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    Cyril Cusack

    Irish actor (1910–1993)

    Cyril James Cusack[1] (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish[2][3] stage and screen actor with a career that spanned more than 70 years. During his lifetime, he was considered one of Ireland's finest thespians,[4] and was renowned for his interpretations of both classical and contemporary theatre, including Shakespearean roles as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and over 60 productions for the Abbey Theatre, of which he was a lifelong member. In 2020, Cusack was ranked at number 14 on The Irish Times' list of Ireland's greatest film actors.[5]

    Born to an English mother and Irish father in South Africa and raised in County Tipperary, Cusack dropped out of law school to join the Abbey Theatre and remained with the company for 13 years, acting in over 60 plays. In London, he performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and later founded his own company which toured across Europe. Making his film debut at age 8, Cusack worked with many great directors, including Powell and Pressburger, Franco Zefferelli, François Truffaut, Carol Reed, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Fred Zinnemann, Christine Edzard and Anthony Harvey. He co-starred opposi

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    What books are you reading these days?

    Just finished a bunch of books on the history of Southeast Asia which got me interested in the Japanese occupation of SE Asia during WWII (and a temporary reprise of the French Indochina and Vietnam Wars), which got me into pre-WWII Japanese Imperialism, which got me interested in the origins of their modern navy, which got me interested in US foreign policy toward Japan from the 1850’s through Dec. 7th, 1941—especially those of the two Roosevelts, which got me interested in American isolationism after WWI, British Isolationism after WWI, French unpreparedness during the interwar years, Soviet foreign policy during the interwar-years, which got me interested in world-wide isolationism and the various worldwide arms limitations treaties between WWI and 3 September, 1939, (including a little two-day side-trip into a detailed description of the Battle and Evacuation of Dunkirk), which got me interested in Nazi and Japanese re-armament and expansionism from 1919 through 1941, in which has led me to my present cherrypicking:

    A War to be Won, by Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett, 2000.
    Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History, by Gordon W. Prange; 1986.
    Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor, by Leonard Baker; 1970.
    Germany 1866–194

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