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Clearyb
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Writer/researcher, cochlear implant recipient Work👉#MedSafety #MedsInPregnancy #VTE #Pharmacoepi #Pharmsky #Writing👉 http://noisysilence.ie Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill https://rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/ #HelpUsHear dDeaf/gigs
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Wild wild stuff.
At the same time, Holliday was posting in the FBS Facebook group. "I remember typing," says midwife Ranee LaPointe, a member of the group, "please go to the hospital? And as quickly as I would type it, it would get taken down." Administrators told LaPointe that talk of hospitals was against the group's rules. On the evening of 6 October 2018, after six days After Marlow died, Voitot became consumed by the need to speak to Saldaya and Norris-Clark. She couldn't afford the $350 Saldaya charged for an hour-long call, but Norris-Clark agreed to a reduced fee of $150. On this call, Norris-Clark told Voitot her son's death was not necessarily a bad thing. "There's an overall assumption that death is the wrong outcome," she said. "And I don't think that can really ever be true."
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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And this 👇 rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/
yellow book with black foil. Flowers & snakes motif. FOREWORD BY RODDY DOYLE Bram Stoker Gibbet Hill “An eerie, unexpected gift from the past, like stumbling upon tressure in the darkness.” JOHN CONNOLLY
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I prefer Duties. www.bramstoker.org/nonfic/01ire...
Cartoon of two squirrels having a conversation. sparrows just make the most beautiful music i actually find it derivative and predictable i prefer the scratching sounds of burrowing animals you know, underground stuff
November 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Happy birthday Bram Stoker! His long lost story sold over 1100 copies last weekend and is doing great work to support the Charlotte Stoker Fund, supporting research on preventable hearing loss in newborns.
Flowers & snakes motif. FOREWORD BY RODDY DOYLE Bram Stoker “An eerie, unexpected gift from the past, like stumbling upon tressure in the darkness.” JOHN CONNOLLY
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Paul Murray. From the shadow of Dracula.
Bram was a Dubliner (moved to London aged~31). With a strong Dublin accent & amid rampant anti-Irish racism, he did OK in London. His great uncle was hanged for leading Irish troops in 1798. Quote from the “Lord Lieutenant” when Stoker started Dracula 👇
https://www.dib.ie/biography/dundas-lawrence-a2837 His experience led Zetland to conclude nothing more profound than that 'Providence has not endowed the Celt with sufficient energy to do much more than eat potatoes that are put in his mouth' (Shannon, 53).
November 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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I have a couple of tickets for this if anyone is interested. 🤓 🧛‍♂️
Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival Sold Out Free Literary Stoker In-Depth Talks Finding Gibbet Hill: A Remarkable Discovery, One Year On. This special event reflects on Gibbet Hill's rediscovery, its ties to the National Library and more. Sat 1-Sat 1 Nov National Library of Ireland FREE, but ticketed Sold Out Picture of a man holding a newspaper article in front of a grand staircase
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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#GoodNews
Mary Linton 2 hours ago A lovely uplifting feel good story for a change......l love to see such positivity promise resulting from what was a negative beginning. Beautiful artwork too.....I'll certainly donate a few euro to this very worthwhile cause. 19 •• BRAM STOKER BRIAN CLEARY DEAFNESS DRACULA HALLOWEEN GOOD NEWS GOODNEWS HEARING LOSS MACNAS MACNAS PARADE NATIONAL LIBRARY ROTUNDA HOSPITAL
October 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Could I get a copy of Gibbet Hill to you? www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/b...
yellow book with black foil flowers & snakes motif. FOREWORD BY RODDY DOYLE Bram Stoker Gibbet Hill “An eerie, unexpected gift from the past, like stumbling upon tressure in the darkness.” JOHN CONNOLLY A carpet with a multicolour mandala pattern is in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The Boy from Macnas’ An Treun (The Corncrake) Halloween Parade in Galway this evening. Inspired by a weird little guy from Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill.
October 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Charlie Byrne’s looking well on this grand soft day. Bram Stoker’s #GibbetHill is taking pride of place in the window display. Macnas parade about to start. All proceeds from this book go to the Charlotte Stoker Fund. This fund supports research on preventable hearing loss in vulnerable newborns.
Window display for Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway. Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill display. Macnas poster for an Treun is in the centre of the display. An old copy of Dracula is at the top of the display 🧛‍♂️
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Interval in the show. Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings🤯 In my Tennessee Mountain Home is being cast into my head via my TV streamer. I don’t have to listen to the overwhelming crowd noise & I control the volume. 🙌🙌 #Accessibility win #CochlearImplant #HelpUsHear Thank you @aikenpromotions.bsky.social
Screenshot of Cochlear app. The TV streamer is the selected source. The volume is 7
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Interval in the show. Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings🤯 In my Tennessee Mountain Home is being cast into my head via my TV streamer. I don’t have to listen to the overwhelming crowd noise & I control the volume. 🙌🙌 #Accessibility win #CochlearImplant #HelpUsHear Thank you @aikenpromotions.bsky.social
Screenshot of Cochlear app. The TV streamer is the selected source. The volume is 7
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings tonight in Vicar St. The superstars in @aikenpromotions.bsky.social have organised to plug my cochlear implant into the sound desk 🙌
Cochlear bag. Image is a stylised cochlea
October 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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#IrishBookWeek: Share an Irish book you read recently📚☘ I’m cheating: This long-lost ghost story from Bram Stoker is published by the Rotunda Foundation to benefit the Charlotte Stoker Fund (supporting hearing loss research). Foreword by Roddy Doyle, original artwork by Paul McKinley, & lots more
Little old west highland terrier looms over a yellow book with black foil flowers & snakes motif. FOREWORD BY RODDY DOYLE Bram Stoker Gibbet Hill “An eerie, unexpected gift from the past, like stumbling upon treasure in the darkness.” JOHN CONNOLLY
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Connolly for President poster. A smiling woman with short grey hair. The poster is above a sign saying END DETOUR
October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Literally out in my anorak trying to get a photo of of one of the last 123 busses. It didn’t stop, so this was the best I could do in the dark. Got the N3 though. 🤓
Dublin Bus 🚌 on a dark, wet Griffith Avenue Dublin Bus 🚌 on a dark, wet, leaf-strewn Griffith Avenue 123 Dublin Bus from behind 🚌 on a dark, wet Griffith Avenue N3 Dublin bus. Stopped across the road from Marino Parish Church
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Fair play to the travelling man

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Irish Times screenshot Me, Myself and Ireland Everything is saying we should be depressed, but we still find the craic® Comedian Martin Beanz' Warde on growing up as a Traveller in Ireland and laughing back at stereotypes [was bora in Atbcary, Co Galvzy, ad years of my life, we travelled around the is the sound of rain hitting the roof of the mese I'm an outdoony perion. Being out in travel: mecting di/ferent people, having ng a cupol tea with a tocal stranger il simply because I got a flat on working class koen. It has a great basor Now Dectors arc probably the mont Tom Murphy, the playwright I gror uph a council estate. The Traveller, merce i the poercil poople gh I was a victim offrish society. I eit I was part of Inish society, and soese allow myself to go around thinking we had it worse than ever body. My parents would sever have alle always just go eut and do your best oo matter who you are. Leaving Cert. It wassit thut ! dids t huve the intellect But we icara differently. aod scboo wasn't a great envircement for mog to learn. After the Leiving Cert, I started cdacation. I was almost finished when Des Bishop came to Tuam locking for Travellers to be part of his new comedy how. The headline in the Tuam Herald read "Babop to muke laughing nock of Travellers", I was like pfff, ler'i see about 8 /THE IRISH TIMES Magazine | October 13, 2025 After three wecks working with Des, did my first (stand up| show, live in front 1220 people. After that I surted sup porting Des. I realiced that, actually. I'm ne bol at this comedy stel Because Istarted doing locs of tips, my did the access prograrone again as a mature student and did a degree in Nadeasl Uab ersity of treland, Galway, in sockelogy and policy. The vast majority of my stuff is based being a Traveller. And three, being gay. can speak with authonity ce all of those things because identify as all of those thing. To this day. I'm soll the ont comedians in the past have mined my community for comedy, usually punch …
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Water fountain in Brussels airport. There’s a photo of the Mannequin de pis strategically placed behind the fountain. Bronze sculpture of. Cherub pissing Water fountain in Brussels airport. There’s a photo of the Mannequin de pis strategically placed behind the fountain. Bronze sculpture of. Cherub pissing
October 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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We didn’t manage to engage with Arena last year as the Rotunda Foundation published this book and the associated artwork by Paul McKinley. It would be great if it could happen around Halloween this year! rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/
Little old west highland terrier looms over a yellow book with black foil. Flowers & snakes motif. FOREWORD BY RODDY DOYLE Bram Stoker Gibbet Hill “An eerie, unexpected gift from the past, like stumbling upon tressure in the darkness.” JOHN CONNOLLY
October 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Macnas are interpreting Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill with parades in Galway (Oct 26) & as part of the Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin (Nov 2). 🧛‍♂️🤓🙌 Gibbet Hill is available in some Galway & Dublin bookshops & from rotundafoundation.ie/gibbet-hill/ All proceeds ➡️ hearing loss research in vulnerable newborns
Photo of a giant (5m) puppet of a boy, a character from Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill. He wears a green tunic and white linen collarless shirt with brown trousers. In front of him, one of the Macnas performers is frozen mid air in a cruciform jump pose
October 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Photo of a giant (5m) puppet of a boy, a character from Bram Stoker’s Gibbet Hill. He wears a green tunic and white linen collarless shirt with brown trousers. In front of him, one of the Macnas performers is frozen mid air in a cruciform jump pose
October 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Listening to @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social this morning, I’m reminded of these lines from Leonard and Hungry Paul. @ronanhession.bsky.social RIP @manchanmagan.bsky.social
‘T1 get Highlight Look Up Note Copy Share RE plano, LICIE GLE LIU TIULLLIOCS in life. What I learned is that everyone in your life has an invisible number on their foreheads, which represents the number of times you will see them again. It might be zero or one, or it could be a thousand, but it's a num-ber. We don't have unlimited time with people. I don't mean that in a morbid way. It's a lesson for us to appreciate people while we can. Don't put people off. Don't think you can make up the time later. I miss him terribly, but we always made time for each other. We trav-
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I’m heading to a conference for cochlear implant recipients in Brussels next week. Here’s a noisysilence.ie excerpt on last year’s conference. This year, I’ll be talking about a researcher’s perspective on getting a CI (&, hopefully, preventing people from needing them) ciicanet.org/wp-content/u...
NOISY SILENCE Stereo Dreams Excerpt about ClICA's Cl Advocacy in Action 2024 conference Oh Gaudil Photo by Carl T. Bergstrom Photo of a spiriform stairwell.
October 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The Dublin City sky is filled with geniuses.
October 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Smart seagulls in Marino, Dublin. Fool the worms into thinking it’s raining.
October 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM