Sentences with phrase «irish landlady»

Julie Walters, as Eilis» Irish landlady Ma Kehoe, cracks sardonic comments at her boarders, but also shares a glass of sherry with Eilis on Christmas Eve.

Julie Walters in particular is fantastic as the take - no - BS Irish landlady «Ma» Kehoe, and dinner scenes between a tentative Eilis and the more experienced and unforgiving girls are charming and full of sass and wit.

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I am white skinned and find the stain nauseating on the British conscience when landladies windows used to regularly state and I quote» No Coloureds, No Irish and No Dogs.»

With her new life circumscribed by a kindly priest and mother - hen landlady — Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters respectively providing awards - season pedigree — Brooklyn itself turns out to be something of an Irish colony, but night - classes and the romantic attentions of Emory Cohen's hard - working Italian - American plumber, spark an appreciably developing self - confidence.

Awaiting Eilis in Brooklyn is a room in a female - only boardinghouse run by an eagle - eyed landlady (Julie Walters) obsessed with protecting the reputations of the gullible, young Irish immigrants placed under her supervision.