The young men move about the muddied hillside engaging in a friendly afternoon game of that national pastime known as hurling. On their way home, they are accosted by a platoon of “Black and Tans,” ...

Ken Loach is asking a lot for audiences to accept the Irish Republican Army as misunderstood freedom fighters. It’s not that he leaves us in the dust while forming our sympathies in The Wind That ...

The Wind That Shakes the Barley isn’t free of platitudes or high-minded oration, but it’s clear that in Loach’s world, words like “freedom” and “independence” are only abstractions when spoken by ...