Helen Behan

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Actor Jessie Buckley has been nominated for the recent film Wild Rose and the series The Woman in White and Chernobyl.
Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for ‘virtual’ awards

The Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) has announced its nominations for the Irish Academy Awards. There was no ceremony in 2019 and, as a resul(...)

The Accident: Eiry Thomas, Sarah Lancashire and Joanna Scanlan in Jack Thorne’s new drama
‘Working-class people haven’t got a voice. That’s horrifying’

Halfway through chatting with Jack Thorne in homely lounge in a London hotel, he looks behind me and addresses a passerby. “Hello. I was just talking(...)

Joe’s unresolved memories bubble to the surface in grainy shots of 1980s Ireland
The Virtues takes us back in time, to dark happenings in 1980s Louth

Chekhov once called for drama to be as naturalistic as possible by drawing one poignant example. “People eat their dinner, just eat their dinner,” he (...)

Helen Behan and Stephen Graham in Shane Meadows’s The Virtues.
Helen Behan: I had impostor syndrome at the start, now I’m like a giddy child

Writer and director Shane Meadows is a little too good at his job. Thirteen years since the release of the Bafta-winning film This Is England, the dra(...)