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Entertainment Outlook for May 2021

May 14, 2021 by helpdesk1 Leave a Comment

Movies and TV A veteran Irish actor and young up-and-comer are in two highly-anticipated movies finally making their way to theaters – or your living room, or wherever you watch movies these days. Irish actress Niamh Lynch has a supporting role in the new Disney flick Cruella, out on May 28. Based on the classic 101 Dalmatians, Cruella stars Emma Stone and tells the … [Read more...] about Entertainment Outlook for May 2021

Maudie: A Love Story

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/patricia-harty/">Patricia Harty</a>, Editor-in-Chief<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2017-archive/june-july-2017/">June / July 2017</a> 3 Comments

Irish director Aisling Walsh talks to Patricia Harty about her latest film. ℘℘℘ Set in Nova Scotia and filmed in Newfoundland, Maudie is based on the true story of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins) and the unlikely romance between Maud and a hardened reclusive bachelor, Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke). Lovingly brought to the screen by Dublin-born … [Read more...] about Maudie: A Love Story

December 5, 1921

Following the conclusion of negotiations between Irish government representatives and British government representatives, the British give the Irish a deadline to either accept of reject the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The treaty established the self-governing Irish Free State but still made Ireland a dominion under the British Crown. The treaty also gave the six counties of Northern Ireland, which had been acknowledged in the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, the option to opt out of the Irish Free State and remain part of England, which they opted for. The Anglo-Irish treaty split many and on this day in 1921 Prime Minister David LLoyd-George said that rejection by the Irish would result in “immediate and terrible war.”

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