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The Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann or na hÉireannaigh; Ulster-Scots: Airisch or Airish fowk) are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies, see Prehistoric Ireland). The Irish people's earliest ancestors are recorded in legends – they are claimed to be descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians.Lebor Gabála Érenn, a book of Irish mythology tells that Tuatha Dé Dananns were Scythian descendants.
The main groups that interacted with the Irish in the Middle Ages include the Picts, Scots, and the Vikings. Due to this contact, Icelanders are noted for having some Irish descent. The Anglo-Norman invasion of the High Middle Ages, the English plantations and the subsequent English rule of the country introduced the Normans and Flemish into Ireland. Welsh, Picts, Bretons, and small parties of Gauls and even Anglo-Saxons are known in Ireland from much earlier times.
Actors: Patrick Godfrey (actor), Mark Heap (actor), Russell Tovey (actor), Daniel-Konrad Cooper (actor), Daniel-Konrad Cooper (producer), Kate Coggins (editor), Siobhan Hewlett (actress), Nick Ashdon (producer), Nick Ashdon (actor), Oliver Chris (actor), Olivia Hallinan (actress), Cecile Van Dijk (costume designer), Jarred Christmas (actor), Dylan Charles (actor), Tim Steed (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Timothy J. Cox (actor), Carl H. Lindahl (producer), Rick Borgia (actor), Gerard Adimando (actor), Steven M. Stern (composer), Dinarte de Freitas (actor), Don Sperling (director), Don Sperling (writer), Don Sperling (producer), Charlie Sadoff (writer), Charlie Sadoff (editor), Wayne Chesler (producer), Wayne Chesler (writer), Wayne Chesler (director), Stephen Beach (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Stewart Copeland (composer), Ken Loach (director), Susanna Lenton (miscellaneous crew), Ricky Tomlinson (actor), Tom Hickey (actor), Jonathan Morris (editor), Bruce Jones (actor), Stephen Lord (actor), Little Tony (actor), Jeff Bowen (miscellaneous crew), Wendy Ellerker (miscellaneous crew), Sally Hibbin (producer), Paula McBreen (miscellaneous crew), William Ash (actor), Shellie Smith (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
Keywords: catholic, communion-dress, dress, first-communion, holy-communion, independent-film, religion, religious, social-realism, tragicomedyActors: Kernan Cripps (actor), George Anderson (actor), Herbert Anderson (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Ben Blue (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Rodney Bell (actor), Edward Clark (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), William B. Davidson (actor),
Plot: The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan and stage star Lillian Russell, who wants to make him a star.
Keywords: banjo, bar, based-on-book, dinner-party, elopement, father-daughter-relationship, fistfight, horse-and-carriage, irish-american, jealousyActors: Frank Elliott (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Thomas Carr (actor), King Baggot (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), James Blaine (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Jules Cowles (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor),
Plot: The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threatens to bring all Parnell's plans to ruin. Moderately accurate historically.
Keywords: aunt, based-on-play, blackmail, box-office-flop, catholic, character-name-in-title, critically-bashed, death, divorce, dyingActors: Norma Varden (actress), Flora Robson (actress), Vivien Leigh (actress), Evelyn Ankers (actress), Charles Carson (actor), Howard Douglas (actor), Ralph Truman (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Laurence Hanray (actor), Henry Oscar (actor), Francis De Wolff (actor), Donald Calthrop (actor), James Mason (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), Alexander Korda (producer),
Plot: Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age and how to foil those pesky Spanish who got far too much influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. Elizabeth thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things. Michael is mostly thinking about one of Elizabeth's ladies in waiting, Cynthia. Soon his mind is on survival when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain.
Keywords: 1580s, 16th-century, ambassador, aristocrat, assassination, baron-william-cecil-burleigh, based-on-novel, boat-on-fire, british-history, country-name-in-titleActors: Harry Terry (actor), Noel Purcell (actor), Miklós Rózsa (actor), Guy Rolfe (actor), Peter Bull (actor), Gordon McLeod (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Mark Daly (actor), James Carew (actor), Hay Petrie (actor), Allan Jeayes (actor), Laurence Hanray (actor), Edward Lexy (actor), Raymond Huntley (actor), Torin Thatcher (actor),
Plot: Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. Amid the turmoil of the civil war between the red and white armies, he tries to flee Russia along with the beautiful Countess Alexandra.
Keywords: 1910s, aristocracy, based-on-novel, beard, bolshevik, bomb, brandy, british, cattle-car, class-differencesActors: Abraham Sofaer (actor), Anthony Holles (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), George Sanders (actor), Ralph Richardson (actor), Terry-Thomas (actor), Patrick Barr (actor), Edward Chapman (actor), Edward Chapman (actor), Derrick De Marney (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), Allan Jeayes (actor), Cedric Hardwicke (actor), Alexander Korda (producer), Charles Carson (actor),
Plot: A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Nothing is being manufactured at all any more and society has broken down into primitive localized communities. In 1966 a great plague wipes out most of what people are left but small numbers still survive. One day a strange aircraft lands at one of these communities and its pilot tells of an organization which is rebuilding civilization and slowly moving across the world re-civilizing these groups of survivors. Great reconstruction takes place over the next few decades and society is once again great and strong. The world's population is now living in underground cities. In the year 2035, on the eve of man's first flight to the moon, a popular uprising against progress (which some people claim has caused the wars of the past) gains support and becomes violent.
Keywords: 1940s, 1960s, 2030s, anti-war, aviation, barbarism, barefoot, based-on-novel, fanatic, futureActors: Robert McKenzie (actor), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), Eddie Fries (actor), Margie Reiger (actress), May White (actress), Ed Armstrong (actor),
Plot: The daughter and sweetheart are in love, but their affairs move anything but smoothly, because the father has other ideas for his daughter's marriage. He has already selected the Count as a future son-in-law, but the daughter has a nasty temper of her own, and refuses point blank. The father has never seen the Count and finds an Irishman in the park whom he mistakes for the Count and invites to dinner. Amazing complications result when the real Count arrives.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (actor), Charles Avery (actor), Nick Cogley (actor), Gordon Griffith (actor), William Hauber (actor), William Hauber (actor), Charles Inslee (actor), Billy Jacobs (actor), Edgar Kennedy (actor), Hank Mann (actor), Al St. John (actor), Alice Davenport (actress), Virginia Kirtley (actress), Mabel Normand (actress), Mack Sennett (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,