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It might not be May 12th yet in some time zones, but it is in mine, so...just wishing Gabe a very happy birthday here, in case he does read these forums! 
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May 17, 2008 12:20 PM
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Hope your birthday was awesome and that you were able to enjoy your day with friends and family.
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May 16, 2008 8:25 PM
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> I know he really could pass for ten years younger
EASILY!
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May 14, 2008 1:51 PM
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I know he really could pass for ten years younger
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May 13, 2008 11:38 PM
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wow. I honestly had no idea he was 58!
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May 13, 2008 1:52 PM
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Happy belated Birthday sweetie.........
58 and still look great!
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May 12, 2008 11:51 PM
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Hope ya had a Happy Birthday Mo chuisle! Slainte!!
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May 12, 2008 9:07 PM
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Gabriel,
From one GB to another, I'd like to thank your parents for meeting many moons ago and raising and help creating such a wonderful man. They say the apple never falls far from the tree so I am certain your roots have a great deal to do with who you are. I'd like to thank all the people who have come into your life that have helped make you the person that you are. The world is better off with you in it...it's a little easier to bear. The days are brighter and the nights sweeter, thanks to so many wonderful dreams of you. You're one of a kind Gabriel Byrne. I hope you have a one of a kind day. You're biggest fan. GruffyBoy!
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May 12, 2008 8:16 PM
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The Irish...
Be they kings, or poets, or farmers,
They're a people of great worth,
They keep company with the angels,
And bring a bit of heaven here to earth
Happy birthday, Gabriel. And thanks!
Kathleen
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May 12, 2008 8:12 PM
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~~ Happy Birthday Sir ~~
And many more . . .
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Edited by VioletsBlues at 05/12/2008 5:12 PM PDT
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May 12, 2008 3:01 PM
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Dear Mr. Byrne,
Lá breithe mhaith agat!
Wishing you happiness, love, friendship, good health, prosperity, and peace today and all the days of your life.
Thank you for giving us so many memorable moments on stage, screen, and television. Intelligence and sensitivity are always the hallmarks of your performances.
Nancy
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May 12, 2008 2:42 PM
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To Gabriel,
?I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.?
-Oscar Wilde
Thank you for sharing your talent with us. Happy, healthy birthday.
Irene B.
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May 12, 2008 1:20 PM
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Dear Mr Byrne:
May God grant you many years to live,
for sure he must be knowing,
the Earth has angels all too few
and Heaven is overflowing.
May you have warm words on a cold evening,a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door
Slainte!
Yours ever,
Wanda
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Edited by wandaroo at 05/12/2008 12:35 PM PDT
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May 12, 2008 11:00 AM
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Happy Birthday, Gabriel!
To a kind and generous man who gives so much to so many: May you always have everything you want... everything you need. Thank you for all you give....
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May 12, 2008 8:51 AM
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yes, yes, and a hug too. I"m still on cloud 9 here. I hope it lasts forever.
this is a nice interview and the pic is nice too.
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/its-good-to-be-the-king-in-an-allsinging-revue-1372315.html
Gabriel Byrne: 'I think the next thing is the bus pass.'
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MR G Byrne's importance as a key figure in modern Irish film, as one of the bona fide great Irish actors, is surely unassailable as this stage. 'Tis a long way from Bracken now, to be sure, to be sure.
He's been a troubled gangster with a poet's soul in the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing; the minister of education in the British-controlled African nation of Swaziland in Wah Wah; the brooding Uther Pendragon in John Boorman's Excalibur; the conflicted priest investigating demons in Stigmata; Satan himself in the apocalyptic End of Days; D'Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask and a crooked ex-cop in The Usual Suspects.
Need I go on?
A few years ago, after he had received a Lifetime Achieve ment Award from his friend director John Boorman, I bumped into Gabriel in New York.
"I think the next thing is the bus pass," he said with a laugh, about receiving the accolade from the Irish Film Industry. "I've always thought of myself as an actor from Dublin who just happens to work in various places. I have never not considered myself to be an actor from Dublin.
"When I left here in 1981," he continued, "things were very different. It was a very different city that I left, a very different country, there was no way you could make films here. There were two films that were made in Ireland, The Quiet Man in 1954 and then Ryan's Daughter in 1972 and then you had Excalibur in 1980. They were the three biggest films made in Ireland in that space of time. There wasn't anywhere you could work in films."
Since then, across the world, the archangel Gabriel has gone on to be one of the most acclaimed actors to come out of Ireland. Then he added award-winning theatre on Broadway to his already impressive artistic CV. In 2000, at the Walter Ken Theatre in New York he starred as James Tyrone Jr in Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten on Broadway. Gabriel told me he would listen to two Lennon songs before he went on every night: Jealous Guy and Beautiful Boy. The lyrics of the latter, he said, have a significance that any father can understand.
"That yearning to want your son to be grown-up so that you can share things with him -- it's a long road," he says. "Lennon talks about being impatient for him to grow up yet at the same time wanting him to be a boy."
He quotes Dylan Thomas saying that the ambition of any artist should be to see the world from the eyes of a child. (Needless to say, Gabriel has achieved that ambition with his two kids by his ex-wife Ellen Barkin, Jack and Romy).
The Claddagh-ring-wearing, former star of Bracken has certainly tapped into the childish side of his creativity to play the all-singing and all-dancing King Arthur in Camelot at the Lincoln Centre.
Gabriel plays the lead opposite Marin Mazzie (who recently appeared on Broadway in Spamalot) as Guenevere. Before the opening night on Thursday -- which was to be broadcast nationally across America on PBS -- the Dublin-born actor told me he wasn't too anxious about having to sing and dance to popular tunes like How to Handle a Woman and What Do the Simple Folk Do? This is a touch surprising because Gabriel is not exactly known for his abilities at singing and dancing. "It's a musical and I am singing, yes," he said with a smile.
"It's obviously a challenge to do something like this," Gabriel added. "But my first movie role was as Uther Pendragon and now I'm playing Uther's son, Arthur. It feels like the circle being rounded. I've always loved the music, and in this production I feel the work is being redefined for a new generation. This was JFK's favourite musical but its totally relevant to a new idealistic vision of America," he told me.
Being idealistic myself, I'm trying to picture Gabriel singing and dancing ...
"It is kind of like when you're doing a movie and they ask you if you can ride a horse," Gabriel smiled. "Of course you say yes! And by the time, the producers of Camelot politely asked me if I could sing, it was way too late. They were stuck with me."
And a 75-piece band, aka the New York Philharmonic.
Yes," he says with a grin. "I'm surrounded by the Philharmonic -- one of the world's greatest orchestras. Fabulous singers, beautiful dancers. It's so exciting and different and I feel the two old boys -- the two Richards, God bless them both -- are having a drink together somewhere and singing along."
Gabriel is, of course, referring to the fact that Richard Burton originally starred in Camelot with Julie Andrews in 1961 on Broadway while Richard Harris starred in the same in 1967. "I'm following in the royal footsteps of Harris and Richard in playing the king," he said. "Both of them separately suggested one day I should play the role."
After Camelot finishes tonight in New York, Gabriel starts a film, The Sea, based on the Iris Murdoch novel. "I play a mad actor haunted by his past in an old mansion by the sea. A story of obsession and delusional love. But for the moment I'm King Arthur and I'm having a most regal time."
Woohoo, this is great news! Where are they shooting? LOL
He'll be running for the Park next.
- Barry Egan
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May 12, 2008 8:29 AM
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Happy Birthday sweetie!
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