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Mary Durkan

@maryfromderry.bsky.social

Derry Girl; Éireannach; Barrister; Lifelong learner & Reforming Luddite

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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

- Victor Hugo

💛
#darknessintolight2025
#dilderry #solas #DarknessIntoLight2025

10.05.2025 06:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“We should keep our feet on the ground to signify that nothing is beneath us, but we should also lift up our eyes to say nothing is beyond us.”

-Seamus Heaney ✍🏻

Born #onthisday 86 years ago, 13 April 1939.

#file #filíocht #poetry

13.04.2025 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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☘️🎶 Dóchas linn Naomh Pádraig
☘️Happy St Patrick’s Day!💚 🇮🇪

☘️To Irish people and communities all around the world
☘️ To people and communities who are making Ireland their new home
☘️ To all friends of Ireland

💚Beannachtaí na Féile oraibh! ☘️

#Ireland #Éireannach

17.03.2025 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is World Cancer Day.

Let’s keep on ...

💪Supporting the fighters

🙌🏻 Celebrating the survivors

🙏Remembering those lives lost to cancer.

👍Saluting all those working and fighting to #BeatCancerTogether

And NEVER EVER giving up HOPE 💜💜

#WorldCancerDay2025 #worldcancerday

04.02.2025 09:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Free Derry! Free Gaza! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

☔️ Great turnout at @BloodySunday50 today, marking the 53rd anniversary of #BloodySunday. Strong show of Derry- Palestine solidarity.

Seasann muintir Dhoire leis an Phailistín.

Arís agus arís eile!

#FreePalestine

02.02.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

- James Joyce born #otd 2 February 1882 🎂

- Ulysses published #otd 2 February 1922, on Joyce’s 40th birthday. 🖊️

#IrishWriters #scríobh

02.02.2025 09:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“Anois teacht an Earraigh,
beidh an lá dúl chun shíneadh,
Is tar eis na féil Bríde
ardóigh mé mo shaol.”

Beannachtaí na Féile Bríde oraibh!

Today is St Brigid’s & start of Imbolc.

Spring is upon us. Brighter days are coming!

#LáFhéileBríde #Imbolc

01.02.2025 09:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger.
I walked among their old haunts, the home ground where they bled,
And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter
Till its oak would sprout in Derry where the thirteen men lay dead.”

- Seamus Heaney

#BloodySunday

30.01.2025 09:52 — 👍 86    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 2
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🙏🏻🕯 Thinking of all those who were killed in the Omagh bomb on Saturday 15 August 1998 and of those who have campaigned for truth and justice ever since with remarkable resilience and dignity

Today’s opening of the public inquiry in Omagh is a pivotal step on that road to truth and justice.

28.01.2025 08:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“I keep my ideals because, in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

-Anne Frank

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Never again! anywhere!

#HolocaustMemorialDay

27.01.2025 18:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"IRELAND'S FUTURE"
IN Conversation with: 
COLIN HARVEY
Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast •Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute • Board member of Irelands Future

"IRELAND'S FUTURE" IN Conversation with: COLIN HARVEY Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast •Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute • Board member of Irelands Future

Appreciated the opportunity to discuss constitutional change with Billy Garnon. @billygarnon.bsky.social

Interview is available here:
youtube.com/watch?v=CEJa...

26.01.2025 16:54 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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"My greatest achievement is seeing the glint in a woman's eye who thought she was nobody and now knows she is somebody.”

Remembering Inez McCormack (1943-2013) on the 12th anniversary of her death

#mná #unions #tradeunions #laoch #mnásome

21.01.2025 19:34 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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🐿Let’s hear it for the reds👏🏻 🐿
Today is #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay

A day to celebrate #redsquirrels & highlight great work by #NorthWestRedSquirrelGroup & others
#SaveOurReds

Must get back to Muff Glen Forest in Eglinton soon for a squirrel safari
@ulsterwildlife.bsky.social

21.01.2025 08:26 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.”

- John Hume

Born in Derry #Otd 88 years ago, 18 January 1937

#Peacemaker #patriot #laoch #statesman #DerryChampion #justice #cearta #síocháin
#IrelandsGreatest

18.01.2025 10:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📣 Calling all Teachers in North

As part of PhD research, Brónach Crabtree, Trainee Educational Psychologist, is exploring skills, knowledge & experiences of sub teachers teaching with pupils in SEN
🖊️ Please complete survey ⬇️
shorturl.at/7aaPn

➡️ bcrabtree01@qub.ac.uk

16.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lá breá atá ann i mBaile Átha Cliath inniu☀️

#Dublin #BlueSky #January

15.01.2025 15:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brilliant weekend at the Georgian Festival in Armagh 🎄

#GeorgianFestival #history #heritage #oidhreacht #Armagh

01.12.2024 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0