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Something Sexy Is in
the Ringaskiddy Air

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Madonna.

Madonna is developing a movie about an Irish town where locals become sex-crazed after smelling fumes from a Pfizer factory producing Viagra. The script, tentatively titled "Something in the Air," is based on Ringaskiddy, County Cork, where Pfizer created the blue anti-impotence pill, and is written by David McGrath and John O'Driscoll, both of whom live in London. The actors … [Read more...] about Something Sexy Is in
the Ringaskiddy Air

Film Forum:
James Joyce in Love

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
October / November 2001

October 1, 2001 by 1 Comment

For many years, the conventional wisdom about Nora Barnacle, James Joyce's longtime companion and eventually his wife, was that she was an ignorant but "country cute" peasant from Galway with an unaccountable hold on the great writer, whose work she disdained. How could Joyce have lived all those years with a woman who refused to read Ulysses? Her very name was an excuse for … [Read more...] about Film Forum:
James Joyce in Love

Jeremy’s in the Pink
Mumba Doesn’t Mind

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2001

August 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Wrapping up production this summer is Dreamworks' remake of the 60's film, The Time Machine. Starring in the Spielberg feature, due out December 2001, are Jeremy Irons and up and coming Irish pop star, Samantha Mumba. The two reportedly are getting along spectacularly on the set. Mumba's mother said, "Jeremy was such a gentleman to Samantha. He made her feel right at home by … [Read more...] about Jeremy’s in the Pink
Mumba Doesn’t Mind

Film Forum:
When Brendan Met Trudy

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
June / July 2001

June 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

The first original screenplay by Irish novelist Roddy Doyle is automatically a cinematic and literary event. When Brendan Met Trudy offers many quirky delights, but it is an uneven and ultimately disappointing film. Doyle's oddball yarn about a movie-obsessed Dublin schoolteacher (Peter McDonald) who falls in love with a thief (Flora Montgomery) is dragged down on screen by its … [Read more...] about Film Forum:
When Brendan Met Trudy

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August 13, 1899

Alfred Hitchcock, film’s master of suspense, was born on this day in 1899. Although commonly remembered for his British accent, Hitchcock was of both Irish and English descent. His mother was Irish born Emma Jane Whelan. His father’s mother was also Irish. Hitchcock was educated at a Jesuit school and remained a devout Catholic through out his life. Hitchcock also adapted Irish playwright Sean O’Casey’s “Juno and the Paycock” for the screen.

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