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22 May 2012 @ 02:18 am
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swan_song
20 May 2012 @ 11:32 pm
New project: Saoirse joins "Testament of Youth"  


The 18-year-old actress will play the lead role in Testament of Youth, based on Brittain’s heartbreaking memoir of the same name.

It follows An Education, My Week With Marilyn and Brighton Rock in a roster of period dramas from BBC Films. The project is being co-produced by David Heyman, who adapted the Harry Potter books for the big screen.

Ronan’s casting is something of a coup for the BBC. She was Oscar-nominated, aged 13, for her performance as Briony Tallis in Atonement, and more recent credits include The Lovely Bones and Hanna.

Published in 1933, Testament of Youth chronicled the devastating effect of the Great War on the author’s generation. Brittain wrote from personal experience: her brother, fiancé and two closest friends all perished in the conflict.

She became a leading figure in the pacifist movement and her treatise on the rights of women saw her hailed as one of Britain’s great feminist thinkers.

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17 May 2012 @ 03:44 am
Saoirse photographed by Barry McCall  
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this portrait's more well-known. it was shown at the exhibition.


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17 May 2012 @ 03:34 am
More pictures from the "Pho20graphy" exhibition  


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16 May 2012 @ 10:53 pm
Saoirse Ronan interview at B. McCall Exhibition  


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15 May 2012 @ 04:43 pm
Why Saoirse always packs a taste of home  


Irish child star Saoirse Ronan has just turned 18 but she still likes to bring a lot of home comforts with her while working on foreign movie sets.

The Carlow girl revealed to the Diary that she and mum Monica have to make sure to keep some traditional Irish food stuffs with her when she's away working on a film.

The budding A-lister, who travels all over the world, divulged she even packs a plastic bag in her suitcase stuffed with Barry's Tea and crisps whenever she goes abroad on a shoot.

"Every single film set I go to I have things from home like that with me... It still tastes different though, it's never a proper Irish cup of tea unfortunately."

And there was a panic when the starlet ran out of her supply on set in Louisiana, where she filmed Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's new flick The Host.

"We ran out of teabags over there so we had to get loads more sent over and any Irish person visiting New Orleans was ordered to bring some with them. It's very important."

Petite blonde Saoirse has just come back from her lengthy stint in the US.

With another job in the pipeline and an upcoming Disney role kicking off in the summer, the former Clinic star is currently enjoying some well-deserved time off and stopped by to see pal Barry McCall, left, at his Pho20graphy exhibition in Dublin last night.

"I've a break for a few weeks now, I'm at home so I'm able to sleep and catch up with people. It's been nice. It's lovely to see everyone because I've been away for so long and I really missed home," she said.

The teen is using her three-week break to begin training for a new project and is learning how to horse ride.

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16 May 2012 @ 01:44 pm
Saoirse Ronan hits Coppers…  



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Saoirse Ronan was in Dublin last night for Barry McCall’s photography exhibition called “Pho20graphy” at the Copper House Gallery off Synge Street. Now he is the guy who has put together that photo book in aid of the ISPCC with shots of loads of celebrities including Jedward, Cillian Murphy, Louis Walsh, Michael Fassbender, the late David Kelly and loads more. If you want to check out the exhibition, it’s on until the 11th of June and you can view the photos online at www.thecopperhousegallery.com.

Barry McCall told 98FM Saoirse had been on his wish list. He took the shot about 2 years when Saoirse was 16 and had just done “The Lovely Bones”. He put the feelers out and eventually the producers came back and said “we got her”.

There is a fab photo of ISPCC ambassador Saoirse Ronan wearing a chainmail headpiece borrowed from Ardmore Studios.

We were hanging out with Saoirse although she said she was more interested in looking at the other photos on show than looking at her own face. Saoirse said “I don’t like looking at photos of myself but all the other photos look great”.

It’s been a hectic 6 months for Saoirse who has working pretty much non-stop with just a few days at home. She’s just turned 18 so how did she celebrate her birthday? Saoirse told 98FM “I worked. I was on set but it was great because the production hired a band and they had cupcakes and decorated the hair and make-up truck. It was amazing – it was a really, really brilliant day”

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16 May 2012 @ 01:39 pm
"Byzantium" is selling at Cannes  


Neil Jordan’s new film Byzantium is just one of 17 Irish titles that will be selling at market at the 2012 Cannes International Film Festival.

The movie, which stars Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, tells the story of a mother and daughter vampire duo.

IFTN reports that the Irish film had an estimated budget of €8 million.

The Irish Film Board (IFB) confirmed to TheJournal.ie that no Irish titles are in competition at the festival but added that this year should be quite busy for the Irish film-makers as there are 17 films screening and selling at the international film market.

Of the 17 titles featured at the festival, 11 films will have a screening. Over 150 Irish producers, directors, writers along with Irish film festival representatives, distributors and film agencies will be travelling to Cannes.

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16 May 2012 @ 08:15 am
Birthday girl Saoirse won't be losing the plot  


Actress Saoirse Ronan conceded last night that every part she takes from now on will have a love interest, as she opened 'Pho20graphy' -- an exhibition by Barry McCall at the Copper House Gallery in aid of the ISPCC in Dublin last night.

But the Carlow girl, who recently celebrated her 18th birthday on the set of movie 'The Host', has said plot concerns her more than romantic clinches.

"It's a given at this stage that romantic stories are going to be offered to me but I'm more interested in the story and characters. It's just not important if there are love scenes in it," she told the Irish Independent yesterday.

The screen star had not one, but two on-screen love interests in the adaptation of the bestselling novel from 'Twilight' author Stephenie Meyer, Max Irons -- son of Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack -- and American Jake Abel.

Saoirse plays young rebel Melanie, one of the last humans fighting a parasitic alien species whose body is invaded by an alien soul.

"I have two different characters who are in love with different men.

"The good thing was that I got on so well with Max and Jake. I knew them both before we started filming and we were very comfortable working together," she said.

Both attended Saoirse's birthday party which took place on the film's set in New Mexico during filming.

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"It was my third birthday on the set of a film. I usually never minded being away filming for a birthday but because this was 18th and special, I kind of wanted to be at home.

"But it turned out to be one of the best birthdays ever because I got to watch this amazing car stunt being filmed, and they hired this local band and gave me a special birthday cake," she said.

And Saoirse got a second birthday cake yesterday when she turned up to meet some of the participants in the Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People in Dublin's Burlington Hotel.

'The Host' is expected to propel Saoirse to superstardom but the young actress revealed the success of latest film 'Hanna' --which has taken $63m (€49.3m) worldwide, and $40m (€31.3m) alone at the US box office, has already made her name in the US.

"I've started to get recognised in America. It was strange because I have never had that before, but I suppose if a film does commercially well, you get recognised around the world."

She starts her next film, dark teen love story 'How I Live Now' with director Kevin Macdonald next month.

Now in its fifth year, the Cinemagic festival runs until Sunday and offers young people an insight into the film and television industry.

The 18-year-old features on the cover of the book 'Pho20graphy'. Published in 2010, and created as a 20-year retrospective of award-winning photographer Barry McCall, the book raised €350,000 for Irish children's charity ISPCC.

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16 May 2012 @ 08:04 am
Film is a piece of birthday cake for Saoirse Ronan  


She has been nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes and Baftas, and has travelled the world making films, but a small birthday cake still brought a big smile to Saoirse Ronan’s face yesterday.

The Carlow actor turned 18 last month while on the set of The Host, so budding film-makers presented her with a cake when she attended the Coca-Cola Cinemagic film and television festival in Dublin yesterday.

The festival aims to give young people an insight into the film and television industries. The jet-lagged actor said she has just finished filming The Host, which is based on a book by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. She plays the lead, alongside Diane Kruger, Max Irons and William Hurt, and she has spent the past few months filming in Louisiana and New Mexico.

Ronan’s success has led to her being sent a script every week, or two or three some weeks, her father Paul said. (that's crazy) She is also contending with being recognised outside Ireland.

“People started to recognise me a little bit when I was over in the States, for the first time,” Ronan said. “It was a bit strange because I’ve never had that before and I think when a film commercially does very well you seem to be more recognised.”

She is preparing for a Kevin Macdonald film, How I Live Now, which will be followed by the Disney film Order of the Seven.

Ronan is patron of the Cinemagic festival, and she met people taking part in a workshop on writing and directing hosted by Song for a Raggy Boy director Aisling Walsh.

This is the fifth year of the festival, which also screens classic and new movies from around the world and for all ages. Today, The X Factor’s Dermot O’Leary will host a masterclass in television presenting.

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