August 9th, 2010
I went to see Inception last week and thought it was brilliant. Before the film, caught some new previews or trailers that looked very good. The Town Directed by Ben Affleck. Starring Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Pete Postlethwaite and Blake Lively. This is based on a Dennis Lehane book about Charlestown, Massachusetts .. bank robbers, [...]
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July 13th, 2010
The Brendan Behan play ‘The Quare Fellow’ is now on at The New Theatre for a limited run. The New Theatre is located inside Connolly Books at 43 East Essex Street in Templebar. The play starts at 8pm, tickets are €15, €12 and €10 per person for groups of ten or more. The play is set in Dublin’s Mountjoy [...]
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June 2nd, 2010
The past two weeks season and series finales have hit the television screens here in the US. Most of my favorite programs will be back in the fall with two exceptions ’24′ which ended a great eight year run on Fox, and ‘FlashFoward’ which ABC has given the axe, which surprised me quite a bit. Here [...]
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April 30th, 2010
Here is a newest trailer for The Last Airbender directed by M. Night Shyamalan which is due to be released in the US on July 2nd. This film looks very interesting, the story and the special effects. This a departure from Shyamalan’s usual fare, being a fan of him and his films, I’d like to see him [...]
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April 11th, 2010
Time for updates to the television programs that I’ve been following.. The news is out that this will be the final season of Fox’s 24 and starting tonight the final 10 hours begins with a 2-hour show, the program will end with a 2-hour show on May 24th. I just watched tonight’s show, spoiler alert.. at the [...]
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March 23rd, 2010
The BBC program Merlin will be returning to television screens here on April 2nd. In the US, we’ll see it on the SyFy channel, as NBC dropped the show after its’ first season here. I watched the entire season and found it interesting. Merlin as a young man, is played by Colin Morgan from co. [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Dia daoibh .. agus beannachtai na feile Padraig trí mBoston ! Beidh mé taisteal go hÉireann an tseachtain seo chugain. Imreoidh mé ceol tradisiúnta scaithneamh in Éirinn. Beidh mé ag buail le mo clann agus chéile. Séamus ó Ceileachair (Gaeilge foghlaimeoir)
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March 10th, 2010
The following two new television shows will premiering this spring here . On the FX channel a new program is debuts on March 16th titled ‘Justified‘. It stars Timothy Olyphant, whose last major television role was Sheriff Seth Bullock on HBO’s ‘Deadwood’, plays U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, a hero who uses violent means when needed. [...]
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March 5th, 2010
There has been a bit of a lull in television programming the past couple of months, well, for the shows that I watch. CBS’ number one program NCIS had a great season opener and still has an excellent cast and characters, the episodes still have the comraderie and comedy, but I think the stories need a little more action and suspense, [...]
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February 17th, 2010
The Ewe with the Crooked Horn” is a new trad recording from Colm Gannon (button accordion player from Boston and Connemara), Jesse Smith (fiddler from Baltimore [US] now living in Galway) and John Blake (guitarist from London now living in Dublin). There are two launches of the new album this week. In Dublin, at Ned [...]
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January 27th, 2010
UCC’s Trad Fest is on for the first week in February. Here is the schedule of events Monday, February 1st Session at Spailpin Fanac starting at 9:30pm. Tuesday, February 2nd Session at Seomra Caidreamh starting at 6pm followed by a ceilí upstairs at 9:30pm. Wednesday, February 3rd Free concert by Holly Geraghty (concertina), Jonathan Roche [...]
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January 18th, 2010
Human Target premiered on Fox last night at 8pm before the 2-hour season opener for 24
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January 5th, 2010
24 returns for season number 8 with a 2 hour show on January 17th ! The cast includes: Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer;Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O”Brian; Amy Wersching as Renee Walker; Cherry Jones as US President Allison Taylor; Anil Kapoor as President of an Islamic country, and Freddy Prinze Jr. as part of the new CTU team. The [...]
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January 4th, 2010
I went to see Sherlock Holmes last night, the film was engaging, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law worked well together, and it was not all action either, had its’ moments of deductive reasoning, even the fighting scenes were good as Holmes mentally planned the blocks and the hits and their physical damage intended in medical [...]
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December 11th, 2009
Tis the season so I thought I’d post some recent photographs of snowy covered trees to perhaps get myself and others in the Christmas Spirit, my Christmas cards to all the Culchies. Nollaig shona !
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