A blog of very few words

Hardly any verbal diarrhoea today. Am verifying questions. Necessary work. That's it. Adieu...

FE:IX
1 Which Blackadder actor stars in the video for Kate Bush's 1989 single and Top 30 hit This Woman's Work?
2 Which French cabinetmaker (1642 – 1732) is generally considered to be the preeminent artist in marquetry, his fame in the field leading to his name being given to a fashion of inlaying?
3 Published in 1913, A Small Boy and Others is an autobiography covering the early years of which US-born author?
4 The first signed work by which Venetian painter of veduta (1712 – 1793), who later produced the Doge's Feasts, a series of twelve canvases celebrating the ceremonies held in 1763 for the election of Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo, and 1782's Concerto of 80 Orphans, was Saint Adoring the Eucarist (c.1739)?
5 Which island's official language is regulated by the Coonseil ny Gaelgey?

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Answers to FE:IX
1 Tim McInnerny 2 Andre Charles Boulle, the fashion being called Boulle or Buhl work in Great Britain 3 Henry James 4 Francesco Guardi 5 Isle of Man - as in the Manx Gaelic Council