Editorial Board Members wanted!! Pass it on. Comparative Legal History is an elite legal history publication, the standard for its subject, and the flagship publication of the European Society for Comparative Legal History For additional information, see esclh.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...

'What we too rarely notice is how our legal education shapes the very categories through which we think. The result is not only that we produce different answers to similar questions, but that we often do not ask the same questions at all.' british-association-comparative-law.org/2025/11/28/r...

"Train Dreams is a powerfully cinematic portrait of an everyman and his times" @spdonlan.bsky.social reviews the film, in cinemas and on Netflix now: filmindublin.ie/2025/12/01/a...

'Train Dreams is a powerfully cinematic portrait of an everyman and his times.... Skilfully orchestrated and well-acted, the film centres on the critical, sacramental junctures in a largely hidden life.' filmindublin.ie/2025/12/01/a...

On Hurtin For Real #1185... A Tribute to Gene McDonnell's Celtic Connection - an old radio show once heard in Kamloops, BC. We'll hear @dropkickmurphys.com @theirishrovers.bsky.social #TheDubliners #TheChieftains and a whole lot more. Drop by any time at hurtinforreal.com Thanks, Gene! ☘️📻 #Kamloops

So you're telling me there's a chance? (Pass it on.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL809/a...

I'm sorry I missed this but look forward to the collection.

‘The horrors of the recent past are oozing to the surface’ - Margo Harkin, Stolen (2023) In anticipation of the release of Testimony today and reviewing Harkin’s Stolen, Seán Patrick Donlan looks at the portrayal of Irish institutions in film. www.filmireland.net/essay-screen...

Me, on Irish institutionalization and Irish film. 'In Stolen, Harkin asked ‘What happened and why?’ If we’re still learning more about what happened, thanks in part to her efforts, the why question remains more challenging.' www.filmireland.net/essay-screen...

'The Pope’s remarks came after he recently revealed his four favorite films, those being “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “The Sound of Music,” “Life Is Beautiful,” and perhaps an unexpected selection, the late Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People.”' Amen. www.indiewire.com/news/general...

Whatever you politics, generally or on these issues, I'd like to introduce the term 'Sinnsplaining' to Irish politics. Anyone with me? Am I too late? www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

I didn't choose the title ... 'Left-wing voters, and the new President, should reflect on how such power might have been used in the past by right-wing presidents and how future presidents might exercise any new-found authority to impede progressive change.' www.independent.ie/opinion/lett...

'They're keeping these communities dynamic and connected to the world in a very important way,' says William. The theatres contribute culturally, offering relevant, curated programming — but they contribute economically, too.' Amen. www.cbc.ca/arts/for-sma...

A terrific film (and more than it might seem).

'An Cailín Ciuín, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Small Things Like These, with their sources, present significantly different pictures of the early eighties in Ireland.... Each suggests something about us, now.' Me, at newsagents everywhere or historyireland.com/quiet-people...

Highly recommended.

'If this dawn is to be followed by a real daybreak for the left, its light has to illuminate a path to power. For that path to open up, the left has to show that it is ready to turn its noble aspirations into convincing propositions.'

We've put together a quiz on Irish movies, so test your knowledge and give it a go. jrnl.ie/6852760

I'm biased, as the journal's founder and first editor, but this is a great opportunity to work with a publication that sets the standard for the discipline. Pass it on.

Obviously, left-wing 'togetherness' was largely a collective hostility to the traditional parties of government, in an election with very low turnout, for a post with merely formal powers. Competing with a patchwork of policies in an election with meaning consequences may yield the usual results.

Great analysis - even if I’m more anxious about how this plays into external perceptions of Ireland as being smug, self righteous and disregarding of serious security threats. “Catherine Connolly deserves her landslide victory, but it’s a hollow crown” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Disappointing. This a crass political perspective, not a principled one and would be aggressively, appropriately, attacked if the positions were reversed. We'll have to see how the new President, and her followers, responds. The signs aren't good. analysis.irelandthinks.ie/polling-day-...

'President Connolly may ... surprise us with political restraint and decorum, successfully containing her political conceits and natural loquaciousness. If so, it’ll be interesting to see how her passionate supporters respond to such to such principles.' sluggerotoole.com/2025/10/25/l...

Not my take but I'm curious to see how audiences react ...

'Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid'

This Sunday, Margo Harkin will join Sara Greavu (Director of Fire Station Artists’ Studios) for an in-depth, illustrated, career-spanning conversation about a life in film. Don't miss out on the final event of our Margo Harkin retrospective! 🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/margo-harkin-career-interview/

Very exciting 25/26 school year ahead here @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPui...

RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)

Highly recommended.

Tomorrow at the Irish Film Institute (IFI). '[A] significant Irish film from an important Irish voice.' www.scannain.com/review/hush-...

Anyone near Limerick looking for Culture Night plans? 🌙 I’m delighted to be chatting with filmmaker Ross Whitaker tonight at the Desmond Complex, Newcastle West, about the gorgeous doc Birdsong he produced with director Kathleen Harris.

Anyone near Limerick looking for Culture Night plans tonight? 🎬 Join our editor in the Desmond Complex, Newcastle West, for a special chat with filmmaker Ross Whitaker about Birdsong, directed by Kathleen Harris.

It was beyond fascinating to hear about how the logistics of the classification process works... have a listen back to our chat with Dr. Ciaran Kissane here.

I found the diary of a 1939 Belfast cinema-goer and wrote a piece on what I found for @filmhubni.bsky.social 👉 filmhubni.org/blog/the-193... They made 183 trips to to see 325 films at 25 cinemas! But sadly the diarist's identity remains a mystery. Please help us identify them if you can.

If you're interested ...

A significant film; an important voice. A wee gem. Harkin's 1990 film rewards repeat viewing, especially as newly restored by the Irish Film Institute (IFI). It's already available on the IFI site and will be shown at the IFI on 23 September 2025. journalofmusic.com/listing/02-0...

'TG4 is to screen a ground-breaking mini-series [Iománaíocht Hollywood: Cluichí Gaelacha ar Scannán/Hollywood Hurling: Gaelic Games on Film] exploring Gaelic games on film since the beginning of the 20th century.' www.tg4.ie/en/informati...

Between 1922 and 1998, over 80,000 women were incarcerated in church-run mother and baby homes. Survivors share their stories in this moving, wholly authoritative work. STOLEN screens today as part of MARGO HARKIN: RADICAL WITNESS. 📆 Wed 3rd ⏰ 18.20 🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/margo-harkin-stolen/

'Louisiana, Louisiana/They're tryin' to wash us away ….’ - Randy Newman, 'Louisiana 1927' www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHII...

This is why we can't have nice things: 'Connolly must acknowledge she erred in joining that trip to Syria and she must unhitch Daly and Wallace from her campaign wagon.' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Recommended. 'Forty years to the week after the death of Eamonn de Valera, we talk to his biographer Colum Kenny about the makings of the man who dominated the Irish state for the first half of its existence so far.' open.spotify.com/episode/4qq3...

‘In the Opinion of the Censor tells the rich & fascinating story of film censorship in Ireland, about those things the Censors believed best kept from an impressionable Irish public.’ In this essay Seán Patrick Donlan examines our history of filmic censorship. filmireland.net/2025/08/27/e...

The film 'tells this rich and fascinating story of film censorship in Ireland, explicitly discussing those things the Censors had believed best kept from an impressionable Irish public.' My full Film Ireland essay ('In the Name of the Censor') is available at filmireland.net/2025/08/27/e...

Terrific news, not least the restoration of Hush-A-Bye Baby (1990).

G? PG? 12A? 15A? You decide. For this year’s #CultureNight, Screen Ireland is delighted to partner with the IFCO for a series of workshops inviting children and teenagers to try their hand at classifying Irish short films. #OneNightForAll

Law on Film Podcast: No Other Land (2024) Host Jonathan Hafetz discusses the Oscar-winning documentary, showing the brutal destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, with guests Omer Bartov and Lisa Hajjar. www.buzzsprout.com/2073468/epis...

When Akira Kurosawa made “Dersu Uzala” 50 years ago, his career (and life) was at a low point— and yet he came up with one of his most unusual and affecting pictures. It’s streaming on the Criterion Channel: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

Minister for Education and Youth Helen McEntee TD has announced the launch of the DFTS Channel, a free streaming media service designed to support the teaching of the new Leaving Certificate subject Drama, Film and Theatre Studies (DFTS). www.gov.ie/en/departmen...