Actor Gabriel Byrne delves into his memoir, from a childhood in Dublin to a Hollywood career spanning 40 years. / Pléann an t-aisteoir Gabriel Byrne a chuimhní cinn, óna óige i mBaile Átha Cliath go dtí a ghairmréim in Hollywood le 40 bliain anuas.
“Walking with Ghosts,” by Gabriel Byrne (Grove, nonfiction, on sale Jan. What it’s about: The award.
- Walking with Ghosts is haunted in the most poetic way by the people that Byrne has loved and the place that made him. His act of writing brings them alive for the reader and brings alive a time and a place that is long gone, but still lingers in the memory of many.
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Date/Dáta: Friday 20 November
Time/Am: 7.15pm to 8.00pm IST/GMT
Colum McCann has described Gabriel Byrne’s memoir, Walking With Ghosts, as “poetic, moving and very funny.” Hear the stories from the man himself as Gabriel Byrne recounts anecdotes from his childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and on Broadway, his battles with addiction and the ambivalence of fame.
From Irish dramas The Riordans and Bracken, to film (Into the West, The Usual Suspects) and internationally acclaimed dramas (Vikings and his Golden Globe winning role in In Treatment), Byrne’s career has been as varied as it is enduring.
Gabriel Byrne interviewed by Mia Colleran
A life-long relationship with words: Gabriel Byrne reflects on Irish identity, language and the literature that influences him.
What will the interview be about?
How does Gabriel Byrne personally define ‘being Irish’ and how does the Irish language and literature influence his answer? Gabriel will discuss all of this with Mia, delving into his relationship with America—where he lives now—and Ireland, while also sharing some of the defining works of literature of his life and their influence on his own writing.
Mia Colleran is an Irish book critic and an award-winning writer and bookseller.
Multi-award-winning actor, writer and director Gabriel Byrne interviewed by Mia Colleran on Friday 20 November 2020 at 7.15pm IST/GMT
Books
When I think of memorable Hollywood autobiographies—particularly those written by unshackled veterans of the industry, both jaded and jocular—I think of David Niven’s bombastic romp, The Moon’s a Balloon; Christina Crawford’s gothic nightmare, Mommie Dearest; Robert Evans’s coked-up tell-all, The Kid Stays in the Picture; and Julia Phillips’s even more coked-up tell-all, You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again.
Book Walking With Ghosts Gabriel Byrne
Technically speaking, Gabriel Byrne’s Walking with Ghosts—a remarkably intimate new memoir by the Irish actor and star of Miller’s Crossing, The Usual Suspects, and HBO’s In Treatment—belongs on a shelf with the aforementioned titles, but it is, as Yeats would say, of a different kind.
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