PhD Social Anthropology, MSc Marketing, work Social Research, Love Finters 💖 and 4 fab Daughters ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Poetry 📖 #Novels📚 #Film 🎬 #DavidBowie⚡️
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined July 2009
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Creativity and Social Support in #MentalHealth: Service Users' Perspectives, ...by @mcdonneller #arts slideshare.net/RobertaMcDonn… via @SlideShare
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Ireland is the birthplace of Halloween, a celebration tracing back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.
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Being brave is good, but being too brave is harmful | Existential Courage youtu.be/vJr9Tf4x_OM?si=u4lT… via @YouTube
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Chrissie Hynde has spent nearly five decades making music, and a life, on her own terms. PRETENDERS follows her from Akron, Ohio and the Kent State campus, to the London punk scene that finally gave her a band of her own...
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.@Johnny_Marr talking about how James Honeyman-Scott influenced his guitar playing and Chrissie explaining how he came up with the riff for 'Brass In Pocket'...
Taken from the series 'The Guitar Story' by @JohnWilson14, listen now on @BBCSounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0kpj…
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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes…We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen” #DHLawrence @DHLawrenceSoc #2022
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theguardian.com/books/2026/s… - This is such a shock. She was a friend and mentor and I will miss her with all my heart. RIP x
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The writer and activist Gloria Steinem died Wednesday, at 92. With her writing, her community organizing, and her partnerships, Steinem remained at the forefront of the feminist movement for more than 60 years. In 2015, Jane Kramer profiled Steinem for The New Yorker. “I’m an entrepreneur of social change,” Steinem told Kramer. “I raise money. I talk. I write. I tell stories. I want to do justice to the women I meet.” Revisit the story: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mp…
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Clean up your act and stop squandering your life youtu.be/x7L9-Aw23nc?is=BJyh… via @YouTube
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Miley Cyrus and Shawn Mendes singing Dolly Parton’s iconic “Islands in the Stream” right in front of Dolly herself
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With the news of Dolly Parton, and now Tim Curry, fresh and present in my mind, something within me made me seek out this poem from the bookcase.
Some actions never need to be explained, I guess; and it is in that spirit that I share...
• Louis MacNeice •
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"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
~ Henry David Thoreau
Out in the Backwoods (1920)
🎨 Arkady Rylov
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We're thrilled our next guest will be Nina Bhadreshwar. Nina will be talking about 'The Burnt Moor', 16th September (7pm).
It's free to attend @hull_libraries (Central) or via the online stream. All the info below 📚
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If someone you love is stuck in anxiety, send them this.
Repost if this helped you. 🙏
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@BBCBreaking @itvnews @itvweather @BelfastLive Conor Heatley photo of the eclipse from Belfast Barnetts park
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Wow. That is double what was expected. Good for Belfast!
More than 1.6 million people estimated to have attended Fleadh in Belfast
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After 8 days, it all ended in the early hours of Monday with the champion Lissadell Céilí Band … and a final dance. 🎻🎼 #Fleadh
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As Belfast's first Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann comes to a close on Sunday, it is thought it could end up being the biggest ever such festival on the island of Ireland in terms of visitor numbers. bbc.in/4ho7dIG
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Many people have always had a complicated affection for Belfast.
Its home, but it's divided. Its great craic, but it can be bleak too.
This week people: young, old and middle aged are feeling pure, unfiltered joy and pride in this city.
Quite an emotional thing to see.
