Vinnie McCabe
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Department: Acting
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Nora
Overview: In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-05
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Bad Karma
Overview: Mental Patient terrorizes her Psychiatrist who she believes is the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-23
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Durango
Overview: In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-25
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Our Boys
Overview: Mixing classroom dramatization with documentary material, interviews with former students who recall barbaric punishments in the name of learning, and a 1932 newsreel of a triumphant Catholic congress in Dublin, this piece poses a challenging and controversial exploration of the Christian Brothers' education system in the 50s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Michael Collins
Overview: Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Genres: War Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Family
Overview: This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-08
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The Butcher Boy
Overview: Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-20
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One Day Time
Overview: 'One Day Time' is a drama about a day in the life of a young Dublin man from Ballymun who is unemployed. It explores Eddie's sense of isolation and anxiety about his place in the world as he passes yet another seemingly pointless day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Veronica Guerin
Overview: In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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The Run of the Country
Overview: An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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