When Gabriel Byrne is not burning up the airwaves as troubled but brilliant therapist Paul Weston, you will find him wearing his Cultural Ambassador for Ireland hat in a variety of intriguing places, both here in the US and at home in Ireland. global irish network Irish Central, November 10: […]
UPDATE November 11: Mr. Frank Walsh, in a letter to the Irish Times, disagrees with Mr. Byrne on how funerals and the grieving process have changed in Ireland: I never cease to be amazed at how we Irish continue to celebrate and embrace death so excellently. The morgue is […]
Photographer Barry McCall, known for his work in the fashion world, has done something really magical. Rather than publishing a retrospective of his photographs over the past 20 years in fashion and portraiture and raking in the proceeds that such a book might yield, he has instead created a lush […]
Updated September 2: The audio for the RTE Radio Program remembering Mick Lally has been added to the end of this posting. Forgot to mention: Paris Barclay, In Treatment Director Extraordinaire, received an Emmy nod for an episode of Glee. In this article, the interviewer notes: Speaking of gay characters, […]
A lot about Gabriel Byrne, it seems! Joe Jackson’s article in the August 1 edition of The Sunday Independent [This article is no longer available on the Internet] takes us back to the Gabriel Byrne of 1988 and 1992, using interviews from the past to reflect on the Gabriel Byrne […]
Updated 10 years later, in 2020. . . Here, finally and at last, is the program itself: — August 8: The Irish Times provides a wonderful report by Michael Harding [which is now behind a paywall] of the first days of the festival, entitled “Getting Ambushed by Brilliant Minds in […]