Congratulations to my fellow countrymen and women - and those involved that have discovered that Ireland, and particularly Dublin, creeps into your veins - on the success of their film "Once."
No doubt they invested their blood, sweat and tears - and all of their cash and a lot of craic - getting it to the screen. It undoubtedly paid off, because last night they snookered the Academy into giving them the award for Best Original Song ("Falling Slowly").
Fair play to you, lads. Bula Bus!!!
Here's a trailer:
And awwww. Thank you, Jon Stewart, for letting Markéta Irglová have her moment:
Isn't it funny how her Czech and Dublin accents have collided?! Lovely. I hope the success and media this film and song have garnered now with this award, goes a bit of a way towards more widespread tolerance as times continue to change in Ireland - for all the new people, from all different places, finding new homes and lives there, just as the Irish have over the years, elsewhere. At the end of the day, we all just want to feel we belong.
Sláinte.
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