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Article: Dancing in Alaska.(Irish film director Pat O'Connor )(Interview)
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- World of Hibernia
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- September 22, 1998
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Anticipating the release of his big-screen version of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa this fall, Irish film director Pat O'Connor takes a summer holiday in our nation's 49th state.
So what brought you to Alaska?" he asked me.
Seated across the table at a waterfront restaurant in downtown Juneau, Irish filmmaker Pat O'Connor fixed his gaze on the verdant peaks that rise from Douglas Island, half a mile or so across Gastineau Channel, while awaiting my answer.
Having recently finished work on his eighth film, Dancing at Lughnasa, O'Connor was two weeks into an eight-week vacation. His wife, actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, was in Alaska ...