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Warm reviews, Oscar buzz, awards for best animated feature from the New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Wolfwalkers has been on a roll since its release last month. Yet its greatest distinction so far may be that it has sparked a New Yorker profile of its director Tomm Moore and Cartoon Saloon, the Irish studio that produced it (and which Moore co-founded). The New Yorker rarely goes long on animation; we can count the number of industry figures it has profiled in the last decade on one hand. We look forward to the day when that changes. In the meantime,...

Save this story for later. In the seventeenth century, after wolves were hunted to extinction in most of the British Isles, Ireland was sometimes referred to as Wolf-Land. The implication, perhaps, was that it needed to be tamed. In 1649, Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army invaded Ireland on behalf of the Commonwealth of England, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Irish people. The Army also appointed professional hunters to cull the country’s wolves. Cromwell’s men captured the walled city of Kilkenny, which was surrounded by forests full of wolves and was home to as many ...