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Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun

By Richard Purden
IA Newsletter, October 12, 2024

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"I've never had an experience like it, nor will I ever again, it stays with you forever." It was during the 2020 lock-down that Scottish actor Jack Lowden handed a copy of Amy Liptrot's 2016 memoir The Outrun to his then-girlfriend Saoirse Ronan telling her "This should be your next role". The pair had met when filming Mary Queen of Scots (2018) with the Bronx-born Dubliner … [Read more...] about Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun

LOOK WHO’S TALKING:
An Interview With Phil Donahue

By Michael Scanlon

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October 1990: IN THE beginning, there was Phil. The others followed  and they continue to follow. !t was in Dayton, Ohio in 1967 and a new form of television was about to be born. Up to that time, television only showed the back of the audience's heads, and the extent of the people’s participation on a show was to react to a big sign off-camera which said: Applaud! Enter … [Read more...] about

LOOK WHO’S TALKING:
An Interview With Phil Donahue

Senator George Mitchell

By Kelly Candaele
Spring 2023

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Reflections on the Good Friday Agreement, 25 Years On Q&A with Kelly CandaeleKC:  Perspectives sometimes change with time.  Looking back from 25 years, are there any perspectives about your experience or the Good Friday Agreement that have changed for you during that period?    GM: On the day the Agreement was reached I praised the men and women who … [Read more...] about Senator George Mitchell

Winging Her Way to Stardom

By Jill Fergus, Contributor
February / March 1999

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An interview with Touched by an Angel star Roma DowneyIt's a little after seven on a chilly evening last fall and a few hundred people are assembled at Gallagher's, the famous Theater District restaurant in Manhattan, for a fund-raiser organized by the Omagh Relief Fund. Sharply dressed men and women are listening to various speakers from the Irish community, one of whom is … [Read more...] about Winging Her Way to Stardom

Man of Peace

By Kelly Candaele, Contributor
February / March 1999

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John Hume, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize, is interviewed by Kelly Candaele. John Hume is the rarest of political figures. For over thirty years he has doggedly pursued peace in Northern Ireland, initially as a civil rights activist in Derry, his hometown, and later as leader of the largest nominally Catholic political party in Northern Ireland, the Social Democratic and Labor … [Read more...] about Man of Peace