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Margaret Atwood – Imprint: Writer in Profile

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Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is perhaps best known for The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel that was recently adapted into a gripping TV series. This episode was filmed in 2001 and delves into, what Atwood describes as, her ‘precocious’ childhood, her early writer’s block and her desire to be a painter. She discusses how she wrote […]

Babyface Goes to Hollywood

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Forgotten Irish boxing legend Jimmy McLarnin, aka ‘The Babyfaced Assassin’, a journeyman brawler originally from County Down battled his way to fortune and glory in the 1940s via two welterweight world championship titles, and a whole heap of controversy to become one of the greats of Irish boxing history. Director Andrew Gallimore recounts McLarnin’s Greatest […]

John Huston Becomes An Irish Citizen / Saoránacht Éireannach Bronnta ar John Huston

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Eagrán 240.2   The famous film director John Huston receives Irish citizenship at the Government Buildings on Merrion Street, Dublin. Fuair ​​an stiúrthóir cáiliúil scannán John Huston saoránacht Éireannach ag Foirgnimh an Rialtais ar Shráid Mhuirfean, Baile Átha Cliath.     Produced by Gael Linn, Amharc Éireann (A View of Ireland) is Ireland’s first long-running indigenous […]