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Irish Eye on Hollywood

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Ginnifer Goodwin as Jackie O and Robert Lowe as JFK in the upcoming National Geographic adaptation of Bill O'Reilly's Killing Kennedy.

The latest news and releases from your favorite Irish and Irish-American stars. 1. The news that The Sopranos star James Gandolfini died of a heart attack at the age of 51 shocked Hollywood and the millions of Americans who were reluctantly seduced by the New Jersey gangster Gandolfini portrayed. Gandolfini’s life was the ultimate immigrant success story (his father was born … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood

Melissa McCarthy: The Scene Stealer Goes Center Stage

By Patricia Danaher, Contributor
June / July 2013

May 15, 2013 by 1 Comment

Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy is taking Hollywood by storm in her own signature manner. The star of Mike & Molly and Bridesmaids talks to Patricia Danaher about her Irish roots, family and road to fame. There is no one more amazed than Melissa McCarthy at where she is today. “Overnight success” was 22 years in the making for the Chicago-born actress who was nominated for a 2012 Oscar … [Read more...] about Melissa McCarthy: The Scene Stealer Goes Center Stage

Milo O’Shea, Legendary Irish Actor, 1926 – 2013

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief, April 3, 2013

April 4, 2013 by 5 Comments

Milo O'Shea and Melissa Errico in the Irish Repertory Theater's 2005 production of Finian's Rainbow at the Westport Country Playhouse. Photo: T. Charles Erickson

Milo O'Shea, the legendary Irish actor or "actor who is Irish," as he preferred, passed away in hospital in New York City on April 2nd from complications of alzheimer's, his devoted wife Kitty Sullivan at his side. He was 86. He was a much loved member of the Irish community in New York and will be very missed. Milo, who had a long career as an actor, comedian, movie and … [Read more...] about Milo O’Shea, Legendary Irish Actor, 1926 – 2013

Irish Eye on Hollywood

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2013

March 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Liam Neeson's latest action turn, as an air marshal in Non-Stop.

1. The Irish Goodfellas are getting back together! Back in 1990, Robert DeNiro wowed audiences playing Irish-American hood Jimmy Conway in the electric Martin Scorsese gangster flick Goodfellas. Ray Liotta co-starred as half-Irish Henry Hill, as did Joe Pesci playing the psychotic Tommy Carbone. Well, Scorsese, DeNiro and Pesci – as well as Al Pacino  – are teaming up again to … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood

Daniel Day-Lewis After the Oscars

By Adam Farley, Editorial Assistant
February 25, 2013

February 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Besting Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington, Hugh Jackman, and Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis made Oscar history last night when he was awarded his third Academy Award for Actor in a Leading Role. The Lincoln actor first won the Best Actor Oscar in 1990 for his gripping portrayal of the Irish painter and writer Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy in the biopic My … [Read more...] about Daniel Day-Lewis After the Oscars

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William Butler Yeats, Ireland’s most famous poet and one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century, was born in Sandyhurst, Co. Dublin on this day in 1865 to an upper class Protestant family. He spent much of his childhood in Co. Sligo, which heavily influenced Yeats’s natural themes, and he read classics like Shakespeare, Donne, Alighieri and Shelley. With Lady Gregory, he helped establish the Gaelic Literary Revival and founded the Abbey Theater in Dublin. He was the first Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923, followed by Shaw, Beckett and Heaney.

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