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Once – The Little Irish Film That Could

Once wasn’t meant to be such a success story. On paper, it certainly doesn’t sound like one. Shot in Dublin over 17 days, for a mere £75,000, it was an art-house musical (a ‘visual album) with two relatively unknown leads who had little acting experience. There isn’t too much dialogue. The loose plot explores the…

Announcing Reading Ireland Month!

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. George Bernard Shaw March is coming, and that means St. Patrick’s Day, but there’s much, much more to Irish culture than shamrocks (which, by the by, are NOT four-leaf clovers) and driving snakes out of the country (this never actually happened either). St Patrick wasn’t…