My brother did the Merchant of Venice and used to be on about it at home. I genuinely thought it was set in Clare.
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It is, it was originally known as The Merchant of Ennistymon.
Coriolanus was on the Leaving Cert cycle in my day. I didn’t do it but the lads in the year ahead did and I still remember them cribbing about it.
It’s a fairly well know fact in Clare that the Merchant Of Venice wasn’t written by Shakespeare but was written by a Clare man with the same name.
Written by Davy O’Shakespeare, so it was.
I think his first name was Liam, but my memory is a bit foggy. He might have been a Kerry man. In fact I can’t even remember which plays we did in school.
What I can remember is that one of the lads in my class, a Graiguenamanagh lad, answered the questions on the book we hadn’t studied as he had seen it o TV.
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Has ‘Peig - An Scannàn’ ever been attempted?
One reviewer on Melania- If it was shown on an airplane people would be rushing for the exits
Good one bro 
A Bridge Too Far on now. Unfuckingbelievable film! I’d say top 3 war films ever…
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I love that film. Edward Fox’s speech and the scenes with Michael Caine are brilliant “gentlemen, gentlemen, this is a story you’ll tell your grandchildren and mightily bored they’ll be”.
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I saw this today. A bit underwhelmed to be honest. About 30 mins too long. Hard to care about the characters though it was well acted. The ending felt wrong too.
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I’d be similar. Saw it a bit later than usual as I didn’t think it was worth the effort of heading cinema for and after I watched it I felt it was only just alright. Not a patch on Uncut Gems but in fairness it was just the one Safdie working on this one.
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Is Hamnet actually a good fillum lads or is it a load of bollocks?
I’ve semi promised herself we’ll sit down and watch it this week which is all well and good but I’m a busy man and I’ve better things to be doing than putting away an evening watching Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal looking at each other.
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I thought it was shite
I’d say it’s much worse on the television
It’s not the worst watch. Decent enough.
Went to see Crime 101.
Despite Chris Hemmsworth not fitting the look of a jewel thief, enjoyable enough fare.
Halle Berry absolutely smoking hot in it. One for the auld birds thread
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She’s something else
Feeling my age now as I thought Halle Berry was about 35 and shouldn’t be near the auld one’s thread. She’s 59