July August 1992
Blazes Boylan
Compiled by Brian Rohan July August 1992
"Patriot Games" Controversies Arise When Paramount Pictures was putting together what it expected to be its big summer movie blockbuster, Patriot Games, the only controversies it encountered was the casting of Harrison Ford as the leading man over earlier choice Alec Baldwin, and trying to reconcile the movie's screenwriters with Tom Clancy, the author of the novel on which … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan
The Irish Experience in Australia
Thomas Keneally is widely-recognized for a wide body of work of a historical and political nature, including The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, which explores differences between the white and Aboriginal cultures. Confederates examined the consequences of the American Civil War on a group of individuals; Schindler's List looks at the Holocaust. And in To Asmara he focused on the … [Read more...] about The Irish Experience in Australia
1992 Yeats International Theatre Festival
By James W. Flannery, Director, W.B. Yeats Drama Foundation July August 1992
More than half a century after his death, William Butler Yeats is still Ireland's foremost avant-garde playwright. We return to his theatre work, in all it diversity and contradictions, not because we are sure of its place in the repertoire of modern Irish theatre, but because we are not. Yeats' plays are unsettled and unsettling, radically incomplete until methods of … [Read more...] about 1992 Yeats International Theatre Festival
Portrait of Joanna
By Evelyn Leahy Hankel July August 1992
1875 was a year of hardship for the Michael Noonans of County Tipperary. The small farm house near Strough in Lattin Parish harbored Michael, his wife, Ann Power, and the eight youngest of their twelve children. The four eldest, quite mature, had migrated to Australia and America. The eight young Noonans heard many tales from across the seas sent to the parents from their … [Read more...] about Portrait of Joanna