Why did you fall in love with Ireland? Why are you interested in Ireland? Can you trace this particular interest throughout your life? Surely there is a movie or a book that has to do with that. It is always like this, because until the invention of the Internet one lived from books and films and to see images of other countries and their landscapes we were more limited.
Ireland, the Emerald Isle, is the owner of wonderful landscapes. It has many tragic chapters in its long history and this story is the protagonist of many films that surely more than one have captured or fallen in love with. Yesterday I was on Saint Patrick's Day, the patron saint of the country, so it seems appropriate to remember Ireland through five movies about Irlandto. If you saw them, it is time to remember them and if not, to know them:
- In the name of the Father: is a 1993 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It addresses the subject of the IRA, the Irish Republican Army, and tells the story of a man named Gerry Conlon who is imprisoned in Belfast on charges of an attack.
- Michael Collins: is a 1996 film starring Liam Neeson and focuses on Ireland's long and hard struggle for independence. Collins is a revolutionary leader fighting the British in the 20s.
- The wind that shakes the barley: This is a newer film, although it is already ten years old as it is from 2006. It also has to do with theuchas for the independenceay is based on the story of two brothers, the Damien, who fight for that goal from the Irish countryside.
- Philomena: the film focuses on the story of an old woman who decides to undertake the search for the son that the nuns took from her more than fifty years ago. It stars Judy Dench and reflects what happened to many young women single mothers in Ireland.
- Brooklyn: the last movie we saw this year, in competition for the Oscars. It takes place between Ireland and New York and recounts the life of a girl emigrating to the United States and falls in love with an Italian boy, also an immigrant.