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Irish Eye On Hollywood: August / September 2019

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

KEEPING UP WITH THE GLEESONS It’s the Gleeson family’s world. The rest of us just live in it. This autumn will be a special time for the Irish acting clan, made up of patriarch Brendan Gleeson and sons Brian and Domhnall. Domhnall was featured in the summer Irish-American gangster flick The Kitchen, about the wives of West Side Manhattan hoods taking over various criminal … [Read more...] about Irish Eye On Hollywood: August / September 2019

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