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Irish Eye on Hollywood: May / June 2019

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
May / June 2019

May 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

BUCKLE UP FOR BUCKLEY We may look back on 2019 as the moment the entertainment industry was conquered by Kerry native Jessie Buckley. Earlier this year, Forbes magazine touted the Irish singer-actress on its annual list of “Thirty Under 30” personalities who are about to have a major impact on their various fields. In May, she appeared alongside Oscar nominee Emily Watson, … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: May / June 2019

Irish Eye on Hollywood:Brosnan in Hemingway Flick

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
November/ December 2018

November 1, 2018 by 1 Comment

Former 007 Pierce Brosnan is re-teaming with Goldeneye director Martin Campbell for a very different kind of movie. The duo are looking to bring Ernest Hemingway’s war novel Across the River and Into the Trees to the big screen. The novel is about a World War I veteran, Colonel Cantwell, on a hunting trip. Cantwell has serious health problems, and begins looking back on the … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:Brosnan in Hemingway Flick

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November 9, 1926

John Keyes Byrne, better known as the Irish playwright Hugh Leonard, was born in Dublin on this day in 1926. He was adopted as a young boy by the Keyes family and took their last name as his middle name. He worked as a civil servant and acted in and wrote plays for community theater on the side. His first professionally produced play was “The Big Birthday Suit” at the Abbey Theater in Dublin in 1956. As Hugh Leonard, Byrne has had three plays appear on Broadway; “The Au Pair Man” (1973), “Da” (1978), and “A Life” (1980.) “Da” was awarded with a Tony and Drama Desk Award and in 1988 it was made into a film starring Martin Sheen and Barnard Hughes.

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