wales's new program Backstage today, chatting about Welsh arts, nawr & our upcoming summer festival! Look out for the episode in a few weeks! 🥳

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@marthalobrien

4 years

though i always miss my dad, it's not especially on days like father's day, but mostly when I randomly see things like "Microsoft SwiftKey" and picture him sat with his big fingers tracing his way around his phone keyboard, wishing I could take the piss out of him again

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@marthalobrien

4 years

at 22 I have this temporary tattoo of a skeleton on my hip

Decade Investor💸

@DecadeInvestor

4 years

At 22 I have, •A podcast with over 200,000 downloads •A social media following of over 13,000 •A net worth of over $75,000 •A group of friends all over the world This is just the beginning🚀

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@marthalobrien

4 years

oh to be a slice of bread drifting downstream

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@marthalobrien

4 years

my latest collage/poem 🍋

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@marthalobrien

2 years

art therapy @ucu

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@marthalobrien

4 years

i am in love with my new niece but can't believe my sister now won't have the time to have 30 minute text conversations about what sandwich filling I should have for lunch

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@marthalobrien

4 years

no one can convince me time travel is not real - here is my sister in 2020 advertising some crisps to herself in 2004

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@marthalobrien

4 years

WHEN will these people understand that SOME PEOPLE DON'T HAVE £9.88

Real Ian McGhee BSc(Hons) Only Morons question it!

@mcgheeianmcghee

4 years

500g Pasta 45p 500g Rice 55p 2kg Maris piper £1 6 pints milk £2.24 12 eggs £1.25 Tin Chopped Tomato 29p Bananas x 7 £1 1.5Kg Chicken £2.65 Loaf bread 45p Total £9.88.

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@marthalobrien

4 years

last night i put a hot water bottle in the fridge for a few hours then took it to bed and had a blissful heatwave night's sleep - i am tweeting this to both help you and to showcase myself as 2020's greatest innovator* *if anyone has done this before me i don't want to hear it

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@marthalobrien

2 years

i wrote about @nawrmag and Welsh publications for @IWA_Wales - read below!!

Institute of Welsh Affairs

@IWA_Wales

2 years

'Welsh work often holds a marginalised position within the UK publishing scene' In turbulent times, Martha O’Brien looks at the rise of Welsh publications and the impact this has on feelings of cultural identity #thewelshagenda

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

3 years

my boyfriend James is currently working on a short film with BBC Wales & Ffilm Cymru and is looking for a house to shoot in - if you know of anywhere suitable give me a shout!! 🌟

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@marthalobrien

2 years

my fave part of 2023 so far has been finally turning demos I’ve had for years into proper songs thanks to a nudge from my far more talented brother, Kieran 😎 who knows, maybe we’ll even share stuff soon(ish)

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

4 years

@SunPictureDesk @nawrmag definitely not!

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@marthalobrien

3 years

this is such a superior cut that my dad used to call it a "love cut" (you cut triangle sandwiches for people you love)

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@PleaseBeGneiss

3 years

the geometry is too complicated to explain here but cutting a sandwich diagonally gives you more sandwich

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@johnbrissenden i wish i could answer your questions, but these are answers lost to the sands of time

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@marthalobrien

4 years

every time I check met office and see the forecast for the storm has been pushed back again I feel physically sick

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@marthalobrien

3 years

absolutely class pic of R.S. Thomas here

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

2 years

wythnos mor arbennig gyda @LitWales 💛 learned so much in this week’s Emerging Writers’ course in @Ty_Newydd & had lots of laughs thanks to class company. diolch yn fawr @rapclassroom , Iestyn Tyne & guests @mikeparkerwales , @hanan_issa_ and Grug Muse! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🫶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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@marthalobrien

4 years

nawr is asking for submissions from Black creatives in order to lend the platform we have to their voices - please share and encourage other grassroots media to do the same.

nawr

@nawrmag

4 years

It is irresponsible to have a platform and not use it. Please share the below to amplify as many Black voices as possible.

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@7puzzle once again,

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@thelucylist would like to make it clear to the general public that i am proud to be potty trained!

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@marthalobrien

3 years

very obsessed with this lovely custom t-shirt my very talented friend Shekinah designed & surprised me with for my birthday!! @nawrmag 🤩

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@marthalobrien

3 years

i think "kier starmer is a wet wipe" is harsh to wet wipes, which can be helpful. he's more like the wipe at the top of the packet that's been left out and is now dry and useless

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@marthalobrien

2 years

class solidarity at this morning’s Enough Is Enough protest in Cardiff (not a labour politician in sight)

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

3 years

tropical wales indeed 🏝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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@marthalobrien

4 years

nice and cool how i will drive more cautiously with a takeaway coffee (£3) in my car than when I am alone, with my own life (priceless)

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@marthalobrien

2 years

so excited to share that i'll be taking part in the (Re)Writing Wales course at @Ty_Newydd with @LitWales next week! can't wait! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🥰

Literature Wales

@LitWales

2 years

Literature Wales is proud to announce the 14 writers who will take part in next week’s (Re)Writing Wales course at @Ty_Newydd , run in partnership with @WalesArtsReview . Get to know more about each individual writer below 👇

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@marthalobrien

3 years

i wrote a poem every day in april on insta - would be lying if i said i'm not glad it's over but here's the last one 🌟

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@marthalobrien

4 years

it's the 7th annual return of 🎄I'M A CELEBRITREE🎄 12 celebrities, 12 baubles, a nightly public vote off and the winner is angel of the tree - here's this year's line up - vote now for who you want OFF at 6pm on Sunday. who will knock Stormzy from the top??

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@marthalobrien

4 years

accidentally dried a load of my clothes without the heating on last week so now they smell of damp and every morning I'm spraying Febreze Fabric Refresher on myself like it's Marc Jacobs

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

4 years

this isn't meant to be a sad tweet, he was a funny man. here he is a few years ago cuddling a minion. where tf did he even get it?? why is it sat like a small child on his lap??

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@marthalobrien

3 years

v happy to finally get my Greenman disposables developed, especially this one of me telling @rachyobrien her finger is on the lens

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@marthalobrien

1 year

had an amazing time at @EdinburghTVFest , meeting other great people on the scheme, attending talks & liveshows, and also keeping it cool(ish) while saying hi to Jesse Armstrong - 10/10 week !

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@marthalobrien

4 years

cat sitting this week - he has been here one day and we are best friends. reckon i might just...not give him back

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@marthalobrien

3 years

vaccine #1 done!!⭐🌞🌝✨💛

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@marthalobrien

4 years

@GMBlibrary no, sorry!

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@marthalobrien

4 years

diss chapter draft: finished cornwall: arrived rocks to balance disposable bbq on: collected

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@marthalobrien

2 years

very excited about nawr going to print at last!!

nawr

@nawrmag

2 years

ANNOUNCEMENT: Things are changing at nawr. We hope you'll stick with us for the next exciting chapter ♥️🥳🥰

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@marthalobrien

4 years

Kier Starmer

jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה

@jewdas

4 years

What’s something that ISN’T Tory but FEELS Tory to you?

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@marthalobrien

4 years

excited to share my paper on women, femininity & violence in This is England for @AtFemininity ! less excited to listen back to the recording of my own voice as i read it

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@marthalobrien

4 years

spent another sunday cutting & sticking & writing

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@marthalobrien

2 years

I have had the busiest 2 months ever with uni conferences + other PhD stuff, barely been in Cardiff. I feel like that Lady Gaga "no sleep, club, another club" clip except the "clubs" are like, Tregynon, Lampeter, Llantwit Major

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

4 years

not disappointed but v confused to realise 'I Loves the Diff' has blocked me on here?? i have never mentioned them?? they once actually nicked my photo of that cathays chicken?? did they just pick up on my negative vibes??

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

2 years

so much fun this week at the residential, especially finally meeting everybody in person! thank you @SWWDTP for an amazing opportunity to meet + chat with so many great students 🥰

SWWDTP

@SWWDTP

2 years

And that's a wrap on our residential for this year. What a whirlwind few days. Thanks first & foremost to all our amazing, passionate and inspiring researchers (DTP1 & DTP2). #SWWDTP #PhD #PhDlife #PGR

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@marthalobrien

4 years

he thinks he looks ugly in his new hat 😔 like and share to prove a point 😌

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@marthalobrien

4 years

surprise scanner (huge news)

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@marthalobrien

4 years

had a chill time hosting the @nawrmag zine workshop with @Anna_blaandd yesterday and made this collage for a poem I wrote based on the prompt "eureka!" 🌷🌺🌸 fun lovely Sunday!!

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Martha O'Brien

@marthalobrien

4 years

very excited to be a part of this with my paper on femininity in This Is England! have a look at the programme and fab episodes listed 🌟

Looking at Femininity

@AtFemininity

4 years

The programme for the Looking at Femininity sympodcast is now live! To find out more about our wonderful speakers and the papers that will make up each panel, visit our website here

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@marthalobrien

1 year

woooo i'll be playing at @DyddiauDu on 3 November! come along for the first outing of my EP and the launch of @nothumanhead 's book!! what a treat xxx

Joshua Jones | Local Fires

@nothumanhead

1 year

Then on Friday November 3rd, I'll be at my beloved @DyddiauDu ! @marthalobrien will be debuting her new music project (expect singer-songwriter, Irish folk inspired loveliness), and a non-alcoholic, LF-inspired punch! Also an exhibition of art by me and Nik Roche! FREE!

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