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                Farrel's Last Case by Gerald R Wright. " Four years of celibacy had weighed heavily upon him. It was like being a starving man, close to death having a sumptuous meal set before him. Would the man choose to starve?" Ian Farrel is considered as being a good, small-town cop. He started out as a beat officer, giving out parking tickets which was rather tedious for an ambitious guy like him. Promotion to the Criminal Investigation Department allowed him to gain respect as well as a fearful reputation. As his career soared his marriage floundered. His excessive work schedule seemed to be the main reason why his wife left him four years before the action begins. When she realised that his job came first she wanted out. He was twenty when he joined the force and had almost completed twenty-two years of service. Described as grumpy and on the tetchy side, Farrel didn't suffer fools gladly. He had a tendency to become cynical ...

                                Brooklyn  Film Review.                  "Two countries, two loves, one heart." Brooklyn was based on the 2009 novel by Colm Toibin set around the early 1950s. The plot revolves around the idea of a young Irish girl, Eilis Lacey who leaves Enniscorthy in south-east Ireland for New York searching for a better life. She worked in a shop at weekends for a Miss Kelly, nicknamed Nettles Kelly, a woman who overcharged for stale bread and relished  humiliating her customers and staff. Her sister Rose wrote to Father Flood ( Jim Broadbent ) in Brooklyn who arranges for Eilis ( Saoirse Ronan ) to have a better future. "She doesn't want to be trapped in the humdrum cycle of existence that seems to be inevitable at home." ( Clark Douglas who awarded the film 4 out of 4 stars)  ...