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Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Boxer-Actor John Duddy’s Festival Raves

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2017

March 12, 2017 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/tom-deignan/">Tom Deignan</a>, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2017-archive/april-may-2017/">April / May 2017</a> Leave a Comment

Making the rounds and earning raves at film festivals is Irish boxer John Duddy’s acting debut Emerald City. The film, written by Northern Irish native Colin Broderick and produced by Irish Downton Abbey star Brendan Coyle, looks at more recent Irish immigrant laborers in New York City. As the Derry Journal newspaper noted: “The identity of the Irish worker in New York finds … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Boxer-Actor John Duddy’s Festival Raves

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Boxer-Actor John Duddy’s Festival Raves

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