Fionnula Flanagan looks tremendous ... her passion for acting came from “being poor and having no entertainment other than the radio and books”. She remembers listening to Bart Bastable ...

"We are a nation of carers now but we've never really seen that represented. Anyone who has cared, or been cared for, will ...

Irish film, Four Mothers, stars James McArdle as a novelist who has to take care of his ageing mother and several of her ...

Mary Manning wrote her first play in 1931, when she was 26. It’s astonishing how modern it can feel, says the director of the ...

The film, which opens nationwide on 4 April, follows McCardle as Edward, a gay Irish writer who finds himself at the mercy of his own elderly mum, played by Fionnula Flanagan, and three other ...

An Irish adaptation of Garcia Di Gregorio’s acclaimed 2008 film Mid-August Lunch, director Darren Thornton’s Four Mothers is the story of Edward (James McArdle) and his 81-year-old mother Alma (the ...

In 1942, your prospects as a working-class teenage boy growing up in the Welsh industrial city of Port Talbot were pretty ...

The distributors missed a trick on this one. It might have made more sense to release Four Mothers, a breezy Irish comedy ...

(theatrical release) Fionnula Flanagan steals the show in Four Mothers ... older women come to terms (some more successfully than others) with the loss of their independence and agency.

Director Darren Thornton’s charming remake of Gianni Di Gregorio’s Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch (2008) brings the story to Ireland, where the people-pleasing debut novelist Edward is left to ...