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Word knitter. Story teller. Author of Jewel and My Grace. #FishambleSt. #IveaghMarkets #OldNYC #OldDublin #1916EasterRising #HandelsMessiah #Tenements

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Joined April 2016
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Ennio Morricone - Le vent, le cri The perfect minute celebrating the human ability to create harmony through music, movement, vitality, grace, and art โ€” in the beauty of a poetic exchange between two young lovers. Fleeting, intense, and magnificent!
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Gregory Peck REFUSED Top Billing on Roman Holidayโ€”When Audrey Heard Why, She Broke Down in Tears Audrey Hepern arrived on that film set in Rome in 1952. She was 23 years old, but her eyes carried far more than 23 years of life. She had survived Nazi occupation. She had endured hunger that brought her body to the edge of survival. She had watched her father walk out the door and never return. She had seen her ballet dreams collapse because malnutrition had damaged her body beyond repair. Now she was standing on a Hollywood set, trembling beside the biggest movie star in the world. Gregory Peek had no idea who she was. He did not know her past or her pain. But when the cameras started rolling, he saw something in her that stopped him cold. And what he saw moved him so deeply that he decided to do something no Hollywood star had ever done before. He walked into the producers's office and demanded that his own name be made smaller. He told them this unknown girl deserved equal billing. Then he made a prophecy that shocked everyone in the room. He said that if they did not listen, they would all look foolish in 6 months when she won the Oscar. Nobody believed him. But on Oscar night 1954, Audrey Hepburn's name was called best actress. Gregory Pek was the first person to stand and applaud, and there were tears streaming down his face. This is the story of how Hollywood's biggest star recognized greatness before the world did.
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What good are the flowers, stars, and trees if they do not enter our daily lives? ๐ŸŒน โœจ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ An acrylic painting of an orange and yellow rose on a canvas, created by Art Canvas Design Studio. #art #artist #artwork #acrylic #painting #flower #rose #floralart
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โ€˜By the Fireโ€™ American Impressionist Richard Edward Miller (1875-1943) Wow this is exceptionally glorious and glowy He became a core member of the โ€˜Giverny Groupโ€™ Claude Monets rural art colony.
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Stunning footage of New York on Easter Sunday, 31st March 1929. Glamorously dressed ladies and gentlemen stroll down Fifth Avenue for the Easter Parade and queue outside St Patrick's Cathedral.
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โ€œ On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.โ€ โ€ขJules Renard
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A breezy day in the old neighbourhood with the medical hall where Falvey's chemist stood in my time. Note the two little boys in sailor suits doffing their caps to Mary Poppins, Mangan's clock and the giant union jack.
This remarkable Mitchell & Kenyon film takes us from King Street, now MacCurtain Street, towards St Patrickโ€™s Bridge, Cork, Ireland Filmed from the front of an electric tram, we glide through the busy Edwardian city, sharing the streets with horse-drawn carts, other trams and pedestrians. Corkโ€™s electric tram system was still relatively new, having opened just four years earlier in 1898. #Cork #Ireland #1900s #Edwardian #IrishHistory
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They were great for keeping us warm at night. We all slept with the overcoats over us because the tenement rooms were freezing cold. That was in the 1930s.โ€ Mrs Kelly. End.
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1/7 Working-Class History in Storage.The Mary Bruce Collection (1900sโ€“1920s) This remarkable collection of letters, photographs and theatrical memorabilia was rescued from a rubbish skip, preserving a forgotten piece of Dublinโ€™s working-class history. Mary Bruce was a theatrical
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Malika Favre Van Gogh
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This is a remarkable meeting of two musical worlds, brought together by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballรฉ in โ€œBarcelonaโ€, a work that transcended the boundaries of a song to become a cultural landmark forever associated with the 1992 Olympic Games.
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A quiet day in Giverny unfolds as we follow a woman through a garden in bloomโ€”where light, time, and memory drift gently together. From misty morning dew on lotus leaves, to a golden afternoon reading beneath the willow, and finally moonlight shimmering across the pond. ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Claude Monet โ€” Living Inside โ€œThe Water Lily Pondโ€
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So beautiful๐Ÿฆข๐Ÿฆข๐Ÿฆข โœจYo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott - The Swan (Saint-Saรซns)
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๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐ŸŽฌ Les coulisses du montage de lโ€™exposition ยซ Marie-Antoinette ยป de Sofia Coppola Plus dโ€™infos : chateauversailles.fr/actualiโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“… Du 22 septembre 2026 au 24 janvier 2027๐Ÿ“ Petit Trianon
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The Written Word Elanaka
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A writer never stops learning to better their craft. With each word we write, we add to our knowledge, and with each new idea, we expand it. #amwriting ...Be Writing. #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Writing
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Just stopping by to wish you a good morning.๐Ÿซถ
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is excited to announce that it has received a historic $60 million gift that will fundamentally expand public access to its 15 million item archive dedicated to dance, theater, and musicโ€”one of the world's largest such collections. The anonymous donation is the biggest ever to the research library. This historic gift kicks off a large-scale digitization, preservation, and cataloging project enabling its treasures to be easily accessed by anyone, anywhere, anytime. The anonymous donor recognized the urgent need to preserve and expand access to the immense cultural heritage within the archives of the Library for the Performing Arts. We are profoundly grateful for this extraordinary gift! Learn more: on.nypl.org/4gZlOd0
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๐ŸŒ๐ŸŽž The Palace of Versailles presents ยซ 20th Anniversary of โ€œMarie Antoinetteโ€œ by Sofia Coppola. Exhibition on the making of the film ยป. ๐Ÿ“… From September 22, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Petit Trianon The exhibition was conceived in collaboration with Sofia Coppola, with the support of CARTIER.
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