Fergal Casey has been writing about film for half a decade, first as a film columnist for University College Dublin’s The University Observer while he completed a PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature & Drama as an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, and then as the film critic for InDublin magazine and indublin.ie, and later dublinks.com, while teaching English at UCD.
His most recent papers delivered include ’A Philosophy of Absurdity in The Barracks and That They May Face the Rising Sun‘ at the first British John McGahern conference in Swansea University and ‘A Celtic Twilight in Little England: WB Yeats and GK Chesterton’ at the Reconstructing the Revival conference in UCD. He also recently won the best thriller category in the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust creative writing awards for his short story ‘Dieu et Mon Droit’.
Talking Movies will be updated weekly with reviews of films about to hit cinemas in Ireland and with observations serious and nonsensical about the state of cinema. There will also be semi-regular pieces on theatre, books and music.
When not writing this blog Fergal Casey is currently reading Troubles by JG Farrell, watching The Black Donnellys on DVD, and listening to Wounded Rhymes by Lykke Li.
