Fergus Murphy

Author's copies just in, very exciting to be publishing my first book...if you have any interest in #genealogy, #family history, #social history or #localhistory, copies orderable online at fourcourtspress.ie/books/2023/the… Thanks to the folks @FourCourtsPress & to @micksmessages !

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RESEARCH CONFIRMS THAT: 1. Couples who laugh together daily stay married longer. Shared humor is relationship glue. 2. Holding your partner's hand reduces pain by 44%. Love is a literal painkiller. 3. Married people heal from surgery faster than singles. Love accelerates physical recovery. 4. Couples who eat dinner together have fewer fights. The table is where conflict goes to die. 5. Saying "thank you" to your partner daily increases relationship satisfaction by 50%. Gratitude is romance. 6. Couples who sleep in the same bed live longer than those who don't. Proximity is medicine. 7. Partners who exercise together are 34% less likely to break up. Sweating together = staying together. 8. Couples who argue respectfully have stronger bonds than those who don't argue at all. Healthy conflict builds trust. 9. Wives who feel heard by their husbands report 60% higher happiness. Listening is the greatest love language. 10. Couples who try new things together release the same dopamine as when they first fell in love. Novelty reignites passion.

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WHAT ICU NURSES KNOW ABOUT THE LAST HOURS OF LIFE THAT FAMILIES ARE NEVER PREPARED FOR: 1. Hearing is the last sense to go. Many patients can hear everything being said in the room long after they appear unconscious. Nurses know this. Most families do not act like it. 2. The body does not shut down all at once. It withdraws blood and oxygen from the extremities first, working inward toward the heart. The cold hands and feet you notice are the body making a final decision about what to protect. 3. A sudden, unexpected improvement in energy and alertness hours before death is not a good sign. Nurses recognize it immediately. Families almost always mistake it for recovery. 4. The sound called the death rattle is not pain. It is simply the throat relaxing and losing muscle control. But no amount of medical explanation prepares a family for hearing it for the first time. 5. Most people do not die during the night. The body has a biological rhythm and many deaths occur in the early hours of morning, between 3am and 5am, when the nervous system is at its lowest. 6. Patients often wait. Nurses have watched people hold on for days until a specific person arrives, or a specific word is spoken, or permission is quietly given to let go. It happens too consistently to be coincidence. 7. The words "we did everything we could" are sometimes true and sometimes the most painful half-truth a family will ever receive without knowing it. 8. Families who are not present at the moment of death carry guilt that no counselor fully resolves. Nurses see this guilt begin forming in real time and cannot always stop it. 9. The face relaxes completely at the moment of death in a way that is impossible to describe until you have seen it. Nurses say it looks like the person finally put something down they had been carrying for a very long time. 10. Many ICU nurses privately believe that the most painful deaths are not the ones with the most physical suffering. They are the ones where the patient dies surrounded by family members who are fighting with each other. 11. The thing families almost never say, but almost always should, is simply this: it is okay to go. Those four words, spoken out loud, do something that medicine cannot explain and nurses have witnessed more times than they can count. 12. Nurses grieve too. They learn the names, the histories, the family dynamics, and the small personal details of every patient. They cry in break rooms, in parking lots, and on drives home. Then they walk back in the next morning and do it all over again, because someone has to, and they chose to be that person.

As we all look forward to the release this Sat, April 18, of the #1926census, I'm delighted to say that, following over a year as a freelance #genealogy consultant, I'm launching yourancestorstories.com. Feel free to share with your network - we'd love to write their stories!

Looking forward to giving this talk next week. Yet another example of the great interest in Co. Kildare in local history, this timecim #Celbridge... kildarelocalhistory.ie/events/the-m... Copies of the book still available from @FourCourtsPress at fourcourtspress.ie/books/2023/t...

Looking forward to this talk next week - kildarelocalhistory.ie/events/the-man… There is great interest in Co. Kildare in local history (this is my 3rd talk in the area for different groups) and it's nice to be able to contribute. Copies of the book still available online @FourCourtsPress 😉

I have lost my flute, either on a Dublin Bus or on an Irish Rail / Enterprise service from Belfast to Dublin earlier today. I attach some images similar to my flute case. My flute case has a gold Meitheal Irish Trad Music Summer School sticker on one side

@ailbhemcdonagh @3olympiatheatre @AlexisFfrench Look forward to it.

@InterestingSTEM @katiekins76 @Deirdre27654618 .. Graham might get a kick out of this

2025 is a mathematical wonder.!!

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Was wondering if Ireland's President, Michael D. Higgins @PresidentIRL or Ireland's Prime Minister, @SimonHarrisTD would wish its Jewish citizens a "Happy Hanukkah." Don't see that they did! Certainly not on "Twitter" @X - which is shame. Happy Hanukkah! #Ireland #IrishJews

@lyricmoviemusic @rte_co @NicoleScherzy @RTElyricfm What a wonderful piece of music from An Cailín Ciúin, I remember being absolutely gobsmacked by it on the night @NCH_Music with @rte_co ...thank you, do you know if the score is available anywhere?

@marianquinn @blueinkfilms @WildCardDistrib @TommyW All the best Marian 🤞

Woodstock Film Festival here we come. Cannot wait! @blueinkfilms @WildCardDistrib @TommyW

@lyricmoviemusic @BGETheatre @RTElyricfm #Black47 ..the most wonderful piece, perfectly appropriate for the mood of the movie 👏🎶

Looking forward to taking mother to see @lyricmoviemusic @rte_co to a great Movies and Musicals concert @NCH_Music tonight...the poor lady has been dealing with a lot of difficult times recently, she deserves some of the joy that comes from a live orchestra 🎶🎷🎻

Wonderful night of music. Voyager 130 was brilliant, loved it...could be a great movie score. Well done @DanielSlatkin 👏

@lyricmoviemusic Looking forward to hearing the score

WARNING: @bett_Fre168 selling #ColdplayDublin #coldplaytickets #ticketfairy is a scam! Keep away! May whomever it is rot in hell, dishonest f@cker

@lyricmoviemusic @garretdaly @RTElyricfm Lovely to hear En Mai ❣️ @lyricmoviemusic ...such a beautiful piece. Thank you Aedín

@lyricmoviemusic @RTElyricfm Happy birthday Aedín 🎂...and, of course, to the best radio station in the world #rtelyricfm25 ..life wouldn't be the same without you 😍📻🎞...I'm glad you are still here!

Delighted to be giving a talk to Kill Local #History Group, based on my book about the Franco-Irish Mansfield family from #Kildare kildarelocalhistory.ie/events/the-man… Copies available at fourcourtspress.ie/books/2023/the…

Delighted to talk to the Curragh Local History Group about my book, great audience, interesting questions, and even met some relatives of those that worked in the Mansfield household #familyhistory #History #Kildare