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April May 2016 Issue

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Irish Rule on American TV

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

In other Irish TV news, Tipperary native Kerry Condon is back as a troubled single Mom on the new season of AMC’s Better Call Saul. And Irish American author Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch books again serve as the inspiration for the Amazon TV series Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. The 10-episode second season began airing in March. The FX network has announced that it will … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Irish Rule on American TV

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Colin Farrell Is a Magical Beast

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Colin Farrell is among the big stars who will appear in The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Slated to be released this November, the film is based on the JK Rowling book of the same title. The story is a sort of prequel to the Harry Potter series. The book follows the life of writer Newt Scamander (played by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne) and is set in a … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Colin Farrell Is a Magical Beast

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
John Duddy Boxes to the
Big Screen

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

First it was the Irish wrestler Sheamus appearing in the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. And now another world-class Irish athlete – boxer John Duddy – is making the leap to the big-screen. The Derry native will appear in the upcoming Robert De Niro movie Hands of Stone. The film tells the tumultuous life story of boxer Roberto Duran, with De Niro playing his trainer … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
John Duddy Boxes to the
Big Screen

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Documentaries to Watch

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Speaking of Derry, filmmakers from there debuted a documentary about Northern Ireland at the recent Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington D.C. Together in Pieces, a film by David Dryden and Eileen Walsh, looks closely at the North’s famed graffiti and murals as a symbol of the region’s difficult past and potentially hopeful future. The film’s title refers to slang for a … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Documentaries to Watch

A Guide to Pronouncing
Irish Names

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

In January, actress Saoirse Ronan stopped by the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She was there to promote her movie Brooklyn, but the conversation moved into Ronan teaching Colbert (whose ancestry is 15/16 Irish) both how to speak with an Irish accent and how to pronounce traditional Irish names – something that has no doubt been a problem since at least the eighth century, … [Read more...] about A Guide to Pronouncing
Irish Names

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