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Dorothy Duffy (born 1980 in Douglas Bridge, Northern Ireland) is an Irish actress. [1] She is best known for her performance as Rose / Patricia in The Magdalene Sisters .
Dorothy Duffy is known for The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Silent Witness (1996) and Childer (2016).
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Aug 29, 2003 · The Magdalene Sisters: Directed by Peter Mullan. With Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy. Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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After her sister Rose passed on, Dorothy Duffy wrote this poem as a way to collect her emotions and express her opinion on the treatment of COVID-19 victims. The lines express her love for her sister as well as all the things she was to her and to others in her life. She was far more than another statistic for the news media to report on. She was a...
In ‘My Sister is Not a Statistic,’ the poet engages with themes of death and memory. She has accepted the fact that her sister has died but she is unwilling to accept that her sister is just another number on graphs governments and news agencies put out. This is not the memory she wants the world to have of her sister. By conveying her sister’s hum...
‘My Sister is Not a Statistic’ by Dorothy Duffy is a forty-eight-line poem that is divided into two stanzas. The first of approximately equal size. The poem does not make use of a specific rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. But, that doesn’t mean that it is entirely without rhyme. There are a few examples of full and half-rhyme in the poem if one lo...
Duffy makes use of several literary devices in ‘My Sister is Not a Statistic.’ These include but are not limited to alliteration, enjambment, and imagery. The latter is one of the most important literary devices that a poet can use in their work. It occurs when the poet chooses to emphasize a particular experience. This is not only something they c...
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In the first lines of the poem, the speakerbegins by thinking about the newest death toll that’s going to be released by the news media. Her sister is going to be included in the tally and she is upset by the fact that her sister is going to be referred to as one more body among many. She isn’t, the speaker asserts, a “statistic.” Her sister, Rose, is far more than that to her. She spends the majority of this poem going through who were sister was and what her sister meant to her, as well as...
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The second half of the poem is similar to the first in that the poet spends several lines settingout all the things that her sister was. She lived “seven ages” and became a grandmother and a great grandmother. She was a sister, friend, aunt, and carer. She was “not a statistic” nor is she now. IN the middle of this section, the poet takes a moment to note that no one who has died during the pandemic should be considered a statistic. They are all “wives, mothers, children, fathers, sisters, br...
Readers who enjoyed ‘My Sister is Not a Statistic’ should also consider reading the following poems on the similar subject matter: 1. ‘Hymn to God, My God, In my Sickness’by John Donne — written from the perspectiveof a dying man who’s hoping to go to Heaven after he passes on. 2. ‘The Rest’ by Jane Huffman— a moving poem that conveys the reality o...
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May 21, 2020 · She died in a London care home last month, and afterwards her sister, Dorothy Duffy, wrote a powerful poem to memorialize her life. Duffy joins the program to remember her sister and read an ...
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Dorothy Duffy is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes The Magdalene Sisters, Childer, The Sense of an Ending, Peterloo, Shoebox Zoo, Leila, and The Hour.
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May 21, 2020 · Rose Mitchell was one of those who succumbed to the virus. She died in a London care home last month, and afterwards her sister, Dorothy Duffy, wrote a powerful poem to memorialize her life.
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