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'''Dymphna''' is the pseudonym of a counterjihad blogger who founded the [[Gates of Vienna]] blog along with her husband and co-author, [[Ned May]] (writing under the pseudonym [[Baron Bodissey]]).<ref>Dymphna, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/04/uk-and-scandinavia-counterjihad-summit.html The UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad Summit], Gates of Vienna, 14 April 2007.</ref>

==Identity==
May uses unspiek@chromatism.net as the email address on his Gates of Vienna blog<ref>[http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html The "Fitna" Translations] Gates of Vienna, 31 March 2008, accessed 2 August 2009</ref>. This domain was purchased by Edward S. May from a local Internet provider in Virginia, US, in 2001<ref>[http://whois.domaintools.com/chromatism.net Chromatism.net Whois Record] DomainTools, accessed 25 August 2009</ref>.  

May is a member of the Episcopalian Diocese of Southern Virginia, and helped to develop its website, according to a diocesan periodical which stated:
::.  Ned and his wife Ceara live near the very small town of Howardsville, in the far northwest corner of this diocese.<ref>[http://emmanuelchatham.typepad.com/emmanuel_episcopal_church/files/bishop_john_c_buchanan.pdf FROM THE STANDING COMMITTEE], The Jamestown Cross, The Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, Volume 70, No.3, May 2006, p.10.</ref>

An October 2000 version of May's website would appear to indicate he married Ceara Sullivan in 1980.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20001014172908/http://luna.moonstar.com/~nedmay/eden/wed80.htm Who Were All Those Skinny People? - Wedding 1980], Ned May, Luna.moonstar.com, 27 August 1997, archived at the Internet Archive, 14 October 2000.</ref>

According to [[Gates of Vienna]], Dymphna is the cousin of the Irish blogger [[Mark Humphrys]].<ref>Baron Bodissey, Comment 10 to [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/03/countries-of-origin.html Countries of Origin], Gates of Vienna, 25 March 2007.</ref>

Dymphna describes Humphrys as "a cousin I met because I found my grandmother’s wedding picture on his site. He lives in Dublin and teaches IT. An Irishman who’s a libertarian. A fierce libertarian…are there any other kinds?"<ref>Dymphna, [http://neighborhoodofgod.blogspot.com/2006/01/living-in-neighborhood-where-chaos.html Living In a Neighborhood Where Chaos Mucks With My Schedules], The Neighborhood of God, 13 January 2006.</ref>

==EDL links==
Dymphna claims to have provided support to the founder of the [[English Defence League]] in the United States:

::Back before the EDL, when he hid out here in the US (a few years back), the Baron and I supported him financially (we wuz "rich" then --i.e., full-time work). In addition, a fellow blogger gave him a condo to live in, rent free. On a golf course, no less!

::Eventually, though, he went back to England to be persecuted repeatedly by the police and QC. His answer was to form the EDL. Genius move. 

::I wish he could've sustained it, but such an undertaking requires immense patience and an almost zen-like ability to suffer fools gladly and to bear intense official persecution. Few ppl have all those resources. I'm hoping & praying Tommy is able to hold onto his. i sure couldn't do what he's doing.<ref>Comment no. 34 by Dymphna in Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/open-letter-to-pamela-geller.html An Open Letter to Pamela Geller (Updated #4)], Gates of Vienna, 4 July 2011.</ref>

Blogger 'Luther Blissetts' suggests this maybe a reference to [[Paul Ray]].<ref>Luther Blissetts, [http://easycaptures.com/3321881124 Dympna of Gates of Vienna on their work in 2006 with Paul Ray, EDL Founder, during his self-imposed 'exile' (on run from British Police).], easycaptures.com, 23 September 2011.</ref>

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