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Angela Long is a journalist and media consultant with over 30 years’ experience in the world’s leading media organisations. She has extensive experience as a news editor, feature writer, reporter, production editor and broadcaster. A native of Melbourne, Australia, Angela studied journalism at Melbourne Technical University (RMIT) before living in the US, England, Spain, and Ireland. Her staff positions include 10 years at The Irish Times, five at The Sunday Times, two with the BBC World Service.
“Journalism is the first draft of history.” Angela describes herself as a lifelong history head, thanks to her father’s reminiscences and Northcote Library. For contributors, she is particularly fond of the neat historical entrée of the anniversary, centenary, and so on.

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Literature on Film | 17 | Gone With the Wind‘s Theme of the Fall of the South has Staying…

Angela Long Sep 3, 2016 0
What’s your favourite film moment? ET lisping “Phone home”? The walk-off in Zoolander? “I am your father” in Star Wars? For an earlier generation, a big hit among the ladies was: “Rhett Butler carrying Scarlett O’Hara up those stairs”…
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Literature on Film | 14 | No Country for Old Men Brings Cormac McCarthy’s Bleak Modernist…

Angela Long Jul 16, 2016 0
A man I know often ponders the contradiction observed in a mutual friend, a writer. “Why does she write such sad books, and yet have such twinkly eyes?” he laments. The author in question certainly does write very serious fiction. It’s…
Film Review

Film Review | Fire at Sea Observes the Reality of the Migrant Crisis

Angela Long Jun 8, 2016 0
The scene has become horribly familiar: an expanse of blue ocean, overarching blue sky, and a slight, inadequate vessel overflowing – literally – with human beings. The craft is sinking, people are screaming and waving their hands as dark…
Historic Days of the Month

May Day, May Day, May Days – What Made This Month Famous?

Angela Long May 1, 2016 1
Mayday, mayday – how did that come to be the international code of distress? May is also the month of special worship of the Virgin Mary, and the time for the many May Balls at universities in this part of the world (although some of them,…
Topical Features

Documentary Review | Atlantic – A Crossing Where the Ordinary Worker Gets Swamped

Angela Long Apr 27, 2016 0
The triumph of capitalism takes many forms, and as Risteard O Domhnaill's new documentary demonstrates, the ruination of traditional coastal communities is one of them. His story is told by examining three villages bordering the north…
Recent History

Space | The Final Frontier for Historians

Angela Long Apr 6, 2016 0
What’s a completely modern, contemporary, theme in history? Try to think of a suitable answer: Politics? No. The Greeks. Technology? Well, some say that papyrus was a technology. Gender? Joan of Arc and Elizabeth 1 set those contemporary…
Brain/Body

Alcohol for Lemons – The science of willpower for the soul

Angela Long Apr 1, 2016 0
A few weeks ago, HeadStuff Science published an article by Dermot Corbett, who gave up the habit of cigarettes and alcohol to run some marathons. It got us thinking about the science and psychology behind habits, especially the tough ones…
Film Review

Film Review | El Club is a Dour View of Chile and Church with Resonance for Ireland

Angela Long Mar 21, 2016 0
A man trains a greyhound on a windswept beach; a woman, warmly dressed, vigorously sweeps the paving outside a yellow house, built halfway up an incline; another, older, man digs in the terraced garden. The colouring is faded, greyish. It…
Historic Days of the Month

What happened on the Ides of March … and other March days

Angela Long Mar 1, 2016 0
Mad as a March hare: if you’re feeling like that after the long cold February we’ve endured, find out what extraordinary days this month has engendered. It’s mostly famous as the home of the “Ides” which did for Julius Caesar. What are the…
Film Review

Film Review | Triple 9’s Ironic Twist Saves Bad-cop Heist Movie

Angela Long Feb 18, 2016 0
Triple 9 is the radio code for “officer down”, as US cop show fans will probably know. This John Hillcoat film hinges on such a 999 alarm, but more interestingly, an irony plays a big role. And you can’t say that for many action thrillers.…
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