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Q&A: Cillian Murphy on following ‘Oppenheimer’ with the Irish drama ‘Small Things Like These’

Cillian Murphy went back to Ireland for his first film after “Oppenheimer.”

The Independent UK

Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy shines as quiet hero in powerful 80s Ireland morality tale

Claire Keegan’s acclaimed Magdalene laundries novella reaches the big screen in director Tim Mielant’s atmospheric adaptation

The Guardian - UK

How to watch Small Things Like These

Small Things LIke These, Cillian Murphy’s follow up to his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer performance, is now playing, but where? Here’s what you need to know.

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Cillian Murphy: Small Things Like These film tries to stay ‘faithful to book’

The film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan, about Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries.

Evening Standard

Before he returns for Netflix's Peaky Blinders movie, Cillian Murphy's new historical drama Small Things Like These looks like it'll make me weep

Cillian Murphy puts on a tear-jerking performance in the new trailer for Small Things Like These ahead of his appearance in the Peaky Blinders movie.

TechRadar

Small Things Like These: how to watch, reviews, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Cillian Murphy drama

Coming off his Oscar win, Cillian Murphy is again being praised for his performance in Small Things Like These. Here's what you need to know.

WhatToWatch

The Guardian view on the power of brevity in the arts: an antidote to the blather of politics

Editorial: From the Marx Brothers to Albert Camus and Claire Keegan, concise storytelling can get to the heart of the matter

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Cillian Murphy to Produce and Star in

In this interview, Cillian Murphy discusses his latest film Small Things Like These, his production company Big Things Films, and the potential 28 Days Lat...

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Best books to gift (and gift again) at Christmas: The Independent newsroom make their picks

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

The Independent UK

The books we give as gifts

When you give someone a book as a gift, what you’re really giving them is a few hours of pleasure. Indy staff share their trusted literary gifts this Christmas

The Independent UK

Claire Keegan: ‘I can’t explain my work. I just write stories’

The much-acclaimed Irish author of Small Things Like These on her quietly devastating new story and why George Saunders wouldn’t read it aloud for a podcast

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ardal O’Hanlon’s cultural highlights

The Father Ted actor on laughing out loud at Jamie Demetriou, an architectural pilgrimage to Pennsylvania and where to find Dublin’s fanciest artichoke

The Guardian - UK

In ‘The Quiet Girl,’ a history making film for Ireland

Filmmaker Colm Bairéad’s Irish language adaptation of a Claire Keegan short story, “The Quiet Girl,” is proving to be a watershed moment for Irish cinema

The Independent UK

Movie review: ‘The Quiet Girl’ a stunning, lyrical winner

A quiet film with a great deal of low-spoken power, “The Quiet Girl,” a work almost entirely in Irish with subtitles, is the first Irish-language film to be nominated for an Academy Award in the best international feature film category. Written and directed by Colm Bairead and based on the…

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How ‘The Quiet Girl’ became the first Irish-language film nominated for Academy Award

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s two days after Colm Bairéad attended the 2023 Oscar nominees luncheon and the Irish writer-director of “The Quiet Girl” is still processing his first time at the star-studded annual event.

The Guardian - UK

Joy in Ireland after country’s film talents bag 14 Oscar nominations

Strong showing for Irish actors and directors, with one film, The Banshees of Inisherin, up for nine awards

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about family secrets

Lies told and truths hidden give compelling life to fiction and memoir by authors from Maggie O’Farrell to Ocean Vuong and Claire Keegan

Tribune News Service

Holiday books: Fiction

“The Marriage Portrait,” by Maggie O’Farrell. (Knopf, $28.)

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Books to give as gifts for the 2022 holidays. If the message you want to send is ...

Gifting a book is personal.

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #62: The best music, TV and film still to come in 2022

In this week’s newsletter: From SZA to I Hate Suzie Too – though we may be a month from Christmas the culture calendar isn’t empty just yet

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Foster,' by Claire Keegan

FICTION: An impoverished young girl is sent to live with relatives and begins to learn what love is.

WEKU

With 'Foster,' Claire Keegan asks that readers look outward

More than most books four times its size, Foster does several of the things we ask of great literature: It expands our world, diverting our attention outward, and it opens up our hearts and minds.

The Independent UK

Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin Chilton, but a shame to see Claire Keegan miss out for her moving novella

AFP

Oldest author in contention as UK's Booker prize returns in full

London (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Britain's Booker Prize for fiction on Monday holds its first large-scale awards ceremony since 2019 with six novels in the running -- including the oldest author yet nominated, and the shortest book.

The Conversation

How to win the Booker prize: is there a formula for ‘the finest in fiction’?

They say that everyone has a book in them. But how about a Booker prize? That’s probably what the six shortlisted authors of the Booker prize 2022 will be wondering as they count down the days to the live-streamed awards ceremony.

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