IT’S A cold and dark December in New Ross, Co Wexford when we meet coal merchant Bill Furlong in Small Things Like These. Portrayed by Cillian Murphy, Bill is a man of few words, but is well ...

Small Things Like These Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) is worried. The days are getting shorter, the nights seem to last forever, and our weary protagonist is beginning to lose himself. What is it ...

The 1985-set film is based on Claire Keegan's acclaimed novel of the same name and focuses on Murphy's Bill Furlong, a man running a small coal business in County Wicklow who wrestles with whether ...

One of the best Irish books is now one of the best Irish films. The character of Bill Furlong symbolises one Ireland slowly becoming another Like Claire Keegan's source novel, this masterful ...

In “Small Things Like These,” Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) is a coal merchant who slowly uncovers the mistreatment of girls in a local Catholic school governed by nuns. The 1980s film ...

Now, the novel has been brought to the big screen by acclaimed playwright Enda Walsh as a vehicle for Cillian Murphy, who plays the lead role of Bill Furlong in this Tim Mielants-directed adaptation.

Now, the same actor is Bill Furlong, a coal merchant in an Irish town, an imagined version of countless real, unremarkable, unnoticed men. The working-class Irishman could not be less like the ...

She plays Eileen, the wife of Murphy's character, Bill Furlong - and delivers a typically excellent performance. Looking back on making Small Things Like These in New Ross, Co Wexford, Walsh said ...

Murphy, 48, plays father Bill Furlong in the film, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan, about Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries Eileen Walsh, Cillian Murphy ...

Christian instinct meets Catholic hegemony in Small Things Like These (12A), which opens in New Ross in 1985 with Christmas flying in. An unassuming husband to Eileen (Eileen Walsh) and father ...

Small Things Like These is a historical drama set for release on November 8, 2024, in the United States. The movie takes place in a small Irish town during Christmas 1985 and is based on Claire ...

Bill Furlong (Murphy) is a tender-hearted coal man delivering fuel around New Ross. Every evening he returns home, washes the black dust from under his fingernails and helps his five daughters ...