About K. V. Turley

K.V. Turley writes from London.

Ireland’s Brave New World

By |2018-06-04T00:03:34-05:00June 4th, 2018|Categories: Abortion, Catholicism, Christianity, Culture, Ireland, Politics|

Ireland has chosen between life and death. Death it shall have. The fallacy that a liberal abortion regime solves anything will soon become apparent to Irish citizens… Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned… Almost [...]

“The Silver Tassie”: Ireland and the Great War

By |2020-03-16T11:24:39-05:00March 16th, 2018|Categories: Culture, History, Theater, War|

Sean O’Casey’s play “The Silver Tassie” will grow in significance in the years ahead because it is a mirror that is now being held up to modern Ireland—a country which, like the crippled hero of the piece, can no longer cope with platitudes and half-truths, but which has also lost faith in its former causes. [...]

Who Was Marilyn Monroe?

By |2016-12-07T01:33:39-06:00October 14th, 2016|Categories: Culture, Featured, Film|

When a death is reported, the first task is to identify the body. Who was the deceased? If, however, that somebody has deliberately left as few clues to her real identity as possible, then the identification is all but meaningless. […]

Charlie Chaplin and the Ghosts of London

By |2020-09-30T13:41:28-05:00June 9th, 2016|Categories: Culture, Film|

No matter how bright Charlie Chaplin's name grew on the lights above the movie theaters, there was always the fear that, in the darkness below, a specter waited to drag him back to the streets and the fears that stalked him. Just more than 100 years ago, an English Music Hall artist was invited to [...]

Steve McQueen & the Hound of Heaven

By |2024-12-28T06:26:27-06:00February 4th, 2016|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Death, Film|

In his last days, Steve McQueen raced to Mexico looking for a miracle cure to the cancer that was killing him. He didn’t find one. But he found something else. From what had he fled? From what was he running? What was it that pursued him? The film titles give us some clues, as does [...]

The World, the Flesh, & Greta Garbo

By |2015-12-09T08:22:20-06:00October 24th, 2015|Categories: Beauty, Culture, Featured, Film, History|

In July 1925, a young Swedish actress disembarked at New York harbour. She was nineteen years old and unknown, with little to mark her out from any of that day’s other arrivals. In less than two years, she would not only have become one of the most famous women in the world but would have also [...]

Orson Welles and the Mark of Kane

By |2019-05-16T13:55:27-05:00September 4th, 2015|Categories: Art, Culture, Featured, Film|

Life imitates art, or is it the other way round? In the lives of actors there is often a strange synergy with the roles they inhabit, one that reaches into their private lives and indeed beyond. For one actor, born 100 years ago, his life was to be indelibly marked by that of his creation, [...]

Filming the National Gallery

By |2019-12-10T16:13:53-06:00January 30th, 2015|Categories: Art, Audio/Video, Film|

One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity for frequent visits to the National Gallery. But for those who live elsewhere, you need no longer miss out as a new documentary about that institution is now playing at movie theaters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. And, of course, a movie [...]

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