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Stephen Rea
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Language
English
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In 2004, Belfast-born Stephen Rea moved to New Orleans, a city where "football" means something entirely different than what it does back home. After struggling to find a place to watch European soccer games, Rea discovered Finn McCool's pub and its mixed clientele of good-humored European ex-pats, charismatic New Orleanians, and assorted matchless personalities. Before long he was playing on the pub's motley over-thirty-five fledgling soccer team....
3) Double Tap
Author
Language
English
Description
Cypher is a mysterious killer known for his signature method of execution with two bullets to the head: a Double Tap. Able to evade police for years, largely because he targets only the bad guys, he is surrounded by FBI agent Kathleen Boyle. Their mutual respect as professional killers, coupled with their attraction to one another, help them form a bond that is necessary as they elude a ruthless Mafia hitman.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy's coming of age in 1950s Northern Ireland amid the fear of the present and the ghosts of the past. It turns out his paternal uncle did not just die, but was executed as an informer. Not only that, the man who ordered the execution was his maternal grandfather. There's more, the uncle was actually innocent, set up by another member of the family. A first novel.
5) Ondine
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
In 1910, the British Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, Roger Casement, undertook an investigation into allegations of crimes against Indigenous communities committed by the British-registered Peruvian Amazon Company. Narrated from his journals, Secrets from Putumayo recounts the horrific treatment he uncovered there: an industrial-extractive system based on killings and slave labour in the midst of the Amazon jungle, "a real green hell."
7) Ulysses
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its own literary style, and the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of meaning to the text. Today critical...
8) Blackthorn
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sam Shepard is Butch Cassidy in this thrilling western about the legendary outlaw's return from exile. After years of quiet, he embarks on his greatest adventure since his glory days with the Sundance Kid.
10) Bloom
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consciousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom. Winner of Best Actress in a Film (Angeline Ball) at the **Irish Film and Television Awards**.
11) Copenhagen
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's play about the 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, longtime friends whose work had opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who found themselves on opposite sides of World War II.
12) Tasting Menu
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the greatest restaurants in the world is closing and an eclectic mix of international patrons have arrived in beautiful Catalonia for the final dinner service. As the staff prepare and serve an audacious tasting menu, a young couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago before separating, reunite for this once-in-a-lifetime meal. Can their romance be rekindled?
13) Michael Collins
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Michael Collins, one of Ireland's most controversial patriots and revolutionary heroes, leads his countrymen in their fight for independence. Having come of age in the early 20th century, when a monumental history of oppression and bloodshed had divided Ireland and its people, Collins was arrested during the 1916 Easter Uprising, when Irish revolutionaries surrendered to the overwhelming military power of the British forces after a six-day standoff...
14) Dickensian
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A bold reinvention of Charles Dickens' timeless novels, it takes familiar characters on new journeys as their stories intersect in the same world. Discover the events that lead up to Miss Havisham₂s wedding day the true sacrifices made by a young Lady Dedlock, what happens to ruthless moneylender Jacob Marley and more. One don₂t need to know Dickens₂ novels to fall in love with these stories, packed with romance, scandal and intrigue, they deliver...
15) The Dubliners
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"For the centennial of its original publication, an irresistible Graphic Deluxe Edition of one of the most beloved books of the 20th century Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as "Araby," "Grace," and "The Dead," delve into the heart of the...
16) The Reaping
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two-time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank stars as a former Christian missionary who must rediscover her faith to vanquish a terrible evil. Katherine Winter lost her faith in God after her family was tragically killed, and devoted her life since to debunking religious phenomena. But when she's called in to investigate a small Louisiana town suffering what appear to be Biblical plagues, she's confronted with a terrifying reality that her science...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings, Nessa and Ephra Stein, children of a zionist arms procurer, now run a foundation aiming to reduce the conflict through increasing Palestine's economic prosperity. When Nessa's foundation is about to announce a major business contract with a prominent Palestinian businessman, he is found dead in an apparent suicide. As doubt circles around his cause of death, an international investigation turns into a manhunt.
18) Black '47
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One soldier's ruthless pursuit of justice plays out against the darkest chapter of Irish history in this riveting revenge thriller. Starring Hugo Weaving and Jim Broadbent.
19) Greta
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to the widowed Greta. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve...
20) Evelyn
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a custody case brought before the Irish courts in 1955, Desmond Doyle is a father fighting for the custody of his three children after abandonment by their mother. Due to the Irish law of the time, children could not be raised by one parent in what the courts considered a broken home, thus allowing the Doyle children to be placed in church run orphanages, where neglect and cruelty were not out of the ordinary. Desmond will take his fight...
