Tomás Murray
@tomasjmurray.bsky.social
Lean left • Tom is fine • Far from the west of Ireland now • Fond of cats, jazz, old films, paintings, poetry, stout, & Sylvia • Sylvia most of all
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My wife, Sylvia, died this morning. 💔
“When the door
scraped shut, it was the end
of all the sounds there are.
You left me
beside the quietest fire in the world.”
“When the door
scraped shut, it was the end
of all the sounds there are.
You left me
beside the quietest fire in the world.”
(from ‘There’s Nothing Like the Sun’)
“The south wall warms me: November has begun,
Yet never shone the sun as fair as now
While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough
With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang.”
“The south wall warms me: November has begun,
Yet never shone the sun as fair as now
While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough
With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
(from ‘There’s Nothing Like the Sun’)
“The south wall warms me: November has begun,
Yet never shone the sun as fair as now
While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough
With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang.”
“The south wall warms me: November has begun,
Yet never shone the sun as fair as now
While the sweet last-left damsons from the bough
With spangles of the morning’s storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang.”
It’s Cyril’s birthday tomorrow.
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It’s Cyril’s birthday tomorrow.
It’s Charles’s birthday tomorrow.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It’s Charles’s birthday tomorrow.
Reposted by Tomás Murray
“About half-past three at the end of November a sea-fog came up over the edge of the cliff and, mounting the plate-glass windows, filled the Metropole ballroom with premature twilight.”
(‘The Dancing-Mistress’)
(‘The Dancing-Mistress’)
January 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“About half-past three at the end of November a sea-fog came up over the edge of the cliff and, mounting the plate-glass windows, filled the Metropole ballroom with premature twilight.”
(‘The Dancing-Mistress’)
(‘The Dancing-Mistress’)
Paul Desmond, Jazz Alto Saxophonist, Composer, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in San Francisco, California
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Paul Desmond, Jazz Alto Saxophonist, Composer, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in San Francisco, California
Jessie Royce Landis, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1896, in Chicago
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Jessie Royce Landis, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1896, in Chicago
Nat Adderley, Jazz Trumpeter, Cornetist, #BornOnThisDay in 1931, in Tampa, Florida
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Nat Adderley, Jazz Trumpeter, Cornetist, #BornOnThisDay in 1931, in Tampa, Florida
Teddy Wilson, Jazz Pianist, #BornOnThisDay in 1912, in Austin, Texas
(cc @glennkenny.bsky.social)
‘Prisoner of Love’: youtu.be/yJb-03xp2ZU?...
(cc @glennkenny.bsky.social)
‘Prisoner of Love’: youtu.be/yJb-03xp2ZU?...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Teddy Wilson, Jazz Pianist, #BornOnThisDay in 1912, in Austin, Texas
(cc @glennkenny.bsky.social)
‘Prisoner of Love’: youtu.be/yJb-03xp2ZU?...
(cc @glennkenny.bsky.social)
‘Prisoner of Love’: youtu.be/yJb-03xp2ZU?...
Reposted by Tomás Murray
Here's a lovely clip of Cathleen discussing, among other things, that she's about to fulfill a longtime ambition and work with Alfred Hitchcock.
Cathleen Nesbitt | Interview | Actress | Rupert Brooke | Good Afternoon| 1975
YouTube video by ThamesTv
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November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's a lovely clip of Cathleen discussing, among other things, that she's about to fulfill a longtime ambition and work with Alfred Hitchcock.
It’s Geraldine’s birthday tomorrow.
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s Geraldine’s birthday tomorrow.
It’s Cathleen’s birthday tomorrow.
📸 Bassano Ltd (1922)
📸 Bassano Ltd (1922)
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It’s Cathleen’s birthday tomorrow.
📸 Bassano Ltd (1922)
📸 Bassano Ltd (1922)
Derek Mahon, Poet, #BornOnThisDay in 1941, in Belfast
From ‘The Attic’:
“I who know nothing
Scribbling on the off-chance,
Darkening the white page,
Cultivating my ignorance.”
From ‘The Attic’:
“I who know nothing
Scribbling on the off-chance,
Darkening the white page,
Cultivating my ignorance.”
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Derek Mahon, Poet, #BornOnThisDay in 1941, in Belfast
From ‘The Attic’:
“I who know nothing
Scribbling on the off-chance,
Darkening the white page,
Cultivating my ignorance.”
From ‘The Attic’:
“I who know nothing
Scribbling on the off-chance,
Darkening the white page,
Cultivating my ignorance.”
Ruth Etting, Singer, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1897, in David City, Nebraska
‘Ten Cents a Dance’: youtu.be/zK4YCwqfGWU?...
‘Ten Cents a Dance’: youtu.be/zK4YCwqfGWU?...
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Ruth Etting, Singer, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1897, in David City, Nebraska
‘Ten Cents a Dance’: youtu.be/zK4YCwqfGWU?...
‘Ten Cents a Dance’: youtu.be/zK4YCwqfGWU?...
It’s Boris’s birthday tomorrow.
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It’s Boris’s birthday tomorrow.
Geraldine Page, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in Kirksville, Missouri
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Geraldine Page, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in Kirksville, Missouri
Reposted by Tomás Murray
A lovely piece from @murielzagha.bsky.social on the glories of I Know Where I'm Going.
The cult of Powell & Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going!
I know where I’m going. I’m on the sleeper train chugging out of Euston and heading to Fort William. A wedding dress hangs on the wall in its transparent cover. I know from my printed itinerary that u...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A lovely piece from @murielzagha.bsky.social on the glories of I Know Where I'm Going.
George Gissing, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1857, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
George Gissing, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1857, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
George Eliot, Novelist, Poet, Translator, #BornOnThisDay in 1819, in Nuneaton, England
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
🎨 Frederic William Burton
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
🎨 Frederic William Burton
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
George Eliot, Novelist, Poet, Translator, #BornOnThisDay in 1819, in Nuneaton, England
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
🎨 Frederic William Burton
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
🎨 Frederic William Burton
😯
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
😯
There’s always a cat. There always will be.
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
There’s always a cat. There always will be.
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“Remember, however, that to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years.”
(‘Orthodoxy’)
(‘Orthodoxy’)
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“Remember, however, that to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years.”
(‘Orthodoxy’)
(‘Orthodoxy’)
Reposted by Tomás Murray
Corinne Griffith, Actress, Author, Producer, Businesswoman, #BornOnThisDay in 1894, in Waco, Texas
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Corinne Griffith, Actress, Author, Producer, Businesswoman, #BornOnThisDay in 1894, in Waco, Texas