June Butler is an artist, writer, and avid moviegoer. She lists Lars von Trier, Gaspar Noé, and Wong Kar-Wai among her favourite directors. June has held several solo exhibitions of her paintings both here in Dublin and Tokyo, Japan. June’s paintings have been sold to the late Charles Haughey, the late Sir Anthony J. F. O’Reilly, and Sir Michael Smurfit, among others. In 2002, June embarked on a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, graduating in 2007.
A Doctor's Sword tells the extraordinary true story of Dr Aidan MacCarthy, an Irish doctor who survived Dunkirk, years as a Japanese prisoner of war and the Nagasaki atomic bombing. June Butler reviews Gary Lennon's moving documentary of courage, compassion and forgiveness.