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Kelly Thornton
Kelly Thornton (born 13 April 1997) is an Irish actress who began her career as a child actress. She is best known for her roles as Corrina Mallon in the 2015 RTÉ drama '' Clean Break'' and Emma in the film '' Life's a Breeze'' (2013), which earned her an IFTA nomination for best actress. Early life and education Thornton is from Terenure, a suburb in South Dublin and attended St Louis High School, Rathmines. She has a younger sister Robyn. She was discovered when she was 14 whilst shopping on Grafton Street with her friends by a casting director who invited her to audition. Career Thornton made her screen debut in the 2013 Irish comedy film '' Life's a Breeze''. She played the role of Emma, the main protagonist, alongside fellow Irish actors Pat Shortt and Fionnula Flanagan. The film was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Thornton earned an IFTA nomination for her role, as well as receiving the Bingham Ray New ...
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Dublin International Film Festival
The Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF; ) is an annual film festival held in Dublin, Ireland, since 2003. History Dublin International Film Festival was established in 2003. It was revived by Michael Dwyer, international film critic and ''The Irish Times'' Chief Film Correspondent, along with David McLoughlin, film producer. The duo had started the initial Dublin film Festival in the 1980s when Mc Loughlin was still an undergraduate in Trinity College Dublin. The festival was established to present an opportunity for Dublin's cinema-going audiences to experience the best in Irish and international cinema. "Dublin has remarkable film attendance per capita, among the highest in Europe, certainly the highest in the EU," Dwyer said in a 2003 interview. "It seems absurd that the city didn't have an international film festival." The festival secured €25,000 in funding from the Arts Council of Ireland for planning purposes the first year which has since increased to over €1 ...
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Love/Hate (TV Series)
''Love/Hate'' is an Irish dramatic television series broadcast on RTÉ Television. The show aired between 2010 and 2014 on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player. The show depicts fictional characters in Dublin's criminal underworld. The show is mostly filmed in Dublin, with some scenes shot in bordering counties. Since its release, it has grown in popularity with series 3 attracting close to one million viewers on several occasions. In November 2014, RTÉ stated that a sixth series would be made, but the show would be taking a year-long break in 2015. However, in November 2015, RTÉ stated that there were no longer plans to make a sixth series. In 2017, actor John Connors confirmed that production of ''Love/Hate'' had ceased and there would be no more seasons aired. Description The story is set in Dublin's criminal underworld. The first season introduced John Boy, criminal kingpin, and the four friends Darren, Nidge, Robbie and Tommy as members of his gang. The show has also featured Ruth ...
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Miniseries
A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format has increased in both streaming services and broadcast television. The term " serial" is used in the United Kingdom and in other Commonwealth nations to describe a show that has an ongoing narrative plotline, while "series" is used for a set of episodes in a similar way that "season" is used in North America. Definitions A miniseries is distinguished from an ongoing television series; the latter does not usually have a predetermined number of episodes and may continue for several years. Before the term was coined in the US in the early 1970s, the ongoing episodic form was always called a " serial", just as a novel appearing in episodes in successive editions of magazines or newspapers is called a serial. In Britain, miniseries are often ...
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Flora And Son
''Flora and Son'' is a 2023 musical comedy drama film written and directed by John Carney, featuring original songs by Carney and Gary Clark. The film stars Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor, Orén Kinlan, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. ''Flora and Son'' had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2023, and was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 22, 2023, to be followed by a wide release in Ireland on February 23, 2024. It also began streaming on Apple TV+ worldwide on September 29, 2023. It received positive reviews from critics and was named one of the top 10 independent films of 2023 by the National Board of Review. Premise Flora, a single mother living in Dublin, is having trouble with her estranged son Max, a rebellious teenage petty thief. Encouraged by the Gardaí to find Max a hobby, Flora rescues an old guitar from a skip and, with the help of a Los Angeles-based online guitar teacher, discovers that one person's rubbish can ...
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Short Film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". In the United States, short films were generally termed short subjects from the 1920s into the 1970s when confined to two 35 mm reels or less, and featurettes for a film of three or four reels. "Short" was an abbreviation for either term. The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers with either a low budget or no budget at all. They are usually funded by film grants, nonprofit organizations, sponsor, or personal funds. Short films are generally used for industry experience and ...
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Will Poulter
William Jack Poulter (born 28 January 1993) is a British actor. He first gained recognition for his role as Eustace Scrubb in the fantasy adventure film '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' (2010). He received critical praise for his starring role in the comedy film ''We're the Millers'' (2013), for which he won the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Poulter starred in the dystopian science fiction film ''The Maze Runner'' (2014) and the sequel '' Maze Runner: The Death Cure'' (2018), the period epic film '' The Revenant'' (2015), the crime drama film ''Detroit'' (2017), the interactive science fiction film '' Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'' (2018), and the folk horror film ''Midsommar'' (2019). In 2021, he had a leading role in the Hulu miniseries '' Dopesick'', for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Early life Poulter was born on 28 January 1993 in Hammersmith, London, the son of Neil P ...
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Bainne
''Bainne'' (; "Milk") is a 2019 Irish short film directed by Jack Reynor and starring Will Poulter. It is Reynor's directorial debut. Cast *Will Poulter *Kelly Thornton *Toni O’Rourke *Steve Wall Production The film was shot entirely at Reynor's home in Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea .... Release ''Bainne'' premiered at the Galway Film Festival in Ireland on July 13, 2019. References External links * {{IMDb title, 9344180, Bainne 2019 films Irish-language films 2019 short films Films shot in Ireland Irish short films 2019 directorial debut films Horror short films ...
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Jack Reynor
Jack Reynor (born 23 January 1992) is an Irish-American actor. His notable roles include the films ''What Richard Did'', '' Transformers: Age of Extinction'', '' Glassland'', ''Macbeth'', ''Sing Street'', and ''Midsommar'', as well as the series '' Strange Angel'' and ''The Peripheral''. Early life Reynor was born on 23 January 1992 in Longmont, Colorado, the son of an Irish mother and American father. He has a younger brother and sister. He initially lived in Boulder with his mother, human rights activist Tara, but moved with her to the Irish village of Valleymount when he was two years old.Tara Brady"Wandering Jack" ''The Irish Times'', 8 December 1012 He attended primary school in Valleymount and spent his formative years there with his mother and maternal grandparents. His interest in acting began when he played an altar boy on the set of ''Country'', directed by Kevin Liddy, in 1999. He moved to Dublin in 2004 to attend Belvedere College, a private Jesuit school, where he p ...
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Sunday Independent (Ireland)
The ''Sunday Independent'' is an Irish Sunday newspaper broadsheet published by Independent News & Media plc, a subsidiary of Mediahuis. It is the Sunday edition of the ''Irish Independent'', and maintains an editorial position midway between magazine and tabloid. History The ''Sunday Independent'' was first published in 1905 as the Sunday edition of the ''Irish Independent''.''The Blackwell companion to modern Irish culture'' Edited by W. J. McCormack. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001 (pp. 304–5). Following the creation of the Irish Free State, the ''Sunday Independent'' followed its daily counterpart's political line by supporting Cumann na nGaedheal and its successor Fine Gael. From the 1940s until 1970, the paper was run by Hector Legge (1901–1994). Legge's time at the paper was notable for the ''Sunday Independent'' in 1948 leaking the news that the Irish government were going to leave the British Commonwealth by repealing the External Relations Act. Legge also published a ...
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PressReader
PressReader is a digital newspaper distribution and technology company with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada and offices in Dublin, Ireland and Manila, Philippines. PressReader distributes digital versions of over 7,000 newspapers and magazines in more than 60 languages through its applications for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and various e-readers as well as its website, and operates digital editions of newspapers and magazines for publishers, including ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'' and ''The Globe and Mail''. History Founded in 1999 as NewspaperDirect, the company started as a service for printing physical copies of newspapers, aimed at travelers who wished to read their home newspaper while staying in a hotel abroad, and launched a digital product in 2003. In 2013, the company rebranded as PressReader. In 2017, the company opened an office in Dublin, Ireland. In August 2019, the company acquired News360, makers of the News360 personalized news app and Na ...
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Walking On Cars
Walking on Cars was a four-piece Irish rock band, whose 2020 line-up consisted of Pa Sheehy (singer/lyricist), Sorcha Durham (pianist), Paul Flannery (bass guitarist) and Evan Hadnett (drummer). Their debut single "Catch Me If You Can", released in 2012, went to No. 1 on the Irish iTunes chart. The band released their debut EP, ''As We Fly South'', in 2013, and a second one, ''Hand in Hand'', in (2014), together with the accompanying single "Always Be with You". Their next single, "Speeding Cars", came out on 30 October 2015. Following the international success of the single, the band released their debut album ''Everything This Way'' on 29 January 2016, which peaked at No. 1 in Ireland. On 12 April 2019, the band released their second album ''Colours''. The band announced its split on 21 August 2020, on the same date that a final six-track EP called ''Clouds'' was released. History Formation and early years In 2010, five school friends started performing at local venues and cl ...
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Synge Street CBS
Synge Street CBS (colloquially Synger) is a boys' non-fee-paying state school, under the auspices of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, located in the Dublin 8 area of Dublin, Ireland. The school was founded in 1864 by Canon Edward McCabe and Brother Edward O’Flaherty, as part of a mid-nineteenth century programme to expand the provision of Catholic schooling across the city, particularly for poorer boys. It was important in developing multiple new Christian Brothers schools in the local area and beyond. Originally the school was part of the Christian Brothers monastery, but in 1954 new buildings were erected for primary pupils, and in 1964 for secondary pupils on Heytesbury Street. Although founded and largely known as an all-boys school, since 2016 it has offered co-educational Gaelscoil classes at primary level. While being the second-largest school in the country in the 1950s, the school roll has declined significantly since the turn of the mille ...
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