A role of a lifetime; Gleeson drawn to gangster's story.(ENTERTAINMENT) From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: February 7, 1999| Author: Strickler, Jeff | COPYRIGHT 1999 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, the allure of playing colorful Dublin gangster Martin Cahill was hard to resist. Cahill was Ireland's equivalent of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a folk hero-bandit regarded as a modern-day Robin Hood because he seemed less interested in money than in disrupting a widely detested government bureaucracy. which opens Friday. "He was a prankster who struck out at a bureaucracy that had enraged the people."

Among his tricks was breaking int...

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