#orla o'rourke

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I love all of your characters but would love to see more of Niamh & Orla

Sisters-in-law!

Orla Deidre O’Rourke • Slytherin • INFJ

Niamh Brigid Kelly • Ravenclaw • ENFP

— Send me an OC of mine that you think is under appreciated and I’ll make some new content for them. 

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Headcanons for: Grant & Adonis, the Parsons sisters, and/or Orla & Cecilia, please?

Grant and Adonis

The two of them bond over their love for their families and especially their sisters. I think Grant admires Adonis's love for his sister and how fiercely protective is of her. He also thinks her beautiful, though in a platonic way. He admires her beauty.

Parsons sisters

Both of them always have this tradition of surprising each other with gifts during the holidays. Before she turned 12, Divya's gifts were letters and drawings of how much she loved her, and she keeps them in a box, often reminiscing over those innocent, beautiful times together

Orla and Cecilia

Though they often clash, they admire each other: Orla admires how strong and unapologetic she is and Cecilia admires her resilience and poise in an engagement with a pest of a man (to her taste) and I think they often have talks of their role as women in a man-led world. While never agreeing, they respect and understand each other's views

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Damien Scott in random episodes #4

(Strike Back Project Dawn, Episode 4)

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CALVARY (2014) Grade: B+

Dark humor at it's best. It's bleak, acted beautifully & has a great ending.

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Dig deep. Something you hate, something you despise.

Derry Girls, 2x02 - Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague

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Graham crackers?

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Derry Girls + Text Posts 2

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“YOU WILL BE FOUND” NATIONAL COLLEGE ESSAY WRITING CHALLENGE 2021 | DEAR EVAN HANSEN

DEAR EVAN HANSEN “You Will Be Found” National College Essay Writing Challenge 2021

In partnership with Gotham Writers Workshop and the Broadway Education Alliance, DEAR EVAN HANSEN invited 11th-grade and 12th-grade students across the country to write a college-application style essay that describes how they channeled “You Will Be Found” to ensure those around them were a little less alone over the last year, or, alternatively, a moment where they found comfort in connection.

WINNER: Nearly 4,000 high school students across America wrote about impactful ways they stayed connected with others over the last year and we're delighted to announce Maxwell Silverman of Chicago, IL as the winner of the 2021 "You Will Be Found" National College Essay Writing Challenge and the $10,000 scholarship.

In June 2021, Maxwell graduated from Lane Tech High School in Chicago with plans to attend Boston Conservatory at Berklee, focusing on a degree in Musical Theatre.

FINALISTS: Seth Gorelik, Bellmore, NY Mira Kwon, Los Angeles, CA Anna Cappella, Pittsburgh, PA Semira Abdus-Salam, Rosedale, NY Filgey Borgard, Brooklyn, NY Lauren Escarcha, Orlando, FL Kacey Feth, Union, MO Paige Foltz, Stephens City, VA Sarah George, Chesterfield, MO Vincent Gerardi, Hauppauge, NY Ariane Lee, Syosset, NY Allison Lierz, Omaha, NE Megan Luong, New York, NY Kimberly Manyanga, Billerica, MA Orla Grace McCoy, Raleigh, NC Lucy Meola, New York, NY Sunaya DasGupta Mueller, Palisades, NY Liv Ollestad, Issaquah, WA Liana O'Rourke, Downers Grove, IL Isaiah Register, New York, NY Sydney Schneider, Los Angeles CA Ysanne Sterling, Centreville, VA Madeline Wiest, Peoria, AZ Samantha Williams, Providence, RI Laura Yee, New York, NY

FINAL ROUND JUDGES: Kelly Caldwell, Dean of Faculty, Gotham Writers' Workshop Logan Culwell-Block, Director of PLAYBILLder Operations and Community Engagement, Playbill Will Roland, Actor, Dear Evan Hansen Original Broadway Cast Member Crystal Su, Program Manager, The Jed Foundation Ekele Ukegbu, 2019 Jimmy Award Winner

READ MAXWELL’S FULL ESSAY:

Gram·pun·cle [geram-puhn-cuul] n. A gay man who formerly dated your grandmother only to later come to terms with his sexuality but still stay in the family to take care of your mother and aunt growing up.

Alan Palmer was my Grampuncle. When my cousins and I were younger, we couldn’t figure out what to call him. He was our grandpa in terms of age and raising our mothers, but he functioned more as the classic “fun gay uncle”, so we settled on a combination, Grampuncle. While we all had amazing relationships with Alan, mine was special. I have known Alan and his husband, Bill, since birth (making them the first ever gay couple I knew in my life).

Growing up and struggling with my sexuality, I was always able to look up to them to show me that true love really does have no boundaries. I will never forget, in 2015, standing inside the Michigan courthouse beside Alan as he and Bill exchanged vows and got married. They showed me, a young, insecure gay boy, that there was a place for me in the world and that I had a future to look forward to filled with love and joy.

Along with that joy, there eventually came some pain. Alan was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in the early spring of 2020. A week or so after the diagnosis, the world fell into a global pandemic. Those first few months were intense. I heard the horror stories from Alan of how scary it was going into the hospital for rounds of chemotherapy with people who had the Coronavirus sitting in the next wing over. Being constantly in and out of the hospital he was a risk to others, and the lung cancer made almost everyone else a risk to him. With the exception of his husband, he was fully alone.

Alan did not admit to his loneliness and pain. He did not want to feel like a burden, but after talking with Bill and hearing how Alan was truly feeling, my family began to make the hour and a half drive from Chicago to Michigan almost every other week to visit. We brought Alan a pop-up gazebo and some fancy sun hats to protect him (with the radiation he could not be in the sun for more than a few minutes at a time), and we would sit in the backyard just talking and laughing for hours until Alan’s body would give in to the exhaustion and he had to go inside.

As his birthday approached, I racked my brain thinking of something special to do for him. I thought back to a video I saw online toward the beginning of the pandemic and decided to make a “hug shield”. What better gift to give than a loved one’s embrace during the pandemic? Using a clear painter’s tarp, I cut arm holes and taped together closed arm sleeves. It took a good few hours, but I finally figured out a design that allowed for full protection on either side of the hug. On the day of his birthday, we packed up the car and headed to Michigan.

After talking and eating cake, it was time for the surprise. As we pulled the shield out and hung it from the gazebo, Alan did something I had only seen at the courthouse; he cried. I had the honor of the first hug, and as I slipped my arms into the sleeves Alan and I held each other and cried together. He pressed his forehead against mine through the plastic and in between sobs he said to me, “I am so proud of you.” I knew this was our final goodbye. When Alan died the next week, I knew he went in peace. He had felt my embrace through the shield of love.

SEMI-FINALISTS: Bailey Andera, Thousand Oaks, CA Arianna Arroyo, Brooklyn, NY Alexis (Lexi) Berganio, Honolulu, HI Avery Bielski, Los Angeles, CA Henry Boemer, Villa Rica, GA Isabelle Bulmahn, Imperial, MO Jane Butera, Phoenixville, PA Mia Cashin, Norwell, MA Sean Choo, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Zuri Clarno, Columbus, OH Lydia Corcoran, Apalachin, NY Cody Coyle, Winter Park, FL Anna Dai-Liu, San Diego, CA Alexander Guerrero Diaz, Richmond, VA Isabella Dufault, Irvine, CA Edwin Ellis, Atlanta, GA Laurel Emanuel, Raleigh, NC Aubrey Fisher, Cobden, IL Sunny Fong, Brooklyn, NY Sarah Galatoire, Houston, TX Zhao Gu Gammage, Wyncote, PA Sarah Gomez, Anaheim, CA Rachel Gray, Cleveland, OH Jameson Huge, Chicago, IL Sarah Grace Hutchinson, Alpharetta, GA Catheryn Ibegbu, Dearborn, MI Nicole Jo, Andover, MA Kelsey Johnston, Prince George, VA Gabrielle Kashorek, Avon, NY Samantha Kern, Akron, NY Nicole Kowalewski, Sykesville, MD Anne Lee, Edison, NJ Amelia Lin, Mukilteo, WA Judianne Meredith, River Vale, NJ Rabi Michael-Crushshon, Minneapolis, MN Geneva Millikan, Maumelle, AR Samantha Moy, Long Island, NY Shaakirah Nazim-Harris, Amityville, NY Eleanor Neal, Springfield, VA Sofia Ochoa, Camarillo, CA Basilia Oferbia, Brooklyn, NY Annika Olson, Rathdrum, ID Kaden Polt, Osmond, NE Shreeyamsa Poudel, Federal Way, WA Noah Robie, South Berwick, ME Zainely A. Sandoval Martinez, Dorado, PR Devyn Schoen, Eldred, PA Yusra Shaikh, Edison, NJ Gabrielle Shockley, Egg Harbor Township, NJ Ava Sklar, Brooklyn, NY Mia Sunday, Sammamish, WA Christina Unkenholz, Smithtown, NY Emilia Valencia, Portland, OR Brianna Wallace, Fredericksburg, VA Charles Wang, West Hartford, CT Daniel Joseph Weispfenning, Ridgewood, NJ Jennifer Wheeler, Reading, MA Virginia Zanella, Collierville, TN Alessandra Zepeda Ortiz, Los Angeles, CA Anna Zhang, New York, NY Daniel Zhang, Cortland, NY

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Regarding "were they both women": well, per my theory, Omega was Meg in the Matrix flashbacks and Rassilon was Tecteun, so if want to picture Orla O'Rourke and Seylan Baxter that is fine by me

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Irish female artists unite for incredible cover of Cranberries song.

Imelda May, Tolu Makay, Erica Coady and Una Healy amongst many others including Laoise, Soulé, Stephanie Rainey, Sibéal, Caroline Corr, Moya Brennan, Emma Langford, Saint Sister, Fia Moon, Melina Malone, Lilla Vargen, Ailbhe Reddy, Aimée, Áine Cahill, Allie Sherlock, Elaine Mai, Eve Belle, Faye O'Rourke, Lisa Hannigan, Loah, Lyra, Niamh Farrell, Orla Gartland, Pillow Queens, Roe, Róisín O, RuthAnne, Wyvern Lingo, Aoife Dennedy, Louize Carroll, Lucia McPartlin, Maria O'Connor, Maria Ryan, Sarah Lynch and Theodora Byrne

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Happy FFWF! What were Minerva's siblings reactions when she told them she was going to marry Adonis? And how do you think it went when Adonis first dined with her entire family? And what do the O'Rourke sisters think of Cecilia Balinor?

What were Minerva's siblings reactions when she told them she was going to marry Adonis?

Thad wanted to go interrogate Adonis. He takes the head-of-house, protective older brother thing very seriously and make sure that Adonis knows what could happen if he ever hurt Thad’s little sister.

Shauna was not exactly surprised and she figured Adonis was a good enough choice for her little sister. Of course, she definitely does her own bit of threatening.

Grant is unsurprised. He sort of grew up with Adonis and knows he wouldn’t hurt Minerva on purpose. He does give Adonis a bit of a hard time, though.

Cordelia is impressed. She didn’t think that anyone would be able to convince Minerva to get married, so, Adonis managed to seriously impress her. She might have had a little crush on Adonis as well, but that was when she was in her second year.

Daniel is on Thad’s side, which Minerva laughs at. He likes Adonis, though. Daniel thinks Adonis is cool, and that has definitely lessened as he grew older, but he still looks up to Adonis a little.

Ophelia is shocked. She never expected her older sister to marry. She just wants to know everything about Adonis and see what exactly made her prickly older sister fall for him.

How do you think it went when Adonis first dined with her entire family?

It was probably pretty chaotic. There’s all eight living Kennedys and probably a handful of significant others. There’d be a lot of different conversations going on and shouting across the table at one another. Even formally the Kennedy siblings embody chaos, especially as most of them are fairly close in age.

What do the O'Rourke sisters think of Cecilia Balinor?

There would be a bit of a sympathy from Orla and Brianna for Cecilia. They both know what it’s like to have an arranged marriage, albeit Orla’s and Brianna’s turn out much better. Orla’s marriage is a bit complicated as it’s AU dependent. However, Brianna‘s marriage becomes a love match.

Orla would think that Cecilia is a bit intimidating and stressful. Her arranged husband is Cillian Lynch, and Cecilia doesn’t exactly like Cillian. She likes Cecilia, but finds that it can sometimes be a bit stressful to be around Cecilia.

Brianna thinks Cecilia is interesting. She finds Cecilia’s stances on things to be interesting, and while she might not necessarily agree with all of Cecilia’s stances, she finds her brave.

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Worlds Predictions

Girls U11: 1st- Saoirse Clifford 2nd- Molly Mcgrory 3rd- Carmen McAleer 4th- Shannon Clawson 5th- Chloe Moore U12: 1st- Blanaid O'Neill 2nd- Ella McCarthy 3rd- Lara Magee 4th- Brigid O'Connor 5th- Scarlett Skehill U13: 1st- Ella Owens 2nd- Caoimhe Devlin 3rd- Sophie Duffy 4th- Kathleen Collins 5th- Emily Colangelo U14: 1st- Alliyah O'Hare 2nd- Erin McPolin 3rd- Sophie Reilly 4th- Minnie Place 5th- Katie Finlay U15: 1st- Simone Loysen 2nd- Chloe Cardwell 3rd- Aiesha Coyle 4th- Molly McAdam 5th- Emma Mannion U16: 1st- Orlaith Bradley 2nd- Tiernagh Canning 3rd- Clodagh Davis 4th- Cosette Debourbon 5th- Ellie Mae-Wheeler U17: 1st- Lauren Finglas 2nd- Rachel Cummins 3rd- Jodi Millar 4th- Mairead Trainor 5th- Orla Godley U18: 1st- Saoirse Deboy 2nd- Miya Stefanick 3rd- Julia O'Rourke 4th- Gavina Zuccarello 5th- Gianna Cheeseman U19: 1st- Melanie Valdes 2nd- Rohan Bole 3rd- Jessica Everitt 4th- Leona Upton 5th- Jenna Shepley U20: 1st- Shannon Bradley 2nd- Amy-Mae Dolan 3rd- Olivia Murray 4th- Alanah Murray 5th- Anna Mai Fitzpatrick U21: 1st- Ellen Kennedy 2nd- Paige Turilli 3rd- Mackenzie Mahler 4th- Ciara Dickson 5th- Colette Harling Senior: 1st- Michaela Hinds 2nd- Zoe Griffin 3rd- Jessica Hindley 4th- Etain Mulvenna 5th- Jessica Healy

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“I feel floaty.” “She’s absolutely fucking flying.” “Well, well, well. What are you guys up to?” “Nothing much.” “We were just hanging out at Ms De Brún’s house.”

Derry Girls, 2x02 - Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague

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It was the summer we dared to dream.

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Calvary.