How about 'The Matchmaker' and 'The Boys and Girl from ounty Clare"? One of the best movies I've seen is 'Everlasting Piece", a film about nationalists and protestants in Belfast.. Have to listen carefully though. Some really funny moments
Jean ... I've seen all three of the films you mentioned above. Enjoyed all three. How about adding a discussion for each of them in the section above this one?
What about the classic film about land and its visceral grip on an Irish small farmer in "The Field"? I first saw this John B. Keane play on the stage in Ireland in the 1960s but Richard Harris lives the part of "the Bull" McCabe in the 1991 movie. Another great story is "Five Minutes of Heaven", with Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, giving both sides of a highly personal view of an event during 1975 and its repercussions.
Oh, I've seen that one too. It comes on TV, so I'll have to watch it again. I've also recently seen Hunger, about Bobby Sands'final days, but I don't know if it qualifies as Irish.
tHE FILM'S CENTERPIECE, THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN SANDS AND PRIEST WAS SO COMPELLING AS THEY WENT THROUGH THE DEBATE OF THE MORALITY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE. nOT A FILM FOR EVERYONE WITH THE BRUTALITY AND THE FINAL SCENES OF BOBBY SANDS' HORRIFIC DEATH
Just found this new group. How about the Magdalene Sisters, Eat the Peach, Cal - I'd have to really sit down and think of the films I've sought. I own Waking Ned Devine and crack it out every few months. OMG and the Secret of Roan Inish!! <3
Two more movies to suggest for fans are "71", a story about a young British soldier lost and alone in the Divis Flats in 1971, following his first patrol up the Falls Road.
A real keeper and unlikely Irish film starring Martin Sheen is "Stella Days". It is set in Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary, in 1956, when I was a teenager from Tipp, so It resonates with me particularly. It's about the Rural Electrification Project which I recall only too well and a local priest's attempt to start a cinema in the town. After "The Field" I consider it one of the most realistic portayals of Irish country life at the time of my own boyhood.
jean kaniecki
How about 'The Matchmaker' and 'The Boys and Girl from ounty Clare"? One of the best movies I've seen is 'Everlasting Piece", a film about nationalists and protestants in Belfast.. Have to listen carefully though. Some really funny moments
Dec 29, 2013
jean kaniecki
You are correct about the wigs, Just want to comment that I enjoyed "Blood from a Shadow' . now have my husband reading it.
Dec 29, 2013
Ryan O'Rourke
Jean ... I've seen all three of the films you mentioned above. Enjoyed all three. How about adding a discussion for each of them in the section above this one?
Dec 29, 2013
Paul Thomas Meagher
What about the classic film about land and its visceral grip on an Irish small farmer in "The Field"? I first saw this John B. Keane play on the stage in Ireland in the 1960s but Richard Harris lives the part of "the Bull" McCabe in the 1991 movie. Another great story is "Five Minutes of Heaven", with Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, giving both sides of a highly personal view of an event during 1975 and its repercussions.
Dec 31, 2013
Susan McWilliams Lev-Yadun
Oh, I've seen that one too. It comes on TV, so I'll have to watch it again. I've also recently seen Hunger, about Bobby Sands'final days, but I don't know if it qualifies as Irish.
Dec 31, 2013
jean kaniecki
tHE FILM'S CENTERPIECE, THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN SANDS AND PRIEST WAS SO COMPELLING AS THEY WENT THROUGH THE DEBATE OF THE MORALITY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE. nOT A FILM FOR EVERYONE WITH THE BRUTALITY AND THE FINAL SCENES OF BOBBY SANDS' HORRIFIC DEATH
Dec 31, 2013
Theresa Sullivan
Just found this new group. How about the Magdalene Sisters, Eat the Peach, Cal - I'd have to really sit down and think of the films I've sought. I own Waking Ned Devine and crack it out every few months. OMG and the Secret of Roan Inish!! <3
Dec 31, 2013
Paul Thomas Meagher
Two more movies to suggest for fans are "71", a story about a young British soldier lost and alone in the Divis Flats in 1971, following his first patrol up the Falls Road.
A real keeper and unlikely Irish film starring Martin Sheen is "Stella Days". It is set in Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary, in 1956, when I was a teenager from Tipp, so It resonates with me particularly. It's about the Rural Electrification Project which I recall only too well and a local priest's attempt to start a cinema in the town. After "The Field" I consider it one of the most realistic portayals of Irish country life at the time of my own boyhood.
Jul 17, 2015