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Cork director John Crowley will unveil We Live in Time at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday 6 September

Toronto world premiere for Brooklyn director's new film

We Live in Time, the new romantic drama from Brooklyn director John Crowley, will receive its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Movies • 11 Jul 24

Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson in Brooklyn

Do they mean us!? Green on the screen

There has been much weeping and gnashing of tweets over new Irish rom-com Wild Mountain Thyme but there's plenty more stage Irishisms on the big and small screen that we still can't seem to forgive or forget . . .

Movies • 04 May 21

John Crowley - Also serving as one of the executive producers on Life After Life

Brooklyn director John Crowley films another bestseller

Brooklyn director John Crowley has begun filming Life After Life, a BBC One adaptation of the Kate Atkinson novel of the same name.

Television • 21 Apr 21

What's on? 10 top telly tips for Thursday December 10

Tonight's top telly includes a returning Snackmasters that takes a look at super-tasty Quavers, there are tributes to Leslie Phillips and Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth returns with Tin Star, and Nadiya Hussain goes on an American Adventure . . .

Television • 10 Dec 20

Tig Notaro to receive Oscar Wilde Award

Comedian and actor Tig Notaro, the creator and star of the series One Mississippi, is to be honoured at the US-Ireland Alliance's 2020 Oscar Wilde Awards, which will take place in California during Oscars week next month.

Entertainment • 09 Jan 20

Jenn Murray - "It's so nice to be a part of a movie people love"

Brooklyn role still following Maleficent star around

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil star Jenn Murray has told RTÉ Entertainment that even after four years she is still approached "twice a week" as people recognise her from her role as Saoirse Ronan's timid housemate Dolores in Brooklyn.

Movies • 19 Oct 19

Saoirse Ronan - "I think we need to be making lots of modern-day Irish films, so I would like to figure out how I can be a part of that"

Saoirse Ronan shares plans to work back home

Saoirse Ronan has told RTÉ Entertainment she has "a few ideas" for projects she wants to work on in Ireland in the future.

Movies • 27 May 18

Saoirse Ronan as Eilís Lacey in Brooklyn

Brooklyn writer Tóibín "tears up" at film's ending

Brooklyn author Colm Tóibín admits that he "tears up" watching the final scene in the film adaptation of the book, which was devised as a departure from the novel's conclusion by screen-writer, Nick Hornby.

Movie • 02 Apr 18

Nicole Kidman and John Crowley have begun filming The Goldfinch

Brooklyn director taking flight with Nicole Kidman

Brooklyn director John Crowley has begun filming with Nicole Kidman and Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort on The Goldfinch, an adaptation of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller.

The Goldfinch • 24 Jan 18

Saoirse Ronan with Nick Hornby - Author-turned-screenwriter hoping he will work with Irish star again after the success of Brooklyn

Brooklyn screenwriter has new script for Saoirse Ronan

Brooklyn screenwriter Nick Hornby has said he has a new script for the film's star, Saoirse Ronan, and has advised "the best young actress in the world" not to go "rushing into anything" before she reads it.

Saoirse Ronan • 26 Dec 17

Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen star in Brooklyn on RTÉ One on Christmas Day

Christmas TV Movies - Ten of the Best

We've gone defiantly old school and domestic with these suggestions. They're all on terrestrial television - not just "the two channels", mind.

Christmas TV Movies • 23 Dec 17

Greta Gerwig - "She said, 'I know I'm from Ireland [and] a tiny town all across the world, but I'm telling you: I know this and I know this story and I know this girl'"

Lady Bird director cast Saoirse Ronan within minutes

Lady Bird writer-director Greta Gerwig has said she knew Saoirse Ronan should be the star of the Oscar-tipped comedy-drama within minutes of her starting to read the script.

Saoirse Ronan • 14 Nov 17

John Crowley to direct Midwinter Break, based on Bernard MacLaverty's novel

Brooklyn's John Crowley to direct Midwinter Break

It has just been revealed that Brooklyn director John Crowley will direct a big-screen adaptation of acclaimed Belfast-born writer Bernard MacLaverty's just-published novel Midwinter Break.

john crowley • 12 Oct 17

Saoirse Ronan - Third time 'lucky' at the Oscars?

Saoirse Ronan tipped to be among Oscar nominees again

Saoirse Ronan is tipped to be among the Oscar nominees for her performance in the coming-of-age drama Lady Bird, while In Bruges director Martin McDonagh is also viewed as a contender for his new film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Saoirse Ronan • 08 Sep 17

Last year saw one of the strongest years ever for Irish film

Film board says 2016 was a bumper year for Irish movies

The Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na hÉireann has said that 2016 was a landmark year for the film industry in this country with production activity on film, TV and animation surpassing €250 million for the first time.

Entertainment • 13 Jan 17

Colm Tóibín with Nick Hornby pictured at last year's London Film Festival

Tóibín would not see Nora Webster as film like Brooklyn

Author Colm Tóibín has said that his novel Nora Webster would need a different approach to Brooklyn if it were to be made into a film.

Entertainment • 02 Apr 16

Emma Donoghue: her short story, Night Vision has been adapted for the stage in a San Francisco show as Oscar fever hots up.

Donoghue, Tóibín stories dramatised in San Francisco

San Francisco-based company Word for Word have adapted the short stories, Night Vision, by Emma Donoghue and Silence by Colm Tóibín at the city's Z Below Theater.

Entertainment • 28 Feb 16

Oscar countdown: Our predictions

With only hours to go before the start of the Academy Awards, TEN predicts who will and who should win in the main coveted categories - including those record-breaking Irish nominees

Entertainment • 28 Feb 16

Brooklyn Director John Crowley, producers Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey with screen-writer Nick Hornby at the EE British Academy Film Awards on February 14.

Brooklyn producer picked the novel because of mother

Brooklyn co-producer Finola Dwyer became attracted to adapting Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name because it resonated with her own family. Dwyer’s mother travelled from Ireland to New Zealand around the time the fictional Eilis goes to NY.

Entertainment • 27 Feb 16

Colm Tóibín: enters the US debate on migrants

Tóibín: "Every migrant has a story to tell"

Brooklyn author Colm Tóibín has told an audience at New York’s United Nations bookshop that “every migrant has a story to tell.”

Entertainment • 15 Feb 16

Brooklyn author praises "wonderfully expressive" Ronan

Colm Tóibín has praised Saoirse Ronan's performance in the big screen adaptation of his novel Brooklyn saying he enjoyed observing the "wonderfully expressive" Oscar nominee at work.

Entertainment • 09 Feb 16

Saoirse Ronan's Brooklyn wins Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards

Brooklyn takes top honour at British Film Awards

Brooklyn scooped the top honour at the 2016 Evening Standard British Film Awards on Sunday night (February 7), after being named the Best Film.

Entertainment • 08 Feb 16

The producers are confident that Julie Walters (centre) will reprise her role as hardnosed-but-heart-of-gold landlady Mrs Keogh

Irish movie Brooklyn heading for the small screen

After box office and awards success, a TV spin-off of Irish movie Brooklyn is in the works - and the premise is a treat.

Entertainment • 05 Feb 16

Brooklyn director John Crowley and star Saoirse Ronan

Brooklyn director still undecided about that ending

It's the question that has been vexing film fans since Brooklyn opened in Irish cinemas in November: did Saoirse Ronan's character Eilis make the right decision at the end of the movie? And director John Crowley still hasn't made up his mind, either.

Entertainment • 03 Feb 16

Domhnall Gleeson and Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Domhnall Gleeson praises "unbelievable" Saoirse Ronan

Domhnall Gleeson has praised his Brooklyn co-star Saoirse Ronan saying she is an "unbelievable" actress.

Entertainment • 30 Jan 16