The Quiet Man Turns Fifty
A memorable romantic encounter from John Ford s 1952 Irish comedy-drama The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O Hara.
A memorable romantic encounter from John Ford s 1952 Irish comedy-drama
The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O Hara. By Joseph McBride, Contributor
This year marks fiftieth anniversary of John Ford’s
The Quiet Man, the favorite movie of many Irish Americans. The native Irish tend to see it with more ambivalence, yet the readers of the
Irish Times in 1996 voted it the greatest Irish movie ever made.
The beguiling comedy-drama won Ford his fourth Academy Award as best director, as well as bringing Oscars to cinematographers Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout for their spectacular Technicolor photography of rural Ireland. Based on a short story by Maurice Walsh that Ford had been wanting to film since the 1930s,
Concerns over proposal to suspend coroner role at Mother and Baby home exhumations DNA testing programme may be expanded to include aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, minister says
Tue, May 18, 2021, 21:52
Oireachtas committee members have expressed concern following the decision to suspend the powers of the coroner during the proposed exhumation and identification process at Mother and Baby Home burial sites.
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman told the joint committee on children and equality on Tuesday that the coronial role would be suspended to avoid having “concurrent jurisdictions” between different State bodies while interventions take place.
The jurisdiction of local authorities over exhumations will also be suspended at this time, he said.
By Moin Qazi Vidarbha has been a fertile soil for many social reformers and intellectuals. It has played an active role in the nation’s destiny and its social, cultural and political rivulets have flown into and enriched the great sea of national civilization. One such luminary who emerged from Yavatmal was Kazi Syed Karimuddin. He…