THE TESTAMENT OF MARY

BROOKLYN (X Rated)

In the Ireland of the early 1950s Eilis Lacey cannot find work, so when a job is offered in America, she decides to go and try her luck there. Homesickness is a problem at first but gradually she settles in and starts to find happiness. A family crisis forces her to return to Ireland where she is faced with a conflict of loyalties. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

MAD, BAD, DANGEROUS TO KNOW

In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange premonition of what would happen to his son; to Yeats' father, an impoverished artist and brilliant letter writer who could never finish a painting; to John Stanislus Joyce, a singer, drinker and storyteller, a man unwilling to provide for his large family, whom his son James memorialised in his work.

THE MAGICIAN

The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.