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Is a 2022 black tragicomedy film directed, written, and co-produced by Martin McDonagh.[5][6][7] Set on a remote fictional island off the west coast of Ireland in 1923,[a] the film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong friends who find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with severe consequences for both of them. Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan co-star. It reunites Farrell and Gleeson after McDonagh's directorial debut In Bruges (2008).[8][9][10]
The film had its world premiere on 5 September 2022 at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, where Farrell won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and McDonagh won the Golden Osella for Best Screenplay.[11] It was theatrically released in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States on 21 October 2022 by Searchlight Pictures. The film received largely positive reviews, with particular praise for McDonagh's direction and screenplay, the performances of the cast, and Carter Burwell's score.
A banshee (/ˈbænʃiː/ BAN-shee; Modern Irish bean sí, from Old Irish: ben síde [bʲen ˈʃiːðʲe], "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member,[1] usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening. Her name is connected to the mythologically important tumuli or "mounds" that dot the Irish countryside, which are known as síde (singular síd) in Old Irish.[2]
Sometimes she has long streaming hair, which she may be seen combing, with some legends specifying she can only keen while combing her hair. She wears a grey cloak over a green dress, and her eyes are red from continual weeping.[3] She may be dressed in white with red hair and a ghastly complexion, according to a firsthand account by Ann, Lady Fanshawe in her Memoirs.[4] Lady Wilde in her books provides others:
The size of the banshee is another physical feature that differs between regional accounts. Though some accounts of her standing unnaturally tall are recorded, the majority of tales that describe her height state the banshee's stature as short, anywhere between one foot and four feet. Her exceptional shortness often goes alongside the description of her as an old woman, though it may also be intended to emphasize her state as a fairy creature.[5]
Sometimes the banshee assumes the form of some sweet-singing virgin of the family who died young, and has been given the mission by the invisible powers to become the harbinger of coming doom to her mortal kindred. Or she may be seen at night as a shrouded woman, crouched beneath the trees, lamenting with a veiled face; or flying past in the moonlight, crying bitterly: and the cry of this spirit is mournful beyond all other sounds on earth, and betokens certain death to some member of the family whenever it is heard in the silence of the night.[6]
In John O'Brien's Irish-English dictionary, the entry for Síth-Bhróg states:
"hence bean-síghe, plural mná-síghe, she-fairies or women-fairies, credulously supposed by the common people to be so affected to certain families that they are heard to sing mournful lamentations about their houses by night, whenever any of the family labours under a sickness which is to end by death, but no families which are not of an ancient & noble Stock, are believed to be honoured with this fairy privilege".[7]
Aran
Inishmore, il nome dell'isola più diffuso nel mondo e attualmente riconosciuto da tutti, fu creato dal governo britannico nel XIX secolo e adottato dal successivo governo irlandese indipendente, che ha coniato anche la versione gaelica ''Inis Mór.'' In precedenza l'isola si chiamava semplicemente ''Aran'', come l'arcipelago di cui fa parte. Il nome completo era ''Aranmore'' (dal gaelico ''Árainn Mhór''); talvolta viene usato anche oggi al posto di quello ormai più comune.
L'isola non va confusa con un'altra, Árainn Mhór, tradotta per non creare equivoci in inglese Arranmore, al largo delle coste del Contea di Donegal|Donegal, anch'essa tra l'altro chiamata spesso Aran. In irlandese ''Inis Mór'' significa "isola grande".
Achill
Achill Island (in gaelico irlandese: Acaill; Oileán Acla) è l'isola più grande al largo dell'Irlanda, da cui è separata da uno stretto braccio di mare, e fa parte della Contea di Mayo, nella Repubblica d'Irlanda.
Burren
Il Burren (dal gaelico irlandese: Boireann, che significa “distretto pietroso” o “grande roccia”) è un vasto tavolato calcareo unico al mondo che si estende per gran parte del Clare, nella Repubblica d’Irlanda, compreso all’incirca tra i centri abitati di Ballyvaughan, Kinvarra, Gort, Corrofin, Kilfenora e Lisdoonvarna fino al Black Head Lighthouse, per un’area di circa 300 km².