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Six Irish films will be screened in Beijing, where moviegoers can enjoy the spectacular scenery as well as the unique culture of this Atlantic isle located at 53 degrees north latitude. The movies - Brooklyn, Sing Street, Rosie, Zoo, The Secret Scripture and The Lobster - will be shown at the China National Film Museum from Saturday as part of its International Film Screening Series: Films of Ireland hosted by the Capital Star Art Film Theaters League and the museum.

Sligo actress Elva Trill is set to feature in next week’s episode of the hit TV3 drama “Red Rock”, airing on Wednesday, February 11 at 8.30pm. The twice-weekly drama series has proven a huge ratings-winner for TV3. It revolves around a garda station caught in the middle of two warring families in a fictional Dublin […]

Famed writer Colum McCann / Photo by Seamus Kearney By Kara Rota and Anne Thompson, Contributors Colum McCann’s newest novel, ‘Let the Great World Spin,’ was announced November 18 as the winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction during a black-tie ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. In his personal history and in his writing, he is a man of many different places. McCann is an Irish writer, born in Dublin, partly educated in Texas and Japan, who has been a New York resident for over fifteen years. He has never confined his writing or his...

Honorary Degrees from Galway and Ulster Irial Finan, Maureen Dowd, Jim Flaherty, MP and Sebastian Barry, the NUI Galway honorary degree recipients, with a bottle of Coke, the New York Times, the Canadian flag and Barry's latest novel, On Canann's Side. Courtesy of NUI Galway. A number of very deserving Irish and Irish-Americans were selected by the National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Ulster in the North to receive honorary degrees this summer. At Galway’s graduation ceremony on June 29, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd; Irial Finan, C...