The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama

The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama Review

This is the story of an atrocity on Achill Island in the west of Ireland in 1894. An English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home - Valley House - burnt. Agnes survived but was so disfigured she wore a veil in public for the rest of her life. The island's wild man, James Lynchehaun, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, he escaped twice and won a groundbreaking legal case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unraveled in this gripping account. Read more...

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Puffin Island

Puffin Island Review

A retrospective of the Sixties tucked inside a gentle love story unfolds on Ireland's Puffin Island. Paula is a free spirited, independent bohemian from Colorado. Tom is a straight-laced, pressed-suit Catholic conservative from Dublin. Is there a place on Earth the two can just be... and be together? Paula recounts her youth as a globetrotting vagabond following the 'Summer of Love.' After her chance encounter with a self-proclaimed hot-blooded Irishman, she and Tom wrestle with the choices faced by all young people who came of age during the turbulent Sixties. Tom vehemently defends his faith and family values; Paula extols liberal western practices. Their struggle to find common ground takes them to Valentia and Puffin Islands in Ireland and to Rome where they promise to reunite in Paris to chart a future together. But Providence intervenes. Four decades later when they attempt to reconnect, they find that in the high-tech 21st century world of Google, Facebook, and online social networks, sometimes a hand written note speaks louder than an e-mail. A nostalgic reminder for those who survived that era and a tantalizing taste for the rest, "Puffin Island" is an old-fashioned tale of intrigue and human hearts... oceans apart. Read more...

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