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Constance Vera Browne, Baroness Oranmore and Browne (14 February 1916 – 24 September 2006), commonly known as Sally Gray, was an English film actress of the 1930s and 1940s.
Her mother was a ballet dancer and her grandmother was a "principal boy" in the 1870s. Born Constance Vera Stevens in Holloway, London, Gray made her stage debut at the age of twelve in All God's Chillun at the Globe Theatre in London, playing a black boy.
She then went back to school for two years, training at Fay Compton’s School of Dramatic Art and then became well established in the theatre before embarking on a series of light comedies, musicals and thrillers in the 1930s.
Gray began in films in her teens with a bit part in School for Scandal (1930) and returned in 1935, making nearly twenty films, culminating in her sensitive role in Brian Desmond Hurst’s romantic melodrama Dangerous Moonlight (1941). The same year she appeared in the West End musical Lady Behave which had been written by her co-star Stanley Lupino. She was off the screen for several years owing to an alleged nervous breakdown and then returned in 1946 to make her strongest bid for stardom.
How sad that Sally Gray's very last movie was such a pedestrian and uninventive affair. The odd pairing of a smooth American, George Raft, associated mostly with gangster roles and a glacial English beauty, Gray, certainly didn't help the film as it should. The story is flimsy at the very least, and has, on the whole, such wooden performances that it's hard to hold any interest in the story-line, which involves an under-cover FBI agent tracking a ring of smugglers kidnapping nuclear scientists to force them behind the Iron Curtain, and meanwhile getting involved with his British MI5 counterpart - Sally Gray. I might suggest the only reason for watching this movie is that it wraps up the career of Ms Gray who, though popular in the forties, made a relatively small number of quality films w...
Pat Laffan recalls his friend and fellow actor TP McKenna on RTE's 'MORNING IRELAND'.
Shot in Dún Laoghaire Shopping Centre in 1993 From 'The Snapper' written by Roddy Doyle. Tina Kellegher plays Sharon Curley. Pat Laffan plays Georgie Burgess.
Pat Laffan The removal of late actor David Kelly took place at The Church of Miraculo
Sumik just having a round of the Virtual Reality training in Arma 3.
In her photographic pilgrimage, Dragana Jurišić brings Rebecca West's 1941 masterpiece into the present day, for an encounter with the medium of photography through her rolliflex camera as she follows West's footsteps through Yugoslavia, from which she was displaced during the 1990s war. This photo-documentary highlights a unique road-trip where two women from different eras (Jurišić and West), intersect in an intellectual, emotional, and physical journey through the Balkans. Conveying the devastating impact of war on ordinary people, it features Olwen Fouere, Zlata Filipovic, Dijana Milosevic, Colin Graham, Dragana Jurišić, Pat Laffan, and is narrated by Deirdre Mulrooney.
How sad that Sally Gray's very last movie was such a pedestrian and uninventive affair. The odd pairing of a smooth American, George Raft, associated mostly with gangster roles and a glacial English beauty, Gray, certainly didn't help the film as it should. The story is flimsy at the very least, and has, on the whole, such wooden performances that it's hard to hold any interest in the story-line, which involves an under-cover FBI agent tracking a ring of smugglers kidnapping nuclear scientists to force them behind the Iron Curtain, and meanwhile getting involved with his British MI5 counterpart - Sally Gray. I might suggest the only reason for watching this movie is that it wraps up the career of Ms Gray who, though popular in the forties, made a relatively small number of quality films w...
Pat Laffan recalls his friend and fellow actor TP McKenna on RTE's 'MORNING IRELAND'.
Shot in Dún Laoghaire Shopping Centre in 1993 From 'The Snapper' written by Roddy Doyle. Tina Kellegher plays Sharon Curley. Pat Laffan plays Georgie Burgess.
Pat Laffan The removal of late actor David Kelly took place at The Church of Miraculo
Sumik just having a round of the Virtual Reality training in Arma 3.
In her photographic pilgrimage, Dragana Jurišić brings Rebecca West's 1941 masterpiece into the present day, for an encounter with the medium of photography through her rolliflex camera as she follows West's footsteps through Yugoslavia, from which she was displaced during the 1990s war. This photo-documentary highlights a unique road-trip where two women from different eras (Jurišić and West), intersect in an intellectual, emotional, and physical journey through the Balkans. Conveying the devastating impact of war on ordinary people, it features Olwen Fouere, Zlata Filipovic, Dijana Milosevic, Colin Graham, Dragana Jurišić, Pat Laffan, and is narrated by Deirdre Mulrooney.
How sad that Sally Gray's very last movie was such a pedestrian and uninventive affair. The odd pairing of a smooth American, George Raft, associated mostly with gangster roles and a glacial English beauty, Gray, certainly didn't help the film as it should. The story is flimsy at the very least, and has, on the whole, such wooden performances that it's hard to hold any interest in the story-line, which involves an under-cover FBI agent tracking a ring of smugglers kidnapping nuclear scientists to force them behind the Iron Curtain, and meanwhile getting involved with his British MI5 counterpart - Sally Gray. I might suggest the only reason for watching this movie is that it wraps up the career of Ms Gray who, though popular in the forties, made a relatively small number of quality films w...
Waiting for Dublin, starring Jade Yourell, Andrew Keegan, Pat Laffan and Frank Kelly.
An all too rarely seen film, enjoyable and involving , if slightly ‘soapy', with many strands and interwoven stories to tell about life in a local hospital - a far cry from today‘s style of health care. Googie Withers, who never gave a bad performance, is in the lead adding warmth and humanity to her role, and is well supported by a cast with almost too many excellent actors of the time to mention (but I will!): James Donald, Godfrey Tearle, Pet Clark, Jean Anderson, Fabia Drake, Megs Jenkins, Barry Jones, Avice Landone, Moira Lister, Dandy Nichols, Bernard Lee, Basil Radford, Patrick Troughton, Jack Watling and Dana Wynter in only her second movie role, plus others. Directed by Pat Jackson, who started his career in documentaries, and had a fairly short CV of unremembered films in the 40s...
Future facing keynote exploring the next iteration of the Digital Enterprise.
Liam Cosgrave is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach and as Leader of Fine Gael. He was a Teachta Dála from 1943 to 1981. Born in Dublin, Cosgrave was the son of W. T. Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council in the newly formed Irish Free State. After qualifying as a barrister he decided to embark on a political career. He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1943 general election and sat in opposition alongside his father. The formation of the first inter-party government in 1948 saw Cosgrave become a Parliamentary Secretary to Taoiseach John A. Costello. He formally became a cabinet member in 1954 when he was appointed Minister for External Affairs. The highlight of his three-year tenure was Ireland's successful entry into the United Nations. In 1965 ...
An RTE Nationwide programme to mark the 85th anniversary of the establishment of ESB in 1927. Special guest at the event in Ardnacrusha Power Station was former Taoiseach, Mr Liam Cosgrave, who, as a young boy, was present at the official opening of the station on 29th July 1929 by his father W.T Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council. Mr. Cosgrave was given a standing ovation for his 15 minute unscripted address, in which he outlined the gigantic undertaking initiative by "the then government with immense courage, foresight, imagination and enterprise".
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This session will look at the business and technology trends driving this radical change, dispelling some of the hype and rumour in this space.
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