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Ewan McGregor

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Ewan McGregor Adapts Philip Roth in Directorial Debut

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
August / September 2016

August 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment

“I know it’s just my Irish resentment, but I don’t like being looked down on.” That’s a line from American Pastoral, the great 1997 novel by Philip Roth, which will be turned into a prestige film to be released this October. Roth has always had a complicated relationship with the Irish throughout his literary career. Many of Roth’s best novels explore mid-century urban America, … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Ewan McGregor Adapts Philip Roth in Directorial Debut

Film Forum:
James Joyce in Love

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
October/November 2001

October 1, 2001 by 1 Comment

For many years, the conventional wisdom about Nora Barnacle, James Joyce's longtime companion and eventually his wife, was that she was an ignorant but "country cute" peasant from Galway with an unaccountable hold on the great writer, whose work she disdained. How could Joyce have lived all those years with a woman who refused to read Ulysses? Her very name was an excuse for … [Read more...] about Film Forum:
James Joyce in Love

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July 12, 1690

Protestant William of Orange and his forces defeated Catholic James II on this day in 1690 at Battle of the Boyne. William’s victory rendered James II’s attempt to regain the British throne unsuccessful and allowed for a continuation of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland. The battle was fought across the River Boyne near Drogheda. July 12 is also known as “The Twelfth” or “Orange Day” in Belfast.

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