Aodhan Madden's "Night Train" on RTÉ 1

Aodhan Madden's fantastic film Night Train was broadcast on RTÉ 1 Saturday July 10th. Written by Aodhan, Night Train follows Poole - a former gangster released from prison - who goes on the run to escape his old gangland boss. He finds accommodation as a lodger in Dublin where slowly but surely he befriends, and grows closer, to the daughter in the house. As Poole builds a spectacular model railway set of the Orient Express in his room, the two grow closer together until Blake - the mob boss - catches up with him... Alice and Poole must then decide if their travel fantasy should become reality as they attempt to out-run the gangsters.

Starring BAFTA-winning; Golden Globe-winning; and Oscar-nominated actor John Hurt who won the Verona Love Screens Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Night Train, the cast also featured Brenda Blethyn, Pauline Flanagan, Lorcan Cranitch, and was directed by John Lynch, who was nominated for Night Train with Best European Film at the Brussels Film Festival.

Liberties Press were delighted to publish Aodhan's memoirs, Fear and Loathing in Dublin last year, and it has done exceptionally well. It has received great publicity, featuring on RTÉ's Book on One, as well as Aodhan appearing on tv3's Ireland AM.

REVIEWS FOR FEAR AND LOATHING IN DUBLIN

 

Aubrey Malone - The Irish Catholic Books of 2009
I was very taken with Aodhan Madden's Fear and Loathing in Dublin for its highly-charged depiction of a young man struggling with the twin demons of alcohol and a confused sexuality before literature saves him from himself. Most moving of all is the manner in which he writes about his father, a simple country man trying to cope with widowhood as his world falls apart and his son looks to be on a collision course with disaster.
Fermanagh Herald
Reminiscent at times of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Madden's story is laced with the acerbic wit of the Dublin meeja. It's a dark and at times disturbing memoir about intolerance, isolation, alcohol and self-loathing, but ultimately too it's about redemption and how the love and sacrifice of an aging father saved the life of a talented young writer seemingly on the road to self-destruction.
Catherine McGrotty - Verbal
...is as compelling as anything Hunter S. ever wrote...As a work of entertainment, it's a winner. As a record of the experience of "coming out" in Catholic Ireland 30 years ago and the prejudice the Gay community had to deal with, it's superb. As a depiction of one man's descent into the depths of alcohol addiction and psychosis it's riveting.
GCN
[Madden's] memoir is a story of transformation that brings an era in Dublin back to life andconfronts the demons that brought low a generation of gay men.
Books Ireland
Everything about this book is good.

 

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