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Tara Road
''Tara Road'' is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in September 1999. Plot introduction It is the story of two women, one from Ireland and one from America, who trade houses without ever having met. They're both looking for an escape from their problems, but by running away, both come to discover a great deal about themselves. The book mostly concentrates on the life of Ria Lynch, the Irish woman, who has met her future husband Danny Lynch. The two end up getting married, much to Ria's shock and delight, and start a family together while Danny's career takes off. Many years into their marriage, Danny begins spending less and less time at home with his wife and children. Ria believes another baby is the solution, and is shocked to find out that indeed her husband is going to be a father...but to a child from an affair he has been having with another woman. Her husband's unfaithfulness is the event that leads Ria into her decision to swit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maeve Binchy
Anne Maeve Binchy Snell (28 May 1939Born 1939 as per biography, ''Maeve Binchy'' by Piers Dudgeon, Thomas Dunne Books 2013; (hardcover), pp. 4, 280, 302; (ebook) – 30 July 2012) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, and surprise endings. Her novels, which were translated into 37 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Her death at age 73, announced by Vincent Browne on Irish television late on 30 July 2012, was mourned as the death of one of Ireland's best-loved and most recognisable writers. She appeared in the US market, featuring on ''The New York Times'' ''Best Seller list'' and in Oprah's Book Club. Recognised for her "total absence of malice" and generosity to other writers, she finished third in a 2000 poll for World Book Day, ahead of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Stephen King. Biography Overvie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Road (film)
''Tara Road'' is a 2005 drama film directed by Gillies MacKinnon, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy. The film stars Olivia Williams, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Rea, and Iain Glen, and was produced by Noel Pearson and David Collins. Marilyn and Ria—one American, one Irish—do a two-month house swap, as both have suffered crises and need a change. Both gradually becomes part of the other’s community, forming new friendships and gaining perspective on their own lives. ''Tara Road'' was released in Ireland and the United Kingdom in 2005 and later in the United States in 2007. It received mixed reviews from critics and had a modest box office performance, with limited international release and distribution. Plot Marilyn Vine, from suburban Connecticut, is grieving the tragic death of her son Dale, which has caused a deep emotional rift in her marriage to Greg. This is because he died on a motorbike his father had gifted him on his 15th birthday. Overwhelmed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Maeve Binchy
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Irish Novels
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948) is a Scotland, Scottish film director, screenplay, writer and painting, painter. He was born in Glasgow and attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months. In the 1970s he studied at the Middlesex University, Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University) and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School. He made a short film called ''Passing Glory'' as his graduation piece, a recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s. It was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize. Filmography *''Conquest of the South Pole'' (1989 in film, 1989) (TV film, adapted from the play by Wiktionary:de:Manfred Karge, Manfred Karge) *''The Grass Arena'' (1991 in film, 1991) *''The Playboys (film), The Playboys'' (1992 in film, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Connaughton
Shane Connaughton (born 4 April 1941 in Kingscourt, County CavanHogan, Sinead.Shane Connaughton brings it all home to his beloved native county '' The Anglo-Celt''. 4-29-2009.) is an Irish writer and actor, probably best known as co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for ''My Left Foot''.Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart.The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature Oxford University Press, 1996. p. 112. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning 1980 short film '' The Dollar Bottom'' and 1992 film '' The Playboys'', as well as other screenplays and plays. He won the Hennessy Award in 1985. Connaughton is the author of the books ''A Border Station'' (1989), ''The Run of the Country'' (1991), and ''Big Parts'' (2009). He adapted ''The Run of the Country'' for the screen in 1995 and published a book about its filming, ''A Border Diary'', the same year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Cidre
Cynthia Cidre (born September 10, 1957) is an American screenwriter and producer. She is best known as a showrunner and executive producer of TNT prime time soap opera ''Dallas'' (2012–14). Cidre was the creator and an executive producer for the CBS prime time soap opera ''Cane'' in 2007, and wrote the scripts for the films '' In Country'' (1989), '' A Killing in a Small Town'' (1990) and ''The Mambo Kings'' (1992). In 2015, she joined as co-showrunner another prime-time soap opera, '' Blood & Oil,'' on ABC. Life and career Cidre was born in Havana, Cuba. At the age of 10, she immigrated to the United States with her family, and she later attended the University of Miami. She moved to Los Angeles and began a writing career. Her television film '' A Killing in a Small Town'' was nominated for six Emmy Awards in 1990. She later wrote critically acclaimed drama ''The Mambo Kings''. In mid-2000s, Cidre moved to television, creating and producing CBS prime time soap opera ''Cane' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Williams
Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 1968) is a British actress who appears in British and American films and television. Williams studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first significant screen role was as Jane Fairfax in the British television film '' Emma'' (1996), based on Jane Austen's novel. She made her film debut in 1997's ''The Postman'', followed by '' Rushmore'' (1998) and ''The Sixth Sense'' (1999). Williams also acted in the British films '' Lucky Break'' (2001), '' The Heart of Me'' (2002) and ''An Education'' (2009). She continued acting in films such as '' The Ghost Writer'' (2010), '' Hanna'' (2011), ''Anna Karenina'' (2012), '' Hyde Park on Hudson'' (2012), ''Sabotage'' (2014), '' Maps to the Stars'' (2014), '' Victoria & Abdul'' (2017), and '' The Father'' (2020). From 2017 to 2019, she played Emily Silk in the science fiction television series '' Counterpart''. From 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andie MacDowell
Rosalie Anderson MacDowell (born April 21, 1958) is an American actress and former fashion model. MacDowell is known for her starring film roles in romantic comedies and dramas. She has modeled for Calvin Klein and has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1986. Her early films include '' Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes'' (1984) and the Brat Pack vehicle film ''St. Elmo's Fire'' (1985). Her breakout role was in ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' (1989) which earned her the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. She then starred in a series of films including '' Green Card'' (1990), ''Groundhog Day'' (1993), '' Short Cuts'' (1993), '' Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994), '' Unstrung Heroes'' (1995), ''Michael'' (1996), '' Multiplicity'' (1996), and '' The Muse'' (1999). MacDowell played supporting film roles in '' Beauty Shop'' (2005), '' Footloose'' (2011), '' Magic Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelanda sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdomcovering the remaining sixth). It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest in the world. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islands by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oprah's Book Club
Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show '' The Oprah Winfrey Show'', highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month.Bob Minzesheimer"How the 'Oprah Effect' changed publishing" ''USA Today'', May 23, 2011.Matthew Flamm"Publishers say farewell to Oprah Book Club boon" '' Crain's New York Business'', May 20, 2011. In total, the club recommended 70 books during its 15 years. Due to the book club's widespread popularity, many obscure titles have become very popular bestsellers, increasing sales in some cases by as many as several million copies. Al Greco, a Fordham University marketing professor, estimated the total sales of the 70 "Oprah editions" at over 55 million copies. The club has seen several literary controversies, such as Jonathan Franzen's public dissatisfaction with his novel, '' The Corrections'', havin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
