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Irish Eye on Hollywood: Balfe & Kennedy
Race to the Silver Screen

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
January / February 2019

December 22, 2018 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/tom-deignan/">Tom Deignan</a>, Columnist<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2019-archive/january-february-2019/">January / February 2019</a> 1 Comment

Irish actress and Golden Globe nominee Caitriona Balfe is branching out from the excellent work she has been doing for several years now on the Starz network show Outlander. In 2019, Balfe – a Dublin native – will appear alongside Christian Bale and Matt Damon in Ford v. Ferrari, directed by James Mangold, known for gritty flicks such as Cop Land and Walk the Line, as well … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: Balfe & Kennedy
Race to the Silver Screen

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
RFK Biopics in the Works for 50th Anniversary of his Death

December 1, 2017 by helpdesk1 1 Comment

June 2018 will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and Hollywood is ready to mark the occasion with not one but two projects in the works telling the story of the Kennedy brother often considered the most Irish and Catholic. First there is a major motion picture featuring Matt Damon as RFK, who ran for president in 1968, only to be gunned down … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
RFK Biopics in the Works for 50th Anniversary of his Death

Hibernia: Film Briefs

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by </a> By Irish America Staff<br/> <a href=“https://irishamerica.com/archives/2000-archive/october-november-2000/”>October / November 2000</a> Leave a Comment

Irish-American heartthrob Mel Gibson is rumored to be "very interested" in Wolfgang Peterson's newest undertaking. The director of The Perfect Storm has now set his sights on another nautical adventure – the story of Irish-born Sir Ernest Shackleton and the ill-fated Endurance expedition to Antarctica. Another tale of man vs. nature, with another Irish-American hunk in the lead … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Film Briefs

September 19, 1880

The term “boycotting”- a form of non-violent protesting – entered the English language on this day in 1880. Coined by Charles Stewart Parnell in his speech on land tenants at Ennis, he said, “I wish to point out a better way, a more Christian way which will give the lost man an opportunity of repenting. When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must shun him on the roadside, on the streets, in the shop and even in the place of worship by putting him in a ‘moral Coventry.’ You must show him your detestation of the crime he has committed.”

Irish Eye on Hollywood: Balfe & Kennedy
Race to the Silver Screen

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
RFK Biopics in the Works for 50th Anniversary of his Death

Hibernia: Film Briefs

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