Irish Movie Weekend

Odd Man Out (1947)
James Mason became a Hollywood star after this 1947 gripping chase movie. He plays IRA leader Johnny McQueen who's wounded during a botched bank robbery. He barely escapes and stumbles through the streets of Belfast, with the police quickly closing in. The film was remade in 1967, as The Lost Man, starring Sidney Poitier.

Friday Night Movie Idea - For March

The Field (1990)
Acclaimed Irish director Jim Sheridan helmed this gritty, yet moving 1990 film, which was based on a play by John B. Keane. Richard Harris was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his moving portrayal of a stubborn farmer who's outraged when he learns an Irish-American (Tom Berenger) intends to buy his rented plot of land and industrialize the area.

Irish

"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
John Millington Synge (1871–1909)The Aran Islands (1907)

Whispering Voice

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-25-06

Work

'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly

unless one has plenty of work to do.

- Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) English humorist, novelist and playwright

Warning...

'If you can't be a good example,

then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.'

Catherine Aird (1930-), English author

Sing It

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)

"Waiting For You" Close-Up

"Waiting For You"

"Waiting For You" has just been completed.

She will be available on my web site, shortly.

Believer

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)