Heather Aimee O’Neill's "The Irish Goodbye," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Irish Goodbye: A Novel by Heather Aimee O'Neill.

Her entry begins:

While I didn’t have these actors in mind while writing—I wouldn’t have dared dream that far ahead—as soon as the book was acquired, people started asking me who I’d cast if the story were adapted for the screen. The Ryans aren’t based on my family, but my mother looks like Meryl Streep, so I’d cast her in the role of Nora.

Recently, while my wife and I were fantasizing about casting the rest of the Ryan family, we looked up Streep’s daughters and were gobsmacked to discover that...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: The Irish Goodbye.

--Marshal Zeringue