#the fureys

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1984 – Death of Luke Kelly, lead vocalist and 5-string banjo member of the Dubliners.

Luke Kelly was a singer and folk musician from Dublin, most famous as a member of the band ‘The Dubliners’. Indeed, while Luke often sang of the poor, the oppressed, the worker, the lover or the rebel –the realities of his own life and upbringing enlivened and gave weight to his songs and the emotional way in which he sang them. And his own childhood and youth was anything but privileged. Born on…

[quitecontraryy]

When first I saw the love-light in your eyes

I dreamed the world held not but joy for me

And even though we drifted far apart

I never dream, but what I dream of thee

[cha-mij]

I've loved reading this fic and listening to the wonderful soundtrack that is scattered in the notes throughout. @princip1914 has done a wonderful job capturing a coal mining town so I thought I'd add to the soundtrack.

I was raised on these songs that tell of the strife so many toiled under (and still do). My maternal great grandfather was a collier and my paternal grandparents came to England for a better life, but worked in the cotton mills. Both my great grandfather and my grandmother died young (black lung and cancer respectively)

Max Boyce is normally a comedic folk musician but he grew up in the Welsh valleys and started off in the mines. He worked in a valley close to Aberfan and tried to reach it after the disaster to join in the rescue effort, but the roads were blocked by other miners all trying the same thing.

Rhondda Grey is about the colour of the skin minors and ex minors had when their lungs started to give out.

Duw it's Hard is about the closing of the mines.

Kate Rusby is a wonderful English folk singer and this one by her is of a woman lamenting her husband having Black Lung.

"The Welsh song “Myfanwy” (written by Joseph Parry from nearby Merthyr Tydfil) was sung by the soldiers who dug for victims. “Myfanwy” was also the first piece performed by the local Ynysowen Male Choir, formed after the tragedy, and from which the community sought to find some solace."

Like Max Boyce, Mike Harding is usually a comedic folk musician but has written some very hard hitting serious songs. Unlike Boyce he grew up in Lancashire where cotton mills dominated. Just like the mines they were incredibly dangerous, low paying, and ruined your lungs.

Finally, Belfast Mill by the Fureys tells of a town where most of the men worked at the local mill. When the mill shut down they had nowhere to go. Finbar Furey is one of Ireland's leading folk musicians. He learned banjo in the Appalachian style.

"I'm too old to work and I'm too young to die. Tell me where will I go now, my family and I?"

Growing up in the shadow of West Virginia’s Eden Mountain, Aziraphale Wright always expected to work for the family coal mining company. Anthony Crowley, the son of a down-and-out miner, was going to become a pilot and leave town forever. Now, thirty years later, neither of their lives have gone as planned, and an unexpected inheritance brings them back into one another’s orbit. Aziraphale hopes that they can move beyond their shared past, and a high school arrangement that ended in disaster, but he has secrets of his own that threaten their fragile reconnection…


Read it here on AO3! 


Complete as of July 2021!

[mediamatinees]

"Mother is talking to you": Murder and Mommy Issues in "Friday the 13th" Parts I and II

Ready your s'mores kits and life jackets. A "Friday the 13th" analysis awaits!

Content Warning: Friday the 13th Parts I and II contain graphic violence, (assumed) loss of a child, loss of a parent, trauma related to the deaths of close family members, questionable displays and uses of corpses, demonization of teenagers, and a complete lack of awareness throughout most of the films. It’s a series about serial killers with abandonment issues and the first film is incredibly…

[diamondwolfart]

CSP practice, as well as friend torment ♡

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Sierra Club Canada is criticizing Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey's statement this week that the province will be in the oil and gas industry "for decades and decades to come." Conor Curtis, the Sierra Club's head of communications for the Sierra Club, says a world where the Newfoundland and Labrador economy can rely on oil and gas exists only in a "fantasy land." "The science is very clear," said Curtis, "in the global transition to a green economy, there is no room for the further expansion of oil and gas projects."

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[oscarlewinsky]

Oscar I'm so sorry your boss "accidentally" set the fursona you made for him on fire. Tough times for real. Guess you gotta make him a new one or something. 😔

you get a smooch fow that idea.... owo

NEW FUESONA!!!!! HE PROWLLY DIDN'T THINK IT WAS KAWAII ENOUWH!!! ú_ù//

[esqueletosgays]

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981)

Director: Steve Miner Cinematography: Peter Stein

[graverobbing-beetle]

i’m bored/art blocked again~

send a ref of your naruto oc and something for them to be doing. (because i want to give back to kabuto fans but am too scared to ask to draw ppls ocs) fair warning i can’t do characters interacting but it will be good practice. it might take a week

[gasolinehornet]

Silly Game Time: Human ears are OUT. Animal ears are IN. Meaning everybody's ears (just the ears) are being transformed into animal ears.

Which kind would you like? Long, thin, upward ears like a rabbit? Pointed, triangular ears like a cat? Floppy ears like a dog? Some sort of deer? Something else entirely? Anything is on the table except apes and monkeys!

fuck it, I wanna have rabbit ears

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1940 – Birth of singer and folk musician, Luke Kelly in Dublin. Kelly was a founding member of the band The Dubliners.

Luke Kelly was a singer and folk musician from Dublin, most famous as a member of the band The Dubliners. Kelly was one of the best-known figures of the Irish folk music movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A Dubliner from the north inner city, he attended O’Connell’s Schools before emigrating to Britain in 1958. There he first became involved in the growing international folk music scene in which…

[hausoffurey]

Take a little Luna & Artemis everywhere you go with these fun little Cosmic Cat Rings 💫

Mix & match with your favorite sailor guardian 🖤🌙🤍

Available now in my shop!

[jackiebranc]

"The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature", Natalie Wolchover, QUANTA MAGAZINE

[pierppasolini]

Amy Steel and John Furey on the set of Friday the 13th Part II

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BRUH