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Filum on Monday: Juno and the Paycock

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

Irish ‘Filum Night’ at The Spotted Dog this Monday 12th December sees a screening of Juno and the Paycock, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1930 film of Sean O’Casey’s play. If you’re leaking money in the run-up to Christmas, this might serve as a … Continue reading →

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Filum next week: more J.M. Synge plays!

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

Irish ‘Filum night’ at The Spotted Dog this Monday 28th November sees the third and final screening of John Tighe’s collection of John Millington Synge plays. We’ll be watching: The Well of the Saints In The Well of the Saints, … Continue reading →

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Irish filum and local film in Digbeth this week

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

If you’re feeling like some film fun this week, there’s a couple of opportunities. Tomorrow night (Monday 14th November) is Irish ‘Filum Night’ at The Spotted Dog and the second of landlord John Tighe’s three John Millington Synge play screenings. It’s a … Continue reading →

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Film screenings in Digbeth next week

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

There’s a screening of the film The Fighter at The Spotted Dog this Monday 17th October, about the American-Irish boxer Micky Ward: The Fighter is based on the true story of 1990s welterweight boxer Micky Ward and his crazy ex-fighter brother … Continue reading →

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Some film fun this week

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

There’s quite a bit to be had, starting tonight with a screening of Jim Sheridan’s film In America at The Spotted Dog: Following the tragic death of their two-year-old son Frankie, Irish couple Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their remaining … Continue reading →

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Screening of Once in The Spotted Dog at 8pm tomorrow

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | 1 Comment

Local resident John Gordon has requested a screening of the film Once in The Spotted Dog tomorrow night (Monday 19th Sept) at 8pm, and who are we to argue? John says of the film: John Carney’s 2006 film ‘Once’ is … Continue reading →

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Screening of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon at The Spotted Dog this Monday 8th August

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

There’s a bit of summer silliness at The Spotted Dog Monday 8th August with a screening of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon: Puckoon is a wee Irish village that gets caught up in an argument about where the border separating Northern Ireland from … Continue reading →

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Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys! at Irish Heritage

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

Last night Ian Nesbitt (OutSideFilm) and Julie Cassidy Gosling (Chair of Nottingham Irish Centre) very kindly travelled over from Nottingham to present Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys! (the film they created with The Long Distance Gang) to Birmingham Irish Heritage.  A short … Continue reading →

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Two forthcoming screenings of Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | 1 Comment

They were among the many thousands who came to Britain to work on the roads and building sites of a booming postwar economy and who, for various reasons, have never been able to go back. When I read this article in … Continue reading →

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Screening of The Magdalene Sisters at The Spotted Dog this Monday 30th June

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

This coming Monday 30th May there is a screening of Peter Mullan’s powerful 2002 film The Magdalene Sisters, about Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries: It is a sustained and all-but-deafening howl of rage on behalf of vulnerable women whose story is … Continue reading →

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