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fromIndependent
2 weeks ago

'It was a racket. But it was a racket RTE started.' Myles Dungan on freelance contracts, losing 'Late Date' and moving into fiction writing

Myles Dungan combines sardonic self-deprecation and imagination to create The Red Branch, a 19th-century San Francisco espionage thriller about Fenians, with agent support.
fromVulture
2 months ago

House of Guinness Series-Premiere Recap: First Round

Not one mob but two awaits him as his casket rolls out of the factory gates. On one side are evangelistic followers of the Temperance movement, whose objections to the Guinness family don't really need to be explained. On the other hand, there's the Fenians, the unruliest of the factions pushing for Irish independence from Great Britain. Sure, Benjamin Guinness might have made great beer, but he was also a unionist and a Protestant.
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