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Irish Cinema Showcase

April 21, 2022 by Leave a Comment

The YoFi Fest and the Consulate General of Ireland in association with the Aisling Irish Community Center and the Deirdre O'Mara School of Irish Dance present the 3rd Annual Irish Cinema Showcase. Beginning Friday, April 22, and running through Sunday, April 24, 2022, the YoFi Digital Media Art Center will present three feature films and ten short films by Irish filmmakers for … [Read more...] about Irish Cinema Showcase

Robert Downey Sr.: A Prince (1936-2021)

April 21, 2022 by Leave a Comment

A filmmaker with a personality so outsized and full of life that it’s hard to believe he could be gone, Robert Downey Sr. passed away this past July, bringing to a close a career that produced some of the most inventive, hilarious, and outrageous works in all of underground cinema. As a special tribute, Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue at 2nd Street, NY) will be screening … [Read more...] about Robert Downey Sr.: A Prince (1936-2021)

Irish Eye On Hollywood: August / September 2019

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

KEEPING UP WITH THE GLEESONS It’s the Gleeson family’s world. The rest of us just live in it. This autumn will be a special time for the Irish acting clan, made up of patriarch Brendan Gleeson and sons Brian and Domhnall. Domhnall was featured in the summer Irish-American gangster flick The Kitchen, about the wives of West Side Manhattan hoods taking over various criminal … [Read more...] about Irish Eye On Hollywood: August / September 2019

Cate Blanchett Goes Irish

By Louise Carroll, Contributor
October / November 2003

October 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Blanchett as Veronica Guerin.

An acclaimed Australian actress known for tackling tough parts, Cate Blanchett takes on her first Irish role in Veronica Guerin. Smart, provocative and down-to-earth, Blanchett spoke to Louise Carroll just before the movie's U.S. release. ℘℘℘ Cate Blanchett has played a range of characters in her career including the Queen of England, the elf queen Galadriel of Lothlorian, an … [Read more...] about Cate Blanchett Goes Irish

Just Judy

By Rita E. Piro, Contributor
October/November 2001

October 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

By the time Judy Garland made her first and only concert appearance in Dublin in July 1951, she had been an international star for more than a decade. She had starred in 27 feature length films, performed on more than 200 radio shows, appeared in hundreds of national and international magazines and newspapers, and recorded more than 70 records and albums. The diminutive … [Read more...] about Just Judy

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William Butler Yeats, Ireland’s most famous poet and one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century, was born in Sandyhurst, Co. Dublin on this day in 1865 to an upper class Protestant family. He spent much of his childhood in Co. Sligo, which heavily influenced Yeats’s natural themes, and he read classics like Shakespeare, Donne, Alighieri and Shelley. With Lady Gregory, he helped establish the Gaelic Literary Revival and founded the Abbey Theater in Dublin. He was the first Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923, followed by Shaw, Beckett and Heaney.

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