Brian Mallon’s epic novel chronicling the life of Shane O’Neill, the 16th century Irish chieftain, is reviewed by Fionnula Flanagan. ℘℘℘ Here is the great dark cloak of Irish Elizabethan history spread out before us. Its threads are spun from loyalty, intrigue, betrayal, lust, terror, thievery, and extraordinary courage, ferocity in battle, savagery in revenge, and passion in … [Read more...] about Shane O’Neill Was “The Grand Disturber” of Elizabethan Ireland
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Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Fionnula Flanagan Returns to the Box Office
Fionnula Flanagan has already appeared in one movie slated for an early 2016 release and is shaping up to have an overall busy year. Flanagan – the Dublin-born veteran of stage and screen – was most recently seen in the psychological thriller Trash Fire, alongside Ronnie Gene Blevins and Adrian Grenier (Entourage). The film was released in January and Flanagan has several other … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Fionnula Flanagan Returns to the Box Office
Fionnula Flanagan Remembers Husband Garrett O’Connor, Addiction Treatment Pioneer
By Fionnula Flanagan
January, 2016
I met him in 1969. In the corridor of the Round Towner Motel in Baltimore. Maryland. Following a Broadway run, I was on a national tour with Lovers, the play that had brought me to the US. He was an Irish psychiatrist running the Psychiatric Emergency Clinic on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. But when I first saw him, having opened my motel room door to … [Read more...] about Fionnula Flanagan Remembers Husband Garrett O’Connor, Addiction Treatment Pioneer
Remembering Dr. Garrett O’Connor, an Addiction Treatment Pioneer
The renowned physician and psychiatrist Dr. Garrett O’Connor, lauded for his work on addiction treatment and the founding president of the Betty Ford Institute for Prevention, Research and Education in Addictive Disease, died early September at his home in Aughrim, Co. Wicklow. Dr. O’Connor was born in Dublin and graduated as a physician from the Royal College of Surgeons and … [Read more...] about Remembering Dr. Garrett O’Connor, an Addiction Treatment Pioneer
Let the Healing Begin
While it has not been labeled an actual illness, the longing to return home can cause psychological and social problems that get passed down to future generations. Fionnula Flanagan writes that it’s time to welcome everyone back into the fold. If the historians are to be believed, early on we left in high-prowed small boats stuffed with monks and their concubines to found … [Read more...] about Let the Healing Begin