The great review in The New York Times on Monday for "The New Electric Ballroom," the new play by Irish playwright Enda Walsh, further reinforces the remarkable story of Irish success in New York in recent years.

In celebration of Halloween and its Celtic origins, we’ve compiled a list of 10 great horror flicks that have Irish roots themselves.

Colin Farrell may be getting a bit of grief from his pregnant girlfriend to make her an honest woman before she gives birth to their child.

They say that female hormones can rage out of control when a woman is pregnant, but expectant dads can also have their manic moments as well. Witness Colin Farrell exploding at a photographer at the Toronto Film Festival last weekend.

Irish director Neil Jordan says he's not surprised that Colin Farrell and new lady love Alicja Bachleda-Curus are ready to welcome a new baby into their

Colin Farrell’s name has been all over the tabloids since his girlfriend, Polish actress Alicja Bachleda, stepped out sporting what seems to be a baby bump. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and look at the 33-year-old Irish actor’s past love life, a track record that just may be more extensive than his acting career.

The 10th annual Wee Craic Fest is almost upon us. Younger sibling of the annual Irish Film Fleadh, the September 17 one-night only event is a special showcase of the best of new Irish music and short films.

Reports have surfaced that Colin Farrell is expecting his second child with girlfriend Alicja Bachleda-Curus. The 26-year-old Polish actress, who co-stars with Farrell in the upcoming Neil Jordan-directed Irish film “Ondine,” was photographed at an airport sporting a large baby bump.

The Toronto Film festival, which takes place from September 10-20, will see a plethora to top Irish acting talent in attendance as Hollywood's top Irish stars are slated to turn up to support their respective movies.

Colin Farrell’s latest film, the Neil Jordan-directed “Ondine,” will feature at the 34th Annual Toronto Film Festival, which takes place from September 10-19.

Vampires are so hot right now. We’ve got teenagers (and plenty of adults) swooning over “Twilight” vampire Edward Cullen (played by Robert Pattinson), while the older crowd is going nuts for HBO’s hit vampire series “True Blood.” So what does all this buzz about vampires have to do with Irishness? A lot, actually.

With break-out Irish stars such as Saoirse Ronan and Elaine Cassidy popping on to the TV and movie scene, it looks as if the lack of Irish women in Hollywood is soon to be a thing of the past.

A fine looking fella like Colin Farrell can’t stay single for long, and apparently the Dublin hunk is involved in a relationship with a Polish actress named Alicja Bachleda-Curus, his co-star in the upcoming Irish-based film "Ondine." In other Farrell news, Colin was just voted onto a list of sex symbols for gay men, clocking in at number 66.

The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival begins today, and at it, Irish film makes a strong showing. A total of 15 Irish productions will be showcased in the next week and a half at the event in order to market Irish film and Ireland as a film location

Actor rejects suggestions that de Valera had a part to play in Michael Collins' death and is unhappy with the portrayal of de Valera in Neil Jordan's film.

When our resident film critic picked her Top 10 Irish movies of all time, she provoked a storm of protest from many of our readers. So here, we let our readers have their pick.

See where "The Crying Game," My Left Foot" and "The Commitments" rank on a countdown of the best films out of Ireland.

Want to get a big fill of Irish celebrities? Then head north to Toronto next month for the city's annual film fest which will be taken over by a host of Irish stars this year.

Where do we start? We told you recently that Irish actor/director Stuart Townsend will premiere his new film Battle in Seattle which stars his Oscar winning girlfriend Charlize Theron, but Stu will hardly be short of a few Irish friends to hang with.

Bono is planning to attend the fest as well, seeing as he's got a featured part in the film Across the Universe, directed and written by Julie Taymor, who Bono has teamed with to bring a musical version of Spiderman to Broadway.

In The Brave One, Neil Jordan's shocking and decidedly controversial new film, Jodie Foster gives a riveting performance as a woman driven almost mad by grief and the desire for revenge. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to the Oscar winning Irish director about the script, his star and why he very nearly refused to direct it.

NEIL Jordan won't talk to the press about his new film until they have seen it.

Redemption Falls is Irish author Joseph O'Connor's just released sequel to his bestselling novel Star of the Sea. Hailed by the critics as a modern masterpiece, it's an epic tale of the American civil war and its aftermath, assembling an unforgettable cast of characters who struggle to survive in a ravaged nation. CAHIR O'DOHERTY asks the author what led to the story, and where the story led him.

WE told you last week that Jonathan Rhys Meyers got himself into trouble at Dublin Airport because he showed up drunk for a flight to London, and this week's news, unfortunately, is far worse - the actor's 50-year-old mother, Geraldine Meyers, who lived in Co. Cork, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, November 20.

The funeral was held three days later, and JRM surely did his mom, with whom he was extremely close, proud.

2007 was a banner year filled with extraordinary new Irish plays, films, concerts and novels, and a sack full of Tony and Oscar nods lie ahead for many new and seasoned Irish artists. CAHIR O'DOHERTY takes a look back at some of the year's highlights (and inevitable lowlights).

FILMS starring Irish actors will dominate the awards season this year.

ROBERT Redford is 71 years old, and he'd still give any young buck in Hollywood a run for their millions both in the looks and intelligence department, if his trip to Dublin last week is anything to go by. Redford received an honorary degree from Trinity College, alongside the likes of former Irish President Mary Robinson, and he spent a couple of days in the city touring around and taking in the sights and sounds. He spoke at a public forum in Trinity on the eve of his conferral and had some interesting things to say about his life and political views .

SHE'S worked with A-list Irish actors like Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson and Cillian Murphy, and legendary British veterans like Emma Thompson and Dame Maggie Smith, but in Brideshead Revisited, which opens this week, Co. Limerick native Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh is tackling the biggest challenge of her career.

Considered surefire Oscar bait, Brideshead Revisited is the epic tale of a doomed aristocratic English Catholic family between the World Wars that opens this Friday.

IN a revealing British TV interview last week, Colin Farrell confessed that his substance addiction which landed him in rehab in 2005 could well have killed him if he hadn't taken drastic action.

Farrell, fresh from filming Miami Vice with Jamie Foxx, said he was living a "fairly drunken life" since his teenage years.

"(Rehab) was a tough life change, but I was dying and I'm one of the lucky ones in that so far I'm out of it," he told interviewer Jonathan Ross.

You've seen many of Neil Jordan's films, from 1985's "Mona Lisa" right up to 2003's "The Good Thief." Now authors Emer and Kevin Rockett offer a valuable look back at the director's diverse body of work in "Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries." Once you delve back into Jordan's often dazzling career, it's sometimes hard to believe the director of Irish classics such as "The Crying Game," "The Butcher Boy" and "Michael Collins" also helmed the Robert DeNiro-Sean Penn caper "We're No Angels" and the sumptuous, English-set World War II film "The End of the Affair.

The name Jordan is common in England but few Irish Jordans are derived from the English source. The Irish Jordans are derived from a Norman family which settled in Connaught in the 12th century. The name is derived from the descendants of Jordan d'Exeter, one of the early Norman leaders.