‘Belfast’ offers you a St. Patrick’s Day treat

Every year about this time we have an Irish-themed story for the readers as we approach St. Patrick’s Day. Last year I did it on Sean McAhon’s family, this year I’m doing it on a film I watched, “Belfast.”

This is from writer-director Kenneth Branagh, who calls this film his most personal one. It is about his boyhood during the Troubles, 1969 in Northern Ireland.

The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) …