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"The landscape is quintessentially Irish with its reed-choked fields and drystone walls, but religion is every bit important a backdrop here as Catholic Ireland begins to slough off the authoritarian Church..."
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Novelist John McGahern admired those in rural Ireland who were “above all, rooted in their own lives”. And yet, those roots are being disturbed, through extreme weather, globalisation and population pressures
There’s a bounty of 18 new releases at the cinema this week, while at home we enter the dreams of one of the world’s greatest directors.
BALTIMORE-based filmmaker Pat Collins said winning an award for his film That They May Face the Rising Sun at last weekend’s 2024 Irish Film & Television Awards (Iftas) was a ‘great privilege’.Speaking to The Southern Star, the Drimoleague man said the best film award i
It has been the fulfilment of a tantalising prospect: that filmmaker Pat Collins got to know novelist John McGahern personally while making the 2005 Ifta-winning documentary John McGahern: A Private World only enriches the former’s new screen adaptation.