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Last spring, Professor of Irish Studies Sean O Coilean was teaching at the National University of Ireland's College at Cork, introducing students to their country's native heritage. There, he says, "If you say you are in Irish Studies, no one asks...
This fall, as a newly arrived Harvard professor, O Coilean faces a different student body. "At the first class, you've got to take out a map of Ireland and show them where it is," he says...
...hours, Irish air force planes and naval vessels had been keeping a close watch over the trawler Marita Anne. Finally, off the southwest coast of Ireland, two Irish navy corvettes, the Emer and Aisling, closed in on the 50-ft. vessel, firing four rounds of tracer bullets across its bows. On board, Irish authorities found seven tons of arms. The weaponry was apparently destined for the Irish Republican Army, the terrorist group that seeks to unite British-ruled Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. Police arrested five men aboard the Marita Anne, including two believed to be I.R. A. members...
Bernard MacLaverty, in adapting his 1983 novel for the screen, has preserved a penetrating economy of story-telling. With his small cast of characters, MacLavery deftly illustrates the tensions between sides in the Northern Ireland conflict, presenting frail attempts at connection and willful acts of destruction. The division between the ordinary and the terrible, the human and inhuman, are made disturbingly ambiguous...
...also that rare thing: a successful adaptation of a novel. It stands as a penetrating documentary that has no message, as a political thriller that is not an adventure, and as a love story without romance. Quietly it immerses us into the daily realities of life in contemporary Northern Ireland...