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Frank Brehany
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Activist/Campaigner: (Magdalene issues/Toxins/Cabin Air Quality). Author:('A Magdalene Rose' 2025, Gaspers (Cabin Air Quality) 2nd edition 2026)
Interests: Justice, Equality, European, Politics, Music, Art.
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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 21h
New eBook: A Magdalene Rose

She could have been you; she could have been any woman; the tragedy was hers
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Regarding the discussion about Irish abroad voting in Presidential elections, I just came across Ireland’s Diaspora Strategy 2020–2025.

In it, they promise to "Hold a referendum on extending the franchise in presidential elections to citizens resident outside the State"

Maybe in Dec 😂

#Speirgorm
PARTICIPATION OF OVERSEAS CITIZENS IN OUR DEMOCRACY Greater engagement of our citizens outside the State in our democracy will strengthen the connection between the diaspora and Ireland. Diaspora participation in presidential elections will strengthen the connection between the Presidency, the highest office in the State, and the diaspora. We will: Hold a referendum on extending the franchise in presidential elections to citizens resident outside the State
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Flooding in our town, #Monmouth - we absolutely need to take this #ClimateCrisis seriously - enough of populist nonsense - time for real solutions to help the planet and ordinary people:
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November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Explore Frank Brehany's Bookshop, where his carefully researched books and articles (covering Irish social history, human rights advocacy and consumer rights) invite readers to engage with rigorous storytelling and informed activism. Visit wix.to/PNy8BTg to browse his work and join the conversation
Frank Brehany's Bookshop | Irish True Stories
Welcome to Frank Brehany's Bookshop! Discover Frank's books, from a true Irish story about four remarkable people through to a book about a decades-old international scandal about fumes you might enco...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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New eBook: A Magdalene Rose

She could have been you; she could have been any woman; the tragedy was hers
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#Ireland #Irish #NewBook #eBook #WritingCommunity #TrueStories
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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📚 I'm thrilled to announce the upcoming release of my eBook, 'A Magdalene Rose'! Mark your calendars for November 10, 2025. Join me on this extraordinary journey! Read more: wix.to/vTB8oYH #NewBook #Author #AMagdaleneRose
Author announces the publication of his eBook, ‘A Magdalene Rose’
Frank Brehany, the Author of ‘A Magdalene Rose’, is pleased to announce that his book will be published in the eBook format on Monday 10 November 2025.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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#ireland #belfast #U105radio #BookInfluencers #BookBloggers #bookstagram #writingcommunity

Thanks NI. As part of ‘The Journey Home’ for ‘A Magdalene Rose’, I’ve learnt a great deal today; looking forward to 2026 and new audiences - I’ll be back! www.frankbrehany.shop
November 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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#U105radio #frank_broadcast (+Production Team)

Thnx 4opp 2talk abt my book: A Magdalene Rose:

🌹A family secret; 4 remarkable ppl
🌹Cruelty of a Magdalen system exposed
🌹A ‘Journey Home’ towards Justice
🌹Invisible no more
🌹Via major book retailers - www.frankbrehany.shop
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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#ireland #northernireland #belfast #bookstagram #writingcommunity #Booksky

Early start up to Belfast, for the present final stage of “The Journey Home” for “A Magdalene Rose’. Media spots and meetings to prep for the next stage of the journey home for 4 remarkable people
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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#ireland #brehany #breheny #Cleary? What's in a name? Find out about those names in 'A Magdalene Rose': www.frankbrehany.shop
November 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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#IrishAmericans: Discover a true story from Ireland about 4 remarkable. Love, Betrayal, Truth & Survival are the central themes of this important book:
November 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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New eBook: A Magdalene Rose. A true story from Ireland about 4 remarkable people. Arriving on 10 November 2025
@irishlittimes.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @booksstlouis.bsky.social #booksky youtu.be/Cuagl0vPPiA
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October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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#Catholic #Catholicism #Ireland

In my latest #Podcast & #Substack article, I answer the questions about whether my book or I am anti-Catholic in the context of experiences of family experiences in #Ireland's #MotherandBabyHome & #MagdalenLaundries: open.substack.com/pub/frankbre...
October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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New Book: A Magdalene Rose

A true story from #Ireland

Four remarkable people. Love. Betrayal. Truth

Get your copy now: www.frankbrehany.shop
October 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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New Book: A Magdalene Rose

A true story from #Ireland

Four remarkable people. Love. Betrayal. Truth

Get your copy now: www.frankbrehany.shop
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I've rec'd many Qs since publication of, A Magdalene Rose

What got you into #writing zone? Music Playlist

#1: Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile" sung by #SeoLinn. Played at start of my day's work: research, opening up memories & it helped me to soar above Ireland's rich landscape youtu.be/bzXswoAUi0U?...
Seo Linn - Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile
YouTube video by Conradh na Gaeilge
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October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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In my latest #Substack article, I discuss the Industrial School Survivors Hunger-Strike in #Dublin & the issues that underpin that protest: frankbrehany.substack.com/p/irish-indu...
October 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A short film for my USA Customers on how they can secure their copy of A Magdalene Rose; it is a story that cuts to the heart of many Irish/US identities #Books #Ireland #USA #IrishAmerican
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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And this is also true in the field of #Consumer politics across Europe; the voices have withered away. There are very few voices left.
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Oct 16
The same thing has happened to the Labour Party and the BBC. It's as if some vitiating mist has crept across the political landscape, sucking the courage out of all the institutions it touches. Perhaps it's neoliberalism. Perhaps it's the growing wealth and power of the very rich.
October 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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#painting "Clontarf Shelter" came out of a cycle one morning from Howth harbour home to Dublin west, when I stopped a few times along the promenade at Clontarf to enjoy the architecture of the wind shelters, resolving to paint one when I got home. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #WindowsOnWednesday
Landscape format in acrylic, loosely painted and textured with a palette knife. A narrow horizontal strip of grey running across the centre is a promenade with a low dark brown wall on the far edge, a pale blue river on the other side of the wall, a narrow lilac band of land, and the top third being blue sky. The near side of the promenade is a lawn of various greens. In the centre at the promenade facing the river is a very pale green concrete shelter in 5 vertical segments, with two of them having a port hole through which we can see the river. The top is a brighter shade of green into yellow as the shelter curves into a roof. To the left of the shelter is a straight ornate lamp-post. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly
October 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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#Gaza

If you read nothing else today....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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#U105radio #frank_broadcast

Thnx4opp2talkabt: #EU's #EES & UK Passports

🛂Started 12/10/25
🛂CountsU in/out, no passport stamps
🛂Scan's: passport, f/prints (not/u12), photo
🛂Delays? Possibly. Long-run in w/slippage
🛂Irish Passports? (tinyurl.com/2cewmksd)
🛂Be informed. Be Prepared. Be Resilient
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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In my latest #Substack article, I discuss the current crop of media commentary about the EU's Entry/Exit System:
frankbrehany.substack.com/p/the-lament...
October 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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An old #painting for you. 31 yrs ago I did a cycle tour by myself of the newly independent Czech Republic. Březnice was a town I stayed in and when leaving I enjoyed the view looking back at the church in the square where I stayed. A few months later I painted that view. #ArtYear #Scape #SpeirGhorm
Landscape format in acrylics on heavy paper. Loosely painted blotchy marks everywhere. Under a grey and white sky with red underneath breaking through, we are looking up a curving street lined with 2 and 3-story houses, all rendered in panels of oranges and yellows. The house on the right has a black skirt as do two of the houses on the left. Slate roofs on the left are rendered in red, orange and violet. Antennas are attached to most of the houses at the front from by upper story windows. The windows of all levels in the houses and the church are dark purple and blue. The street is curving to the right to the side and back of a large church similarly coloured save for two dark onion domes at the top of towers either side of the front which is facing left so we can't see it but for the tops of the towers. The street surface is a dark grey and foothpaths both sides are purple with lilac kerbs. Signed top left, LIAM '95
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM