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- Nov 19, 2020
- 9 min
Exhibitionist: Road to the RHA – Teaching us all how to appreciate life as art.
With over two thousand five hundred works submitted, of which only three hundred being submitted, the Royal Hibernian Academy’s annual...
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- Nov 12, 2020
- 4 min
Citizens of Boomtown; A Reminiscence for the rebels of Ireland
Bob Geldof is probably best known today for being responsible for helping to launch the careers of the likes of Chris Evens, Denise Van...
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- Nov 12, 2020
- 2 min
Dead Still: a subtly comic macabre delight
Set in 19th Century Dublin Dead Still first shown in Ireland during Halloween weekend, staring Michael Smiley as memorial photographer...
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- Oct 12, 2020
- 5 min
74 Days: Terence Swinney: A compelling account of the oldest of revolutionary acts.
Terence McSwiney was the Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920 when he was arrested by British crown forces on charges of sedition. 74 Days:Terence...
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- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
True North: Restoring Ormiston
Ormiston House is a rather ornate highlight on the otherwise ordinary landscape of Belfast. Lying on the outskirts of the East of the...
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- Jul 31, 2020
- 10 min
Once Upon a Time in Iraq - brilliantly told, absolutely compelling.
There was no one at home when the bombs dropped. My family were away on holiday and I was in England visiting friends when the invasion...
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- Jul 3, 2020
- 2 min
Marvelous: A Truly Human Story
Marvellous, staring Toby Jones is a truly human story about following your dreams and reaching beyond supposed limitation which...
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- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
Viceroy's House
Viceroy’s House is a biopic of a country as much as a person. Although the primary narrative is to tell the story of the events that Lord...
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- May 17, 2020
- 3 min
Detroit: A Film with Gritt in its Teeth
A city on fire riots on the streets, a small girl gets shot by the police simply for looking out of her own living room window. No this...
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- May 15, 2020
- 4 min
We All Want to be Normal People
It’s taken Culture Journal Ireland a while to get into this one, but with seemingly everyone talking about Normal People, for one reason...
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- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
Fargo – You have to go a long way to beat it!
One of the good things about the current situation and the isolation that goes on with it is the great films that are being shown. ITV4...
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- Mar 10, 2020
- 2 min
I Went Down – An 90’s Irish classic
Posted on Mar 10, 2020 by Culture Journal Ireland Long before there was The Gentleman, or Snatch or even Lock, Stock et al, there was I...
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- Oct 13, 2019
- 1 min
Dublin Murders
Based upon the novels of Tana French, Dublin Murders starts with detectives Riley and Maddocks being called to a crime scene where a body...
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