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Irish Eye on Hollywood: From Gone Girl to Widows

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
November/ December 2018

November 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

In November, Liam Neeson and Colin Farrell will team up with Irish American writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) in a crime thriller loaded with talent. Entitled Widows, the film features Neeson as one of a quartet of thieves who are killed in the middle of a heist. Their widows (among them Oscar winner Viola Davis) decide to finish the job. Widows is based on a 1980s British … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: From Gone Girl to Widows

Irish Eye on Hollywood: Irish Shine in Steve McQueen’s New Thriller

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
April / May 2018

February 28, 2018 by Leave a Comment

There’s also lots of Irish-born and Irish American talent in the upcoming thriller Widows, directed by Steve McQueen, who also directed the Northern Ireland film Hunger. Described as a heist flick and due out in November when studios begin releasing their classy Oscar-bait films, Widows stars Colin Farrell and Liam Neeson and was written by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: Irish Shine in Steve McQueen’s New Thriller

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Australian explorer Robert O’Hara Burke, born in Co. Galway, died on this day in 1861. Burke, who had migrated to Australia in 1853 after a short military and police career, and was appointed to lead the Victorian Exploring Expedition in 1860. He partnered with William John Wills as surveyor and the party set out with the goal of discovering a south to north route through Australia. Burke was inexperienced in bushcraft, and ultimately the expedition failed with the death of seven members including himself.

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