"Jaysus. It's getting bleeding crazy," Farrell says of his overnight star status. "You couldn't actually give it too much thought or your head would be destroyed." He still can't believe what has happened to his career. It's only four years [this interview took place in 2001] since Farrell made his debut in the Irish TV mini-series Falling For a Dancer, after he had opted out … [Read more...] about 20 Great Interviews: Colin Farrell
Interviews
20 Great Interviews: Chuck Feeney
Chuck Feeney comes across as someone who really wants little more than to end his life as the ordinary guy who left Elizabeth, New Jersey to become a GI after the Second World War. He has accumulated more wealth than any other Irish-American of his generation but you won't see him at receptions or black-tie functions that mark the social life of corporate Irish America. "I'm … [Read more...] about 20 Great Interviews: Chuck Feeney
20 Great Interviews: Michael Flatley
Michael Flatley can recall the times spent on the "pay your dues" circuit, traveling the country as a warm-up for headliners like The Chieftains. After all, he didn't make his everlasting mark on the world stage until well into his thirties. "I've got no regrets," Flatley said. "It's been a hard road but a good road." The kid from Chicago now presides over a … [Read more...] about 20 Great Interviews: Michael Flatley
An Interview with Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." The first person from Northern Ireland to be so honored, Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, the eldest of nine children, to Margaret and Patrick Heaney, at the family farm in Mossbawn, County Derry. In his Nobel Prize … [Read more...] about An Interview with Seamus Heaney
20 Great Interviews: Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark is one of America's premier "who done it" writers. Her books are worldwide best-sellers. Several of her novels have been made into television dramas and major movies. In April 2000, she signed a five-book deal with Simon & Schuster worth an astonishing $64 million, but as one book after another passes the million mark in sales, the arrangement looks like … [Read more...] about 20 Great Interviews: Mary Higgins Clark