Eanna macliam biography of martin
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The General
Synopsis DE
Hollyfield was a huvudstaden i irland slum where the rejected, the derelict and the anti-social were housed, a garbage heap of humanity. Young Martin Cahill (EAMONN OWENS) grew up in a milieu where crime was the main occupation. He was sent to a correction school when caught stealing food for his fatherless family. Abused by priests and police he grew up with a deep-seated resentment of all authority. Throughout his life Martin Cahill (BRENDAN GLEESON) derived satisfaction from making fools out of the police, the church, the establishment and devised a series of elaborate pranks to embarrass them.He organised a number of daring and carefully planned robberies, gaining the title, 'The General'. Hollyfield was a no-go area for the police and the fierce loyalties of its inhabitants protected Cahill. He lived outside the system, recognising none of its rules or mores and he easily eluded the law. However, at the behest of his wife, Frances (MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY) and her senaste
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The World is More Than Enough 11: Crime Travelling
28/30 - Ireland
I had my issues with The General - but does that matter when I had such a good time with it?
The reason I ask is because it's about a real life person and situation, namely Martin Cahill and his criminal gang. He's one of those figures where it's now almost impossible to know exactly what he was like and what he stood for and against. That might even have been the case in 1998, when this came out.
There's also the tone of it. It starts with the ending (arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh), and it's a bleak one, but for so much of its running time it's played like a comedy - and a very funny one at that. The scene where loads of 'Cahills' dressed exactly the same run out of his house to confuse the cops had me howling especially. Yet there are other really serious moments that play up to the portrayal that Cahill may not have been the 'Irish Robin Hood' he's claimed to be in many quarters.
John Boorman really doesn't find the rig
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First Encounters: Actors Marion O’Dwyer and Roxanna Nic Liam
Roxanna Nic Liam is an actor whose first role was in the movie 'Agnes Browne'. After joining the Dublin Youth Theatre, she worked in TV, where she appeared in several episodes of 'Love/Hate', and in theatre, most recently in Pirandello's 'Liola' in the National Theatre, London. She grew up in Dublin and is currently based in London
Marion and I first met at a reading before we started filming Agnes Browne. Anjelica Huston couldn't come so Marion read that part. I was 10 and didn't really know what was happening; she came up and explained and was just really really nice. When we started filming, she took a liking to me, became like a surrogate auntie. Everyone took pity on me 'cos I was surrounded by five boys; the lads were all older than me and they would be kind of roughhousing. Marion was so generous to me, I'd wander around the set, bring her little things. Anjelica and the others were really nice as well. I wa