#Damien O’Donovan

[thefaeriejar]

why don’t damien o’donovan fics exist

#cillian murphy #cillian murphy x reader #the wind that shakes the barley #damien o’donovan #cillian x reader #cillian x fem!reader #mine #txt post

[denimbex1986]

'28 Days Later, the apocalyptic zombie film which gave Cillian Murphy his breakout role, opens and closes with two near-identical scenes. Both moments find Jim, played by Murphy, scared, injured and confused, the camera pressed hard to his face as he tries to decipher the situation in which he finds himself. These bookends, while framed in a similar fashion, present two very different people; the Jim blissfully unaware of the zombie apocalypse gripping his world, and the Jim who’s just pressed a man’s eyeballs out with his thumbs to save his only friends and companions. A man who did what had to be done.

Throughout his career, the latter is the Murphy we have become familiar with. In almost every role he takes on, Murphy has an inherent control over his environment. Whether he is a mob boss, Irish revolutionary, Gotham’s least Hippocratic psychiatrist, or a world-changing nuclear physicist, he is preternaturally competent, a stoic statue of proficiency, a man who does what’s needed. Jim isn’t any of those things when we first meet him, but he learns fast.

As we enter a summer in which Murphy is set to headline one of the biggest movies of the year, it is important to remember how anonymous he was when he was cast in Danny Boyle’s zombie thriller. Up to that point, the 26-year-old Cork-born actor had mostly bounced around British and Irish theater, before starring in Disco Pigs – a strange, dark little movie adapted from the Edna Walsh play he had also performed in. That said, it’s not hard to understand what Boyle and subsequent directors saw in the young actor. As if his piercing blue eyes and Roman bust of a face weren’t enough, Murphy has the kind of quiet, understated power that allows for both projection and unknowability.

“Cillian has this extraordinary empathetic ability to carry an audience into a thought process. He projects an intelligence that allows the audience to feel that they understand the character and see layers of meaning,” said Christopher Nolan to Rolling Stone earlier this year. It’s something that Nolan has exploited in different ways throughout their many collaborations. Hot off the success of 28 Days Later, Nolan brought Murphy in to test for the lead role in his new Batman trilogy – a role that would eventually go to Christian Bale. Regardless, Nolan wanted Murphy involved, instead casting him as one of Bale’s earliest nemeses, Dr. Jonathan Crane, or Scarecrow, a psychiatrist unafraid to explore unconventional modes of diagnosis and treatment. There’s something to be said about the fact that even as a comic book villain – a notoriously insecure profession – Murphy’s Scarecrow remains a thread that runs through the Nolan Batman trilogy, an adaptable, steady hand in a world of Jokers.

It’s a role Murphy takes on again and again throughout his career, that of the consummate professional, even as circumstances around him continue to heighten. A year after the release of Batman Begins, Murphy appeared in Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes The Barley, a story set a bit closer to home than Gotham City. In it, he plays Damien O’Donovan, a fictional Irish Republican Army soldier fighting for Irish independence in the 1920s. It’s a dense, historically-minded film in which the chaos and violence of the time is placed at the fore, and individual character, at times, is given short shrift.

Murphy’s O’Donovan is the exception – a young man believable as both the bookish, London-bound doctor and the ruthless military leader. It’s his moral anguish, and constant refusal to let it stand in the way of his goals, that give the film momentum and pathos even in the face of its moments of history book density.

Much of what he does in The Wind That Shakes The Barley can be seen as the blueprint for what, to this point, is perhaps Murphy’s most notable role. Thomas Shelby, the leader of the titular criminal enterprise at the center of Peaky Blinders, is defined by both internalized anguish and ruthless acumen. Like many a television anti-hero before and after, Shelby is haunted, by both the trauma he faced during the First World War and the violent lengths he must go to keep his family atop the pecking order in 1920s Birmingham. For much of the series, this trauma is beneath the surface, an anger that simmers from the corners of those wide eyes but never makes its way to the rest of the face. When it does escape that stoic stare, it is violent and terrifying, a drastic inversion of the control he so easily displays.

It’s this line of performance that makes his broken and shell-shocked turn in 2017’s Dunkirk all the more affecting. Nolan’s characteristic manipulation of time has us meet Murphy’s unnamed “shivering soldier” only after the events that have led him to near catatonia. When Mark Rylance’s civilian sailor and his son find Murphy he looks the part of a competent officer, one who should be raring for a fight, but instead his all frayed nerves, pure trauma with none of the facade that Murphy typically wears so well.

This brings us back to 28 Days Later. When we meet Jim he could not be more vulnerable. Stark naked, alone and afraid, he awakens unaware of the virus that has revaged the United Kingdom, and survives only thanks to a few straggling survivors, led by Naomie Harris’s headstrong and resourceful chemist Selena. Today, it’s not hard to picture Murphy as the knowing leader ushering the powerless through apocalyptic terror, but here he is all but ineffectual, a bicycle messenger who lost his whole family and nearly everyone he has ever met. “Help Selena! Wait, Selena!” yells Jim as he hobbles up the stairs away from the infected whose red eyes and snarled teeth close in on him. As the audience surrogate, Murphy spends much of 28 Days Later learning and adapting as best he can, but he is almost always one step behind the action, never in control.

That is, until the film’s climax, when his naivety and relative peacefulness is wrenched away by twisted humanity that threatens his only remaining companions. Caked in blood and straddling a would-be rapist, Jim is no longer wide-eyed, but hardened and callous. It’s in these final moments where we meet the Murphy who has graced our screens ever since: a man whose hope is always tempered by anguish, but who can be rellied upon to do what has to be done all the same.'

#28 Days Later #Jim #Danny Boyle #Disco Pigs #Enda Walsh #Christopher Nolan #The Dark Knight Trilogy #Dr. Jonathan Crane #Scarecrow #Ken Loach #The Wind That Shakes The Barley #Damien O’Donovan #Thomas Shelby #Peaky Blinders #Dunkirk #Mark Rylance #Christian Bale #Naomie Harris #Selena

[look-at-the-soul]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CILLIAN 💙🎉

Given the fact that I’m not talented to edit photos 😅 I will just share some of my favorites (apart from The Photoshoot)

If you so something to celebrate Cillian’s birthday tag me! So I can see your work and share it 🥰

#cillian murphy #tommy shelby #emmet aqp2 #lenny miller #robert fischer #robert capa #Matthew joy #william killick #robert oppenheimer #Raymond Leon #Damien o’Donovan

[cillixn]

Now you have to rate Cill’s films from most sexy appearance to least sexy appearance!

bruh ????? that’s literally so difficult

what’s his least sexy role? peacock maybe? the brown contacts just weren’t giving, y’know? but even still he was pretty cute. or maybe his 2 second cameo in tron legacy?? wasn’t really into that look ngl

h o w do i even choose?? there’s TOO MANY 😵‍💫 also am i choosing based on aesthetics alone or overall vibe? because some of his characters are super hot but you know the vibe is rancid lmao like lbr, you probably wouldn’t actually wanna hang out with robert fischer, leonard miller, or donny buchanan because it would just be so fucking boring. jonathan crane and jackson rippner? scary and dangerous. JIM FROM THE DELINQUENT SEASON IS LITERALLY JUST SOME GUY.

but if we’re just talking S tier visual aesthetics:

tommy shelby (i mean obviously) and jonathan crane (also obv)

jim (the delinquent season), tom (the party), william killick, raymond leon, donald buchanan, robert fischer, neil lewis, tom buckley, jackson rippner, and leonard miller all kinda exist at the same level of hotness for me

same goes for jonathan breech, davin mcderby and damien o’donovan

and finally jim (28 days later) and my dreamy long haired bb pieter (girl with a pearl earring) to round it out

#(​insert cillian “sorry for the boring answer” gif here) #i know for sure i skimmed over some characters but like??? they probably all go in that second tier anyway??? #someone needs to make an actual tier list lmao #asks #cillian murphy

[shiveringsoldier]

my favorite Cillian Murphy character is actually Damien O’Donovan, but Shivering Soldier is my Cillian Murphy character

#if that makes sense #.txt

[cillianmurphyaddict]

The Wind That Shakes The Barley [2006]

Directed by Ken Loach

#the wind that shakes the barley #ken loach #Damien O’Donovan #cillian murphy #Pádraic Delaney #liam cunningham #orla fitzgerald #film classics #irish history #historical movies #Irish rebellion #irish republican army #irish civil war #filmgifs #war film #movieedit #perioddramaedit #perioddramagif #indy film #my edit #*gifs

[opheliasbrokenmind]

I’M DEFINITELY GONNA TELL MY CHILDREN THIS WAS TOMMY SHELBY!!

#the wind that shakes the barley #damien o’donovan #cillian murphy #my sweet love serving us looks

[cillianparadise]

damien o’donovan icons • reblog if you save/use • don’t steal

#cillian murphy #cillian murphy icons #the wind that shakes the barley #damien o’donovan #war movie #man #actor #irish man #inception #the edge of love #trascendence #batman begins #the dark knight #the dark knight rises #dunkirk #anthropoid #robert fischer #peaky blinders #tommy shelby #tommy shelby icons #peaky blinders icons #breakfast on pluto #thomas shelby #cillian murphy icon #cillian murphy pack #icon

[cm-edits]

CILLIAN MURPHY AS DAMIEN O’DONOVAN IN THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY.

#Damien O'Donovan #cillian murphy #the wind that shakes the barley

[classycloudpirate]

Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Cillian Murphy stars as Damien O’Donovan and as usual is wonderful. The film itself is a heart-wrenching story of civil war and a people’s fight for freedom and dignity. Compelling viewing.

#cillian murphy #the wind that shakes the barley #ken loach #palme d'or #cannes festival #my screenshots

[jebazzled]

benjy fenwick, he copped it too, we only ever found bits of him.

Full name: benjamin fletcher fenwick Nicknames: ben, benj, benjy, fenwick Birthdate/age: january 27, 1954 Gender & Sexuality: heterosexual man Nationality: scottish Schooling: hogwarts, hufflepuff, class of 1972 Wand: poplar and unicorn hair, 12 3/4 inches, bendy Boggart: a dead child, face down Patronus: raccoon Amortentia: freshly cut grass, fallen leaves, chicken soup Physical description: lanky limbs, healer’s robes over flannel, undereye circles like inked thumbprints. a constant, unshakeable aura of exhaustion, sharp eyes, closed-off expression. knobby knuckles, always fidgeting. tortoiseshell-framed reading glasses, a gold ring with the hufflepuff crest, a gold wristwatch with runes along the edges and the engraving “do all the good you can.”  Strengths: thoughtful, compassionate, sincere. altruistic, determined, loyal, careful. has spent his entire life in pursuit of doing the right thing and is constantly trying to do better. Weaknesses: quiet, a wallflower type, lenient; as a prefect, used to let students get away with all sorts of rule-breaking. reserved and unwilling to open up to others, refuses help or guidance. a strong moral compass with a glaring blind spot resulting in a willingness to set aside ethical considerations in the moment, then wallow in self-hatred later.  Likes: poetry, plants, vietnamese food, charms, gobstones. helping others - both in the big picture, a la the Order, and smaller-scale projects, like soup kitchens and doing yardwork for the elderly. quiet time alone or with close friends, camaraderie and companionship, cafes, inns, and church potlucks. dogs, especially giant ones. Dislikes: purists, apathy, confrontation. himself, most days. quidditch & cricket. seafood and snakes. Zodiac: aquarius MBTI: isfj Moral alignment: chaotic good Character parallels: jet (avatar: the last airbender), damien o’donovan (the wind that shakes the barley), inglorious basterds, gale hawthorne (the hunger games) Player Discord or contact: JB#8603 - benjy will be part of the anti-purist terrorism subplot, so please hit me up if that’s of interest to you!

#benjy #halysrp #gonna kill this bad boy someday #sorry benj!

[look-at-the-soul]

500 followers, 500 thank yous’!!!!

What?! Can’t believe this, I never thought I’d reach 10, let alone 500!!!

✨ I’d like to start my Oscars speech with a sincere thank you to each one of you beautiful souls reading, liking, sharing and writing back… this wouldn’t be possible without you.

Trust me, I now recognize each of the ones constantly sharing the stories, the ones leaving lovely messages part after part, the anonymous comments and I treasure everyone of you.

I wasn’t sure to make a celebration or not, but honestly, I wouldn’t be here writing and staying up late (sometimes very late at night) writing the crazy ideas I get… so why not? Since we’re at different time zones, I thought of two celebrations, one for PM and one like a brunch (yeah, I’m that extra hostess 😉).

I’d love to see you all raising your glass with me, there’s a drinks table full of 🍷, 🍺, 🥃, 🍹, 🥂,🍸, mimosas, margaritas, and also non-alcoholic drinks, whatever you want🥰

I hope you don’t think it’s too much alcohol 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ Goodness what you must be thinking of me, I only drink a glass of wine every now and then, on special occasions… So I prepared a table of desserts for you! Brownies, cookies, oatmeal bars, eclairs, lemon tart, scones, macaroons… brunch, whatever you fancy! Be my guest

So you (lovely reader!) can send me a gif or a photo of the characters I write for Cillian, Tommy Shelby (Peaky Blinders), Lenny Miller (Anna movie), Robert Fischer (Inception movie), Emmet (A quiet place 2), Raymond Leon (In time movie), William Killick (The Edge of love movie), Damien O’Donovan (The wind that shakes the Barley), Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow in Batman), Martin (Retreat) (am I forgetting someone????) with or without a prompt you choose and I’ll write a small blurb.

🔮 Send one of these in my ask box and I will answer your question(s)… anything you want to know about me 😉

🗳 Send me something you would like to see in my stories and we’ll see what we can do (a quote you love, song, poem, situation).

Some prompts in this link you can send me or choose for yourself👇🏻

Link to prompts

✨You’d like to see your love story be part of a fanfic? Send it in! I’m always looking for inspiration.

📖 Or you can also write your own blurb/one shot inspired by my celebration (totally free) and I will be forever grateful and honored 😊, moodboards are always welcome!!! (Tag me!)

♥️ Last but not least, send me what you love/like about a story, I always love to hear from you. Your comments feed my soul.

🍀I don’t want to set an specific end date because I don’t know how long it will take me to fit this with the on going stories and we all know that inspiration can’t be forced, but let’s say you have July to send whatever you feel like.

💕I’m adding some lovely accounts I highly recommend you start following in case you don’t know them. Some of them are incredible writers some make gif/moodboards and some are the biggest cheerleaders of this fandom, these go in no particular order… and I’m glad I came across everyone. (I wanted to add everybody) 🥰🥰

@missymurphy1985 @gypsy-girl-08 @lyarr24 @zablife @theshelbyclan @thesoldiersminute (thank you for all your incredible gifs!) @holacia2 @peakyv @queenshelby @cillspropertea @madame-wilsonn @theshelbyslimited @runnning-outof-time @l1-l4 @gretelshelby @allie131313 @cloudofdisney @heidimoreton @killmecillian @retromafia @tatianapetrovna @2000snostaalgiia @seleneshelby @ange-thoughts @cillmequick @datewithgianni @peaky-cillian @anonymooseforever007 @yrli8 @celticmelody @toms-cherry-trees @shaddixlife @padfootdaredmetoo @evita-shelby @shelbydelrey

#Mar’s 500 celebration #can’t believe this magic #That’s what Cill said #the power of words

[skyhillian]

dream daddy VA predictions

Brian - Brian Wecht Craig - Dad Avidad Hugo - Vernon Shaw Mat - Barry Kramer Damien - Ross O’Donovan Joseph - Arin Hanson Mystery Dad - your own dad

#caitspeaks #text #dream daddy #game grumps #ITS JUST A GUESS MAN

[andyfliz]

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O’Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend’s farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

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[terryblount]

Monster Prom Adds Mod Tools

While it’s common knowledge that you can’t please everyone, Monster Prom is giving players the chance to directly impact their Monster Prom experience with the release of a mod tool for the game.

MONSTER PROM: MODTOOL

Yeah, we’re releasing a modtool feature for Monster Prom.

Create your own events, items, plotlines, secret endings and minor NPCs.

We will also release a series of awesome mods ourselves to promote the feature!

What do you think? (: pic.twitter.com/UxmstsIbzz

— Monster Prom (@monsterprom) April 27, 2019

Making the announcement on their twitter, the mod tool will allow players to add their own routes and events, and will even allow the addition of custom characters and outfits.

To get players into the spirit of modding, the tool will come with several never-before seen characters such as demonic heartthrob Damien’s dads, as well as original characters by animator Ross O’Donovan of Game Grumps fame.

The development team plans to test the feature with a small userbase first, but has plans to add the tool as DLC at a later date.

We will test it first with a smaller userbase (join by supporting our upcoming #Kickstarter for the sequel). Then it will become a DLC feature (Second Term) and finally something for EVERYONE!

— Monster Prom (@monsterprom) April 27, 2019

Monster Prom is an ambitious multiplayer dating sim that came out last year, having also just released its first DLC in February.

For more information, you can also read our review of it here

Monster Prom Adds Mod Tools published first on https://touchgen.tumblr.com/

[characterobsessed]

Rewatched The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Cried my eyes out. This song just comes to mind when I think of this movie oml💔😭🇮🇪

#the wind that shakes the barley #damien #cillian murphy #damien o’donovan #ira #irish free state #1920 #music #itunes #soundcloud #spotify #audio