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Irish Mammy
The Irish mammy is a cultural stereotype used in Ireland to describe Irish people, Irish mothers of a traditionally matriarchal style, who exhibit traits of over-protection or servitude towards their children and/or domestic visitors in general, but can also be exacting when needed. In 2017, ''The Irish Times'' wrote of the Irish mammy as a "magnificent and treasured institution." Description Diane Negra, professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin, hypothesised on the occurrence of the trope in Irish culture as of 2017: Obviously there are different societies that have that particular fixation on the mother as a keeper of the hearth, and Ireland is not unique in that regard. The trope has a certain energy right now, and has deep roots in the idea of Mother Ireland, and of Hibernia (personification), nationalising Ireland in female form, as a figure of domestic peace. It's no coincidence that her pop culture visibility goes up with the collapse o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mrs
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Deady
Moira Deady, Mrs Hoey (13 March 1922 – 15 November 2010) was an Irish actress. She starred as Mary Riordan, "the quintessential Irish mammy", in ''The Riordans'' from 1965 until the show was cancelled in 1979. She later appeared as Nellie Connors in ''Glenroe''. She played Mrs Coffey in '' The Irish R.M.'' She had roles in such films as ''This Is My Father'' and ''Angela's Ashes'' (as the grandmother. Raised in Cork City, County Cork, she later resided in Greystones, County Wicklow. She began acting by traveling around Ireland as part of fit-ups (traveling theatre troupes). She was a member of Equity Players in 1946, who toured a programme of Abbey Theatre and other famous plays. In 1954, she married fellow ''The Riordans'' actor John "Johnny" Hoey (who played "Francie Maher"). John Hoey died on 10 August 1978, aged 69. The couple had four children, Kevin, Mary, Bernadette, and Brenda. Fans often thought she was married in real life to actor John Cowley who played "Tom Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Irish Examiner
The ''Irish Examiner'', formerly ''The Cork Examiner'' and then ''The Examiner'', is an Irish national daily newspaper which primarily circulates in the Munster region surrounding its base in Cork, though it is available throughout the country. History 19th and early 20th centuries The paper was founded by John Francis Maguire under the title ''The Cork Examiner'' in 1841 in support of the Catholic Emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell. Historical copies of ''The Cork Examiner'', dating back to 1841, are available to search and view in digitised form at the Irish Newspaper Archives website and British Newspaper Archive. During the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, the ''Cork Examiner'' (along with other nationalist newspapers) was subject to censorship and suppression. At the time of the Spanish Civil War, the ''Cork Examiner'' reportedly took a strongly pro- Franco tone in its coverage of the conflict. As of the early to mid-20th century, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foil Arms And Hog
Foil Arms and Hog are an Irish sketch comedy group comprising Sean 'Foil' Finegan, Conor 'Arms' McKenna and Sean 'Hog' Flanagan. The group has performed on TV, radio, the stage, and online. The trio write, shoot, and edit a new sketch every week in their office, releasing it on Thursdays for YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Foil Arms and Hog do not have a specific genre, and make sketches that are often observational and occasionally topical. Popular sketches released to YouTube include 'When Irish People Can't Speak Irish', 'An Englishman Plays Risk', 'WTF is Brexit', 'Countries Guess Who they Are', 'When Meetings are No Longer Online' and 'How to Speak Dublin'. Foil Arms and Hog also perform live shows, primarily in Ireland and the United Kingdom, but also in North America, Australia, and Europe. Since 2009 they have performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The group's name evolved from nicknames each of the members had for each other. Foil (Sean Finegan) is the comedy foil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTÉ
(; ; RTÉThe É in RTÉ is pronounced as an English E () and not an Irish É ()) is an Irish public service broadcaster. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on 31 December 1961, making it one of the oldest continuously operating public service broadcasters in the world. It is headquartered in Donnybrook in Dublin, with offices across different parts of Ireland. RTÉ is a statutory body, overseen by a board appointed by the Government of Ireland, with general management in the hands of a committee of senior managers, currently an interim leadership team, headed by the Director General. RTÉ is regulated by Coimisiún na Meán. It is financed by the television licence fee and through advertising, with some of its services funded solely by advertising, while others are funded solely by the licence fee. The current network consists of 4 main TV chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair City
''Fair City'' is an Irish television soap opera which has been broadcast on RTÉ One since 1989. Produced by the public service broadcaster RTE, it first aired on Monday, 18 September 1989. It has won several awards and is both the most popular and the longest running Irish drama serial. Plots centre on the domestic and professional lives of the residents of Carrigstown, a fictional suburb of the Northside part of the city of Dublin. The area encompasses a restaurant, pub, garage, corner shop, community centre, charity shop, surgery, boxing club (Esker/Carrigstown Boxing Club) and various businesses. Originally aired as one half-hour episode per week for a limited run, the show is now broadcast year round on RTÉ One in three episodes per week, all of which air at 20:00. ''Fair City'' is the most watched drama in Ireland, with average viewing figures of 550,000. Devised by executive producer Margaret Gleeson and series producer Paul Cusack, it has remained a signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evoke
Evoke may refer to: * Evocation, the act of calling upon or summoning a spirit, demon, deity or other supernatural agent * E'voke, a British female vocal duo * ''Evoke'' (album), a 2005 electro-industrial album by Wumpscut * Evoke Motorcycles, a Chinese manufacturer of electric motorcycles See also * Evoked potential An evoked potential or evoked response is an electrical potential in a specific pattern recorded from a specific part of the nervous system, especially the brain, of a human or other animals following presentation of a stimulus such as a light fl ... * Evocation (other) * Invoke (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snapper (film)
''The Snapper'' is a 1993 Irish film directed by Stephen Frears, and starring Tina Kellegher, Colm Meaney and Brendan Gleeson. The film is based on the novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, about the Curley family and their domestic adventures. For his performance, Meaney was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Plot Soon after a wild night at the pub, twenty-year-old Sharon Curley finds herself expecting a little "snapper" (baby) by a man she loathes. Her refusal to name the father sets in motion a family drama involving her three brothers, two sisters, and her parents, along with her employers and all her friends. Kellegher, playing the role as a coarse, earthy, yet remarkably sensible young woman soon discovers who her friends really are, as some people tease and torment her, some make remarks to her siblings, some force her father to take direct action in her defence, and all spread gossip. She decides to keep the baby a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth McCabe
Ruth McCabe is an Irish stage, screen and voice actress known from Clones, County Monaghan. She is known for starring as Kay Curley in Stephen Frears ''The Snapper (film), The Snapper'', Christy Brown's paramour Mary in ''My Left Foot'', and Wyn Ryan, sister of Dr. Sam Ryan, in three seasons of ''Silent Witness''. She originated the role of Kay McCoy, proprietor of Fair City#Setting, McCoy's bar in RTÉ's soap opera ''Fair City''. Awards and recognition McCabe won the 1st Irish Film & Television Awards, inaugural Irish Film & Television Awards, IFTA in 2003 for Best Actress in a Supporting role, for playing Margaret McCutcheon in BBC One Northern Ireland's ''Any Time Now (TV series), Any Time Now'', and again 8th Irish Film & Television Awards#Television Categories, in 2011, for her role as Eithne Driscoll in the Irish police series ''Single-Handed (TV series), Single-Handed''. Personal life Ruth's father was Irish playwright and screenwriter Eugene McCabe. McCabe took a break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenroe
''Glenroe'' is an Irish television soap opera broadcast on RTÉ One for 18 years between September 1983 and May 2001. ''Glenroe was'' centred on the lives of the people living in the fictional rural village of the same name in County Wicklow. The real-life village of Kilcoole was used to film the series. The series was also filmed in studio at RTÉ and in various other locations when directors saw fit. The show was a spin-off from ''Bracken'' — an RTÉ drama that was broadcast from 1980-1982, which was itself spun off from '' The Riordans'' — another RTÉ drama that was broadcast from 1965-1979. ''Glenroe'' was broadcast, generally from September to May, each Sunday at 8:30 pm. It was created, and written for much of its run, by Wesley Burrowes, and later by various other directors and producers including Paul Cusack, Alan Robinson and Tommy McCardle. Glenroe was the first show to be subtitled by RTÉ, with a broadcast in 1991 starting the station's subtitling policy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary McEvoy
Mary McEvoy (born October 27th 1954) is an Irish actress. She is recognised by television viewers for having played the role of Biddy Byrne in ''Glenroe'' from 1983 to 2000. After that she has been in numerous plays, including ''Big Maggie'', '' Sive'', '' The Field'', ''The Chastitute'', ''The Vagina Monologues'', ''Shirley Valentine'', ''The Matchmaker'', ''The Year of the Hiker'', ''Dancing at Lughnasa'', ''Whippy'', ''The Life and Times of Selma Mae'', ''Moonlight and Music'' and ''Jo Bangles''. She is also noted for her washing powder advertisements on television. Early life An only child, Mary's father Larry was a sheep and cattle farmer, while her mother Catherine was the local district nurse. The family was well off enough to have a TV, and McEvoy remembers being mesmerised by the leading ladies of the 1940s' films. Before becoming an actress McEvoy was employed at the Department of Agriculture in Dublin as a serological assistant testing for brucellosis. She left th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
