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 By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/tom-deignan/">Tom Deignan</a>, Contributor<br/><a href=“https://irishamerica.com/archives/2016-archive/august-september-2016/“>August / September 2016</a> 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 </a> By Joseph McBride, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2001-archive/october-november-2001/">October / November 2001</a> Leave a 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

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.”

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

Film Forum:
James Joyce in Love

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