Hollywood IrishIn the course of a 1935 USA Abbey Theatre tour of the plays of Sean OCasey and others, an extensive collaboration was launched between director John Ford (My real name is Sean Martin Aloysius OFeeney), fresh from shooting OFlahertys The Informer, and star players such as Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald and his brother Arthur Shields. Tempted by movie contracts, these great stage actors resettled in Hollywood and became members of what was informally

In later years he was close to John Ford

Here is Ireland’s past distilled – poignant personal narratives and privileged moments

her government was making a substantial offer to the prisoners

In Short Circuit he applies the critique put forward in that seminal work

Since 2012 he has written an award-winning blog

galloping intrigue packed with narrative twists and sumptuous evocations of Europe’s forgotten past

including gifted postgraduate and undergraduate students as well as prominent historians

he survived wounds

and of the origins of many of the townland names

vulnerability and refusal ‘to serve’ expose the hypocrisies of a society built on fear

Many photographs here originally featured in the IAA 2006 exhibition ‘Maurice Craig: Fifty Years of Photographing Ireland’

\n \n18 August 1969 - Hurricane Camille ravages all that lies in her path