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Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland has brought over Intermission, an impressive new dramedy featuring everyone’s favourite leprechaun, Colin Farrell. Opening the New York Film Festival on March 18, Intermission has all the pieces needed to replicate its European success. Irish native John Crowley handles the 11 interlinked stories and 54 characters so deftly in his directorial debut that the movie successfully delivers an almost unrelenting barrage of comedy, romance and excitement and earns comparisons to Robert Altman’s best work...
Ballyhoo aside, a distinction needs to be drawn between imperialism and modernization, too often conflated in the West and elsewhere. Ireland herself provides an instructive example. In the 1600s Oliver Cromwell subjugated the Emerald Isle, massacring thousands of Irish civilians and confiscating most of their landholdings. In the ensuing centuries, the Irish people were subjected to harshly discriminatory anti-Catholic laws. That was imperialism. In the past few decades, the European Union’s development grants to Ireland have helped transform the nation into a prosperous, open economy with a highly-educated workforce and an impressive growth rate. That...
Hailing from Galway in Western Ireland, The Saw Doctors are a top-selling super group at home, but they have yet to connect with American audiences. Their lackluster American fan base is surprising considering their sound, which seem to have all the qualifications for American cross-over success: their formula was recently described by Rolling Stone magazine as “one part Creedence, one part Hootie, and one part Irish Historical Society,” a soothing mix. Their show is a G-rated celebration of, according to Rolling Stone, “first kisses, Gaelic football and best...
...acceptance, support and liturgical celebrations of love and commitment. I have been quietly celebrating such ceremonies for 18 years. Many clergy and other people in the Catholic Church and other churches would agree with me but, sadly, are silenced by a prevailing culture of fear. Pat Buckley Larne, Northern Ireland...
...blessed mother is crying for Iraq, for Haiti, for Northern Ireland, for the abused children, for all the pain, all the suffering,” he said...