Thanks to our visitor soul for the heads up.

An new outtake from 2010 photoshoot by Barry McCall has been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

Actress Saoirse Ronan conceded last night that every part she takes from now on will have a love interest, as she opened ‘Pho20graphy’ — an exhibition by Barry McCall at the Copper House Gallery in aid of the ISPCC in Dublin last night.

But the Carlow girl, who recently celebrated her 18th birthday on the set of movie ‘The Host’, has said plot concerns her more than romantic clinches.

“It’s a given at this stage that romantic stories are going to be offered to me but I’m more interested in the story and characters. It’s just not important if there are love scenes in it,” she told the Irish Independent yesterday.

The screen star had not one, but two on-screen love interests in the adaptation of the bestselling novel from ‘Twilight’ author Stephenie Meyer, Max Irons — son of Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack — and American Jake Abel.

Saoirse plays young rebel Melanie, one of the last humans fighting a parasitic alien species whose body is invaded by an alien soul.

“I have two different characters who are in love with different men.

“The good thing was that I got on so well with Max and Jake. I knew them both before we started filming and we were very comfortable working together,” she said.

Both attended Saoirse’s birthday party which took place on the film’s set in New Mexico during filming.

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“It was my third birthday on the set of a film. I usually never minded being away filming for a birthday but because this was 18th and special, I kind of wanted to be at home.

“But it turned out to be one of the best birthdays ever because I got to watch this amazing car stunt being filmed, and they hired this local band and gave me a special birthday cake,” she said.

And Saoirse got a second birthday cake yesterday when she turned up to meet some of the participants in the Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel.

‘The Host’ is expected to propel Saoirse to superstardom but the young actress revealed the success of latest film ‘Hannah’ –which has taken $63m (€49.3m) worldwide, and $40m (€31.3m) alone at the US box office, has already made her name in the US.

“I’ve started to get recognised in America. It was strange because I have never had that before, but I suppose if a film does commercially well, you get recognised around the world.”

She starts her next film, dark teen love story ‘How I Live Now’ with director Kevin Macdonald next month.

Now in its fifth year, the Cinemagic festival runs until Sunday and offers young people an insight into the film and television industry.

The 18-year-old features on the cover of the book ‘Pho20graphy’. Published in 2010, and created as a 20-year retrospective of award-winning photographer Barry McCall, the book raised €350,000 for Irish children’s charity ISPCC.

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Saoirse Ronan was in Dublin last night for Barry McCall’s photography exhibition called “Pho20graphy” at the Copper House Gallery off Synge Street. Now he is the guy who has put together that photo book in aid of the ISPCC with shots of loads of celebrities including Jedward, Cillian Murphy, Louis Walsh, Michael Fassbender, the late David Kelly and loads more. If you want to check out the exhibition, it’s on until the 11th of June and you can view the photos online at www.thecopperhousegallery.com.

Barry McCall told 98FM Saoirse had been on his wish list. He took the shot about 2 years when Saoirse was 16 and had just done “The Lovely Bones”. He put the feelers out and eventually the producers came back and said “we got her”.

There is a fab photo of ISPCC ambassador Saoirse Ronan wearing a chainmail headpiece borrowed from Ardmore Studios.

We were hanging out with Saoirse although she said she was more interested in looking at the other photos on show than looking at her own face. Saoirse said “I don’t like looking at photos of myself but all the other photos look great”.

It’s been a hectic 6 months for Saoirse who has working pretty much non-stop with just a few days at home. She’s just turned 18 so how did she celebrate her birthday? Saoirse told 98FM “I worked. I was on set but it was great because the production hired a band and they had cupcakes and decorated the hair and make-up truck. It was amazing – it was a really, really brilliant day”

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RISH child star Saoirse Ronan has just turned 18 but she still likes to bring a lot of home comforts with her while working on foreign movie sets.

The Carlow girl revealed to the Diary that she and mum Monica have to make sure to keep some traditional Irish food stuffs with her when she’s away working on a film.

The budding A-lister, who travels all over the world, divulged she even packs a plastic bag in her suitcase stuffed with Barry’s Tea and crisps whenever she goes abroad on a shoot.

“Every single film set I go to I have things from home like that with me… It still tastes different though, it’s never a proper Irish cup of tea unfortunately.”

And there was a panic when the starlet ran out of her supply on set in Louisiana, where she filmed Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s new flick The Host.

“We ran out of teabags over there so we had to get loads more sent over and any Irish person visiting New Orleans was ordered to bring some with them. It’s very important.”

Petite blonde Saoirse has just come back from her lengthy stint in the US.

With another job in the pipeline and an upcoming Disney role kicking off in the summer, the former Clinic star is currently enjoying some well-deserved time off and stopped by to see pal Barry McCall, left, at his Pho20graphy exhibition in Dublin last night.

“I’ve a break for a few weeks now, I’m at home so I’m able to sleep and catch up with people. It’s been nice. It’s lovely to see everyone because I’ve been away for so long and I really missed home,” she said.

The teen is using her three-week break to begin training for a new project and is learning how to horse ride.

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Saoirse attended two new events yesterday. She attended the Exhibition Opening of Barry McCall’s Pho20graphy. She also attended the Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People meet and greet event. We added the photos in our gallery.

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Public Appearances from 2012 > 05.15.12: “Pho20graphy” Exhibition by Barry McCall Opening
Public Appearances from 2012 > 05.15.12: Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young

Thanks to Ceejay for the find.

A new still from Violet and Daisy has been added to the gallery.

You’ve gone from writing to directing films. What’s the status with your first directorial effort, ‘Violet and Daisy?’
GF: I couldn’t be happier with it. People have told me that they’ve never seen anything like it. It has its own universe and such an amazing cast. Everybody in the cast and crew “went for it” and delivered some of their best work ever.

Will it be released in theaters this year?
GF: Yes. In the fall.

What was the reception like when it debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last year?
GF: Really cool. We had a frenzied red carpet and each screening was sold out though we hadn’t done much publicity beforehand. The audience seemed to jump at all the surprises and laugh a lot. Towards the end, we saw a few people crying, in a good way I think. To me, it was so gratifying.

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Here’s the stunning/stylish Byzantium poster, click the preview below for the full version in our gallery.

The first official poster for “The Host” was released earlier. You can view a preview below, and the full version in our gallery.