 | The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.76 Set in Ireland and co-starring Irish actor Maureen O'Hara.
My second favorite John Wayne film(next to the great western Rio Bravo). A boxing match, a horse race and a pretty girl. What else could a guy ask for? Ireland sure looks appealing. I could live there.
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 | Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya by Enya
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.18 She's among my top 10 female vocalists. This is an excellent collection. She's a unique artist.
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 | Man and Superman and Three Other Plays (Barnes & Noble Classics) by George Bernard Shaw
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.11 Shaw is one of my 3 favorite writers of plays.(Eugene O'Neill..below..and Tennessee Williams). Man and Superman is my favorite of his plays. Witty, fun satire.
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 | Saint Joan (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.01 My second fave of Shaw's plays. The story of Joan of Arc.
Effective drama which raises questions and even has humor.
How could it not, written by Shaw?
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 | My Fair Lady (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.69 Based upon Shaw's play Pygmalion, and an improvement on it. One of the few musicals a GUY can enjoy. This should be farther down my list, but I thought I'd keep the Shaw together.
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 | Evelyn
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.74 One of the better films of the past decade. It stars Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, produced by his own Ireland-based
company. Starts as a small human-interest film, but becomes more cosmic. Directed by Bruce Beresford.
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 | Avalon Sunset by Van Morrison
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $7.25 Morrison's best and most spiritual album, methinks.
WHENEVER GOD SHINES HIS LIGHT is the gem, but there are many other good songs.
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 | Songs of the British Isles by Nana Mouskouri
Buy new: $28.99 Many of these traditional songs are Irish and done exceedingly well by Nana. Some can bring a tear to your eye even if you don't know the lyrics. One of her best albums for sure.
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 | Long Day's Journey into Night
Buy used from: $1.75 Actually, the writer Eugene O'Neill was born in USA, but Ireland colors this powerful drama, his best. I'm not being biased because I'm Canadian, but a far superior VHS of this play was done there, but it's hard to find(1996, stars William Hutt)
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 | The Iceman Cometh
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $17.00 My second favorite of O'Neill's plays. Four hours long, but worth it. Staggering performance by Robert Ryan. Good cast: Fredric March(his last), Jeff Bridges, Lee Marvin.
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 | Irish Standards by Roger Whittaker
Buy new: $6.98 / Used from: $0.89 Roger's warm, rich voice given to traditional Irish fare. Some real goodies.
A vinyl LP FOLKSONGS OF OUR TIME, an even
better album, has many Irish tunes.
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 | Two for the Road
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.97 My favorite film of Irish actor Albert Finney. Co-stars the
lovely Audrey Hepburn. Effective drama depicts the 20-year marriage of a couple in flashbacks. Makes my list of
GREAT SCREEN ROMANCES.
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 | Gentleman Jim
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.49 Possibly the best film of one of my 3 fave movie stars.
A bio of Irish-American heavyweight champ Jim Corbett.
The scene with ex-champ John L Sullivan(Ward Bond) cracks my FAVORITE SCENES FROM THE MOVIES Listmania.
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 | GREATEST FIGHTS of the CENTURY - Relive Classic Moments in Boxing
Buy used from: $2.22 BILLY CONN was born in the USA but of Irish parents. He was one of the all-time great middleweight and light-heavyweight champs. Outweighed by 30 lbs he totally outboxed Joe Louis, foolishly tried for a KO in the late rds and got KO'd himself.
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 | The Best of Riverdance
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $12.95 Exhilarating and great fun.
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 | Going My Way (Universal Cinema Classics)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.99 Won Best Picture Oscar in 1944. Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald(The Quiet Man) won a Best Supporting Oscar.
Star Bing Crosby won the Best Actor.
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 | Masada - The Complete Epic Mini-Series
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $15.00 O'Toole has given many noteworthy acting performances, but this may be his most important work.
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 | When Irish Eyes Are Smiling by Bing Crosby
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.29 Lots of good Irish songs in this collection.
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 | C. S. Lewis Signature Classics: Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, A Grief Observed, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, and The Great Divorce (Boxed Set) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $43.91 / Used from: $41.79 One of the most famous and greatest Christian writers.
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 | What Christians Believe by C. S. Lewis
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $4.95 |
 | Ryan's Daughter (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $14.97 Set in Ireland. Beautifully filmed would-be epic film (soap opera?)by director David Lean. Nice musical theme.
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 | The Best of the Chieftains by The Chieftains
Buy used from: $0.01 Beloved Irish group.
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 | U218 Singles by U2
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.99 Many think U2 rank among the greatest pop music groups.
Can't count me among their fans though.
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 | The Oscar Wilde Collection (The Importance of Being Earnest / The Picture of Dorian Gray / An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan)
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $23.57 Oscar Wilde was a witty writer of plays.
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 | Far and Away
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $3.58 Believe it or not, this is the Tom Cruise film I like the best. Nothing against him, I just don't care much for his choice of films. This one is about pioneer Irish immigrants
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 | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Irish Rovers by The Irish Rovers
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $16.17 Irish-Canadian group had a big hit with THE UNICORN. A lot of good-time pub singalong songs.
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 | The New World
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.91 Probably the best of Colin Farrell's films so far, though I haven't seen many others.
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 | Hart's War
Buy used from: $0.01 Not a bad vehicle for Colin Farrell and star Bruce Willis.
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 | William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $19.80 Pretty good film of Shakespeare's classic Hamlet. Best surprise is the very good Billy Crystal performance as the gravedigger.
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 | How Green Was My Valley
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.50 Won Best Pic Oscar. Maureen O'Hara is in it. Can't remember hardly anything about it, so I guess it didn't make much of an impression on me.
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 | A New Journey by Celtic Woman
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $8.00 |
 | Match Point
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $1.84 Haven't seen this Woody Allen movie, but Meyers is an up and coming busy actor.
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