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Gabrielle

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‘one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not America’ I’m here for #ShakespeareSunday. Currently between gardens, so enjoying yours vicariously. 🍏🍒

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 6d

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign.
TOTS 5.2
#ShakespeareSunday

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 6d

Just to remind everyone how awesome Brian Blessed is.
#ShakespeareSunday

elShoggotho @elshoggotho.bsky.social · 9d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaVD...

Henry V (1/3) Duke Thomas Beaufort's Message (1989) HD

YouTube video by Shout! Studios

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 6d

‘I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my
mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do
my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and
seek not to alter me.’

MAAN 1.3
#ShakespeareSunday

two cartoon characters are standing next to each other with the words moominvalley on the bottom right

Alt: Little My from Tove Janssen’s Moominland, a notorious biter, kicking someone’s door in.

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 6d

‘the sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast, making their way
With those of nobler bulk!
But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis… where's then the saucy boat…?’

T&C 1.3
#ShakespeareSunday

Wynken, Blynken and Nod fishing from their boat made out of a wooden clog.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 14d

This is an amazing book on the Irish landscape and its relationship to myth, but it’s so much more; it opens the door on other ways of inhabiting the world.

Cover of ‘Listen to the Land’ by Manchán Magan.

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 7d

‘you weaver of brightness’, what wonderful tributes♥️

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 7d

Manchán Magan tributes: ‘He arrived in this life like a comet, ablaze with purpose’

Liam Ó Maonlaí, Kathy Scott, Seán Ronayne among the artists, musicians, writers and film-makers paying tribute to the late journalist, author and TV presenter

www.irishtimes.com

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 8d

For me, his enduring legacy is demonstrating the rooted connection between our language and our land, there is no distinction in Irish between the speaker and the nature around them, and few people in the world had as profound an understanding of that as Manchán.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 8d

Manchán Magan's newly published book Ninety nine words for rain (and one for Sun)

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 7d

I used to brush my lovely old labrador in the park. When she stood up it always looked like a crime scene outline on the grass.

Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 7d

I love that mammoth. Here’s a little amber goose (?) for him to play with!

A piece of opaque orange amber worked into a goose-like shape. Just one of many, many cool Stone Age things in Danish museums.

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 7d

Yep, I think Thud’s my favourite.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 7d

Remembering Manchán Magan - conversations from the RTÉ archives www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Remembering Manchán Magan - conversations from the RTÉ archives

Writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan, who has died aged 55, was a man who often described himself as having 'one foot in the other world'.

www.rte.ie

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 7d

Cue the folks pretending they never voted for it 🙄

Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 7d

‘Lust for life.’

Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 7d

Oh no! The vomit tree!

Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 8d

Totally, and also faking the pretty lady thing.

Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 9d

Where’s the veggies, Peter Hazel???

Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 9d

Best costume ever.

Eldrad, a silicon-based life form, which in 1970s Dr Who terms means a lady in a gunmetal leotard with chunks of crystal stuck onto it.

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 9d

Would that era also include Pyramids of Mars?

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Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 9d

So good.

Gabrielle @irmaghad.bsky.social · 9d

Gordon’s Alive!!!

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Dona Dickinson @donadickinson.bsky.social · 9d

RIP to a true legend.

"YOU CANNOT GET
THROUGH A SINGLE DAY
WITHOUT HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD AROUND YOU. WHAT YOU DO MAKES A
DIFFERENCE, AND YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT KIND OF DIFFERENCE YOU WANT TO MAKE."
- Jane Goodall

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 9d

If the #Nobel Peace Prize was worth a damn, they'd now award it to Jane Goodall.

Few people have worked that hard or passionately for peace, love, empathy.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 9d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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