The Meaning of Life: Interview with Gabriel Byrne

Here is the wonderful interview by the renowned Gay Byrne, talking with the amazing Gabriel Byrne, from 2010. You get two Gabriel Byrnes in one video! A note from Stella, August 10, 2020: Originally, there were two other versions of this video. One was a locally-hosted version that took forever […]

The Byrne-ing News, July 2012 Edition

While Gabriel Byrne is thrashing Ragnar on the set of Vikings (we hope!), activity swirls around him and his on-going projects. The outstanding documentary about him is screening in Dublin. The Costa-Gavras film, Capital, is on the schedule for TIFF. The Irish studio where all that Ragnar-thrashing is happening has […]

Interview: Gabriel Byrne and His Agent, Teri Hayden

This radio interview is so cool. Apparently when they met, Gabriel Byrne and Teri Hayden were both at the beginning of their careers, so they learned the ropes together and they’ve been agent and client–and friends–ever since. Learn more about Mr. Byrne and his agent, Teri Hayden, in this interview […]

The Late Late Show 2009

We are trying something new here at Byrneholics: locally-hosted videos! Here is the first. Click on the link below. Gabriel Byrne appeared on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show in Ireland 29 May 2009. He talks with host Pat Kenny about winning the Golden Globe and how he feels about being […]

No Longer A Rumor: Quirke Comes To Television

We reported not long ago that Andrew Davies was developing the Quirke stories by Benjamin Black for television. Mr. Davies mentioned this in passing in another interview. And, as we know, projects like this can be fickle things, stopping and starting and progressing in spurts or dying quietly while no […]

New Warriors Join “Vikings”

Well, they are not all warriors, but several new folks have been added to the acting roster for the History Channel’s new scripted series, Vikings. And once again the Irish Film and Television Network (IFTN) gets the exclusive: Australian actor Travis Fimmel has been cast in the lead role in […]