Comments on: Seals and selkies and silkies https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:45:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 By: Mike https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/#comment-2692384 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:45:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127640#comment-2692384 I may be daft. But, I’m not blind.

One of my favorite movies.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/#comment-2692258 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 01:38:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127640#comment-2692258 Because Twitter or X is the real world.

]]> By: stan https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/#comment-2692257 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 01:30:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127640#comment-2692257 On Twitter today:

Mark S. Zaid
@MarkSZaidEsq
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10h
Musk offers to enter legal contract. If you accept offer & Musk refuses to pay, contact us & we’ll discuss pro bono legal representation to enforce offer.

We’re interested in ppl who were fired for criticism of White Supremacists, Neo Nazis or supporters of Jan 6th.
—–

Just another standard Democrat voter. Nasty, vile and vicious. The hate is real.

]]> By: Oligonicella https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/#comment-2692214 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 17:27:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127640#comment-2692214 The Irish have made a number of films about the selkies. I’ve yet to find one I haven’t liked.

]]> By: Queen of Mien https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/#comment-2692211 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:26:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127640#comment-2692211 Also Frank Black’s take on the “Selkie Bride”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJCvWnIXrpA

]]> By: gallchobhair https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/#comment-2692181 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:19:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127640#comment-2692181 The Scottish group The Corries, did an excellent haunting version of “The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry,” an old Orkney ballad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSxrH8yYI_E

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/#comment-2692176 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:10:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127640#comment-2692176 We watched Roan Inish some years ago and enjoyed it, passed the DVD along to one of our nieces who is kind of “into” that sort of film.

]]> By: Griffin https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/05/seals-and-selkies-and-silkies/#comment-2692148 Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:07:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127640#comment-2692148 Susan Lynch has had a long career as mostly a character actress going back to the great Robbie Coltrane series ‘Cracker’ in the 1990s and most recently in the brilliant BBC series ‘Happy Valley’. Her scene in the final episode of season two is great stuff.

Some great acting Irish siblings like them and the Cusack sisters.

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