Veni. Vidi. Vici. Venice

FROM dark drama to leading lights, Eileen Walsh is one of a handful of talented Irish actors hoping to make her mark at the Venice Film Festival.

The 27-year-old from Turner’s Cross in Cork is starring alongside Galwegian Nora Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy from Co Donegal and Anne Marie Duff, of Irish descent, in the movie, The Magdalene Sisters.

Based on true events, the film tells the harrowing tale of the lives of four young girls thrown on the mercy of the nuns who ran the Magdalene asylums or laundries.