Sharpe World => What are they doing now? => Topic started by: Soulmate on June 15, 2008, 02:41:01 AM

Title: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 15, 2008, 02:41:01 AM
With the latest pics of Daragh I found out that I really like him - and he is the last Chosen Man who is in the new Sharpe - couldnt imagine Sharpe without him. So I searched, and TT gave me some links as well (  :hug: ). And guess what - it seems he wrote on one board (of course you can never know if it´s true - what do you think? It s hard to judge in a foreign language)
 
http://misternock.com/News.html (http://misternock.com/News.html)


1 Fri May 30 2008 - 12:33:33
Your Name: Patrick Harper

Comments: I am very honoured to have such a wonderful website on the world wide web in the name of my very reliable companion Mister Nock of London. Mr. Sharpe and I have just completed a horrific mission in India - lucky to get out alive, its a terrible bloody country and full of forigners to boot - I hate foreigners! What we were doing in India in the first place is anybody's guess..... Mr. Sharpe's last known whereabouts was The New Imperial Hotel in Delhi - too posh for me - so I headed for London and then home to Dublin. I have two oyster bars here in Dublin now and both are doing well - we sell lots of stout and oysters and brown bread - cant beat that combination if you want to keep the wife happy! Say no more!
Mr. Sharpe always says he will write to me but he never does. I told him before I left him in India that we would live forever - so far so good..... but I did think he looked a bit shook in Kalimgong - thats the place where we were in India - and he spent a lot of time there with Mr. Foster and Mr. Kingfisher and sometimes I think they were a bad influence on him. But sure who am I to talk - God did not make a vice that i dont have. Anyhow - its not what you achieve in life thats important its the obstacles you overcome.......thats what my mother used to say........God save Ireland!
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: tinytim on June 15, 2008, 03:00:03 AM
I've read that, too. SM. I'd really like to know, if it was Daragh, who wrote the comment. The style sounds very "harperlike" to me. Well, we'll presumable never know!
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 15, 2008, 03:12:49 AM
Maybe we will never know - maybe we will. lol

Look at those two pics - am very smitten right now :-)) I always loved his belly!!!
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z257/paroikia/Sean%20Bean/BigDBelly.jpg)
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z257/paroikia/Sean%20Bean/BigDWaterloo96a.jpg)

(both from http://misternock.com (http://misternock.com)/ and it s said there, Jason sent them - so thanks to Jason as well)

Here´s the bio from http://www.southessex.co.uk/bios/patrickharper.htm (http://www.southessex.co.uk/bios/patrickharper.htm)
daragh o'malley - actor/writer
Daragh was born in Limerick, Ireland on 25th May 1954. His father was a prominent Irish politician and his mother was an eminent psychiatrist. Throughout his schooldays, Daragh was always involved in drama, and when he left school he joined the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After drama school, he worked in theatre before his first tv role as Pat Grogan in ATV's Crossroads.

From those early days Daragh has gone on to appear in more than 80 tv productions and films. Since his role as Harper, Daragh has been busy writing, directing and appearing in various film roles on tv and the cinema. He is currently working on the latest series for tv, "Silent Witness". Daragh is married to Gabrielle and lives in Ireland.

Another website: http://shipofdreams.me.uk/harper/ (http://shipofdreams.me.uk/harper/)

Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: moonflower on June 15, 2008, 10:56:27 AM
I don't know if I've ever seen  him before last night, when I watched Sharpe for the first time.  He reminds me a little of the late Robert Shaw.  I really enjoyed  his character in Sharpe.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 15, 2008, 11:15:39 AM
The Mr Nock Site belongs to a lady called Mare. She can be found as a member of the www.95thrifles.com forum. She may be able to tell you all about it.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 15, 2008, 12:13:06 PM
Oh great BJ - you really do know everything and everybody in the Sharpe World ! As I don´t know her - could you ask her if you see her?
Soulmate

P.S.: MF - you´ll love him and his wicked humor too, soon!
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 15, 2008, 12:33:56 PM
I'll pm her ...
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on June 15, 2008, 12:40:27 PM
Interesting.  If he did write that, it's a rather stunning indictment of "Mr. Sharpe" - posh hotels and an intimate relationship with beer that led to behaviour worth noting . . . "its not what you achieve in life thats important its the obstacles you overcome."

That last sentence says a book full.

ouch.

Oyster bars in Dublin.  There's a pub crawl to consider, eh?

Thank you for posting, SM!
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 15, 2008, 12:54:52 PM
Right Lighty - that´s why I am thinking all the time if it´s true. And the "he won´t write letters anyway" - sounds so true......
All sounds a tiny little bit - how to say it without being pathetic - a bit critican and maybe even hurt. I get the same feeling I got when I listened often enough to the commentaries in Challenge. That one puts more into the "friendship" than the other.
Well - if it was Daragh who wrote it: Chapeau - I like people who tell what´s on their mind.

Am all in the pub crawl - not much into oysters though - you can have mine and I have bread and booze :-) Must be fun - I love Irish bars! And have never been in one in Ireland :-)  :beer2:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: beanyfan on June 15, 2008, 12:59:21 PM
'scuse my ignorance -    'mr foster' and 'mr kingfisher'  - beers??
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: tinytim on June 15, 2008, 01:07:59 PM
Lighty and SM: Totally agreed. The comment delineates the relationsship between Daragh and Sean in a way I've supposed it is like.
Btw. I had the same feeling as you listening to the Challenge commentaries, SM. Daragh with a cute enthusiasm, Sean more impersonal.

Beer, BF! :-)
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: beanyfan on June 15, 2008, 01:12:25 PM
Understanding the whole the whole thing now -that's rather sad, but as you say it's what some of the others implied about the fact that they never heard from him from one Sharpe to the next. Interesting that he feels he can say something at this point.  Maybe this is what Linda whatsername picked up on in her book when she was rather disparaging about Daragh's realtionship with Sean.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 15, 2008, 01:13:18 PM
I'll pm her ...

 :thanks2

Thats something I really want to know!
Btw BF - I know fosters, but no kingfisher - oh wait: http://www.kingfisherlager.co.uk/ (http://www.kingfisherlager.co.uk/)
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 15, 2008, 01:15:32 PM
Understanding the whole the whole thing now -that's rather sad, but as you say it's what some of the others implied about the fact that they never heard from him from one Sharpe to the next. Interesting that he feels he can say something at this point.  Maybe this is what Linda whatsername picked up on in her book when she was rather disparaging about Daragh's realtionship with Sean.

I must really read that book - I have heard so many critical and even more nasty bad remarks about it - but of course of a lot of pink-glasses-wearing people. Seems this Linda didnt faint because she saw Sean. Maybe she was unfair, maybe she was just detached? Have no clue as I havent read it yet. So if somebody has it, I would be most glad for exact title and author name - and an oppinion is most welcome as well.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: beanyfan on June 15, 2008, 01:21:57 PM
I haven't read it -just extracts somewhere, but i know she likened Daragh to a puppy dog following Sean around loyally.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 15, 2008, 02:32:42 PM
Oh great BJ - you really do know everything and everybody in the Sharpe World ! As I don´t know her - could you ask her if you see her?
Soulmate

P.S.: MF - you´ll love him and his wicked humor too, soon!

I got the next answer from Mare. I will repost it here so you can all read it. With lots of thanks of course to Mare and wishing her lots of success with her site.

Thank you for your message.
I did take a look at the thread, and you may inform your readers that I have it on very good authority that it was, indeed, Mr. O'Malley who signed the guestbook, however, he was posting in character.

Taken in this context, it's just "Patrick's" way of being humorous, as it's hard to tell, in such a method (writing), things like voice inflection and facial expression. We all know that the same thing, said in different ways, can carry many meanings. He was just being funny, as Patrick is wont to do. He does have a biting sense of humor at times.

The reference to the "pubs" is also in character, as Mr. Harper, according to fictional accounts (which you may peruse on "The Life and Times of Patrick Harper" at MisterNock.com), returned home to his family in Dublin and opened two "public houses", selling ale, brown bread, and oysters; these pubs became very successful, 'til Patrick died a well-respected and much loved public figure.

Thank you for your interest, and please convey my best wishes to all the ladies (and gents, if any) on your forum.

Sincerely,
Mare
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 15, 2008, 02:37:13 PM
Understanding the whole the whole thing now -that's rather sad, but as you say it's what some of the others implied about the fact that they never heard from him from one Sharpe to the next. Interesting that he feels he can say something at this point.  Maybe this is what Linda whatsername picked up on in her book when she was rather disparaging about Daragh's realtionship with Sean.

I must really read that book - I have heard so many critical and even more nasty bad remarks about it - but of course of a lot of pink-glasses-wearing people. Seems this Linda didnt faint because she saw Sean. Maybe she was unfair, maybe she was just detached? Have no clue as I havent read it yet. So if somebody has it, I would be most glad for exact title and author name - and an oppinion is most welcome as well.

The title is: Sharpe Cut and the author is Linda Blandford. I think it's still available on sites like Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on June 15, 2008, 03:49:37 PM
I'm really starting to think that Sean Bean is one of those people that really isn't that nice, but for some reason people like them anyway and when asked, go on and on about what a great person they are.

Aside from a few people, like Gary Armstrong, he seems to treat others with a detachment that borders on disdain - even people that are, presumably, friends.  And it's starting to sound like Daragh isn't as willing to worship at his feet this time around; possible I suppose that Sean's behaviour has reached a point that people aren't willing to wear those blinders any longer. 

Or it could be that I'm just reading WAY too much into a couple of comments . . .  :chockies2:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: beanyfan on June 15, 2008, 03:58:43 PM
Playing devil's advocate here (and I don't know why) sometimes people are thrown together for a set of circumstances (filming, a holiday, a course) and get on well with each other at the time even though they may not have anything in common or be the sort of people they would befriend in real life. When things return to 'normal' there's no need to keep in touch. I know this seems a bit of a long shot considering this lot knew each other over a long period of time, but maybe Sean never promised to be their friends forever.

Or, maybe as Lighty said,  he's just not a very nice person ...
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 15, 2008, 04:01:21 PM
I think you could both be right. I have a lot of colleagues I get on really well with, but whom I never see privately, apart from the occasional work do. Doesn't mean I don't like them really or feel better than them or anything, they are just good colleagues. I'm sure it's the same thing in the film business.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sylvene on June 15, 2008, 04:05:27 PM
Continuing on the same line of thought, it's the same with any type of "forced" circumstance.  When the common thread is gone, there's little to keep a group of people together unless they've managed to be friends beyond that set of circumstances and are willing to take the effort to keep in touch.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 15, 2008, 04:08:01 PM
And you just can't keep up with everyone you work with. There would just be too many people.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on June 15, 2008, 04:54:05 PM
I don't disagree - you can't maintain close relations with everyone.  I suppose it's just me putting together a lot of little things . . . comments he has made about how Sharpe was special - that it established friendships, etc, and it was so important to him and they all became close friends . . . plus a bunch of other, little things.  All together, it just makes him look like someone who says one thing but means another - a positive public persona that masks a less pleasant private one.

I'm trying not to judge the man but I guess I'm failing in that regard.  He has made so many seemingly poor choices of late, personally and professionally; his appearance (when not being brushed and groomed by professionals) is increasingly dire; his attitude seems to be shifting, too, and not in a good way.  Daragh has had a lot of chances to make digs at Sean - and no mistake ladies, that bit of "fictional" commentary was a dig - but why wait until now?  What has changed?

It just make me sad, I suppose - and increasingly hopeful that I am completely, utterly, wrong about all of this.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 15, 2008, 05:03:52 PM
Well, you may be right, Lighty. I was just hopefully suggesting other alternatives. But still, let's hope you're wrong. And in interviews all actors always say what they think the interviewer wants to hear.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sable899 on June 15, 2008, 06:01:14 PM
The thing about forced togetherness is just like BF says.  After 20 years in the Army in a very small career field where you got to know everyone in the EOD community within a few short years, I can admit now that I have maintained just ONE true friend in all that time.  Human dynamics being what they are, unless there is a common thread, like Sean has with Gary in the form of footie, you just can't maintain those relationships after the situation that brought you together ends, even if it has gone on for many years.  An old Sargeant Major once told me:  After a lifetime in the Army you will end up with literally hundreds of 'buddies' but very few true friends."  Often, I think that I should get in touch with so-and-so, just to catch up on old times, but I never seem to do it.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Lynnie on June 16, 2008, 03:00:09 AM
The thing about forced togetherness is just like BF says.  After 20 years in the Army in a very small career field where you got to know everyone in the EOD community within a few short years, I can admit now that I have maintained just ONE true friend in all that time.  Human dynamics being what they are, unless there is a common thread, like Sean has with Gary in the form of footie, you just can't maintain those relationships after the situation that brought you together ends, even if it has gone on for many years.  An old Sargeant Major once told me:  After a lifetime in the Army you will end up with literally hundreds of 'buddies' but very few true friends."  Often, I think that I should get in touch with so-and-so, just to catch up on old times, but I never seem to do it.

Sable I understand what you say you know.I was always told we have 5 friends just 5 we can rely on and know they are our friends in our whole life time.I have a real good friend from the days I lived the navy life.We have been frineds for 27 years this year.Shes from Ireland thats the only place I have never been to.I have been to scotland lots ad england and wales so Ireland is my next journey ,which me and my friend want to do together and also do pur geneaology look ups there too.I could be related to someone real famous who was in USA. Now that will be a a great find for me.Never say never and no one never knows.If that makes sense.Sable when you are ready try locating one of your bestest friends is what I will give as good advice to you because its good .
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 16, 2008, 08:45:01 AM
Many thanks to Mare for her reply (maybe you are still reading, Mare) - and Blue Jay for asking her (as well for the title of the Sharpe Cut book).

I thought a while now about what you said - yes there are situations in life, when you are with a group of people, and think it´s the greatest bunch of people on earth :-) We meet with a group every year for Oktoberfest (everybody of the old friends, who moved away, comes back), and I think you know situations like that: every year we tell each other: from now on we will see us more often and visit each other in the various places and phone and mail and whatever. And boom - it´s Oktoberfest again  :-)))
Everybody grows up, develops in another direction, finds new people, and the older you get, the more stressed you feel when you have too much appointments. Sometimes meeting "old friends" feels like a duty. And I think, Sean is not the type to fulfill duties out of politeness. If he doesnt want, he doesnt want. Basta.
But on the other hand: I go once a year to Oktoberfest to meet them all and love it. We all go to events like that and it IS lovely - it´s as well a warm comfy feeling to meet people from your past with whom you have been close and share so many things. So I can´t understand why he isnt keeping a loose contact - I mean - they really shared a LOT! As Daragh said in the commentaries: some people you don´t see for years, and when you meet them again, it´s like you left each other 1 minute ago. And everybody should "nurse" contacts like that - at least a bit.

So I guess that is it about Patricks humor: his way to complain that the other guy is making no efforts at all :-)))
I like the way he does it!
Soulmate
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Leggy on June 16, 2008, 03:27:43 PM
Ladies, sorry I know the subject sort of moved on a bit from this, but YES it was Daragh who posted on the board.
He found out about the board and looked in.

The Sharpe Guys are aware of all these boards, actually.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: tinytim on June 16, 2008, 03:48:05 PM
I haven't read it -just extracts somewhere, but i know she likened Daragh to a puppy dog following Sean around loyally.
I read it and right you are! I was quite angry about the way she described Daragh. A lovable, vulnerable , nice, but naive and foolish little looser, who isn't able to manage his own life! May be or not! The way she thought to have the admission to judge about him was a....:crap
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: hklett08 on June 17, 2008, 07:15:12 AM
Quote
The Sharpe Guys are aware of all these boards, actually.
from Leggy

Leggy....I'm not sure what I think about that.   :lord....but interesting to know.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: kimmy on June 17, 2008, 11:59:32 AM
The Sharpe Guys are aware of all these boards, actually.

That's great!  They should stay connected to the fans.  Now.... if they would only accept an invitation to visit us......
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 17, 2008, 12:46:30 PM
They are probably scared of us .......  :sorry:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 17, 2008, 12:58:25 PM
Can ´t imagine Daragh to be scared of a bunch of women 40+ gone wild - lol.
Hey - most of us are tiny - am just 1,69 m !!! And we all can be angelic here and there.

But see - that´s what I said about the warning label at the entry - men around 50 have often trouble with their hearts....
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 17, 2008, 12:59:39 PM
I'm not tiny ..... I wish I was ......
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 17, 2008, 01:06:40 PM
I'm not tiny ..... I wish I was ......

Uhm - I was talking about my length, BJ
 :rotfl1:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: beanyfan on June 17, 2008, 01:53:55 PM

But see - that´s what I said about the warning label at the entry - men around 50 have often trouble with their hearts....

losing them in their pants??
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Leggy on June 17, 2008, 02:02:26 PM
The Sharpe Guys are aware of all these boards, actually.

That's great!  They should stay connected to the fans.  Now.... if they would only accept an invitation to visit us......


 :mutley: then they really would be scared!!  :rotfl1:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: tinytim on June 17, 2008, 02:51:53 PM
The Sharpe Guys are aware of all these boards, actually.

That's great!  They should stay connected to the fans.  Now.... if they would only accept an invitation to visit us......

Dangerous wish, kimmy. We want them still alive!!
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 18, 2008, 12:42:15 PM

But see - that´s what I said about the warning label at the entry - men around 50 have often trouble with their hearts....

losing them in their pants??

 :rotfl1:
Good one, BF!
Btw.: there were reports here in the news, that all doctors in Uni-hosptial have to do double shifts - amount of heart attacks raised since Eurocup 12% !!! TWELF!
That means anyway, footie is for them more exciting then ever a woman could be !
(have read similar remarks of some certain divorced certain british ladies who had been married to a certain british footie-fan....)

Soulmate
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 18, 2008, 01:24:11 PM
Oh, great, I was already depressed, but to hear I rate lower than football is really bad .......

 :crap
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sylvene on June 18, 2008, 01:43:15 PM
There is an old Arabian proverb about how things rate in a man's life.

His son, his horse, his wife.  But at times, one takes precedence over the others.  So never fear. 
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 18, 2008, 01:50:21 PM
Thanks, this makes me feel a lot better. Really .... Honestly .....

 :damnit
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Leggy on June 18, 2008, 02:00:19 PM
There is an old Arabian proverb about how things rate in a man's life.

His son, his horse, his wife.  But at times, one takes precedence over the others.  So never fear. 

What about the fridge with beer in ?? LOL
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on June 18, 2008, 02:12:14 PM
There is an old Arabian proverb about how things rate in a man's life.

His son, his horse, his wife.  But at times, one takes precedence over the others.  So never fear. 

What about the fridge with beer in ?? LOL

That's listed in Section 1.2.01, subsection 2: "List of Exceptions to Major Rating" that begins with the following (quoted from subsection 1):
Exceptions to Major Ratings, listed in subsection 2, shall at all times follow "horse" after the comma, and before "his."
Exceptions to Major Ratings, listed in subsection 3, may follow "horse" after the comma and before "his" or after "wife" before the full stop, at the preference of the Rater.*

*Subsection 3 is currently blank, due to a failure to discover exceptions suitable for insertion after "wife" before the full stop.

Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 18, 2008, 02:23:14 PM
It's a good thing I learned to read.

 :lord
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: beanyfan on June 18, 2008, 03:05:23 PM
do you work for the equivalent of the civil service Lighty??
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: beanyfan on June 18, 2008, 03:06:13 PM
It's a good thing I learned to read.

 :lord

i did too, but it's not doing me a blind bit of good with lighty's last post!
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Leggy on June 18, 2008, 03:11:38 PM
There is an old Arabian proverb about how things rate in a man's life.

His son, his horse, his wife.  But at times, one takes precedence over the others.  So never fear. 

What about the fridge with beer in ?? LOL

That's listed in Section 1.2.01, subsection 2: "List of Exceptions to Major Rating" that begins with the following (quoted from subsection 1):
Exceptions to Major Ratings, listed in subsection 2, shall at all times follow "horse" after the comma, and before "his."
Exceptions to Major Ratings, listed in subsection 3, may follow "horse" after the comma and before "his" or after "wife" before the full stop, at the preference of the Rater.*

*Subsection 3 is currently blank, due to a failure to discover exceptions suitable for insertion after "wife" before the full stop.




 :ratso
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: tinytim on June 18, 2008, 03:20:58 PM
That's listed in Section 1.2.01, subsection 2: "List of Exceptions to Major Rating" that begins with the following (quoted from subsection 1):
Exceptions to Major Ratings, listed in subsection 2, shall at all times follow "horse" after the comma, and before "his."
Exceptions to Major Ratings, listed in subsection 3, may follow "horse" after the comma and before "his" or after "wife" before the full stop, at the preference of the Rater.*

*Subsection 3 is currently blank, due to a failure to discover exceptions suitable for insertion after "wife" before the full stop.

 :huh???: :huh???: :huh???:  :rotfl1:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Blue Jay on June 18, 2008, 03:22:22 PM
I just wanted to look intelligent, but it doesn't do me any good at all ......
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on June 18, 2008, 04:47:31 PM
Civil service?  Not me - but those years in the Air Force substitute when it comes to weasel words (bureaucratic double speak).

Leggy, however, does work for the civil service, which, I imagine, is why she bolted upon reading that - she gets enough day-to-day!  Sowwy, Leggy!  :flirt:

 :rotfl1:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sylvene on June 18, 2008, 04:51:05 PM
Civil service?  Not me - but those years in the Air Force substitute when it comes to weasel words (bureaucratic double speak).

Leggy, however, does work for the civil service, which, I imagine, is why she bolted upon reading that - she gets enough day-to-day!  Sowwy, Leggy!  :flirt:

 :rotfl1:

 :lord   :rotfl1:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on June 19, 2008, 12:44:01 AM
Oh, great, I was already depressed, but to hear I rate lower than football is really bad .......

 :crap

Now you know why I worship football so much - raises my self esteem - if I come right after that brilliant charismatic sport which is - wellknown among men - the best and most important thing in the whole world, I must be a queen!
And if then Lighty´s exceptions show up, I shall have luck!
lmao
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Leggy on June 19, 2008, 01:14:22 AM
Civil service?  Not me - but those years in the Air Force substitute when it comes to weasel words (bureaucratic double speak).

Leggy, however, does work for the civil service, which, I imagine, is why she bolted upon reading that - she gets enough day-to-day!  Sowwy, Leggy!  :flirt:

 :rotfl1:

When I started back at work after a career break when I had my boys,  I read a memo that came round and by the time I had finished I realised I only actually understood about 1 sentence. There were so many acronyms, it was like reading shorthand.... which I don't LOL
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sylvene on October 16, 2008, 06:51:22 PM
As we know... Daragh's back in Sharpe's Peril - a continuation the saga from Sharpe's Challenge.  Here is his interview at http://www.sharpefilm.com

Quote
When severe weather conditions hit rural India during the filming of Sharpe’s Peril Daragh O’Malley was in the line of fire.

"It was a seething hot day then out of the blue there was a mini tornado in the middle of the village where we were filming," he recalls.

"It wrecked part of the set and sent a tent pole flying into my face. Luckily my head is so thick it bounced off! I was taken to an amazing hospital – like one of those field hospitals in the TV show MASH."

"Here we are meeting a Sharpe in turmoil with his fighting career coming to an end wondering where to go from here. Harper has been back in Ireland running an oyster bar so I think he sees himself more as a mercenary soldier in this story. But this is the rough and tumble of battle and he is back with Sharpe where he belongs."

"In the story Harper has a very pertinent line, he tells Sharpe ‘the likes of you and me were not born to die in bed…but rather in the field of battle clouds of glory trailing.’ These two are junkies for this kind of action but it is coming to an end."

"The camaraderie is one of the main attractions of the Sharpe films and one of the main reasons it has been so successful. These guys have been through thick and thin together."

"We’re not saying Sharpe and Harper are based on real-life soldiers but they are amalgams of the types who would have fought in the Napoleonic wars and who would - for that matter - have fought in a lot of wars."

"I received a letter from a lawyer in America, a Vietnam vet, who had made a major study of camaraderie in battle and he said Harper and Sharpe epitomised the friendship that develops between men when they come under fire."

Daragh himself was delighted to be back filming in India having shot Sharpe’s Challenge there two years ago.

He explains: "It was a different experience this time around; knowing what to expect. It was very different terrain. One rural area we filmed in hadn’t had rain for three years. The people are so welcoming though. They love watching us and are always smiling. If you look beyond the poverty they have a rich life and religion, a salvation they are wholly convinced by. Things we have lost sight of."

In this latest adventure Harper’s life is threatened, but not in the usual way…

"He has kidney stones so is in agony for much of the time. But he struggles on and heroically does his best. In the end Indian magic cures him."
Daragh is one of the Sharpe veterans who have been in every film.

He says: "If somebody had suggested way back at the beginning of Sharpe that eventually 16 years down the line Sharpe and Harper would end up in India, I would have said absolutely no way. It has been fantastic."

"I know there have been people who have objected to the amorality of Harper, for example, the fact that he doesn’t think too long and hard about killing men. But I’m sure I would enjoy his company. We’d probably find we shared some vices - smoking cigarettes, backing horses, for example - and got on famously together."
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sylvene on November 05, 2008, 02:20:53 PM
As reported by Jason Salkey, Darrgh O'Malley is setting up a Children's Charity called Sharpe's Children.

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Daragh was also briefing me on a charity he's starting in India called Sharpe's Children to help orphans at a catholic mission on the sub continent. The dream is to open a centre in each of the countries we've filmed in.

Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Soulmate on November 06, 2008, 07:31:10 AM
Thats good news, Syl. As soon as you get more info let us know.

Is Daragh a dad?
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: RnRPaintGrL on November 06, 2008, 10:37:48 AM
Nope, Soulmate. Daragh never had children. Perhaps that is why he wishes to help out in this way.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on November 06, 2008, 10:54:02 AM
He's married though, isn't he?  Not to say that automatically equals children  . . .!
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: RnRPaintGrL on November 06, 2008, 11:18:03 AM
Yes I believe his wife's name is Gabrielle.
Sylvene, where did you find that info? I'd like to post it on my O'Malley fan site.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sylvene on November 06, 2008, 11:40:11 AM
On Jason Salkey's site.  Latest News posted Oct 31st - http://www.riflemanharris.co.uk/news/index.htm

Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: RnRPaintGrL on November 06, 2008, 11:46:42 PM
Thanks so much!  :damn:
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on October 02, 2009, 03:28:17 PM
Daragh's pretty voice:

http://www.yaketyyak.co.uk/pages/boys2.asp?id=180&voicetype=All
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: tinytim on October 03, 2009, 03:11:04 AM
Awwwwww..... great, lighty. I like him very much.

If I wouldn't already own a Toyota Yaris I would buy one immediately! lol
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: moonflower on October 03, 2009, 06:50:54 PM
He sounds very different to me than he did as Harper.  I don't think that I would have recognized his voice had I not known who it was.  It's a very nice voice.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: galamb on October 04, 2009, 08:42:50 AM
last week I saw Daragh in another english serie "Silent Witness", it's an old serie, I was very surprised when I saw him, speaking spanish, but the only time I've listened to him speakin spanish was in "Sharpe's Eagle" and it was very funny to me because it was Tony Soprano's spanish voice
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sable899 on October 05, 2009, 01:41:45 PM
I never missed an episode of The Sopranos, so when I thought about what Galamb said I found it incredibly funny to think of Daragh sounding like Tony Soprano, let alone like Tony Soprano in Spanish.  I imagine its very peculiar to hear a voiceover by a voice you have hear in numerous other roles.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: galamb on October 06, 2009, 11:23:21 AM
yes, it was very funny because you saw tony soprano, no daragh, even sean spanish's voice wasn't the same than the cinema
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: RnRPaintGrL on July 26, 2010, 12:07:24 PM
Update on the Sergent!
He posted on his Facebook page that he's currently working on a version of Camelot for US TV. So far that's all I've found out but I'll update the Daragh Pages and here as soon as I find something more.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on October 17, 2010, 12:20:42 PM
Daragh is playing Leodegrance in Camelot.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641713/
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on January 20, 2011, 01:28:04 AM
Actor Daragh O'Malley returns to his roots in The Haymarket's Dancing at Lughnasa.



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Nearly everyone showed up. I don’t know if you’ll appreciate the difficulty of getting Sean to spruce up and turn up but he was there and actors and supporters from Sharpe



http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/leisure/general/8799856.Actor_Daragh_O_Malley_returns_to_his_roots_in_The_Haymarket_s_Dancing_at_Lughnasa/




Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on February 03, 2011, 12:56:32 AM

Dancing at Lughnasa UK TOUR 2011 trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tl9AImDDYc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J6E_sPZ8OQ&feature=related
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on February 07, 2011, 12:36:21 AM
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For 17 years, O’Malley starred in Sharpe alongside Sean Bean.

“You couldn’t find a nicer person than Sean Bean to work with,” he says. “I can honestly say – and it must be a miracle – that we never once had a row. We had a lot of silences but never had a row.”


http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/theatre-in-wales/2011/02/07/it-s-one-of-the-greatest-pieces-of-irish-writing-it-will-stay-with-you-for-life-91466-28124222/
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Jess on February 07, 2011, 02:19:24 PM
That's a really lovely thing for him to say.  Thanks for posting that.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on February 07, 2011, 09:54:53 PM
I honestly believe that Daragh would take a bullet for Sean.  I'm not sure Sean would reciprocate . . .
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Jess on February 09, 2011, 07:56:17 PM
You never know.... Man Love - beyond the understanding of any sane woman.

Seriously though, I work in a male-dominated industry and have many platonic male friends.  I'm not sure if this is a British male phenomenon but I've noticed that many of them have a certain attitude towards friendship.  You could have breakfast with them every morning for years, and then they vanish off and you don't hear from them for months, then they just wander back in as if it's perfectly normal and just talk like you'd never been apart.  It's just a different understanding of what friendship is.

I once asked one of my closest male friends about this and he said that he didn't consider that he needed to be constantly in touch with his mates, that he could easily not see them for a few years but the minute he saw them again it was as if no time had passed at all, and he would do anything for a good mate if they needed him.  But he wouldn't anticipate that need, or go looking to offer support, he would expect a friend to just ask him if they needed something.

He said it was that naturalness and lack of pressure which he regarded as true friendship.  I found it odd, but over time, I've seen a lot of men with that attitude.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on February 09, 2011, 08:04:27 PM
You never know.... Man Love - beyond the understanding of any sane woman.

Seriously though, I work in a male-dominated industry and have many platonic male friends.  I'm not sure if this is a British male phenomenon but I've noticed that many of them have a certain attitude towards friendship.  You could have breakfast with them every morning for years, and then they vanish off and you don't hear from them for months, then they just wander back in as if it's perfectly normal and just talk like you'd never been apart.  It's just a different understanding of what friendship is.

I once asked one of my closest male friends about this and he said that he didn't consider that he needed to be constantly in touch with his mates, that he could easily not see them for a few years but the minute he saw them again it was as if no time had passed at all, and he would do anything for a good mate if they needed him.  But he wouldn't anticipate that need, or go looking to offer support, he would expect a friend to just ask him if they needed something.

He said it was that naturalness and lack of pressure which he regarded as true friendship.  I found it odd, but over time, I've seen a lot of men with that attitude.

That's a very interesting comment, Jess - thank you for sharing it.  Heaven knows I'm clueless about the way men think - I appreciate them, but don't consider them like me at all (which is why I appreciate them, I suppose!)
That attitude explains a lot, particularly with what appears to be the relationship between those two.  It's a little sad, from my perspective, but I know that's because I'm looking at it as a woman - accustomed to anticipating, or at least trying to anticipate - the needs of those around me.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Jess on February 09, 2011, 09:04:09 PM
I'm very similar to you in that way, so, there were times in the beginning when I used to feel quite hurt or upset in my friendships because I was judging their behaviour by my own standards, and how my female friends would act.

This friend I mentioned, he's a lovely, really sweet guy and we've been friends since we started out as graduate trainees together fresh out of university and through his particularly nasty divorce (he has terrible taste in women!)  The number of times we've sat there discussing relationships and we're good friends.

But he's terrible at staying in contact, it's almost a joke how unreliable he is.  In the beginning of our friendship I would be speaking to him every day for hours, and then he'd suddenly disappear and when he turned up again he'd be surprised as to why I was being cold and distant with him. It honestly didn't occur to him that he needed to stay in touch or let me know he was still alive!

When my Dad died he vanished for about a year, and when I finally saw him, I said 'You didn't call or text and ask me if I was ok' and he said 'Well, I didn't know what to say but I thought you'd call me if you needed me'.

Then I realised that he was like that with all his male friends and it didn't mean he didn't care, it was just normal friendship behaviour for him.  He was looking at our friendship from a male perspective, I was looking at it from a female perspective and no wonder we had different expectations!
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: lighty on February 09, 2011, 09:22:50 PM
I'm very similar to you in that way, so, there were times in the beginning when I used to feel quite hurt or upset in my friendships because I was judging their behaviour by my own standards, and how my female friends would act.

This friend I mentioned, he's a lovely, really sweet guy and we've been friends since we started out as graduate trainees together fresh out of university and through his particularly nasty divorce (he has terrible taste in women!)  The number of times we've sat there discussing relationships and we're good friends.

But he's terrible at staying in contact, it's almost a joke how unreliable he is.  In the beginning of our friendship I would be speaking to him every day for hours, and then he'd suddenly disappear and when he turned up again he'd be surprised as to why I was being cold and distant with him. It honestly didn't occur to him that he needed to stay in touch or let me know he was still alive!

When my Dad died he vanished for about a year, and when I finally saw him, I said 'You didn't call or text and ask me if I was ok' and he said 'Well, I didn't know what to say but I thought you'd call me if you needed me'.

Then I realised that he was like that with all his male friends and it didn't mean he didn't care, it was just normal friendship behaviour for him.  He was looking at our friendship from a male perspective, I was looking at it from a female perspective and no wonder we had different expectations!

I do understand.  I've had very good male friends in my life and in retrospect, I realize that is the way they behave.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Jess on February 09, 2011, 09:49:25 PM
I'm not saying though that when confronted by a man who acts in this way, it's not annoying and highly frustrating and sometimes you want to give them a good kick up the rear end. :killer

And from a distance it's not hard to see why other people see their rubbish behaviour and assume they couldn't care less.

Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: MrsJ on June 28, 2011, 03:28:11 AM
Just catching up on the new Camelot series and spotted Daragh as Leodegrance. 
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on November 15, 2011, 12:54:30 PM
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The Sharpe's Children Foundation
Tomorrow evening, Daragh O'Malley will be accepting the "Charity of the Year" award at the Intellectual Property Magazine Awards. We're so happy that this award will help spread the word about The Sharpe's Children Foundation.


http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sharpes-Children-Foundation/118001144284?v=wall
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: bubble on August 25, 2014, 10:32:02 AM
Last I heard, Daragh had produced a new film and was wanting distribution.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on October 22, 2014, 10:25:17 AM
Daragh is appearing in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  30 October 14 - 29 November 14 at the Royal Exchange Theater in Manchester.

http://royalexchange.co.uk/event.aspx?id=840#



CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv2HobkuQZU&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Rebecca on May 23, 2015, 01:50:08 AM
Actor Daragh O'Malley returns to his roots in The Haymarket's Dancing at Lughnasa.

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I don’t know if you’ll appreciate the difficulty of getting Sean to spruce up and turn up but he was there ...

http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/leisure/general/8799856.Actor_Daragh_O_Malley_returns_to_his_roots_in_The_Haymarket_s_Dancing_at_Lughnasa/
Not sure I appreciate the difficulty. Is it in getting him to spruce up when he's not working? Or that he doesn't like to do social-type events?
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: Sable899 on May 23, 2015, 03:31:57 AM
Both, although he does seem to like seeing his former Sharpies in their various projects. He just would rather nobody know he's about.
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on November 14, 2018, 09:15:14 AM
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Best known as Patrick Harper in iconic TV series Sharpe, actor Daragh O'Malley is heading to MCM Birmingham Comic Con!
 JOIN US: https://bit.ly/2mhTO9w
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Oh my god, I’m so happy, thank you, when will shoots be on sale on the site? Can you please get some more chosen men and other sharpe guests.
and possibly even the main man himself, Sean Bean
https://twitter.com/Timelord81r/status/1062720243099873280


Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on March 21, 2019, 02:46:43 AM
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German insurer Allianz recreates former Education Minister Donogh O’Malley’s historic speech from 1966 when he announced free secondary education for all students without the knowledge or approval of his government.

The minister’s son, actor Daragh O’Malley, plays his father in the first of the Allianz ‘We Cover Courage’ campaign series.

O’Malley starred in the TV period drama Sharpe opposite Sean Bean and in Bruce Morrison’s cult movie Withnail and I with Richard E. Grant. The ad was created by In the Company of Huskies. Allianz has also recreated the full speech.
 
https://extra.ie/2019/03/21/business/irish/marketing-matters-irish-advertisers-called-to-action-ahead-of-brexit



Allianz | We Cover Courage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyY-_e4bX0


https://www.allianz.ie/blog/one-mans-courage-changed-lives-and-economic-landscape-of-ireland.html
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on March 29, 2019, 08:04:15 AM
BROMLEY BEDLAM BETHLEHEM to Receive First Full London Run
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Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem Rachel Tookey's award-winning play about the intergenerational impact of mental illness and trauma will have its first full-length London run at the Old Red Lion Theatre from 30 April - 25 May, coinciding with UK Mental Health Week.

Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem stars Daragh O'Malley (star of the long-running hit show Sharpe's alongside Sean Bean
https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/BROMLEY-BEDLAM-BETHLEHEM-to-Receive-First-Full-London-Run-20190329
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on October 30, 2021, 12:02:27 PM
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ad116/patchfolk/251525926_10224112964904323_1586754622965845893_n.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/patchfolk/p/0aae0b5b-792f-45ed-ae3b-10462c3f2bbb)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224112964944324&set=gm.10159734237364176


London Film Fair
https://londonfilmconvention.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR2uoSARqu6SOgPi1uvW-G9uL4SSJl7swQ51U7VEvALIfFd-xY99goUTM1I
Title: Re: Daragh O'Malley
Post by: patch on December 01, 2021, 04:04:32 PM
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ad116/patchfolk/261793974_218195617031091_1681817320324426611_n.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/patchfolk/p/01dc99a2-5737-45af-9160-daf4a42d6c0c)
https://www.facebook.com/YesPlay2021/photos/a.195575445959775/218344830349503/



Yes So I Said Yes
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David Ireland’s brutally absurd descent into the mind of a loyalist gunman features impressive performances by Daragh O’Malley, Kevin Trainor, Owen O’Neill, Laura Dos Santos, Kevin Murphy and Declan Rodgers 
https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/yes-so-i-said-yesfinborough-theatre-david-ireland-max-elton-daragh-omalley-kevin-trainor-owen-oneill?fbclid=IwAR0mh3m9tIKQtAij6wlrhlbzVK8TPeiuxfgYlmqEddlTtLyyVoUY-py5JJs