Comments for Kieran McMullen

Comment on The Many Watsons – Vitali Solomin by Alexey Derkunsky

Alexey Derkunsky — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:40:12 +0000

“what have the Canadians done to the Russians that they hate them so much?” HO-HO-HO, them Canadians always rivaled our hockey team, so we hated ‘em dearly!
(kidding, of course.) Maybe Mikhalkov thought that Canadians were real weird guys for people in UK so he played what he though to be the picture of a Canadian as seen by the Biritish… Regarding Mikhalkov’s popularity, well… Yeah, he appears everywhere he can, but I can’t say he is exactly “popular”, the word “ubiquitous” is more appropriate here. In some 20 past years he was not playing, he was professing his hatred towards the Soviet Union, and that (well deserved as it may be) did not look exactly like art…
Thanks for the review, it gives the picture another half which we could not see while living in USSR. That is, the film is our vision of UK of that time, and when reading the impressions of the spectators outside ex-USSR, it makes a useful complement to that vision. And – I do love Livanov and Solomin

Comment on A Review of Irish Rebels by Kieran

Kieran — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:56:00 +0000

Thank you. I would be most interested. I can be reached at kemcmullen@msn.com or through my facebook page.

Comment on A Review of Irish Rebels by Donald Pollock

Donald Pollock — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:07:11 +0000

In view of your interest in Dr. Watson, I’ll hope you’ll consider joining The John H. Watson Society and contributing to its new journal:

http://www.johnhwatsonsociety.com/index.html

Comment on Weapons of the Irish Rebels and the British by Joe

Joe — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:03:18 +0000

kieran, feel free to comment on the types of arms used during the Easter Rising of 1916
http://vcrai.com/phpBB/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1681&start=20

Comment on A Review of Irish Rebels by Ship's Cook

Ship's Cook — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:08 +0000

You have your history a little bit mixed up here, although Cromwell conducted a brutal suppression of the Irish after deposing King Charles I in 1649, the Glorious Revolution started in 1688 when Willliam of Orange was invited by a group of seven English aristocrats to depose the Catholic King James II (James VII of Scotland) Wiliam was married to James’ Protestant daughter Mary. James sought to regain his crown by rousing the mostly Catholic Irish against William and this culminated in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 where the Williamite forces defeated the army of James who fled to France.

Comment on The Amateur Executioner by Ship's Cook

Ship's Cook — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:42:38 +0000

Sounds interesting

Comment on The Many Watsons – Nigel Bruce by Siu Boilard

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Comment on Book Signing by Pskovitianka

Pskovitianka — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:29:47 +0000

One of the members of Russian community sherlokiana.ru posted the translation of a part of your book. I am delighted that the foreiner liked the very Russian Sherlock Holmes. I thought Vasili Livanov the best one before I saw Jeremy Brett, and then I understood the difference between the Russian English gentleman and the British gentleman. But my post doen’t concern Holmes, but Henry Baskerville. Nikita Mikhalkov is the very famous actor in Russia, and he is really grate; As to his role of Baskerville there is a simple explanation of his condact that is reported in the memoires of the serie’s director Igor Maslennikov. In fact Nikita Michalkov is living in Moscow and came to shoot to Leningrad (now St Petersbourg), so this day of shooting Mikalkov arrived from the night train directry to the shooting pavillon. During the night he drank a bottle of brandy with his fellow trevellers and was not very fresh in the morning. The shooting team had no time to loose, and Michalkov was filmed that he was quite drunk.
there is many funny moment like this in the firm. We have a web site of the film 221B.ru
but there isn’nt English verson.
I apologise for my bad English, I am more fluent in French.

Comment on The Many Watsons – Vitali Solomin by Kieran

Kieran — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:46:55 +0000

Please do. Thanks.Kieran

Comment on The Many Watsons – Vitali Solomin by Alexander S.

Alexander S. — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:20:25 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Kieran,
I like your review on Vitaly Solomin. I’d like to translate it into Russian and post in my Live Journal blog for Russian readers:

alek-morse.livejournal.com

Alexander S.
Ekaterinburg