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Bill Forsyth confronts crime and morals in `Breaking In'
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NEW YORK - When the Scottish director Bill Forsyth cast Burt
Reynolds as the safecracker in his latest film, "Breaking In"(now
playing at Chicago area theaters), few believed the superstar would
agree to play a character a decade older than himself. What they
didn't realize, however, was that Reynolds was an admirer of
Forsyth's quirky work, from "Gregory's Girl" (1981) to "Local Hero"
(winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best screenplay
in 1983) and "Housekeeping" (his first non-comic, non-Scottish, and
non-original script, in 1987).
After reading John Sayles' offbeat ...
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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`STONE OF SCONE' RIGHTFULLY SHOULD BE HOME IN IRELAND.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...wrong country, since it rightfully belongs to Ireland. The Milesians originally brought the ``stone,'' which was a gift from...Holy Land to the coast of Spain. About 1,000 B.C. the Milesians invaded Ireland and brought the ``stone'' with them...
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Dance of Celtic sword and sorcery
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...Dananns are. They were magical people who once ruled Ireland, threatened by the invasions and domination of the Milesians. The Milesians, in search of their Island of Destiny, were to become the founding fathers of the mighty Celtic kingdom of...
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Another Irish dance drama in the offing
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail
; ...the magical sword becomes powerless and watches in vain as his children suffer in the turbulent seas. About this time the Milesians invade Ireland. Having witnessed the misfortunes of Lir, the invaders, however, seek to return his children to the Island...
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Dance to desire for
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail
; ...from the King, and changed the children into swans and condemned them to eternal suffering in ocean waters. Meanwhile, the Milesians plotted to wrest Lir's kingdom. Having witnessed his misfortunes, the invaders sought to return his children to the King...
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Marking his own time. (profile of the work of Irish artist Hector McDonnell)
Magazine article from: World of Hibernia
; ...family whose generations have marked the history of Antrim over many centuries (tradition has it from the arrival of the Milesians in Ireland), it makes sense that McDonnell is instinctively drawn to marking his own time--the "here and now" and its...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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Your name says more about you than you think. It could change the course of your life; Deirdres will grow up tough, Monicas outrageous Anns will succeed and Roisins are artistic.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; ...star Dana has her name in Peg's book. "It is derived from a supernatural race which lived in Ireland before the coming of Milesians." But the singer may not be too thrilled to learn the actual meaning of the word Dana is brazen. Top radio talk-show...
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Voyage of discovery
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...Sundownersailing up the coast of Galicia I went for it. Galicia is Spain's Celtic province. It is widely thought that the Milesians, who according to legend were the final wave of invaders to settle pre-Christian Ireland, were Celts from Galicia. The...
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The Columbia History of Western Philosophy.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: CLIO
; ...This complaint may look like pedantic nitpicking, but the cost of the error becomes apparent almost at once. As soon as the Milesians (Thales and his successors, who seem at least to fit the mature definition) have been dealt with, Thomas M. Robinson...
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Concannon, Maureen: The Sacred Whore: Sheela Goddess of the Celts.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books
; ...bodies," but the Celts introduced a warrior cult. They included the Picts, "who came from Eastern Europe," and the "Milesians ... a branch of the Celto-Scythian peoples," who entered Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula. When the Irish converted...
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Space traveller's timescape on a pilgrimage to the past
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...continues to publish. The title of his talk at Sabhal Mor was Farewell to the Goddess, a reference to the legend that the Milesians, the first settlers of Ireland, were granted the land by the goddess Eiru on condition that they kept her name for it...
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