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  1. Liam Neeson's 'Clash of the Titans' movie trailer is a zinger
    November 14, 09

    If “Clash of the Titans” is half as good as the trailer then fans can expect a roller coaster ride when the movie, which stars our own Liam Neeson, comes out next year.

  2. Steven Spielberg: Vacation to Ireland changed my life
    November 10, 09

    Niall O'Dowd: Steven Spielberg's trip to Ireland was a "life-changing experience" for the Oscar-winning director. Spielberg was transformed by his summer visit to Ireland, which included literally "hanging over the edge" of the Cliffs of Moher.

  3. The secret life of Maureen Dowd
    September 10, 09

    It is quite an image... Maureen Dowd, scourge of every president since Poppy Bush and, arguably, the most powerful journalist in America thanks to her must-read column in The New York Times, talking of the road not taken, living a quiet life as a barkeep's wife back in Clare. Maybe that image isn’t so fanciful, though.

  4. Steven Spielberg on secret vacation in Ireland
    August 28, 09

    Hollywood director Steven Spielberg is on a secret summer vacation in Ireland. Spielberg, along with his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, and their teenage son have criss-crossed the country from the windswept Aran Islands to the Burren to plush Rathmines in Dublin.

  5. Neeson ready to transform into Abraham Lincoln
    July 02, 09

    Filming is ready to begin on Steven Spielberg’s next movie, “Lincoln,” starring Ballymena-born actor Liam Neeson. In a role that’s set to be the Irish actor’s greatest to date, Neeson will play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the biopic opposite Sally Field, who will portray his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.

  6. Third time unlucky for Jason O'Mara as 'Life on Mars' axed
    May 13, 09

    Irish actor Jason O'Mara's third big American break has fallen flat as ABC has axed his show "Life on Mars."

  7. The Maureen Dowd you've never seen
    March 15, 09

    Niall O'Dowd: Somewhere in Australia there's an Irish lad called Rowan McCormick who broke Maureen Dowd's heart. When she went back in the early 1970s to visit her homestead in County Clare, hard by the majestic Cliffs of Moher, she met him and fell madly in love.

  8. Irish Oscar-worthy performances
    March 10, 09

    Daniel Day-Lewis has two Oscars, while Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and Liam Neeson don't have any. See the roles for which they could have, and perhaps should have, won.

  9. Spielberg's Wexford Deal
    March 10, 09

    THE world's most famous filmmaker, Steven Spielberg, spent several months on location in Ireland a decade ago shooting his acclaimed war epic Saving Private Ryan, but thoughts of the Emerald Isle have stayed with him if his latest real estate transaction is anything to go by.

    Spielberg recently purchased another exclusive tract of land in the tony Georgica Pond section of the Hamptons, and concluded the deal by using the holding name of "County Wexford."

    The transaction for the three-acre parcel cost in the region of $20 million, and it's doubtful that land in Wexford would come close to costing such an astronomical amount, though Spielberg is on the record as being captivated by the beaches in the county, particularly Curracloe beach, where he filmed the opening scenes included in Ryan.

  10. Being Beckett
    March 10, 09

    Actor Barry McGovern is regarded as Ireland's finest interpreter of Samuel Beckett's works. This month he'll perform his hit one-man show I'll Go On at New York's Lincoln Center Festival as part of Gate/Beckett, a program of three Beckett works also featuring Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to McGovern about the show and the famous company he's keeping.

  11. Egan's Proud Silver Lining
    March 09, 09

    IN the end we did what we always do in such circumstances -- we sought out the sanctuary of the usual to celebrate the very unusual.

    Paddy O'Shea's is, as you've probably guessed, an Irish bar. Not any old Irish bar but the newest -- and the best -- Irish bar in Beijing, capital city of the Olympic Games for the past three weeks.

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