In This Issue 1996
Movie Magic in the City of Tribes
By Laoise Mac Reamoinn
September October 1996
The eighth annual Galway Film Fleadh was a roaring success. With Ireland in the grip of film-making fever, and the notion of a thriving indigenous Irish film industry transformed from distant goal to distinct possibility, it's natural that the three major international film festivals in Dublin, Cork and Galway should reflect the recent boom. There's a good deal of friendly … [Read more...] about Movie Magic in the City of Tribes
A Man Called Beckett
By Patricia O'Haire
July/August 1996
He was a Nobel Prize winner, an Irishman who lived most of his life in a foreign country. A man who wrote in both English and French, he was one of this century's towering literary figures, turning out a total of 19 plays and several books. He was also a major influence on most contemporary playwrights, yet remained an enigma, a thoroughly private person, until his death in … [Read more...] about A Man Called Beckett
By Colin Lacey
July/August 1996
Michael Flatley, the Irish-Chicagoan creator of Riverdance who was fired by producers two days before the London premiere, is alive and kicking and is ready to rock `n' roll with a brand new show. It started modestly in 1994, a seven-minute distraction during the intermission of the glaringly unfashionable Eurovision Song Contest. Two years, 1.2 million audience members, and … [Read more...] about
In Off the Road
An inside look at Ireland's Travelers The children you see in these photographs are Irish Travelers – so called because their families travel about stopping in roadside camps and at the few government-built campsites. Their numbers are estimated to be 25,000. The origins of the Irish "Traveler" also known as "Tinker", has long been in question. Modern scholars suggest that … [Read more...] about In Off the Road