What are the key ingredients that make for a memorable Irish film? Well, a splash of drink, a smidgen of repression, at least one outburst of psychotic violence and a Hollywood actor with a cartoonishly bad accent are obvious prerequisites.
Garech Browne’s friend, who died in a fire at the Wicklow estate last month, had great stories to tell, from ‘visiting an opium den with Marianne Faithfull’ to the filming of Excalibur
The next season of Netflix hit Wednesday might begin filming in Ireland as early as next year as rumours fly that Wicklow might become the new home of The Addams Family spin-off.