Brendan Gleeson: Ireland’s Grim Reaper of Global Optimism and Accidental Soft-Power Superhero
Dublin – Somewhere between a Guinness tap and an IMF spreadsheet – A small island nation that once exported priests, potatoes and property bubbles has, in the last quarter-century, quietly perfected a far more recession-proof commodity: the Gleeson. Not a tax loophole, not a cryptocurrency—just Brendan Gleeson, the 6-foot-2 walking rebuke to every Hollywood algorithm…