Gladys Sheehan RIP

Annasopra

Gladys Sheehan, actress and teacher of Bray died yesterday.

She was an amazing women who taught many of Irelands leading actors and actresses. She will be sadly missed.

Here is more about Gladys

http://www.rte.ie/tv/wouldyoubelieve/leadinglady.html

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/braypeople/news/drama-queen-gladys-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-down-yet-if-you-are-going-wrong-in-a-film-well-then-just-say-cut-and-do-that-scene-again-on-stage-you-have-one-chance-fluff-it-and-youre-dead-27615681.html

2x4

Gladys was one of a kind. Her enthusiasm and spirit touched everyone who was privileged to be around her. Rest in Peace "The Queen of Bray".

Muas Tenek

RIP sweet lady

zene

Absolutely gutted, what a woman. If anyone hears anything about the funeral guys would love some info, cant seem to find it listed anywhere

hdowney

My mam said she had no idea who she was. I was like :eek: I couldn't understand that. I thought every Wicklow person and people from beyond knew who she was.

RIP

Annasopra

zene wrote: »

Absolutely gutted, what a woman. If anyone hears anything about the funeral guys would love some info, cant seem to find it listed anywhere

Havent heard anything I was looking out for info myself.

Annasopra

I heard the funeral is on Thursday at 11 in Queen of Peace - sad that I cant make it - read a lovely tribute on facebook

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GLADYS SHEEHAN R.I.P.
I bear you the saddest news. My dear friend, the Irish actress, Gladys Sheehan, has died, aged 91. I will miss her cheery and always positive disposition, and am so sorry I will never hear her sparkling voice again. She bore her own crosses with dignity, capability, and wit. Her deep black sense of humour, somehow shone out from behind every cloud we encountered.
To her wonderful surviving children, Darragh, and Valerie, and to David, her grandchild of whom she has been so proud, my heart goes to you each. And to Bunny Carr, her loving brother and great friend, of whom, also, she was always so very proud, my love and condolences, though I know they will count for little, as this is a very great loss. To Alan, Hayley, and Colm, her present and valued colleagues, my sympathy in your personal sadness, as also to her great confident, the actress and singer, Mary Forde, the very best of friends.
Gladys formed a repertoirie company and I first admired her stage performance in a production at the Beaver Theatre, Dundrum, in the early 1970’s, The Plough and The Stars, I think it was. I didn’t know her professionally then, but I knew that face, and soon found her lengthy role of honourable performances as a brilliant film character actress. And she worked these boards up to the present moment. Just last week, she was auditioning young actors for a film.
Her contribution to the cultural life of North Wicklow is beyond calculation. Through her Drama and Theatre School, she has directly touched – and enriched – the lives of literally thousands of people. Her most recent end of term concert featured some third generation young students. And so many, who learned their trade through her kind hands, are now household names, some not just in Ireland. The list is too long to even attempt.
It was my privilege to play the piano for her on occasions, and this was inevitably followed by the sharing out of a small Jameson, and the telling of scandalous tales, which I think must have been her only vice, but a generous, and usually hilarious one, at that. I am, like her wide circle of friends, a little lost.
Gladys had a deep social conscience, which she exercised practically, and with a rare kindness. She believed that socialism will come, and the world will grow to be a better place, and by her life and example, showed a little of what that might be like.
All who knew her, the very young, as much as we older ones, are the better for all that she shared with us, and those of us who loved her will be distraught at her passing.
A bright light has dimmed.
But it will never go out!
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Please copy and post. Frank Hayes, Easter 2013

zene

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newbie2

RIP.

Annasopra

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