a sudden blow

Milan, Dublin | 22 | literature | theatre | cinema | art | self-proclaimed leader of a Jeremy Irons & Sinéad Cusack cult

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There was a time, long ago, when he was young and not so self-confident: an accountant’s son from the Isle of Wight who, even after he took the audacious step in his teens of pursuing an actor’s life, still felt he needed someone “to draw me out from the cold, passionless Anglo-Saxon that I feared I was,” he writes. That someone turned out to be a young woman from a celebrated family of Irish actors, “my girl from Dublin, wild, raucous, damaged, and quite quite lovely.”

— Jeremy Irons talking about Sinéad Cusack in an interview for Vanity Fair, 2017 (x)

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A Special Day (1977) dir. Ettore Scola

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Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack on their wedding day, 28th March 1978.

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Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Irons and sons Sam and Max at Kilcoe, Ireland, 2004. Photos by Marc O'Sullivan.

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'ACTOR (AND FAMILY) IN DOMESTIC SCENE

Back in Ireland after a year spent making films in Hollywood is the former Abbey Theatre actor Cyril Cusack. This exclusive picture of the actor, his wife, Maureen, and children, Paul (5), Jane (4), Sally (3), was taken at their Dalkey, Co. Dublin home. While in America, Maureen made several successful appearances in television programmes'.

The Irish Times, 26th April 1952.

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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1979) - Francesco Rosi

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Salzburg, August 2025 — London, December 1977.

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'''If I were to ask you about your first love...'' Oh, I would say the theatre. Without a doubt. ''I meant apart from your work. Was Jeremy your first love?'' Don't make me laugh, of course not! There were many before him. But Jeremy has been and will always remain the greatest love of my life.'

Sinéad Cusack interviewed for La Stampa, 25 July 2025.

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DAVID LEAN HOBSON'S CHOICE (1954) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984)

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'There she is [he points at Sinéad, who has just entered the room]. She is very important. She keeps my feet firmly on the ground. She is a tough critic, and incredibly intelligent — everything I am not. She is Irish and fiery. I am Anglo-Saxon and boring. She is the single most important person in my life. There have been others, yes, but there is something about her.'

Jeremy interviewed for La Repubblica, 18 July 2025. Photos by Francesca Pradella.

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Jeremy Irons putting on make-up before appearing on stage as Richard II, Stratford-on-Avon, 23 September 1986. Photo by Abe Frajndlich.

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Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack on their wedding day, 28th March 1978.

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Sinéad Cusack and Jeremy Irons perform a reading of Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra in Venice, 22nd February 2025.

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JEREMY IRONS as Charles Ryder in BRIDESHEAD DESERTED 

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Alain Delon in Purple Noon Plein soleil (1960) dir. René Clément