Coen brothers a baby but are unable to conceive. When a local furniture tycoon (Trey Wilson) appears on television with his newly born quintuplets and jokes that they "are more than we can handle", H.I. steals one of the quintuplets to bring up as their own. The film featured Frances McDormand, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray, and Randall "Tex" Cobb. "Miller's Crossing", released in 1990, starred Albert Finney, Gabriel Byrne, and John Turturro. The film is about feuding gangsters in the Prohibition era, inspired by Dashiell Hammett's novels "Red Harvest" (1920) and "The Glass Key" (serialized in 1930). The following year,
Francis John Byrne He studied Early Irish History at University College Dublin where he excelled, graduating with first class honours. He studied Paleography and Medieval Latin in Germany, and then lectured on Celtic languages in Sweden, before returning to University College in 1964 to take up a professorship. Byrne's best known work is his "Irish Kings and High-Kings" (1973). He was joint editor of the Royal Irish Academy's "New History of Ireland" (9 volumes). A festschrift in his honour was published in 1999 under the editorship of his former student Alfred P. Smyth. He retired in 2000. Francis John Byrne Francis John Byrne