Ireland
Europe’s new barbarians
September 2, 2015Austerity as a strategy is more than just throwing a scare into countries, it is also undermining the social contract between labor and capital that has characterized much of Europe for the past two generations.
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“Jimmy’s Hall”: Ken Loach’s Irish working class heroes
July 21, 2015"Jimmy's Hall" is about Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman deported as an illegal alien from Ireland, the land of his birth, without so much as a trial!
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Ireland: gay marriage approved with a landslide yes
May 27, 2015"The decision makes every citizen equal and will strengthen the institution of marriage for all existing and future marriages."
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“Calvary”: Chaos and possible redemption
August 12, 2014During a confessional, at the beginning of the movie and before the credits, a parishioner says that he will murder the priest the following Sunday; we follow the priest through the week.
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“Philomena:” heartbreak, fortitude, and search for closure
January 7, 2014It's something of a "buddy movie," one of many where two people with great dissimilarities are teamed together in some common objective over which they have no agreement.
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