Three Monkeys Online

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Colm McInerney

Into the Blue

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Diving thriller set in the Bahamas.

Director: John Stockwell

Cast: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Dwayne Adway, Scott Caan, Ramon Saunders, Ashley Scott, James Frain, Chris Taloa

Genre: Action, Thriller

In Her Shoes

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Film adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s book, In Her Shoes.

Director: Curtis Hanson

Cast: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley Maclaine, Mark Feuerstein

King Kong

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis

Just Like Heaven

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Director: Mark Waters

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Spybey

The Family Stone

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Director: Thomas Bezucha

Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Keaton, Claire Danes, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Tyrone Giordano, Craig T. Nelson

Munich

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Director:Steven Spielberg

Cast: Erich Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Ciaran Hinds,

Michael Collins and the Organisation of Irish Intelligence, 1917-21

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Michael Collins and the Irish war of Indpendence In the first of a series of articles, Colm McInerney details events surrounding the Irish War of indpendence. For an brief introduction to the period click here Introduction &ldquoOur only way to carry on the fight was by organised and bold guerilla warfare. But this in itself […]

The Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Irish Civil War

Monday, August 1st, 2011

The Treaty It is hard to understand how any young Irishman of sensibility could remain unmoved in [January] 1922 at the sight of a British regiment of soldiers marching out under the great arch of Dublin Castle as our own bedraggled lads marched in, heads high, to take over that fortress of imperial rule- Dermot […]

The Irish War of Independence and the IRA, 1916-1921

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Introduction Six hundred years of oppression and slavery have passed in meloncholy succession over our father's heads and our own, during which period we have been visited by every evil which tyranny could devise and cruelty execute; we have been scattered, like chaff, over the land, and our name has been forgotten among the nations. […]

America: From Colony to Superpower. Part III: 1929-1960

Saturday, January 1st, 2005

The Emergence of Franklin D. Roosevelt In one week the nation, which had lost confidence in everything and everybody, has regained confidence in the government and in itself Walter Lippmann on the impact of the new Democratic government, 19321 The question of how to recover from the 1929 crash consumed all American politicians. The financial […]