Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography by Kevin Rockett
(Published by Four Courts Press)
If you’ve seen the 1973 film The Exorcist in recent years, everything from the dodgy make-up to the piano wire that elevates Linda Blair’s possessed body looks dated and
Cathy Scarlet has always dreamt of setting up her own catering company. The daughter of a cleaner and a compulsive gambler nothing has ever come easy to her. Marriage to Neil Harrington, a successful lawyer (whose mother Mrs Scarlet cleans for) was also an upward battle
I’ve been a fan of Nigella’s writing since Nigel Slater (my other favourite cookery writer) gave his readers a tip-off about her first cookery book How To Eat. In fact, How To Eat was so beloved in our house that both I and
Harriet Turner works in the family business, a travel company specializing in themed tours. The business, set up by her parents, is based in a small coastal town in Australia and is now run by Harriet’s brother James and his wife Melissa. Harriet has had
Kelpie is struggling against the elements. Battling against wind and rain he manages to defy nature and reach the shore with his precious cargo intact. Ashley Naughton leaves Tempest, a popular Dublin nightspot run by Vinnie York. Although she somehow
Manchester band Dystopia have just broken into the big time. In the space of six months they have leaped from a broken-down Transit tour of the English midlands to First Class flights en route to their first, already sold-out, gig in Los Vegas. Everything
In a graveyard at the start of the 1900s, 10-year-olds Livy and Maude meet at their family graves. The Colemans and the Waterhouses (“no relation to the painter”) have never encountered one another before, although their ancestors have lain next to
Sasha is disillusioned. Her husband is un-supportive, her children’s lives are full and busy and she is bored and unfulfilled. So when two good friends suggest a trip to Peru she jumps at the chance. Despite her husband’s reservations
It is with reluctance that I tell you anything about this story. Ideally I would say “go out, buy it, read it, I think you may very well like it”.
But if I have to tell you anything I’ll tell you how it all begins.
Blue skies, green grass, a picnic
This novel is essentially about “ending up”, in particular the winter years of the inhabitants of Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage. The Cottage is a gloomy isolated house occupied by a bunch of oldies thrown together by fate and a lack of options. Bernard –
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