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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Feb 7, 2022 16:13:15 GMT -5
I've been wondering about two other times in this video where Enya possibly appears (not with the others in Clannad/performing)These both occur sometime after 26 minutes (The 2nd picture is from 29:26 but the same setting is shown at 18:15 where Enya puts the glass down.) 1. Their late father Leo was singing and playing the accordion at this part, this girl who looks a bit like Enya walks past a couple of times during the song. She could be someone else, but if it is Enya, did she wear glasses?* (Enya could be using reading glasses today, but I think all most of the siblings had good vision when they were younger). *As seen in 1996, Enya did wear glasses! It seems that she wears them for seeing in the distance, and probably wears contact lenses instead. Some people with myopia/short sightedness don't need reading glasses when they are older because the lens in the eye somehow remains more flexible. A bit more possible to be Enya after all 2. People sitting down inside Leo's Tavern as music is playing. I think the sisters Deirdre and Eithne are seen here (2nd and 3rd right, respectively) She picks up a drink glass here, but also notable is the casual outfit, it probably was the style in the 1980s but also could have been seen lots in the early 2010s. The jumper/sweater has a design that looks like a rain cloud outlined in red. Or it could be the cartoon dog Snoopy Perhaps just an abstract design...What do others think, is this Enya in both of these?
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Post by Moe on Feb 8, 2022 16:06:45 GMT -5
Agree with Candace: Enya in the second one, but not in the first.
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Feb 8, 2022 16:54:49 GMT -5
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Mar 4, 2022 14:52:50 GMT -5
Enya at this 1980 music festival
I watched this video from the RTร archives yesterday, which showed some footage from the music festival at Leixlip Castle in Dublin, July 1980. Enya also said in this 2015 article that she attended this particular event; she was a big fan of The Police, and also mentioned that Squeeze and U2 performed there. It would be interesting if Eithne makes an appearance in any footage from the event. I think I might have found her in this video! ๐ (At about 4 seconds, where people seem to be walking towards the castle grounds. She would have still had long hair at the time, too.) Does anyone else think so? There may have been about 25,000 others there but something about her seems very much like Enya. Attachments:
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Mar 27, 2022 12:05:42 GMT -5
Today is Mothering Sunday (Mother's Day in Britain and Ireland) In the past week or so I saw some of these Enya-related documentaries: 'I Live Here' (1989) and 'Clann As Dobhar' (2006?) There seems to be various appearances of Eithne with her mother and siblings in both of these - I think this scene is from the late 1960s, possibly featuring little Eithne a sweet scene of a little girl walking on the beach with Baba (mother of Enya and her 8 siblings) *I previously thought it was old footage (1960s) but is probably also from 1989. So maybe not little Enya after all, but still a nice little scene Attachments:
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Post by Riene on Mar 28, 2022 10:01:59 GMT -5
Well, if that's Eithne it's a very cute scene!
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Mar 29, 2022 2:31:18 GMT -5
If it is her, then it's the first and last time we've seen her wearing glasses! * Not exactly There was an appearance in 1996 where Enya was seen wearing glasses; the newspaper picture. I think she wears contact lenses (including coloured contacts for the videos and some photo shoots) a lot more of the time. These are the two pictures - with aviator-style glasses in 1980-81 and in 1996:
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Mar 29, 2022 15:46:13 GMT -5
LOL, I see that newspaper article & pics are already making the rounds! Here's the article: Click hereThere are other pics out there showing her wearing lightly-tinted glasses. It's not clear if they're sunglasses, simply for style, or if they actually provide vision correction. True A silly tabloid article but sort of interesting to note that she was wearing glasses, perhaps slightly tinted ones. Although I don't know for sure, if she was wearing prescription glasses I'd think Enya might have mildly short-sighted vision (myopia) and her mother Baba possibly did too since she was young. Excessive close-up work and spending a bit more time indoors (Enya's siblings probably stayed outside for longer) can contribute to developing short-sightedness, so it's quite possible. I would guess most other pictures were while she was wearing normal sunglasses - the deep red tinted pair may provide better visual contrast, but might just be for style overall.
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Post by Riene on Mar 29, 2022 21:43:38 GMT -5
How old is the article? I couldn't read the date.
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Post by Caoilte on Mar 30, 2022 0:29:03 GMT -5
How old is the article? I couldn't read the date. "Sunday World, December 15, 1996" Kind of lame of them to use a Watermark-era pic to compare with the bespectacled paparazzi pic. Oh well...guess that's the tabloids for you!
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Apr 3, 2022 18:57:44 GMT -5
Which sister is Enya in these 2 early Brennan family photos? Since I watched the 'I Live Here' and 'Clann As Dobhar' documentaries, I've wondered who's who out of the siblings these photos.
Although the picture quality could be better, it'd be interesting if anyone here could have a good guess too Here are my guesses/deductions:
1st picture
5 of the younger siblings (4 sisters and 1 brother) - maybe Olive , Deirdre, Eithne, Brรญdรญn, Bartley.
In the documentary when this picture is shown, Brรญdรญn is telling their mother Baba a story about how the younger siblings used to go around with the pram, 'pretending it was a sports car' Brรญdรญn confirms that she is the baby sister in the pram. It looks like their youngest brother Bartley is the boy crouching down on the right. Of the 3 sisters standing up, I think Olive is the sister handling the pram on the left, and Deirdre could be the older sister in the middle. I believe Enya is the sister on the right, who is smiling and looking towards the camera 2nd picture: Parents and 3 of the 5 sisters
Baba and Leo with 3 of their daughters. Since Enya is the 3rd i.e. the middle of the 5 sisters, I think it would be quite likely for her to be in this photo. I see that any one of the sisters could be Eithne here, mostly the sister in the middle*. Some possible combinations (From left to right, least likely to most) :
- Eithne, Mรกire, Deirdre
(Maybe not this one. Enya appears more immaculately in group photos, bar the Mary Dungloe 2019 one. I'm not entirely sure, but the faces of the girls don't really resemble Moya or Deirdre.) - Olive, Deirdre, Eithne
Possible, because there are pictures with little Enya with a very similar bob. However, I think Olive is a bit closer in age to Enya than Deirdre, and is taller on average than both. Deirdre seems to have lighter hair and narrower eyes, and Olive has the darker hair and the most open eyes. - Brรญdรญn, Eithne, Olive
I would say this is the most likely; continuing with eyes, Brรญdรญn has wider-set eyes, and it looks like the youngest girl in the picture does too. It can change from childhood pictures of course, but I believe Olive smiles the most in general I also think that Olive is the most similar of the sisters to Enya. I reckon the smile of the girl in the middle looks most like Enya's
*Bonus picture - would help if it was clearer; young (about 12-13 years old?) Eithne - similar hairstyle to the girl in the middle of the 2nd photo ๐ก
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Post by Moe on Apr 4, 2022 15:39:04 GMT -5
Hi, TR. None of these pics show up clearly in my browser, alas - too fuzzy/grainy to tell
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Apr 4, 2022 16:36:14 GMT -5
Hi Moe , true that it might bit tricky to tell because of the picture quality. Perhaps the screenshot images I saved weren't the best quality, but they are also a bit fuzzy in the video already. Both pictures are from here, the Clann As Dobhar video on YouTube The first picture can be seen at 9:53, and the second picture can be seen at 10:59, both for a few seconds each. Hopefully from the video they might appear a little bit clearer
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Apr 5, 2022 12:36:41 GMT -5
That last pic (girl in a blue dress) was shown while Baba was talking about Eithne. So I presume that is her. I'd agree that Enya is in the last picture, which can also found amongst others here. True, I mentioned a bit more in this Reddit edit post Although Enya's hairstyle has remained relatively short since then, for the last 4 decades, these Watermark-related photos show that she does wear a ponytail convincingly 1 2 3
That's interesting to point out Possibly something in the background, but I think that is her real hair. I also wonder whether most of the girls in boarding school had to or chose to keep their hair short/manageable. Does anyone have an idea about the 2 family photos?
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Apr 7, 2022 17:45:32 GMT -5
Pic of the Loreto school choir, 1970's, Eithne highlighted: I would agree that this is Enya. Her face structure looks rather similar. For this picture I was wondering more about if her hair short here or tied back, the real colour of the robes, which year it was taken in the 1970s, and who discovered/shared the picture online, another girl who was in the photo? Closer-up: brightened (from here) and roughly colourised from a less grainy version of the class picture
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