Netflix is Continuing to Rely on Irish to Lure Viewers Among the streaming giant’s latest offerings is a true-crime documentary called Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, which revisits the 1996 death of a French woman who’d been staying at her Irish vacation home. This is just the latest Netflix documentary with strong Irish links. There is also Surviving Death, an exploration … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Irish Eye On Hollywood
Jimmy Breslin
Lost Footage of the Deadline Artists: Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill
By Pat Fenton
It was January 22 of 2019 and I was standing in this large room at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. The room overlooked Columbus Circle. There was a cocktail party going on and as I looked around at the guests coming in I could see all these faces that I usually only see on television, or in their words as by-lines on the pages of New York’s newspapers. Some of them … [Read more...] about Lost Footage of the Deadline Artists: Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill
Entertainment Outlook for May 2021
Movies and TV A veteran Irish actor and young up-and-comer are in two highly-anticipated movies finally making their way to theaters – or your living room, or wherever you watch movies these days. Irish actress Niamh Lynch has a supporting role in the new Disney flick Cruella, out on May 28. Based on the classic 101 Dalmatians, Cruella stars Emma Stone and tells the … [Read more...] about Entertainment Outlook for May 2021
Irish American
Heritage Month 2021
A Proclamation on Irish-American Heritage Month, 2021
On Monday March 1, 2021 President Joe Biden proclaimed March as Irish American Heritage Month to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. Irish American Heritage Month was first celebrated by a proclamation in 1991 by President George H.W. … [Read more...] about Irish American
Heritage Month 2021
Wild Irish Women: More Sinned Against Than Sinning
Pilloried by the press and railroaded to prison, she still managed to sail into the sunset. During the summer of 1965 in the East Bronx, the collective grief in Saint Raymond’s convent was almost palpable. The nuns learned that one of their students, a former Good Irish Catholic Girl, had brought shame on them and the rest of the tribe. Alice Crimmins was now fodder for … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: More Sinned Against Than Sinning