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from
Galway, well-known activist in the film movement, former television
and film producer and former Artistic Director of the Abbey
Theatre. Nominated in 1993 as the first chairperson of the
Irish Film Board, based in his native Galway, following Ireland's
Oscar in The Crying Game and films like My Left Foot
and The Commitments. |
(Source: Ireland
Today - Anatomy of a Changing State by Gemma Hussey Townhouse
Viking Press. 1993).
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