
Maire 'Maura' Clerkin
@mauraclerkin
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The Jig is Up - Winner 1st Time Feature, Golden Pen Awards; Once Upon a Time in Ireland @StoryMaura; Teaching Artist; L.A. Londoner; TheBadArm #dodgyirishdancer
Los Angeles / London
Joined November 2008
Just as I finished writing my screenplay The Jig is Up, real life held up a mirror. #insiderknowledge #ClerkinDagger #indevelopment
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THE prestigious global body that governs Irish dancing has been rocked by allegations of competition fixing and cheating.
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Gent in black, "Has the Israeli-Palestine peace plan drawn up by Donald Trump have any chance of working if the Palestinian people are not involved?" John Finucane, "Peace processes are difficult as they involve speaking and engaging with those who you consider your enemy"
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Labour MP Barry Gardiner has written to the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper after his constiteunt - part of the flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg, was detained by Israeli forces.
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Israel is testing the waters. If nothing is done they will kill everyone on the flotilla boats and the world will do nothing about it. We are living in a dystopian reality and history will shame us all for allowing this evil to continue that long. Israel must be stopped
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⚡️JUST IN: Over 40 celebrities including Billie Eilish, Finneas, Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Steve Coogan, Annie Mac, and Peter Gabriel, appear in a Together for Palestine video calling for a Gaza ceasefire, released ahead of today’s benefit concert in London.
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It's that time of year - summer is over and I've updated my website - read all about it! https://t.co/2KQsZEelsz Education. Film. Storytelling. Dance. Theatre. It's all go...
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As a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza, here's the poem I wrote a few months ago:
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Sean Maguire is teaching a free class for our youngest actors ages 11-17. Sat. August 9th at 9am pst on zoom. This is great for any child interested in learning what it’s like to attend acting classes. To sign up your child send us an email at theplayersconservatory@gmail.com
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They couldn’t crush Gaza with all their bombs and firepower. Israel’s carpet bombing didn’t break the people. So they cruelly turned to slow death, starving them of food, water, and medicine, until their bodies consume themselves. Extermination in plain sight.
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Such a talented young soul … absolutely beautiful 😍Frank Sinatra would love this
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I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? https://t.co/6YrLiTvr8M via @38degrees
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The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics...
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BREAKING: Both the White House and RNCC have lashed out at the creators of this ad. It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers
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Well said
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"I haven't eaten for three days. I want a loaf of bread." An elderly man cries out of hunger, This is the real voice, this is the real tragedy...
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At Saturday’s massive march in London marking the 77th anniversary of the Nakba and protesting Israel’s war on Gaza, historian and Empire podcast host @DalrympleWill gave a scathing interview to Middle East Eye journalist Ava Warriner.
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Co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime Catherine Rampell (@crampell) asked Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian author @MosabAbuToha if he “would like to clarify” a Facebook post he wrote months ago about Israeli soldier Emily Damari, who was captured by Palestinian resistance
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Every week, the number of protesters in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa carrying pictures of Gaza children murdered by Israel grows. They congregated in their hundreds. Now they congregate in their thousands. A thin ray of light in the endless darkness Stop the genocide!
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