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Father Joseph Breen, perhaps Nashville’s best-known Catholic priest, died after an extended illness.

Commentary What is the most epic Hollywood saga of all time? I think many will agree that the ...

You don’t have to be Irish or Catholic to appreciate 1938's “Angels with Dirty Faces,” which focuses on faith, decency, and forgiveness.

We delve into the trope of the lesbian vampire, a character who turned up time and time again throughout horror films of the 20th century.

Love and Death Among the Irish Travellers More than a century ago, Nashville was chosen as a sacred place for a resilient group of nomads — and so it remains Tweet Share In vacant lots and campgrounds along Murfreesboro Road, the green tents would appear, suddenly but predictably, the first weekend of May every year for decades. The road would swarm with hundreds of people greeting one another, hugging like family, dancing and playing the old music. Their fa...

It’s the Oscars tonight, which is good news for insomniacs because it’s likely to run through to breakfast. The film tipped to take the top honours – it has 10 nominations – is Mank. If it wins Louis B Mayer, who originally set up the Academy Awards, will be be turning in his grave.  Mayer created and ran MGM, the biggest Hollywood studio ,which led in the blacklisting of the Hollywood 10 in 1947, accused of being communists. And in the 1930s, amazingly as he was a Jew, he collab...

‘Little Nellie Kelly’: A Great Day for the Irish St. Patrick’s Day, and the whole month of March by extension, is dedicated to celebrating all things Irish. However, many complain that American celebrations of “St. Paddy’s” Day are primarily cheap commercialism, ignoring Ireland’s traditional, genuine culture. Even “Plastic Paddy” celebrations, though, are few in 2021. After claiming St. Patrick’s Day as its first canceled event, the ongoing pandemic is dampening the popular...

A new book co-inciding with the centenary of the Drishanebeg Train Ambush, entitled Worth the Wait is available this weekend recalling the daring deeds of Millstreet Volunteers who carried out a planned operation against Crown forces travelling by train between Mallow and Killarney in early 1921. The Drishanebeg Train Ambush Commemoration Project Committee was established to remember the events on February 11 at the Glebe Railway Cutting. PRO Michael Thornton related how the event was deemed on...

Ever since I first saw it decades ago,  Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, released by Warner Bros. in 1940 (with a screenplay that included John Huston among the talented writers), has struck me as one of the most memorable and noble films in Hollywoods inventory of biopics. The word that defines this film is uplifting. Edward G. Robinson, an unforgettable actor of immense range, is simply magnificent in his portrayal of Ehrlich. As the anonymous author of the retrospective appreciation we publis...

ingredie ingredients? relaxation drinks are tonights "sign of the times." p good evening, im cynthia mcfadden. hundreds of flights have now been canceled and thousands of passengers stranded, following a harrowing tear in a planes fuselage which ended with an emergency landing friday night. tonight, airline mechanics are scouring dozens of other planes looking for more cracks. the airlines say they did not know this sort of strain was even a problem. what else dont they know? lisa st...