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When Brendan Met Trudy

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
June / July 2001

June 1, 2001 by </a> By Joseph McBride, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2001-archive/june-july-2001/">June / July 2001</a> 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

Two Grandfathers

By William Kennedy, Contributor
October / November 2000

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

William Kennedy on his unsung origins. ℘℘℘ My grandfathers, George Kennedy and Peter McDonald, died before I was born. I came to know something of them through talks with my parents and other relatives, a few artifacts, death certificates and obituaries, and two photographs that defined them for me forever. Both photos are working-class portraits. The portrait of … [Read more...] about Two Grandfathers

October 21, 1904

Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh was born in Co. Monaghan on this day in 1904. Kavanagh is perhaps most famous for his epic poem “The Great Hunger” which chronicles the desires of peasant farmer Patrick Maguire. Kavanagh is also well known for his poem “Raglan Road” which was eventually made into a song and set to the music “The Dawning of the Day” by Luke Kelly and The Dubliners. Poet Seamus Heaney has acknowledge that Kavanagh had a great influence on his own poems.

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