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Louisa Harland quickly discovered that caution should be used when trying to obtain something that is desperately wanted. That reality became clear for her when she was cast to play Nell Jackson in the new Disney+ series “Renegade Nell.” Nell is a quick-witted and courageous young woman who finds herself framed for murder. This leads her […]
Double Blind is the debut feature from director Ian Hunt-Duffy and writer Darach McGarrigle and is in Irish cinemas right now.
“In Ireland, folk music is a living tradition,” a crotchety old drunk in a Galway pub once told me. It wasn’t simply about revering the past by teaching children the songs of their forefathers, he added. Each new generation adds to that tradition by adding songs of their own.
His best songs made you cry and raise a clenched fist at the same time. Yet the man I knew was also a gentle, poetic soul, says Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie
The singer brought a sound and instrumentation that borrowed heavily from Irish traditional music, but played with a thoroughly modern punk-rock fury. It was a genre that really didn’t exist until MacGowan landed there, writes Jim Sullivan.