Aidan Gillen

The best and worst Irish TV shows ever made – The Irish Times

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Ireland excels at a lot of things. Literature. Preachy rock stars. Potato-based snacks. But in television we have long punched below our weight: compare and contrast our history of underachievement on the small screen with the ambitious, cutting-edge TV produced by nations of a similar size, from Borgen (Denmark) to Wellington Paranormal (New Zealand). Still, … Read more

Aidan Gillen, Joe O’Connor and more on their cultural treasures – The Irish Times

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Ed Power on Rawhead Rex Directed by George Pavlou, 1986 If Father Ted had been a schlocky exploitation movie, then it would have looked a lot like Rawhead Rex, George Pavlou’s brilliantly kitsch 1986 adaptation of Clive Barker’s folk-horror short story. A cult VHS classic, it has everything fans of old-school horror would want: atrocious … Read more