#tyneoconnell

Appearing on the #gaybyrne #latelateshow in 1996 aka “My Year As A Blonde” was the most exciting interview I’d ever done. Gay Byrnes Late Late Show was part of every #Irish Friday night & in my case triggered phonecalls from all my #Irish friends worldwide whose mothers had called them to say “yer #author friend, #tyneoconnell was on just Gay Byrnes last night!” I’d finally arrived. For an ancestor of #DanielOconnell The #IrishLiberator it meant more to me than my 2000 word feature in #BritishVogue “My Two Husbands” which had triggered the invitation to Dublin where Divorce had been legalised that day. As a Catholic who hadn’t separated my children from their fathers after divorce I represented a family friendly side of Divorce in what was still a very Catholic country. Sitting on the panel with Lauren Bacall & Gay discussing the handiness of having two husbands to zip my dress, or as Gay added “unzip” my dress remains my slice of #IrishHeaven RIP #gaybyrne 💜☘️💜☘️ (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4dZDBRALOV/?igshid=17xt91opp3kq6

The #Majesty of #Defiance ....”The Irish Soul reminds us all that we conform at our peril” excerpt from #tyneoconnell #photography @muirvidler @belmondcadogan (#Oscarwilde residence ) @hermes #birkin @blushbashfuluk @johndavidgusman @jeffreymichaelanderson (at Belmond Cadogan Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Jzk4egwKk/?igshid=6i64iscbsfr8

The #Majesty of #Defiance ....”The Irish Soul reminds us all that we conform at our peril” excerpt from #tyneoconnell #photography @muirvidler @belmondcadogan (#Oscarwilde residence ) @hermes #birkin @blushbashfuluk @johndavidgusman @jeffreymichaelanderson (at Belmond Cadogan Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2JzDHUAASy/?igshid=2s86rwj4gol4

The Glorious Triumvirate of artists @daniellismore & @vidarlogi bring the poetry of laughter to my sick bed & whisk me off on a #magiccarpet of adventures dreams limitless possibilities & a myriad of majestic moments tug at my heart & suddenly the carefully constructed mask of coping slips! My ability to suspend the truth fails me & the awful reality of my #braintumour & fear engulfs me in the truth & lonely darkness of pain. I miss me....I miss all I once was...& the endless possibilities That stretched before me like the elaborate poetry of a hand made shoe An unopened book A full pot of ink I miss those endless Mayfair nights On Park Lane & Berkeley Square climbing the gates of #mountstreetgardens Giddy with life & burning with literary dreams I miss walking along the mayfair rooftops in historic ballgowns Clinging to chimneypots Searching for clues to other peoples pasts. Now I search the corridors of my memory for #tyneoconnell The me I was...Undaunted, unbowed Brave as a poet, gay as a bee 🐝 The girl who travelled the world alone, Tearing across Libyan deserts on the back of a Harley Davidson Charging across #polofields & strolling around the croquet lawns of life, undaunted by minefields or borders or giving birth without pain relief in a Victorian bath-tub without a doctor & only #Poetry to cling to. But poetry is all I need now, the visual poetry of #ancestral #ballgowns & #jewellery @blushbashfuluk @velveteccentric (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wfoGHgdLT/?igshid=a5d8mytneq71

The Glorious Triumvirate of artists @daniellismore & @vidarlogi bring the poetry of laughter to my sick bed & whisk me off on a #magiccarpet of adventures dreams limitless possibilities & a myriad of majestic moments tug at my heart & suddenly the carefully constructed mask of coping slips! My ability to suspend the truth fails me & the awful reality of my #braintumour & fear engulfs me in the truth & lonely darkness of pain. I miss me....I miss all I once was...& the endless possibilities That stretched before me like the elaborate poetry of a hand made shoe An unopened book A full pot of ink I miss those endless Mayfair nights On Park Lane & Berkeley Square climbing the gates of #mountstreetgardens Giddy with life & burning with literary dreams I miss walking along the mayfair rooftops in historic ballgowns Clinging to chimneypots Searching for clues to other peoples pasts. Now I search the corridors of my memory for #tyneoconnell The me I was...Undaunted, unbowed Brave as a poet, gay as a bee 🐝 The girl who travelled the world alone, Tearing across Libyan deserts on the back of a Harley Davidson Charging across #polofields & strolling around the croquet lawns of life, undaunted by minefields or borders or giving birth without pain relief in a Victorian bath-tub without a doctor & only #Poetry to cling to. But poetry is all I need now, the visual poetry of #ancestral #ballgowns & #jewellery @blushbashfuluk @velveteccentric (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wGUazgtwO/?igshid=4by992x8r86h

@furiousgoose @thelondonjournalist & @highfashionhockey #tyneoconnell & the spirits of eccentrics past formed an impromptu salon @thewolseley to celebrate a marriage between art & silk - #eccentric #salons of #GreatBritain & Ireland in the 1600s were unlike the salons on the continent in that they were hosted by women & welcomed eccentric’s regardless of #class #race religion or #gender ⚜️over saucers of sparkling champagne they Discussed a vast array of subjects from mathematics art #opera - the mutability of #gender to #clotted cream & fashion. Our Salons were the incubators for the new ideas cultural advances and the celebrity eccentric‘s which shaped the world & continued into the Regency & were called #bluestocking salons by Victorian historians Who knew nothing about them 💜 Women were banned from every other area of society, they couldn’t enter coffee shops where men discussed politics & religion & they couldn’t walk down the street without a man. But in these eccentric salons hosted by women in the 1600s women & LGBTQs were The leading lights of the age - igniting the new ideas & setting the trends. The first famous salon was hosted by Mary Sidney - Countess of Pembroke at Wilton House Wiltshire- In March 1603 the worlds first openly #gay king #maryqueenofscots son #KingJames VI of Scotland & his eccentric Queen, Anna travelled to his coronation in London ⚜️the population ran across fields hedges & highways cheering “the queen is dead - long live Queen James” - the royals dropped by experience Mary’s Salon where Shakespeare & his players entertained them Performing “As You Like it” for the first time in history - for despite what Victorian historians would have you believe Elizabeth hated Theatre preferring bear-baiting & only four of Shakespeare’s plays were performed during her reign! - Mary Sidney was a scientist & writer one of her inventions being disappearing ink Which the #lesbian spy playwright & author Aphra Behn aka Astraea Agent 160 found awfully handy when she worked as a spy during the early years of the Restoration before Becoming the greatest playwright of the age & discovering #NellGwynn & #HenryPurcell 💜 (at The Wolseley) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0wfeYTgBE1/?igshid=1080kvjdcassu

THE LAST ECCENTRIC & The Art of Defiance portrait portraits by @muirvidler examining the life of Mayfair #Eccentric #Historian & Author #tyneoconnell Muir began following Tyne after she removed herself from treatment for her malignant #braintumour in 2016 - O’Connell refuses defined by her pain instead transforming every day into an artwork captured here by Muir Vidler Tyne embraces the historic & the extraordinary in the sartorial; self-medicating using the #baroque #beauty of her #ancestral family #tiaras & #ballgowns Using the prism of #visualpoetry to manage the depths of the pain even #morphia can’t reach, Tyne views each day as an opportunity to create memories, ensuring wherever she goes she leaves a legacy. A well known Eccentric in London’s artistic, fashion & literary community, Tyne O’Connell’s unique take on #FashionasArt #etiquette & the history of #celebrity eccentrics & women in the #scientific & #cultural #revolution of 1604-1614 to challenge & entertain in equal measure. (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvmhEQBgVK5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rlhx62f9tk6y

#The alchemy of eccentricity is the transmutation of disappointment & loss into a celebration of opulence - the poetry of a ruby encrusted collar wrapped around the memory of the day I was diagnosed with this brain tumour, now woven through the narrative of the essential tiara & slash of red lipstick; my Armour against the glances of pity & concern “There's no truth in being Irish if you don't accept the world is going to mock you & break your heart” Eccentricity is the bandage wrapped around the crumbling Mayfair castle of my life & the transformation of all my wounds & tumours, fractured bones & mortal-inadequacies exulted into art, stretched on 13 canvases each an apostle of literary expression glazed with beauty & regret” by #tyneoconnell (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/BseJN10n5oh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1po9xdmoy4lqm