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Cinema Of Ireland
The Irish film industry has grown somewhat from the late 20th century, due partly to the promotion of the sector by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and the introduction of heavy tax breaks. According to the Irish Audiovisual Content Production Sector Review carried out by the Irish Film Board and PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2008 this sector, has gone from 1,000 people employed six or seven years previously, to well over 6,000 people in that sector by the time of the report. The sector was reportedly valued at over €557.3 million and represented 0.3% of GDP. Most films are produced in English as Ireland is largely Anglophone, though some productions are made in Irish either wholly or partially. According to a 2009 article in ''Variety'' magazine spotlighting Irish cinema, up to 1999/2000, Ireland had only two filmmakers "anyone had heard of": Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan. However, , the ''Variety'' article stated that Ireland then had "more than a dozen directors and writers wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Sheridan
Kirsten Sheridan (born 14 July 1976) is an Irish film director and screenwriter. She is best known for co-writing the semi-autobiographical film '' In America'' with her father, director Jim Sheridan, and her sister, Naomi Sheridan, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Golden Globe Award for and Best Screenplay."2004 Golden Globe Nominations" , ''Premiere''. Accessed 3 November 2007. She is also known as the director of films '' Disco Pigs and August Rush.'' Early life Born in |
Man About Dog
''Man About Dog'' is a 2004 Irish comedy film starring Allen Leech, Ciaran Nolan and Tom Murphy. The film was distributed by Redbus Film Distribution and directed by Paddy Breathnach. Plot The main characters are Mo Chara, Scud Murphy and Cereberal Paulsy, all from West Belfast. They have an interest in dog racing, which the narrator, Mo Chara, informs us, is very important in Ireland. A corrupt bookmaker makes a proposition to them, to help him win a race through underhanded methods and in exchange, he'll give them a dog. After sabotaging the race as requested, they find out that the dog, 'Boots' as they call him, is useless as a racing dog. When propositioned by someone else to help sabotage the bookmaker's attempts to win a very important race, they receive a dog, Cerberus as a reward. They decide to test out Cerberus' ability and enter him in a race. However, instead of racing, Cerberus lies down inside the box and does not move, losing the three men some money. Outside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intermission (film)
''Intermission'' is a 2003 Irish black comedy crime film directed by John Crowley and written by Mark O'Rowe. The film, set in Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ..., Ireland, contains many interconnected storylines, and is shot in a documentary-like style, with some sections presented as excerpts from television programs that exist within the show (one of the storylines follows a television documentary director). It features several of Ireland's best-known actors, including Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney and Colin Farrell, all of whom have featured in internationally successful films such as '' 28 Days Later'' (Murphy), '' The Commitments'' (Meaney) and '' Minority Report'' (Farrell). It also featured the Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald, who had appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (film)
''The Wind That Shakes the Barley'' is a 2006 war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922–1923). Written by long-time Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, the film tells the fictional story of two County Cork brothers, Damien ( Cillian Murphy) and Teddy O'Donovan ( Pádraic Delaney), who join the Irish Republican Army to fight for Irish independence from the United Kingdom, only for the two brothers to then find themselves on opposite sides during the subsequent Irish Civil War. The film takes its title from Robert Dwyer Joyce's " The Wind That Shakes the Barley", a song set during the 1798 rebellion in Ireland and featured early in the film. Widely praised, the film won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Loach's biggest box office success as of 2007, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Business Post
The ''Business Post'' (formerly ''The Sunday Business Post'') is a Sunday newspaper distributed nationally in Ireland and an online publication. It is focused mainly on business and financial issues in Ireland. Founding to Irish financial crisis ''The Sunday Business Post'' was co-founded by four people: the economist and editor Damien Kiberd, Aileen O'Toole (former editor of '' Business & Finance''), Frank Fitzgibbon (editor of ''The Sunday Times'' Ireland) and James Morrissey (spokesperson for Denis O'Brien). The ''SBP'' was previously owned by Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH). It was then owned by Key Capital, Paul Cooke and staff members (6% equity for staff). It was then owned by Sunrise Media, the shareholders of which include Key Capital. It is now owned by Kilcullen Capital Partners. The paper's first edition appeared on 26 November 1989. While TCH's other major newspaper titles, the '' Irish Examiner'' and '' Evening Echo'', are based in Cork, the ''Post'' is publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Cullen
Martin Cullen (born 2 November 1954) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism from 2008 to 2010, Minister for Social and Family Affairs from 2007 to 2008, Minister for Transport from 2004 to 2007, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 1997 to 2002. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 1987 to 1989 and from 1992 to 2010. He was a Senator from 1989 to 1992, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. Background, early and private life Martin Cullen was born in Waterford in 1954. He was educated at Waterpark College and the Regional Technical College, Waterford. He is married and has four children – three sons and one daughter. However, in late 2004 he stated that he was separated from his wife, Dorthe. Cullen's father and grandfather had been Mayor of Waterford, a position Martin Cullen himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport And Media
The Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport () is a senior minister in the Government of Ireland The Government of Ireland () is the executive (government), executive authority of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, headed by the , the head of government. The government – also known as the cabinet (government), cabinet – is composed of Mini ... and leads the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport. The minister is Patrick O'Donovan, TD. He is assisted by one minister of state: * Charlie McConalogue, TD – Minister of State for sport and postal policy List of office-holders The Minister for Economic Planning and Development was created by the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1977. The title and functions of the position have changed several times since then. ;Notes References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Government ministers of the Republic of Ireland Killarney Lists of governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark O'Halloran (writer)
Mark O'Halloran () is an Irish scriptwriter and actor. He is a native of Ennis, County Clare. He has written award-winning screenplays for the films '' Adam & Paul'' (in which he co-starred) and '' Garage'' and the RTÉ mini-series ''Prosperity''. In 2019 he starred with Stephen Graham in the Channel 4 miniseries '' The Virtues'', written and directed by Shane Meadows. Awards and nominations ;Awards *2005: Gijón International Film Festival Award for Best Actor - '' Adam & Paul'' *2006: Evening Standard British Award for Best Screenplay - ''Adam & Paul'' *2008: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Script for Film - '' Garage'' *2008: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Script for Television - ''Prosperity Prosperity is the flourishing, thriving, good fortune and successful social status. Prosperity often produces profuse wealth including other factors which can be profusely wealthy in all degrees, such as happiness and health. Competing notions ...'' *2008: I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enda Walsh
Enda Walsh (born 1967) is an Irish playwright. Biography Enda Walsh was born in Kilbarrack, North Dublin on 7 February 1967. His father ran a furniture shop and his mother had been an actress. He is the second youngest of six children. Walsh states that he saw his father, a salesman, as the 'lead actor' in the business, but as Ireland's economy fluctuated, so did furniture sales. Notably during the recession in the 1980s, when profits were low, Walsh says that he was earning more money managing his own newspaper round enterprise than his father was bringing home from the shop. Life in the large family was full of incident and Enda has claimed that many of his plays find their origin in his relationships with his father, his mother and her friends, his three brothers and two sisters. Enda attended Greendale Community School where he was taught by both Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier. After studying Communications at Rathmines College and acting for the Dublin Youth Theatre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark O'Rowe
Mark O'Rowe is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. Life Mark O'Rowe was born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, to parents Hugh and Patricia O'Rowe (to whom he dedicated his 1999 play, ''Howie the Rookie''). He grew up in Tallaght, a working-class outer suburb of Dublin City in South Dublin, and he claims that much of the violence in his work stems from watching and rewatching a tremendous amount of violent, bloody movies when he was in his teens. List of plays * ''The Approach'' (2018) * ''Our Few and Evil Days'' (2014) * '' Terminus'' (2007) * '' Howie the Rookie'' (1999) * '' The Aspidistra Code'' (1995) * '' Anna's Ankle'' * '' From Both Hips'' * '' Crestfall'' * ''Made in China'' Credits as a screenwriter * ''Intermission'' * '' Perrier's Bounty'' * '' Boy A'' * '' Broken'' * '' The Delinquent Season'' * ''Normal People (TV series)'' Awards and nominations As a playwright * Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award for Best New Play for Howie the Rookie. * George Devine Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
