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The Crying Game is a 1992 British psychological thriller directed by Neil Jordan, exploring complex themes of race, gender, and national identity against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The plot centers on an IRA member who takes a hostage and later develops a relationship with the...
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a dark comedy by Irish-British playwright Martin McDonagh, first staged in 2001. Set mainly on the island of Inishmore, it follows violent paramilitary member Padraic after he learns that his beloved cat has died, triggering interrogation, retaliation, and escalating b...
Harry's Game is a British spy novel written by Gerald Seymour and published in 1975. The narrative centers on Harry Brown, a former military officer recruited to go undercover in Belfast during the Troubles to track down an active IRA assassin. The story provides a gritty and detailed examination of...
The Shadow of a Gunman is a 1923 play by Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey and the first work in his Dublin Trilogy. Set in a Dublin tenement during the Irish War of Independence, it follows poet Donal Davoren, whom other residents mistakenly believe to be an IRA gunman. First staged at the Abbey Theatre...
The English Spy is a spy fiction novel published in 2015 by Daniel Silva. It is the fifteenth book to feature the recurring protagonist Gabriel Allon, an Israeli intelligence operative and art restorer. The plot centers on an investigation following the deadly bombing of a luxury yacht. Allon works...
'A Prayer for the Dying' is a thriller novel written by Jack Higgins and published in 1973. The story centers on Martin Fallon, a former IRA hitman seeking to escape his violent past, who is blackmailed by a local crime boss after witnessing a confession of murder. Fallon's attempts to protect an in...
"Confessional" is an espionage thriller published in 1985 by the British author Jack Higgins, a pseudonym used by Harry Patterson. The narrative intertwines the paths of an ex-IRA leader and a French assassin as they become entangled in a complex plot orchestrated by the KGB during the late stages o...
Jack Higgins's 1992 thriller introduces former IRA assassin Sean Dillon, hired by Iraqi intelligence to assassinate a senior British government official.
