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Ireland s most garlanded director talks about ageism in film, Harvey Weinstein and his new novel, about the aristocratic rebel Lord Edward FitzGerald and his manservant, the freed slave Tony Small
We begin by comparing facial hair. Neil Jordan has cough-cough years on me, but, over the previous 12 months, we seem to have mutated into variations on the same grizzled, spectacled hermit
âHow is that beard coming?â he asks.
Our most garlanded film director â who is currently holed up in his rural Cork pad â has been eyeing the closing, opening and closing again of cinemas with weary interest. Among his greatest pleasures is âwalking down a city centre street and going into the cinemaâ. That wonât be happening for a while.
The €60m mansion that was used as a central location for Paul McGuinness s hit television series Riviera must be demolished, a judge in France has ruled.
The Renaissance-style palace, nestled in the hills above the Riviera, is owned by property tycoon Patrick Diter, but it was found to have been built without planning permission.
The ruling was handed down by the Cour de Cassation, France s highest court dealing with such matters, and ends a 15-year high-profile legal battle between Mr Diter and some wealthy neighbours.
Known as Villa Carmella, the faux-Italianate villa appeared throughout series one and two as the home of American art curator Georgina Marjorie Clios, played by actress Julia Stiles.
Biography: Sicilian-born, Rome-based Terranova’s latest novel,
Farewell, Ghosts, is her first to be translated into English. In Italy she has also published short-story collections and contributes to
La Repubblica, Il Foglio.
My relationship with keeping a diary dates back to when I was young. My aunt had given me Anne Frank’s diary and I remember that after reading it I was struck: somewhere in the world there had been a child like me who had been denied becoming a writer. I already knew that I wanted to…
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Burns night has been and gone, but poetry is for every night, and day. It’s a source of solace, comfort and cheer in difficult times like this current pandemic and lockdown So here, to help you through, are twenty of Scotland’s greatest poets, who aren’t Robert Burns.
William Dunbar (circa 1459-1530) “Back to Dunbar!” was a favourite phrase of Hugh MacDiarmid, and the man he was talking about was a Middle Scots poet attached to the court of James IV, who wrote works that were rhetorical and lyrical marvels. Dunbar was one of a group of medieval Scots known as the “makars” and for him the writing of poetry was making . He created poems for his patron, such as The Thrissil and the Rois, a celebration of James IV s marriage to Margaret Tudor. But Dunbar was about more than creating snapshots of court. He created poems that have resonance now. Lament for the Makaris, with its frequent refrain, timor mortis conturbat me (fear of death troubles me), still has an extrao
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