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Brían O’Byrne Wins a Tony

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
August / September 2004

August 1, 2004 by Leave a Comment

When he learned he had just won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a play, Irish actor Brían O'Byrne took to the stage looking stunned. "I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who's speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV," he said. "But it might be just what you get." Who cares if it makes for good TV? O'Byrne has shown he can rule the … [Read more...] about Brían O’Byrne Wins a Tony

Byrne’s Turn in The Kitchen

August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Elen Barkin & Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Opens Baltimore. Gabriel Byrne added himself to the list of Hollywood actors to open a restaurant in New York City in May. It's called Balitore, after a village in Co. Kidare "where the Shackleton brothers [explorers] grew up." Byrne's ex, Ellen Barkin, and her husband Ron Perlman were among those who attended the opening. Rumors that Byrne, who won a tony award for … [Read more...] about Byrne’s Turn in The Kitchen

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Oscar Wilde was released from prison on this date; he went to France, where he wrote his poem, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” He was born Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde on October, 16 1854, to William Wilde, an Irish doctor and Jane Francesca Elgee, who wrote revolutionary poems under the pseudonym “Speranza” for The Nation. After study at Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford, Wilde moved to London and went on to become one of the best known writers and personalities of his day. At the height of his success, Wilde was arrested over an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. He was charged with “gross indecency” and imprisoned for two years’ hard labour. Wilde never recovered from the harsh treatment of prison and died at age 46 in Paris.

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