Who is Irish? What makes someone or something Irish? What does it mean to be Irish? And who gets to say who gets to be Irish? Defining Irish identity has long been a bone of contention for the Irish ...

And drinking is not synonymous with that' He should know. His idols are Peter O’Toole, Richard Harris and Richard Burton. Like them, he delivers edgy, troubled, enigmatic characters with ...

I drank a hell of a lot. All actors did - Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed. It was the badge of honour. I was pretty much an alcoholic. 'When I did the revival of Look Back In Anger at ...

At lunch one day in the late 1990s, Richard Harris, then aged sixty-seven, turned to Peter O’Toole and said, ‘Chaps like us, after all we’ve done, we should be dead, shouldn’t we?’ ‘But, Richard,’ ...

They say if walls could talk ... Staff at the Metropole Hotel in Cork have tracked down one of four tradesman who hid a note in the wall of the hotel while working there more than half a century ago.

BRENDA Blethyn has wasted no time swapping police badges for something completely different – bagging her first major role ...

But they were supported by established names like Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alan Rickman. There are many other big names that were almost ...

Emma Watson, John Krasinski, Jennifer Lawrence, and more auditioned for these memorable parts in major movies but didn't land ...

Rubasingham noted that Hamlet was the first production — starring Peter O’Toole — to be staged at the National Theatre in 1963. A new adaptation of The Jungle Book by Anupama Chandrasekhar ...