When the Italian Mafia threatens to kill a crooked bookie (John Turturro), Irish mob boss Leo O'Bannon (Albert Finney) refuses to allow it, chiefly because he's dating the bookie's sister, crafty gun moll Verna Bernbaum (Marcia Gay Harden). Leo's right-hand man, Tom Reagan (Ga...
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Brooklyn, an engrossing tale of young love starring the phenomenal Saoirse Ronan as Eilis, tells the story of an Irish immigrant torn between the warmth of her homeland and the uncharted territory of her new life in America after rekindling a romance with an old flame. The movie's spellbinding...
The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece. The best crime novel ever written bar none. Almost single handedly Chandler invented the genre of the hard drinking, hard smoking, hard loving, sharply dressed, first person, private detective, with a wisecrack for every occasion, and a...
"A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O’Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce . . . inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence."— The Guardian October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city...
Orson Welles’s tale of betrayal, lust and murder, in which he stars as a naive Irish sailor alongside Rita Hayworth as a captivating femme fatale, is filled with visual flourishes and hard-boiled twists. As one of cinema’s great masters, it’s no surprise that Welles made crime films ...
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and has never returned to her father’s Catholic home, while he’s a born-and-bred Protestant who plans to escape his abusive father by joining the Royal Irish Regiment. Sparks fly when they meet and figure out how much they have in common, right down to the same favorite band… yet ...
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15th September 1890. Her father was a wealthy American man called Frederick Miller, and her mother was Clara, the Irish niece of Frederick’s father’s second wife. Frederick and Clara had finally settled in Torquay, a popular resort on the South Devon...