We Gotta Get out of This Place - Cemetery Junction

Let me introduce you to another new Culchie. You may know Sean from such Twitter usernames as @SeanEarl1ey and…actually, that’s it. He also runs the superb blog Today in Dublin . Make him welcome to Culch.ie. - Darren Cemetary Junction is a dive into pre-Thatcherite, dead end, rural England. Most of the teens, like their fathers before them, have going nowhere jobs at the local steelworks, these teens include Freddie (Christian Cooke), Bruce (Tom Hughes) and Snork (Jack Doolan). Freddie, however, is intent on escaping this by climbing the corporate ladder in Vigilant Life Assurance, a cut-throat world that smacks of AMC’s Mad Men. Except Freddie’s love interest comes in the form of one boss’s (Ralph Fiennes) daughter and the other boss’s (Matthew Goode) fiancé. Life’s never easy is it? Cemetary Junction is a coming of age story that deals with Freddie’s disillusionment with the town he grew up in. … There’s more

Anniversary of Irish Cinema

Thinking about heading out to the cinema tonight? Well if you do you’ll be repeating what was first done on this island 114th years ago today. On 20 April 1896 (on Hitler’s 7th birthday) screenings by the famous Lumiere Brothers took place in the Dan Lowry’s Star of Erin Palace of Varieties, aka the Olympia Theatre on Dame Street Dublin, only a few months after the first ever public cinema screenings took place in Paris. The Lumiere cameramen showed footage from Ireland back then in the Olympia, but take a look at some of the first films by Lumiere to give you an idea what it was like: