Finola Dwyer

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Finola Dwyer Shopping Brooklyn TV Spinoff

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
October / November 2016

October 1, 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/october-nobember-2016/“>October / November 2016</a> Leave a Comment

Meanwhile, Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn will likely have a second life on the small screen. Finola Dwyer – the New Zealand-born producer who guided Brooklyn to the big screen – has confirmed that she is in talks with the BBC to spin off various characters from Brooklyn as the basis for a television drama. The show would “revolve around the boarding house for young women run in the … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Finola Dwyer Shopping Brooklyn TV Spinoff

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Finola Dwyer Shopping Brooklyn TV Spinoff

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