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The Netflix picture - a film adaptation of Thomas Savage's 1967 novel - won four major awards at the group's virtual ceremony.

This week's Culture Club inductee is Irish Actor and author of Disappearing Act Robert Sheehan.First SingleWe Like To Party (Vengabus) by the VengaboysFavour...

Oscar nominee Ahmed's "Mogul Mowgli" will screen for 10-day hybrid event, plus talks with Joey Soloway, Wally Lamb, Christine Vachon, Daniel Minahan.

By Irish America Staff The creative community suffered a grievous loss when actor, drama teacher, artistic director and founder of the Focus Theatre in Dublin, Deirdre O’Connell, died at her home in Dublin on June 9. Born to Irish immigrants – her mother was from Cork, her father from Sligo – in the Bronx, New York in 1939, Deirdre was encouraged by her parents in her desire to act from an early age. Her career began when she won a scholarship to Erwin Piscator’s New York Dramatic Workshop and moved into a flat with Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand. While studying in the Actors’ St...

℘℘℘ The character of Mary Beth Lacey is as firmly fixed in the collective televisual consciousness of the Irish as it is in Americans – perhaps even more so. Yet it’s hard to imagine Tyne Daly, the person behind the persona, being swamped by autograph seekers in a Stateside mall; it wasa different story at Dublin’s Liffey Valley Centre in early May, as a leisurely shop turned into a love fest. By all accounts, Ms. Daly handled all and sundry with aplomb and autographs, and having met her recently, ahead of the opening of the Irish premiere of Bertolt Brecht’s