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Movie Review: Pierce, Helena and Gabriel ensure a Young Irish Couple Receives “Four Letters of Love”
Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne appear on screen together for the first time in “Four Letters of Love,” a lovely, sentimental and ever-so-Irish romance about fate, faith and the power of words to woo, especially when folded … Continue reading
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Tagged ann-skelly, books, gabriel-byrne, helena-bomham-carter, ireland, irish-cinema, movies, niall-williams, pierce-brosnan, poetry, writing
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Classic Film Review: Renewing “The Commitments” to Irish Soul and Irish Joy (1991)
Twas the writer Roddy Doyle who re-introduced the literary world to the concept of “Irish joy.” Sure’twas. His “Barrytown Trilogy” of comic novels in the late ’80s and early ’90s — the self-published sensation “The Commitments,” “The Snapper” and “The … Continue reading
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Tagged art, books, colm-meaney, dublin, irish-cinema, music, roddy-doyle, soul-music
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Movie Review: When Ireland isn’t Enough, “The Problem with People”
A couple of top flight character actors — Irish mainstay Colm Meaney and American kvetcher Paul Reiser — pair up for an Irish comedy about family history, inheritance, grudges and cultures clashing in “The Problem with People.” It’s got the … Continue reading
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Tagged colm-meaney, county-wicklow, entertainment, film-review, irish-cinema, movies, reiser
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Movie Review: Cillian Murphy’s an Irishman Haunted by the Cruelty of the Magdalene Laundries — “Small Things Like These”
There have been more emotional films about the great shame of modern Ireland, the state’s complicity with the Catholic church’s infamous “Magdalene Laundries, which imprisoned pregnant young women in convents, forced them to work for convent for-profit laundry services and … Continue reading
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Tagged cillian-murphy, claire-keegan, film-review, irish-cinema, magdalene-laundies, movies, tim-mielants
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