Brooklyn colm toibin book6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() And then we were lucky with Saoirse because she's a star, but this is her first Irish part. We had John Crowley, an Irish director who lives in London. So, from the very beginning there was somebody who understood what that was like. Finola Dwyer was the producer, from New Zealand, and her mother was Irish and left Ireland for New Zealand the very year that Eilis leaves Enniscorthy for Brooklyn. It was shown to two audiences of 200, and not one person said that. Often an Irish film is just made for the global market, and the only place it cannot be shown is Ireland, because we just go, "It's not like that here." This film was shown in my home town, where I am right now, Enniscorthy, last night. ![]() ![]() A: I suppose what comes back to me when I see it is the emotion I had before I wrote the book. ![]()
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