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Blazing Saddles, a 1974 comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks, satirizing racism; Casino Royale, a 1967 surrealistic satire on the James Bond series and the entire spy genre. Get Out; This Is Spinal Tap, a satire on heavy metal culture and "rockumentaries" The Very Same Munchhausen, a 1979 satire of the late Soviet society; Clueless
Irish satirical poets (3 P) Pages in category "Irish satirists" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Maguire was born in Ireland but now lives in London. [17] A Labour supporter, she opened at the Labour Party Conference for then leader Ed Miliband. [18] In 2016 Maguire used Twitter to live-tweet her menstrual cycle to Taoiseach Enda Kenny in protest at Ireland’s abortion laws, the coverage of which appeared major international newspapers, and Maguire was interviewed on BBC Worldwide, and ...
Emma Dabiri (living) author, academic, and broadcaster; Edith Newman Devlin (1926–2012) author and academic; Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877), biographer and social scientist; Malachy McCourt (living), actor and politician; Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937), memoirist; Thomas O'Crohan (1856–1937), biographer (in the Irish language)
Jones wrote five plays for the Replay Theatre Company, including Under Napoleon’s Nose (1988). The play for which she may be best-known is Stones in His Pockets, a play based on the idea of a Hollywood film company filming a movie in a small Irish village and the resulting impact on that community. [6]
Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish-born writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems.His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense.
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a satirical fictional Irish character, a wealthy South County Dublin rugby union jock created by journalist Paul Howard. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The character first appeared in a January 1998 column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper and later transferred to The Irish Times .
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846–1887), Irish-born Canadian poet, short story writer, novelist; Máirín Cregan (1891–1975), nationalist and writer; Elizabeth Christitch (1861–January 26, 1933) Irish journalist, writer, poet, translator and Serbian patriot; Bithia Mary Croker (1848–1920), novelist; May Crommelin (1850–1930), novelist ...