Posts Tagged ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’

“Ireland mustn’t be such a bad place so if the Yanks want to come to Ireland to do their filming”.

Set in 1934, the arrival of a Hollywood director to a nearby island is special news to the community of small rural Inishmaan. Not only more titillating than the reported news of a cat biting a goose’s tail, the promise of outside contact brings a particular sort of hope for Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief form of amusement is gazing at cows to alleviate his endless boredom.

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