5 Favourite Irish Films: -An Cailín Ciúin -The Dead -Da -That They May Face the Rising Sun -Hush-A-Bye Baby letterboxd.com/spdonlan/lis...

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'Hey, is that real? She couldn't be.' - The Quiet Man (1952) 'Stand out so I can have a proper look at you.' - The Quiet Girl (2022) Personal favourites, *not* the best Irish films. Irish here is esse...

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A book launch, like an Irish funeral, is a chance to meet people and exchange a bit of gossip.

'Within Ireland, it might provide some catharsis or energize calls for greater truth and reconciliation. But some viewers might find that message obscured by the emotive tropes of on-screen trauma, the genres the film triggers, and the rituals it reenacts.' headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Frank Berry’s The Lost Children of Tuam Digs Up Ireland’s Darkest Secrets - HeadStuff

The Lost Children of Tuam revisits Ireland’s institutional past through Catherine Corless’s investigation into the children buried in Tuam

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Happy birthday to Bruce Springsteen, born on this day in 1949. Here’s our look at the long cinematic lineage of his 1982 masterpiece “Nebraska”: buff.ly/Pvt7rHD

Springsteen Goes Hollywood, By Way of Nebraska — Crooked Marquee

The new Bruce Springsteen biopic, about the making of his 1982 minimalist masterpiece, is the latest in the album’s long cinematic lineage.

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The film Warner Bros. tried to bury is back, with a sharp satire of companies exactly like the ones consolidating power in Hollywood. www.currentaffairs.org/news/coyote-...

“Coyote vs. Acme” Takes a Cartoon Mallet to Corporate Monopolies

The film Warner Bros. tried to bury is back, with a sharp satire of companies exactly like the ones consolidating power in Hollywood.

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'The song evokes the criminal underworld of late nineteenth-century New York with references to the slang term for police wagons (Black Marias) and the prison on Blackwell Island close to Manhattan.' dimplediscs.bandcamp.com/track/the-bl...

The Black Maria, O, by Dimple Discs

track by Dimple Discs

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Why not bring a friend and come to my book launch. Please share because otherwise hardly anyone gets to see posts here :)

Free screening of The Grey Fox (1982) Saturday, 19 September at 7:30 pm The Paramount Theatre (Kamloops) A post-film panel explores Miner's life and legend. See thekfs.ca/movie/the-gr...

'Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.' newrepublic.com/article/2151...

The Final Battle for America’s Democracy

Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.

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We are launching the Research Centre for Legal Historyon 16.09.26. I am delighted to say that we have a great line up of incredible speakers. We have a very limited number of spaces in the room, but wanted to open it up to the wider legal history community www.eventbrite.com/e/2000181837...

Research Centre for Legal History Launch

This event is the launch the Mayooth University School of Law and Criminology's newly established Research Centre for Legal History.

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⏰ The Radharc Awards have extended their deadline for submitting projects to Monday 14th September! The Awards are seeking Irish documentary films of outstanding quality which broadcast or were digitally distributed for the first time between 3 September 2024 and 2 September 2026. ➡️ radharc.ie

Radharc Films - The Radharc Trust

Preserving the Archive and Celebrating the Legacy of Radharc Films CALL FOR ENTRIES The Radharc

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Frank Berry's The Lost Children of Tuam hits Irish cinemas on September 25th.

The nationwide National Cinema Weekend celebration takes place Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September. Participating cinemas will offer admission prices starting from just €4 (RSP) throughout the weekend. www.cinemaweekend.ie/home

RIP Wendell Berry (1934-2026) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92

Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at home

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PSA: Irish judges have started putting their extra-judicial speeches online: www.supremecourt.ie/supreme-cour... It may prove to be a useful research tool for scholars.

Why did ‘The Commitments’ mean so much to young people in the pre-Nirvana 1990s, and how could it resonate with digital natives coming of age today? crookedmarquee.com/this-is-our-...

https://crookedmarquee.com/this-is-our-music-the-commitments-at-35/

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The 5th Legal Histories of Empire conference is going to be held in Bengaluru 13-15 July 2028: lhbe.org/save-the-dat...

Féile John Ford: 11-13 September 2026 An Spidéal, Co. Galway, Ireland '[A] unique festival celebrating the life, legacy and artistry of the legendary filmmaker John Ford, whose family roots lie in An Spidéal, Co. Galway, a place he frequently returned to both physically and imaginatively.'

Vincent Browne, the sculptor of Dublin's Mr Screen statue and many more iconic public art works, has died aged 78. We'll always be thankful to Browne for his work on one of our favourite sights in the fair city of film, now in residence at the Savoy Cinema. Ar dheis Dé raibh a anam Vincent.

'It is a moment that clunkily crowbars some of the most famous lines of Shakespeare’s writing ... into a personal moment of despair and suicidal ideation, which ultimately undermines Mescal’s emotional performance with its sheer obviousness.' rupture.ie/articles/ham...

Hamnet’s Shakespeare Problem

by Emer McHugh I am following the release of Hamnet – Chloé Zhao’s recent adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel that follows Anne Hathaway (here known as Agnes) in the wake of the death of h...

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'Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice'

Barack Obama Pretends To Be Canadian While Traveling Abroad https://theonion.com/barack-obama-pretends-to-be-canadian-while-traveling-abroad/

Elon Musk slams James Joyce's "inauthentic" and "woke" version of the Odyssey. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/e...

Elon Musk slams James Joyce’s “inauthentic” and “woke” version of the Odyssey.

In an extended campaign waged across social media, Elon Musk, has attacked James Joyce’s bold adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, focusing on many of the character portrayals. “It&#821…

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“Berry shows restraint in his direction, allowing the facts to fuel the drama.” Screen International reviews Frank Berry’s The Lost Children of Tuam, winner of the Best Film Award @galwayfilm.bsky.social. 🏆 💚 #IrishFilm

‘The Lost Children Of Tuam’ review: Sensitive, unfussy drama follows investigation into Irish mother and baby home

Liam Neeson produces Frank Berry's respectful drama, which stars Monica Dolan as Galway historian Catherine Corless

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'We hope that Screening Coercive Confinement can serve as a space of reflection, that it may demonstrate how our knowledge of Ireland’s histories of coercive confinement can help undo its carceral presents and prevent us from creating more carceral futures.' See exhibitions.moli.ie/screening-co...

‘This country is run on epidemics; where you been? Price-fixing, crooked TV shows, inflated expense accounts. How many honest men you know? Why, if you separate the saints from the sinners, you're lucky to wind up with Abraham Lincoln.’ – Hud www.criterion.com/films/30203-...