#John MacBride

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1866 – Birth of Irish revolutionary and patriot, Maud Gonne MacBride, near Farnham, Surrey, England.

Maud Gonne was an Irish revolutionary, suffragette, actress and a romantic muse for William Butler Yeats, as well as the mother to Nobel Peace Prize-winner, Sean MacBride. Maud Gonne was born near Farnham, Surrey, England. She founded the Irish Nationalist group, Inghinidhe na hÉireann (The Daughters of Ireland). She had a relationship with poet, William Butler Yeats and was the inspiration for…

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#A Servant of the Queen #Abbey Theatre #Cathleen ni Houlihan #Dublin #England #Farnham #Glasnevin Cemetery #Inghinidhe na hEireann #Irish revolutionary #Iseult #John MacBride #Major John MacBride #Maude Gonne MacBride #Sean MacBride #The Daughters of Ireland #William Butler Yeats

[milk-and-cold-custard]

WB Yeats was a loser incel and I'm tired of pretending he's not. Literally in "Easter 1916" look how he talks about Maud Gonne's husband John MacBride.

also the way people talk about Gonne and Yeats is weird. She rejected him and he continued to harass her trying to propose then started try to propose to her DAUGHTER.

WB Yeat's would be crying on a reddit forum about how he's "such a nice guy and she just doesn't get it" if he was born today.

#wb yeats #going to stir up trouble in the yeats fandom #william butler yeats #maybe this is me just being a bit of a history nerds #maud gonne #john macbride #poetry

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Topper Returns 1941

#Topper Returns #Roland Young #Joan Blondell #Billie Burke #Carole Landis #Dennis O'Keefe #Patsy Kelly #H.B. Warner #Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson #George Zucco #Donald MacBride #Rafaela Ottiano #Trevor Bardette #Eddy Chandler #John Kelly #George Lloyd #William H. O'Brien #Slicker the Seal #Brick Sullivan #Duke York

[scotianostra]

On April 8th 1820 violence erupted when Radical prisoners were taken from Paisley to Greenock jail.

This is a direct follow on from the Battle of Bonnymuir post from three days ago, and the Radical War.

It always worries me posting stories like this, even though it was over 200 years since it happened we Scots have awfy long memories, especially when we sense some injustice.

Some Radical prisoners from Bonnymuir were taken from Paisley to Greenock jail under escort. The citizens of Greenock fought their escort, the Port Glasgow Militia, until they reached the jail, the militia fired indiscriminately into the Greenock crowd, resulting in eight deaths and ten wounded. In spite of the enormity of the Militia’s deed no disciplinary action was taken.

At night the citizens of Greenock rescued the Paisley Radicals, only one of whom was subsequently re-arrested..

The Greenock dead and wounded ranged from eight year old James MacGilp to sixty-five year old John MacWhinnie.

Adam Clephane (48 years) dead

James Kerr (17 years) dead

William Lindsay (15 years) dead

James MacGilp (8 years) dead

Archibald Drummond (20 years) dead

John Mac Whinnie (65 years) dead

John Boyce (33 years) dead

Archibald McKinnon (17 years) dead

(Died of his wounds on 5th May 1820)

Mrs Catherine Turner (65 years) leg amputated

Hugh Paterson (14 Years) leg amputated

Peter Cameron (14 years) flesh wound

John Gunn (24 years) flesh wound

John Turner (22 years) flesh wound

Gilbert MacArthur (18 years) slight wound

Robert Spence (11 years) slight wound

David MacBride (14 years) slight wound

John Patrick (30 years) slight wound

George Tillery (25 years) slight wound.

Pics are the the Greenock Helping Hand Memorial and the names of the dead on a wall nearby.

#scotland #scottish #history #radical war #political unrest

[jazztidbits]

Melissa Aldana Quartet - Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

Melissa Aldana - Saxophone John Escreet - Piano Pablo Menares - Bass Jimmy Macbride - Drums

#youtube

[hatingwithfears]

BOOKS READ IN 2022

Here’s the complete list of books I managed to read in 2022.

168 books. 54,494 pages.

Renata Adler- Speedboat

Kendra Allen- The Collection Plate

Jonathan Alter- His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life

Kenneth Anger- Hollywood Babylon

Jason Bailey- Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It

Peter Baker, Susan Glasser- The Divider: Trump in The White House 2017-2021

JG Ballard- The Atrocity Exhibition

Julien Barnes- Elizabeth Finch

Brit Bennett- The Vanishing Half

Charles M. Blow- The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Anthony Bourdain- Medium Raw

Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever- World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Box Brown- Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America

Mariah Carey, Michaela Angela Davis- The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan- Faith, Hope, and Carnage

David Chang- Eat a Peach

Dan Charnas- Dilla Time

Leonard Cohen- A Ballet of Lepers

Lee Cole- Groundskeeping

Teju Cole- Black Paper

Ray Connolly- Being Elvis: A Lonely Life

Brian Contoir- Practical Alchemy

Antoine Cosse- Metax

Charles R. Cross- Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain

Daniele Cybulskie- How To Live Like a Monk

Travis Dandro- King of King Court

John Darnelle- Devil House

Michael Deforge- Heaven No Hell

Rita Dove- Playlist for the Apocalypse

David Duchovny- The Reservoir

Jennifer Egan- The Candy House

Robert Evans- The Kid Stays in The Picture

Scott Eyman- Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

Nicolas Ferraro- Cruz

Mark Fisher- Ghosts of My Life

Mark Fisher- Capitalist Realism

Johnathan Franzen- Crossroads

Harry Freedman- Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius

Matti Friedman- Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

James Gavin- George Michael: A Life

Lizzy Goodman- Meet Me in The Bathroom

Andrew Sean Greer- Less

Dave Grohl- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Joseph Hansen- Troublemaker

Joy Harjo- Poet Warrior

Robert Harris- The Ghost Writer

Noah Hawley- Anthem

Wil Haygood- Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World

Clinton Heylin- The Double Life of Bob Dylan

Andrew Holleran- The Kingdom of Sand

Michel Houellebecq- Serotonin

Sean Howe- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Dorthy B Hughes- In a Lonely Place

John Irving- The Fourth Hand

Walter Isaacson- Leonardo Da Vinci

Kazuo Ishiguro- Klara and The Sun

Junji Ito- No Longer Human

Robert Jones Jr- The Prophets

Saeed Jones- Alive at The End of the World

Stephen Graham Jones- My Heart is a Chainsaw

Rax King- Tacky

Stephen King- Billy Summers

Katie Kitamura- Intimacies

Chuck Klosterman- The Nineties

TJ Klune- Under The Whispering Door

Karl Ove Knausgaard- The Morning Star

Hideo Kojima- The Creative Dream

Milan Kundera- Slowness

Wally Lamb- I Know This Much is True

Yiyun Li- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Thomas Ligotti- The Conspiracy Against The Human Race

Roger Lipsey- Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down

Patricia Lockwood- No One is Talking About This

Ling Ma- Bliss Montage

Stuart B MacBride- Halfhead

Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner- Heat 2

Greil Marcus- Dead Elvis

Mike McCormack- Solar Bones

Jennette McCurdy- I’m Glad My Mom Died

Janelle Monae- The Memory Librarian

Ottessa Moshfegh- Lapvona

Leila Mottley- Nightcrawling

Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie- Lost Girls

Grant Morrison- The Invisibles

Mannie Murphy- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Sequoia Nagamatsu- How High We Go in The Dark

Joyce Carol Oates- Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates- American Melancholy

John O’Connell- Bowie’s Bookshelf

Ryan O’Connell- Just By Looking at Him

Jenny Offill- Weather

Paul Ortiz- An African American and Latinx History of The United States

Hiroko Oyamada- The Factory

Hiroko Oyamada- The Hole

Helen Oyeymi- What is Not Yours is Not Yours

James Patterson- Hear No Evil

Larissa Pham- Pop Song

Brian Phillips- Impossible Owls

Stephanie Phillips- Why Solange Matters

Keith Phipps- Age of Cage

Michael Pollan- This Is Your Mind on Plants

Richard Powers- Bewilderment

Questlove- Music is History

Kristen Radtke- Seek You

Sue Rainsford- Follow Me to Ground

Claudia Rankine- Just Us: An American Conversation

George A Romero, Daniel Kraus- The Living Dead

Karen Russell- Orange World

George Saunders- A Swim in a Pond in The Rain

George Saunders- Liberation Day

Samantha Schweblin— Fever Dream

Leonardo Sciascia- Equal Danger

Mark Seal- Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli

Seth- Clyde Fans

Alan Sepinwall- Breaking Bad 101

Zadie Smith- Feel Free

Won-Pyung Sohn- Almond

Bob Spitz- Led Zeppelin: The Biography

Elizabeth Strout- Oh William!

J Randy Taraborrelli- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

Herve Le Tellier- The Anomaly

Manjit Thapp- Feelings

Olga Tokarczuk- The Books of Jacob

Jia Tolentino- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion

Leo Trezenick- The Confession of a Mad Man

Stanley Tucci- Taste

Una- Becoming Unbecoming

Ocean Vuong- Time is a Mother

Chris Ware- Rusty Brown

WC Ware- Jimmy Corrigan

John Waters- Liarmouth

Peter Weiss- The Shadow of The Coachman’s Body

Missouri Williams- The Doloriad

Antoine Wilson- Mouth to Mouth

Sarah Winman- Still Life

Laurie Wollever- Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

Kenneth Womack- Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and The End of The Beatles

Hanya Yanagihara- To Paradise

Ed. Jelani Cobb & David Remnick- The Matter of Black Lives

Ed. Sinead Gleeson & Kim Gordon- This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

[byneddiedingo]

Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster in The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Vince Barnett, Virginia Christine, Jack Lambert, Charles D. Brown, Donald MacBride, Charles McGraw, William Conrad, Phil Brown. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Cinematography: Elwood Bredell. Art direction: Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson. Film editing: Arthur Hilton. Music: Miklós Rózsa. 

Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner, at the start of their Hollywood careers, shine out against the noir background of The Killers like the stars they became. Which is perhaps the only major flaw in Robert Siodmak's version of -- or rather extrapolation from -- Ernest Hemingway's classic short story. They're both terrific: Lancaster underplays for once in his film career, which began with this movie, and no one was ever so beautiful or gave off such strong "bad girl" vibes as Gardner. But their presence tends to upend the film, which really stars Edmond O'Brien and a fine cast of character actors. Hemingway's story accounts for only the first 20 minutes or so of the film, the remaining hour of which was concocted by Anthony Veiller, with additional work by John Huston and Richard Brooks. In the Hemingway part of the movie, two hitmen (William Conrad and Charles McGraw) enter a small-town diner looking for their target, a washed-up boxer they call "the Swede." They bully the diner owner and tie up the cook and Nick Adams (Phil Brown), but when they decide that the Swede isn't going to show up for his usual evening meal, they leave. Nick gets loose and runs to warn the Swede, Ole Anderson (Lancaster), in his rooming house, but the man exhibits only a passive acceptance of his fate. The short story ends with the Swede turning his face to the wall and Nick returning to the diner, but in the film we see the hitmen arrive at the rooming house and kill the Swede. What follows is a backstory that Hemingway never bothered with -- although he later told Huston that he liked the movie -- about an insurance investigator's probe into the killing. The Swede had left a small insurance policy, and when the investigator, Reardon (O'Brien), contacts the beneficiary he begins to find threads that lead him back to an earlier payroll heist. With the help of a friend on the police force, Lubinsky (Sam Levene), who knew the Swede from his boxing days, Reardon sorts out the tangled story of what happened to the loot and how the Swede became the target of a hit. Siodmak's steady hand as a director earned him an Oscar nomination, as did Arthur Hilton's editing and Miklós Rózsa's score, which features a four-note motif that was lifted by composer Walter Schumann for the familiar "dum-da-dum-dum" title music of the 1950s TV series Dragnet, leading to a lawsuit that was settled out of court. Veiller was also nominated for the screenplay, but the contributions of Huston and Brooks went uncredited, largely because they were under contract to other studios.

#The Killers #Robert Siodmak #Ava Gardner #Burt Lancaster

[he-ycomeonou-t]

By 1916, Yeats was 51 years old and determined to marry and produce an heir. His rival, John MacBride, had been executed for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, so Yeats hoped that his widow, Maud Gonne, might remarry.[68] His final proposal to Gonne took place in mid-1916.[69] Gonne's history of revolutionary political activism, as well as a series of personal catastrophes in the previous few years of her life—including chloroform addiction and her troubled marriage to MacBride—made her a potentially unsuitable wife;[43] biographer R. F. Foster has observed that Yeats's last offer was motivated more by a sense of duty than by a genuine desire to marry her.

Yeats proposed in an indifferent manner, with conditions attached, and he both expected and hoped she would turn him down. According to Foster, "when he duly asked Maud to marry him and was duly refused, his thoughts shifted with surprising speed to her daughter." Iseult Gonne was Maud's second child with Lucien Millevoye, and at the time was twenty-one years old. She had lived a sad life to this point; conceived as an attempt to reincarnate her short-lived brother, for the first few years of her life she was presented as her mother's adopted niece. When Maud told her that she was going to marry, Iseult cried and told her mother that she hated MacBride.[70] When Gonne took action to divorce MacBride in 1905, the court heard allegations that he had sexually assaulted Iseult, then eleven. At fifteen, she proposed to Yeats. In 1917, he proposed to Iseult but was rejected.

That September, Yeats proposed to 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees (1892–1968), known as George, whom he had met through Olivia Shakespear. Despite warnings from her friends—"George ... you can't. He must be dead"—Hyde-Lees accepted, and the two were married on 20 October 1917.[43] Their marriage was a success, in spite of the age difference, and in spite of Yeats's feelings of remorse and regret during their honeymoon. The couple went on to have two children, Anne and Michael. Although in later years he had romantic relationships with other women, Georgie herself wrote to her husband "When you are dead, people will talk about your love affairs, but I shall say nothing, for I will remember how proud you were."[71]

During the first years of marriage, they experimented with automatic writing; she contacted a variety of spirits and guides they called "Instructors" while in a trance. The spirits communicated a complex and esoteric system of philosophy and history, which the couple developed into an exposition using geometrical shapes: phases, cones, and gyres.[72] Yeats devoted much time to preparing this material for publication as A Vision (1925). In 1924, he wrote to his publisher T. Werner Laurie, admitting: "I dare say I delude myself in thinking this book my book of books".[73]

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#k.txt

[weclassybouquetfun]

It's Friday and what should be a quiet afternoon is getting quite noisy.

-Legendary comic artist/writer Neal Adams passed away yesterday. Adams co-created Green Lantern John Stewart, Batman nemesis Ra's-Al Ghul and Man-Bat.

He was also a strong advocate for creators rights and was one of the front leaders and secure credit recognition and pensions for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

-BATWOMAN has fought her last battle on the CW. The show has been axed after 3 seasons.

There was more behind-the-scenes drama on the series than in front of the camera. S1 saw the departure of series star Ruby Rose. At the time of their leaving the show, Rose gave being allergic to the costume as the rationale for leaving. Last year, Rose admitted that they left the show due it being a "toxic workplace" alleging unsafe working conditions to led to their accident requiring surgery and being pressured to return to the show while still recovering. Rose also accused costar Dougray Scott, who played Batwoman's father, of bullying women on set and detailed a run in with costar Camrus Johnson (Luke Fox/Batwing) who Rose says got on their case for returning to set late from a doctor's appointment.

Scott disputes that he was abusive on set, WB-TV backed him up during their investigation and even said it was Rose who had multiple complaints lodged against them.

Johnson had this to say at the time.

Things were quiet after new star Javicia Leslie took up the cowl, but it was too late.

-Also gone is LEGENDS OF TOMORROW.

-Either the continuing Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial is taking up everyone's attention or people don't care about THE WALKING DEAD anymore. Melissa MacBride has existed the planned Carol and Darryl spinoff show.

Her team's statement.

“Melissa McBride has given life to one of the most interesting, real, human and popular characters in The Walking Dead Universe. Unfortunately, she is no longer able to participate in the previously announced spinoff focused on the Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier characters, which will be set and filmed in Europe this summer and premiere next year. Relocating to Europe became logistically untenable for Melissa at this time. We know fans will be disappointed by this news, but The Walking Dead Universe continues to grow and expand in interesting ways and we very much hope to see Carol again in the near future,” AMC said in a statement Wednesday.

For some reason fans have decided to blame Norman Reedus for her departure which lead Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan) to defend his pal.

Why must you all have Papa Winchester yell at you? You know a Winchester loves nothing more than to create Twitter drama (:: eyes Jared Padalecki::)

-Marvel gives a slight twist to their upcoming slap, swapping out dates for the CAPTAIN MARVEL sequel, THE MARVELS, for ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA.

THE MARVELS (with Tom Hiddleston's rumoured fiancee, Zawe Ashton joining)

previously held a release date of Feb. 17, 2023 but is now moving to July 28, 2023.

ANT-MAN & THE WASP (with newcomer Jonathan Majors, late of LOKI)takes on the Feb. 17th slate.

-Someone who doesn't have to worry about day and dates is director Jon Watts (SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME) who has exited the FANTASTIC FOUR reboot.

#neal adams #comics #dc comics #comic book artists #marvel #the walking dead #jeffrey dean morgan #melissa mcbride #norman reedus #twd #batwoman #ruby rose #camrus johnson #jon watts #fantastic four #the marvels #captain marvel #zawe ashton #ant man and the wasp #legends of tomorrow #the cw #cw #dcu #dceu

[rich4a1]

TROY ROBERTS GREEN LIGHTS

TROY ROBERTS GREEN LIGHTS Toy Robot Music Troy Roberts, tenor saxophone; Paul Bollenback, guitar; John Patitucci, acoustic bass; Jimmy MacBride, drums. When jazz musicians get together musically as peers and friends, the result is usually warm and exciting.  That’s how I would describe this 16th record release from Troy Roberts, an Australian immigrant who has settled down in NYC.  As a two-time…

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#cd review #jazz #jazz CD #Jazz Review #making a Scene

[pimpernals]

MARY O'HARA.

GENERAL.

NAME.   mary o'hara (macbride)

ALIASES.   n/a

AGE.   late thirties

BIRTHDATE.   march 19, 1919

GENDER.   female 

SEXUALITY.   bisexual

STATUS.   widowed

ETHNICITY.   white

NATIONALITY.   irish

BIRTHPLACE.   galway, ireland

RESIDENCE.   new york city, new york

OCCUPATION.   nurse

PHYSICAL.

HEIGHT.   5’7”

WEIGHT.   138 lbs

BODY TYPE.   mesomorph

SKIN TONE.   fair

HAIRSTYLE.   wavy

HAIR COLOR.   blonde

EYE COLOR.   blue

SCARS.   none

FACECLAIM.   lyndsy foneca

PERSONALITY.

TRAITS.   an absolute sweetheart. all that a good mom should be wrapped up in a bow. she's a hard worker and one of the most self-sacrificing people one will ever meet. she's burnt out from the world, yet posses the same sweetness as she did in her youth.

HABITS.   straightening her buttons

HOBBIES.   doesn't have much time to indulge in any hobbies, but she loves spending time with her son. she's up for just about anything with him.

FEARS   loosing any more loved ones

FAMILY.

FATHER.   stephen macbride

MOTHER.   molly macbride

SISTER.   several buried, both younger and older

BROTHER.   rowan macbride (only surviving brother)

SIGNIFICANT OTHER.   brian o'hara (deceased)

SON.   john o'hara (@whatsbehindthefacade)

DAUGHTER.   none

EXTRA.

MBTI.   tba.

ENNEAGRAM.   tba.

ALIGNMENT.   tba.

HISTORY.

met her husband, brian when they were in high school and were known as high school sweethearts. they married shortly after graduation, while mary was in nursing school. they moved to the united states together to find a better home for their future family.

discovering mary's pregnancy was one of the greatest days of their lives. they were absolutely thrilled to be having a child.

however, brian was drafted during world war two. he never came home.

left a widow, mary relied on the support of close friends as she gave birth to john and throughout his babyhood. she worked at a pub while she took night classes. she was able to get a job as a nurse by the time john was in school. while it break her heart to leave her son to his own devices, she asked for help from friends and neighbors to watch over him.

she and john are very close, despite the fact that she's hardly home anymore. mary loves her baby boy more than life. it hurts her so much that she can't be home with him as much as she wants to be.

when she is home, mary focuses on doing chores, trying to get some rest, and teaching john how to do things around the house that she can't while she's working.

mary doesn't quite understand what the jets are doing and assumes that her son found a nice group of friends. she loves tessie like her own daughter and is mostly oblivious to what's going on around her. her focus is keeping food on the table for her son.

#interaction: m. o'hara #study: m. o'hara #headcanon: m. o'hara #aesthetic: m. o'hara #visage: m. o'hara

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1907 – A memorial arch is dedicated at St Stephens Green Dublin in honour of the Irish soldiers who died fighting for “King and country” in the Boer war.

Five years on from the war, the Fusiliers’ Arch was unveiled in the heart of Dublin, as a testament to the actions of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in South Africa. While the war ended in a British victory, it was a bloody and costly one. In financial terms, a war that would supposedly be over by Christmas 1899 by 1902 had cost the British taxpayer in excess of £200 million, while in excess of…

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#Boer War #Britain #Catholic #Colenso #comeheretome.com #Donal Fallon #Dublin #Freeman&039;s Journal #Fusiliers Arch #Ireland #John MacBride #Nationalist #Photography by Luke Fallon #Protestant #Royal Dublin Fusilliers #St Stephen’s Green #Stephen’s Green

[gathersroses]

MARY O'HARA.

GENERAL.

NAME.   mary o'hara (macbride)

ALIASES.   n/a

AGE.   late thirties

BIRTHDATE.   march 19, 1919

GENDER.   female 

SEXUALITY.   bisexual

STATUS.   widowed

ETHNICITY.   white

NATIONALITY.   irish

BIRTHPLACE.   galway, ireland

RESIDENCE.   new york city, new york

OCCUPATION.   nurse

PHYSICAL.

HEIGHT.   5’7”

WEIGHT.   138 lbs

BODY TYPE.   mesomorph

SKIN TONE.   fair

HAIRSTYLE.   wavy

HAIR COLOR.   blonde

EYE COLOR.   blue

SCARS.   none

FACECLAIM.   lyndsy foneca

PERSONALITY.

TRAITS.   an absolute sweetheart. all that a good mom should be wrapped up in a bow. she's a hard worker and one of the most self-sacrificing people one will ever meet. she's burnt out from the world, yet posses the same sweetness as she did in her youth.

HABITS.   straightening her buttons

HOBBIES.   doesn't have much time to indulge in any hobbies, but she loves spending time with her son. she's up for just about anything with him.

FEARS   loosing any more loved ones

FAMILY.

FATHER.   stephen macbride

MOTHER.   molly macbride

SISTER.   several buried, both younger and older

BROTHER.   rowan macbride (only surviving brother)

SIGNIFICANT OTHER.   brian o'hara (deceased)

SON.   john o'hara (@whatsbehindthefacade)

DAUGHTER.   none

EXTRA.

MBTI.   tba.

ENNEAGRAM.   tba.

ALIGNMENT.   tba.

HISTORY.

met her husband, brian when they were in high school and were known as high school sweethearts. they married shortly after graduation, while mary was in nursing school. they moved to the united states together to find a better home for their future family.

discovering mary's pregnancy was one of the greatest days of their lives. they were absolutely thrilled to be having a child.

however, brian was drafted during world war two. he never came home.

left a widow, mary relied on the support of close friends as she gave birth to john and throughout his babyhood. she worked at a pub while she took night classes. she was able to get a job as a nurse by the time john was in school. while it break her heart to leave her son to his own devices, she asked for help from friends and neighbors to watch over him.

she and john are very close, despite the fact that she's hardly home anymore. mary loves her baby boy more than life. it hurts her so much that she can't be home with him as much as she wants to be.

when she is home, mary focuses on doing chores, trying to get some rest, and teaching john how to do things around the house that she can't while she's working.

mary doesn't quite understand what the jets are doing and assumes that her son found a nice group of friends. she loves tessie like her own daughter and is mostly oblivious to what's going on around her. her focus is keeping food on the table for her son.

#interaction: m. o'hara #study: m. o'hara #headcanon: m. o'hara #aesthetic: m. o'hara #visage: m. o'hara

[yespat49]

Irlande libre. A la découverte des rebelles exécutés lors de l’insurrection de Pâques 1916 : John MacBride

Nous vous proposons dans cette série estivale de découvrir les portraits des 16 leaders rebelles irlandais exécutés lors de l’insurrection de Pâques 1916 et suite à la prise de la Poste de Dublin, sous les yeux d’une foule qui ne comprenait pas réellement ce que voulaient ces nationalistes irlandais courageux, impétueux, mais encore très minoritaires à l’époque dans la population. Après Éamonn…

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[rajatpanday]

Written on Thursday 11 May, 2023

Recently, I have been reading biographies of multiple English poets. It is always exciting to read about the lives of poets because one thing that all of them have in common is their longing for someone which I guess motivates them to write. Out of all the poets I’ve read so far, I feel strong affection for William Butler Yeast - best known for his poem ‘ The Second Coming’

The poems written by him are indeed interesting but what is more interesting is his love life. Yeast had longing for a lady Maud Gonne. In 1889, they had met for the first time, and WB Yeast was into her since then, later on in 1891 he went to Ireland and asked her out but she rejected him. He admitted that was the turning point of his life, but after 8 years in 1899 he proposed again but Maud Gonne still chose to stick to her former decision.

Along the years Yeast received recognition mainly due to his major works in ‘ The Lake Isle of Innisfree ’ In 1900, he was again unsuccessful in his 3rd attempt. Maud Gonne again rejected him.

Yeast waited for one more year and tried his luck again in 1901, but as usual he failed to convince Maud Gonne. In 1903, she married John MacBride - however this marriage was not successful, they started to live separately after a few years. Yeast was also hurt and he made fun of John MacBride in his later poems.

Time kept on going, Yeast helped established Irish literary revival. Later in his life he met American poet Ezra Pound and several years after that wrote his famous poem Easter 1916.

By this time, the husband of Maud Gonne was dead and she was a widow. Yeast tried his luck for the last time and proposed again at the age of 51. Guess, what happened?

Maud chose to remain a widow. This left Yeast disappointed and he decided to propose Iseult Gonne the daughter of Maud Gonne! She was just 21. However, she too rejected him. Eventually, for the sake of posterity Yeast finally decided to marry Georgie a 25 years old lady. Even after the age difference, this marriage was a success.

Georgie wrote about Yeats “ When you are dead, people will talk about your love affair. I will not say anything, I will remember how proud you were. ”

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Intern Blog - An Easter Weekend Getaway

On Easter weekend, Communications Specialist Amelia took me on a trip to Des Moines and Iowa City, to visit her sister, Elise! It was a weekend of many American “firsts” and even though I enjoy being in Elk Horn most of the time, it was fun to have a few days in the city.

I had my first gigantic soda (or “pop”) for the car ride, and I’ve got to admit that it was very enjoyable. It was also my first trip to the Costco food court, where I had a delicious slice of pepperoni pizza AND ice cream. Living in Kolding, which is known as “Slicetown” because of the many pizzerias, I can say with great confidence that the ones in Costco are very good.  

As museum people, we obviously had to check out a few museums in Iowa City, and while Amelia showed me around her old campus, we had fun visiting the new Stanley Museum of Art and the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History. The taxidermy racoons are still the closest I have been to seeing a racoon in daylight, but I have not given up yet! I also had to say hello to Rusty (the big, prehistorical sloth), who apparently is a great celebrity at the University of Iowa and I was not disappointed by his size and, from what I can tell, amazing personality.

We DID also get to see some live animals, when Amelia and Elise took me to the Iowa Raptor Project at Lake MacBride. Here I got to see a bunch of exciting owls and hawks, and even a bald eagle. The Iowa Raptor Project is run by the University of Iowa and takes care of 17 unreleasable birds of prey historically found in Iowa. No trip to the lake without getting your feet wet, so next up we hiked to a waterfall, that we of course, also had to cross for the real waterfall-hiking-experience. It was a great success.

I have also been very interested in visiting thrift stores over here, as I am a frequent thrifter back in Denmark, and luckily, Amelia and Elise were up for thrifting, too. We found some fun things, and I’ll definitely take recommendations on fun thrift stores in the area!

Amelia also took me to the beginning of the Mormon trail in Iowa City. This is where the train tracks ended and the Mormons from countries such as Denmark would assemble handcarts for the 1300-mile-long walk to “Zion” in Utah. As we currently have an exhibition at the museum about the first wave of Danish immigrants, where many were Mormon converts, seeing where many began their long journey and how some ended up in towns such as Elk Horn was very interesting. The exhibition will be on display until May 4 2023, so there’s still time to check it out!

Lastly, we had to watch some movies. I was met with confusion by some of my dear colleagues, when I mentioned that I have never watched The Princess Bride, so that, of course, had to change. A weekend of movies such as A League of Their Own, the original Mathilda movie, 16 Candles, The Lorax, John Tucker Must Die AND Barbie in Princess and the Pauper followed, and I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. I am excited to see what other movies I have missed from my side of the pond.

I am so happy that I got to spend such a fun weekend in good company! The next few weeks will special, too. I’m heading to Denmark for my sister’s confirmation, and then to Seattle for one of our 40th anniversary events – so check back soon for more intern adventures!

BONUS INFO: I tried fried pickles. They were great!

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