Radio Telefís Eireann/RTE News and Current Affairs In particular it focuses on his lifelong friendship with Henry Irving and Stokers work as his assistant at the Lyceum Theatre in London. The programme documents Bram Stoker's life from his birth in 1847 two miles north of Dublin, his childhood illness, his time at Trinity from 1863, his work at Dublin Castle as a civil servant, and his friendship with Sir William and Lady Wilde, and their son Oscar, and Bram's marriage to Florence. Discusses theories regarding his inspiration for the novel 'Dracula' published in 1897, and how the pre-occupations, obsessions and themes come from Stoker's own Irish Background. (Taken from the 2003 IFB Review)ĭocumentary about the life and work of Bram Stoker. Screened at the 44 Cork Film Festival, 10 -17 October, 1999.Ī profile of Dublin-born novelist Bram Stoker - this documentary looks at Stoker in a new and revealing perspective, focusing in particular on the psycho-sexual elements of the novel as reflected in Stoker's biography.īreaking the coded silence that surrounds Bram Stoker, the creator of one of literature's most chilling and unforgettable characters, this documentary gives a unique understanding of the warring elements in his nature and sexuality that led him to write his masterpiece of the Gothic horror novel, Dracula.
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'The Famine Ship' is the work of John Behan, one of Ireland's most celebrated and respected sculptors, and the film gives the viewer a rare insight into how an artist of Behan's stature approached, through his work, the full horror of the Famine. In the summer of 1997, the largest bronze sculpture ever executed in Ireland was unveiled in Murrisk at the foot of Croagh Patrick, Co. Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na hEireannĭocumentary about the construction of John Behan's huge sculpture which was erected at the National Famine Memorial at the foot of Croagh Patrick in Murrisk, Co Mayo.
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In 2001, she was named a Commander of the British Empire. Weldon’s work includes more than twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children’s books, nonfiction books, magazine articles, and a number of plays written for television, radio, and the stage, including the pilot episode for the television series Upstairs Downstairs. She-Devil, the film adaption of her 1983 novel The Life and Loves of a She Devil, starred Meryl Streep in a Golden Globe–winning role.Radio Telefís Eireann/RTE Independent Unit She was chair of the judges for the Booker Prize for fiction in 1983, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 1990. Her first novel, The Fat Woman’s Joke, was published in 1967. She later gave up her career in advertising, and began to write fulltime. She worked briefly for the Foreign Office in London, then as a journalist, and then as an advertising copywriter. She studied economics and psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
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Novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Fay Weldon was born in England, brought up in New Zealand, and returned to the United Kingdom when she was fifteen. Big Girls Don’t Cry is the story of four women who are determined to change the world, and who, over the course of two-and-a-half decades, ultimately transform themselves. Layla is a wealthy, fundamental radical, intolerant of anyone whose ideals deviate, even slightly, from her own-that is, until she finds herself seduced by a married man tiny Alice is “all mind and very little matter,” until she discovers the dangerous New Age practice of goddess worship Stephanie leaves her unfaithful husband in pursuit of sexual fulfillment with other men-and women and Nancy, tired of washing her fiancé’s socks, discovers she has a remarkable mind for business. Named in honor of the gorgon who turned men’s hearts to stone, MedusaPublishing gives the so-called Four Furies a platform for speaking out against female oppression. Four women have decided to open a feminist publishing house. “A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle.” It’s the 1970s, and the sexual revolution is just beginning. First-wave feminism takes front and center in this fearless novel, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, about women determined to succeed in a man’s world-only to be foiled by their own ambition
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