Irish Films

Created on March 18, 2013

Just a few Irish films I’ve watched so far…

Kevin Cullen’s St. Patrick’s Day Picks Kevin Cullen says: Steve McQueen’s meditation on the 1981 republican hunger strikes, “Hunger,” and Michael Fassbender’s haunting portrayal of Bobby Sands (left) makes this the best film done on the subject. Fassbender starved himself like Sands, and it is painful to watch his emaciated body waste away. The Guard (2011) pits Don Cheadle (left) as an FBI agent investigating drug-smuggling with an Irish...