Frank Brehany

A Magdalene Rose is coming home. Meet her and her lover in #Portumna, #Ireland on Saturday 13 September, 2025. Looking forward to seeing you there.

#Ireland #Dublin #NationalCentreforResearchandRemembrance #MotherandBabyHomes #MagdalenLaundries #BoardedOut #Adoption #IndustrialSchools

It’s now 167 days since I met reps from Irish Govt abt the #NCRR & #NonRecurrence -their idea! Still no contact; no plan on implementation - this is important!

A Magdalene Rose is coming home! Very pleased to announce the details of my third #booklaunch event in #ireland. Come and hear about four remarkable lives and how they survived through an #Irish scandal. It would be great to see you!

A Magdalene Rose is coming home! Very pleased to announce the details of my second #booklaunch event in #ireland. Come and hear about four remarkable lives and how they survived through an #Irish scandal. It would be great to see you!

A Magdalene Rose is coming home! Very pleased to announce the details of my first #booklaunch event in #ireland. Come and hear about four remarkable lives and how they survived through an #Irish scandal. It would be great to see you!

#Ireland #Portumna #Loughrea #Galway #Tuam #DublinCity #ShorelinesArtsFest

I'm very pleased to announce the first venues for the formal Irish Launch of my book, A Magdalene Rose. Make a date; it would be great to meet you there!

#ireland #portumna #loughrea #galway #tuam #dublincity

I am pleased to announce the Irish Launch dates for my book, A Magdalene Rose. More details to follow. Make a date; it would be great to see you!

A Silver Lining for National Remembrance IV? 151 days. That's the time that's passed, in silence, on the most important issue on Ireland's Institutional system; "non-recurrence".

#ireland #MotherAndBabyHomes #MagdalenLaundries

One aspect of my #Legal #activism relates to Remembrance. In my latest Podcast I conclude that without “non-recurrence” in the proposed National centre, there is no true Transitional Justice frankbrehany.substack.com/p/a-silver-l...

My Latest Podcast on Ireland's proposed National Centre for Research & Remembrance frankbrehany.substack.com/p/a-silver-l...

#ireland #galway #portumna #booklaunch

#LobularMoonShotProject #TristanLoraine #CabinAirQuality #Remembrance

In lieu of my absence today, I attended the Church of Saint-Mathias in #BarbezieuxStHilaire and paid my own quiet tribute to Dr #SusanMichaelis; in remembrance of Susan and all those she has left behind

#Ireland #Galway #Glenamaddy #Booksky #BookLaunch

#U105Radio #Frank_Broadcast

Thanx4opp2talkabt #Luggage & #Flights

✈️New laws for onboard bags in next 2 years
✈️But #airlines getting ahead
✈️Your free bag 40x30x20cms incl wheels must fit under seat in front-staff incentivised!
✈️Important to read Ts&Cs

#Ireland #Galway #Portumna #BookSky #BookLaunch

AC, thanks for your kind words & wishes

#Ireland #BookSky #BookLaunch #AMagdaleneRose

EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu Michael McGrath awaits results of secret shopper investigation amid crackdown on Chinese retail platforms

#Consumers #CaveatEmptor #BuyerBeware!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Why has it taken a decade to exhume the bodies of the 800 dead babies of Tuam? | Caelainn Hogan The mass exhumation in Ireland is vindication for campaigners – but their battle for justice is far from over, says Irish journalist Caelainn Hogan

An excellent article about so many across Ireland, #TheInvisibleDead, starting at #Tuam Why has it taken a decade to exhume the bodies of the 800 dead babies of Tuam? | Caelainn Hogan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Landscape format in acrylics on mat board. Textured and very loosely painted landscape showing a jagged green and yellow peninsula with dark red rocky edges, being bashed from the left and along the bottom of the painting by a lively sea of blue with white waves. Broken paint shows glimpses of red and yellow underneath. Above the dark sheer edges of the fingers of the peninsula is topped with suggestions of rough fields of lime greens and orange yellows, with dark broken lines loosely parallel separating them as hedgerows. At far side of peninsula are white dots and marks suggestive of houses and where another strip of land joins sweeping up to the left into triangular peaked mountains with more houses dotted around its lower green slopes. Beyond the peninsula is more blue of the ocean and on the horizon a blur of a strip of green land from which rises steep blue mountains of varying blues that blur into the messy cloudiness of the sky. This photo of the painting was taken before I added my signature.

Time for a west of Ireland #painting. "View from Clogher Head" came from liking County Kerry, and liking peninsulas, and liking getting beaten up by the weather. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

In my latest #Podcast & Article, I commemorate and celebrate the work of Dr Susan Michaelis (#SusanMichaelis). She was an impressive #activist and will be sorely missed in the #CabinAirQuality & #LobularBreastCancer Campaigns: frankbrehany.substack.com/p/in-memoria...

#Galway #Tuam #MotherandBabyHome

Today I think of all the children who perished in this vile institution

I think of their families

I think of the political and religious failures

Ironic isn’t it, that this article was written by a “Crime Correspondent”?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

India orders airlines to check fuel switches on Boeing jets India's aviation regulator gives airlines that operate in the country a week to comply with the order.

#Travel #Holidays #Flights

There are so many aspects to this story - but the stand out feature for me is lack of a mandated requirement from 2018 which may now be followed through around the world - Fundamental Q: #PrecautionaryPrinciple? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wide landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Sky is bold yellow, towards lime at top and canary lower down, with some horizontal streaking. Cliffs run from left foreground to almost right edge in distance, in 4 receding segments, each one flat-topped and sheer. Closest segment is violet and purple, the other 3 are maroon, paler the further away. Sea is blue-grey except at base of the cliffs where it breaks up into off-white. Shadow of near cliff segment renders water below a darker blue-grey. Photo of painting taken before signature was added.

Time for another west of Ireland #painting. "Cliffs of Moher I" came out of, well you can guess. I've been to the County Clare cliffs 7 times but the first left the biggest impression. So young I was fearless and went to the edge to look straight down at the Atlantic. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Stunday

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

#Booksky

American colleagues, friends & those I don't yet know, this summer, discover a true story from #Ireland about 4 remarkable people. Love, Betrayal & Justice are central to their stories and experiences. "Beautifully written...very compelling" (BF, Australia) www.frankbrehany.shop/general-1

Landscape format in loose acrylics mostly applied by painting knife, on canvas. Close up of section of tree with some autumnal leaves as viewed from underneath looking up against sky. Leaves are mostly yellow with parts white or black based on light, and some touches of red and green. They have sharp acute angular lobes and are textured. Branches are thin and rendered in black, sometimes flecked with red. The two largest branches run generally parallel sloping down from the upper left area to the bottom right, and have no leaves underneath them. The sky is a painterly deep blue. This photo was taken before I signed the painting - which would be red and in the bottom left against the blue sky.

A #painting for you. "Golden Leaves II", the second in an ongoing series, came from a time when I had a little dog and she loved finding leaves as much as I did. I still paint golden leaves but it's not as much fun finding them any more. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday

Bons Secours Sisters release Tuam archives for first time as site excavation begins Some 796 children died at Tuam mother and baby home over 40 years

#Tuam #Galway #Exhumations

News that a religious order has opened its archives is a bittersweet moment - if you saw my correspondence, you’d understand why. Hey-ho, more letters en-route! www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

#bbchw #Elliottjwebb

Thns4opp2talkabt #Travel & #Macron’s UK visit

* Many bought 2ndhomes across #France #Spain #Italy pre-Brexit taking advantage: free movement & living the dream
* Many left due to money/language concerns/difficulties
* New Agreement? Pet Passports & extending 90 day limit?

Ben Jennings on Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Venice wedding – cartoon The Amazon founder and the former TV journalist have arrived in the city for their nuptials – said to be costing between £34m and £41m

#Travel #Holidays #Overtourism

Whatever the destination, there’s a sense indeed a practice amongst some #tourists, of entitlement…and it seems, to hell with the people who live in that destination www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#bbcnottingham #bbcleicester #bbcderby #bbcstoke #bbccwr #bbcwm #bbchw #bbcshropshire @arunsocrates.bsky.social

Thnx4opp2talkabt #Travel

✈️Free CabinBags are abt to shrink!
✈️ #Marmaris & #Tourism: when is too much just too much?
✈️The return of #PanAmAirways?
✈️Extreme heat tips
✈️Travel ideas!