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Swords, Boobs And God: The Return Of Period Action-Aventure Shows

Maureen Ryan | Posted 04.25.2013 | TV
Read More: Donal Logue, Gabriel Byrne, Tv, Vikings, TV Canada, Maureen Ryan, Vikings Season 1, Reality-Free, TV News
Maureen Ryan

It'd be easy to use half this review to point out "Sons of Anarchy"-"Vikings" parallels, beyond the Donal Logue connection. Both shows feature sex, violence and power struggles, and both programs tell the stories of subcultures going to war with other armed groups in order to take what they can (also: beards).

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Interview With Actor Gabriel Byrne

Jill Rachel Jacobs | Posted 05.13.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: History, Gabriel Byrne, Book, Shamans, Women, Paganism, Vikings, Storytelling, Men, Christianity, Dreams, In Treatment, Irish, Entertainment News
Jill Rachel Jacobs

Byrne, best known as the sympathetic therapist Paul Weston in HBO's series In Treatment and movie The Usual Suspects, shared his views on the importance of storytelling and why we're more similar to the Viking culture than we may realize.

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Laura Prudom

Travis Fimmel Previews History's 'Vikings'

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Prudom | Posted 03.02.2013 | TV
Read More: TV Canada, Gabriel Byrne, Jessalyn Gilsig, Vikings Premiere Date, Vikings, Vikings History Channel, Travis Fimmel, Michael Hirst Vikings, History Channel, Travis Fimmel Vikings, Michael Hirst, TV News

You might not be familiar with the name Travis Fimmel yet, but after the debut of History Channel's "Vikings" (Sunday, March 3 at 10 p.m. EST), you'll...

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Vikings Should Provide the History Channel With Another Hit

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 04.30.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Gabriel Byrne, Travis Fimmel, Jessica Gilsig, History Channel, Vikings, Clive Standen, Vikings Tv Show, The History Channel, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

Vikings is not a series that will appeal to everyone. For the fainthearted, it is much too brutal and bloody. On the other hand, for those who like action and adventure, it will become appointment TV.

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My Confession and How to Protect Your Child from Pedophiles like Sandusky

Tanya Young Williams | Posted 08.24.2012 | Crime
Read More: Sexual Abuse, National Domestic Violence Hotline, Penn State, Sandusky, Hotline, Tanya Young Williams, Tori Amos, Queen Latifah, Tom Arnold, Rosie Perez, Tyler Perry, Gabriel Byrne, Sugar Ray Reynold, Oprah Winfrey, Shania Twain, Marilyn Manson, Axl Rose, Roseann Barr, Fiona Apple, Wynonna Judd, Maya Angelou, Anne Heche, Pedophile, Survivor, Tanya Williams, Molestation, Child Abuse, Ncands, Child Sexual Abuse, Becoming-Fearless, Crime News
Tanya Young Williams

For over the past two years, I have been an outspoken advocate in the fight against domestic violence. Only now, am I publicly sharing my truths of being sexually abused, by a much older relative, when I was a child.

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Ireland Ups Flow of Greatest Export -- Culture

John Lee | Posted 02.08.2012 | Home
Read More: Gabriel Byrne, Exports, Irish Economy, Arts, Theater, Ireland, Music, Imagine Ireland, Culture, Video, Home News
John Lee

Lacking much in the way of currently accessible oil reserves, rare earths, precious metals, athletic shoe factories or excessive amber waves of grain, the government placed a $5.2 million bet on something hard to quantify -- culture.

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Darling Provocateur: An Interview With Charlotte Rampling

Kisa Lala | Posted 04.05.2013 | Arts
Read More: Spread Art Culture, Kisa Lala, Spread ArtCulture, Marc Jacobs, The Look, Ukarts, Movie, Tilda Swinton, Film, Juergen Teller, UK Arts, Kino Lorber, Helen Mirren, Luchino Visconti, Gabriel Byrne, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Night Porter, Kareem Black, Female Artists, Arts News
Kisa Lala

Charlotte Rampling: photograph for SPREAD by Kareem Black, 2011 "Being ready at 9am in any country," sighed Charlotte Rampling, smartly turned ...

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8 Celebrities Who Played College Sports

Posted 08.09.2011 | College
Read More: Gabriel Byrne, Forest Whitaker, Kurt-Douglas, Jim Caviezel, Prince William, College Sports, Slidepollajax, Celebrities Who Played College Sports, Borris Kodjoe, Tom Selleck, John Stewart, College News

Although many celebrities have tackled sports in film or participated in the occasional famous people golf tournament, not many have actually played s...

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Birthday Tribute: Albert Finney's Finest

John Farr | Posted 07.27.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Winston Churchill, Stanley Donen, Lawrence of Arabia, Albert Finney, The Academy Awards, Charles Laughton, Susannah York, Academy Awards, John Turturro, William Shakespeare, Jacqueline Bisset, Best Movies on DVD, Coen Brothers, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Matt Damon, Derek Jacobi, Agatha Christie, John Huston, Audrey Hepburn, Gabriel Byrne, Sidney Lumet, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Courtenay, The Criterion Collection, The Bourne Ultimatum, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
John Farr

Finney cares a great deal about his work, but very little about publicity. Nominated five times for an Oscar, he has never once attended the ceremony.

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The Other French Connection

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Ofra Tevet, Max Von Sydow, Drancy, Holocaust, Luc Montpelier, Hitler, Christopher Plummer, Christian Faure, Emotional Arithmetic, A Love to Hide, Paolo Barzman, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Depuis, Menachem and Fred, Susan Sarandon, Are the Trees in Bloom Over There?, Dietmar Hopp, Paul Hopp, Kristallnacht, Gurs, Arts News
George Heymont

Often, when people think of Holocaust films, their attention is focused on events in Germany, Poland, and Austria. France (which fell to Hitler's forc...

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A Review of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger

Gabriel Byrne | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Nancy Schoenberger, Gabriel Byrne, Furious Love, Elizabeth Taylor, Sam Kashner, Richard Burton, Books News
Gabriel Byrne

"You are my destiny," Richard Burton wrote to Elizabeth Taylor, in one of the many passionate and lyrical letters quoted in this superb biography.

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Gabriel Byrne: I Was Molested In Seminary School

Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Gabriel Byrne revealed to an Irish television show that he was molested when he was 11 years old. Byrne, who plays a therapist on "In Treatment" and s...

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"In Treatment" Season 2 Casts New Patients

THR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Gabriel Byrne, Hbo, John Mahoney, Television, Hope Davis, In Treatment, Entertainment News

Hope Davis and John Mahoney have been tapped to co-star on the second season of HBO's drama "In Treatment." Meanwhile, Jeffrey Nordling will co-star o...

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"In Treatment" Coming Back

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment Season 2, In Treatment, Entertainment News

HBO has renewed its half-hour psychotherapy drama "In Treatment" for a second season and is moving production on the show from Los Angeles to New York...

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Gabriel Byrne Tackles Camelot

AP | MARTIN STEINBERG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Gabriel Byrne, King Arthur, Camelot, Gabriel Byrne Camelot, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — He can't sing and he can't dance, but Gabriel Byrne can charm _ and he did while portraying the chivalrous King Arthur in "Camelot." ...

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HBO's 'In Treatment': Therapy Show Is 'Hypnotic' And 'Smart'

New York Times | Alessandra Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment Reviews, In Treatment Review, In Treatment, Entertainment News

Some things sound simply awful: a family reunion holiday cruise, an all-you-can-eat haggis buffet, a television series set entirely in a psychotherap...

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