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By David Hennessy Shay Given sees the green shoots of promise in Heimir Hallgrímsson's Republic of Ireland team. Shay sat down to chat with the Irish...
Hallelujah for Ireland | The Irish World
13 hours ago · Christophe Lebold, who has written the definitive biography of the great singer- songwriter Leonard Cohen told David Hennessy how he got his love for Ireland from his Irish nanny, his love of Yeats and getting to spend time with him before he passed. Leonard Cohen had a love affair with Ireland ...
Coming home - The Irish World
Jan 17, 2024 · What reactions are you expecting in Ireland? “I honestly feel the reactions in Ireland are going to be exactly the same. “I feel that we’re so removed from our past here now that maybe it will touch on some kind of ancestral memory or something like that maybe but by and large, the reactions have been to the characters, to their sense of hope, and to the sense of the system against the ...
News Section - The Irish World
Aoife Kelleher told David Hennessy about her documentary about Ireland’s first female President which is set to open Irish Film Festival London. The forthcoming Irish... Colm McLoughlin, Galway man who led Dubai Duty Free to become an airport retail giant, dies at …
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Writer/ director Luke Morgan and Ken Gibson, CEO of The Mission to End Leprosy, told David Hennessy about their Oscar- qualified short film, The...
When life knocks you down… | The Irish World
13 hours ago · Ellie Marron and Frank McCarthy told David Hennessy about Knuck and Knuckle, a documentary about boxing, grief and redemption featuring boxer Lee Reeves. Short documentary film Knuck & Knuckle screened at Shout London which took place at the weekend. The film tells the story of Lee Reeves and how ...
News - The Irish World
Writer/ director Luke Morgan and Ken Gibson, CEO of The Mission to End Leprosy, told David Hennessy about their Oscar- qualified short film, The...
Ireland News - The Irish World
TJ O’Grady-Peyton and Gabriel Adewusi spoke to David Hennessy about the Academy Award qualified short film Room Taken which deals of themes of homelessness,... The Mary From Dungloe International Arts Festival is about to get started. Mary from Dungloe is a community based festival which has been ...
A vision of a ‘new Ireland’ | The Irish World
Oct 30, 2024 · Paddy Cullivan told David Hennessy about his show I Can’t Believe It’s Not Ireland which gets into the ‘nitty gritty’ of how a united Ireland would look and work. This Thursday and Friday you can join Paddy Cullivan at The Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith in envisaging a new Ireland. In ...
What does it mean to be Irish? - The Irish World
Apr 27, 2024 · “He is the son of a single mother. “She moved to London ahead of Pierce but when she got her nursing degrees, she had enough stability to bring Pierce over with her age 11 and from then it was a process of assimilation at school in Putney, finding a dream to become an actor, fulfilling that dream, and the irony of part of that dream is that his big break was a TV series about the famine ...