The Byrne-ing News, Holiday Edition, Part 1

Welcome to the final Byrne-ing News for this year! And what a year it has been. As you can see from the Official Holiday Card below, Gabriel has been as busy as ever, on stage in the UK and on Broadway, in films and television series, doing interviews, telling jokes, […]

Gabriel Byrne at the Movies

Gabriel Byrne has five, yes, five films in the pipeline at this time: In production: I, Anna (2012) All Things to All Men (2012) Le Capital (2013) Crooked House (2013) In development: At Swim-Two-Birds (2013) And now for tidbits about each and every one of them! I, Anna (2012) In […]

Gleeson’s Passion Project: “At Swim-Two-Birds”

Updated July 13 In an interview with Irish Central, Mr. Gleeson reveals details about the making of the film, including Gabriel Byrne’s role: Gleeson will be doing just that with his next major project, one that has been a long time coming. He will be directing his own adaptation of […]

“At Swim-Two-Birds:” Cast News

From the HotPress interview with Brendan Gleeson: Gleeson reveals that Gabriel Byrne, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Michael Fassbender will all star in his planned film version of Flann O’Brien’s 1939 novel At Swim-Two Birds. He also emphasises the importance of having an Irish cast, adding “It was important, but […]

The Boys are Back in Town!

IrishCentral.com tells us Brendan Gleeson is rounding up all of the Irish actors he knows for the start of production for his film version of Flann O’Brien’s comedic masterpiece At Swim-Two-Birds. This month Irish actor Brendan Gleeson is bringing Ireland’s leading men together to make the film version of Flann […]

The Fate of the Irish Film Board

It was a star-studded affair in an unlikely place: “the windowless, functional, fluorescent-lit chamber” in Leinster House, Dublin, where the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Arts heard testimony regarding the possible axing of the Irish Film Board. The Irish Times reports Wednesday, 14 October [This article is now behind a paywall […]