Iciar Bollain’s “The Olive Tree,” Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta” and Paula Ortiz’s “The Bride” have made Spain’s short-list for its Oscar submission. The country’s final Academy Award candidate will be ...

A veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellingtons army. But at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his ...

MARK CRONIN from Casement Park and his Spanish bride Raquel Tobias, jetted off to Asturias in the north of Spain recently to get married. Mark's parents John and Phyllis were there to witness the ...