Irish America

August September 2011 Issue

Brendan Gleeson: The Good, the Bad and the Funny

By Sheila Langan, Deputy Editor
August / September 2011

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The dynamic Irish actor talks about his latest role in The Guard, working with the brothers McDonagh and his upcoming directorial debut with Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds. It’s a Thursday morning in late June, and I am sitting at a table in the empty ballroom of the opulent Beverly Wilshire hotel, waiting for Brendan Gleeson. The press conference scheduled prior to our … [Read more...] about Brendan Gleeson: The Good, the Bad and the Funny

The First Word: Imagining America

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
August / September 2011

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A letter from our Editor: My image of the South and the Civil War was formed in part by the movie Gone With the Wind.  RTÉ, our one channel when I was growing up in Ireland, ran movie classics on Sunday afternoons. It was one of the features I enjoyed watching with my mother. My desire to come to America was fueled by those movies, by the glamour of  Fred Astaire … [Read more...] about The First Word: Imagining America

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Upcoming Film Releases

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
August / September 2011

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The latest Irish and Irish American happenings in film and televisio 1.An all-star cast of Irish and international talent gathered in Dublin to shoot a gender-bending film written by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed authors. n Glenn Close stars alongside Irish thespians Brenda Fricker, Brendan Gleeson, Mary Doyle Kennedy and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in the film Albert … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Upcoming Film Releases

Bring Them All Back Home

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
August / September 2011

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'Ireland Reaching Out' is a pilot project that aims to reconnect all 70 million Irish people worldwide with their ancestral homeland. The Ireland Reaching Out project is the brainchild of Mike Feerick, a Galway businessman who has his own personal experience of emigration.  Feerick, who now lives near Loughrea, was born in New York and lived for many years in America. “I know … [Read more...] about Bring Them All Back Home

The Jig is Up!

By Sheila Langan, Deputy Editor
August / September 2011

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A new documentary dubbed as "Spellbound meets Mad Hot Ballroom, with a touch of Riverdance" As an Irish American who had a very culturally rich childhood, I may be something of an anomaly in that I never once tried Irish step dancing. I never raised a foot to a jig or a reel, never donned a massive curly wig, never learned how to jump two feet in the air while keeping my arms … [Read more...] about The Jig is Up!