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Do you remember? Dromcollogher Cinema Fire 1926

Do you have letters from home about the Dromcollogher cinema fire (1926)? Continue reading →

A Chat with Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly reflects on the need to know our history and share our stories, including a need for this history to be spoken about and taught in schools. Continue reading →

‘Escaped Nun’ Provokes Sectarian Outrage

Kildea describes how narratives of ‘escaped nuns’ were a popular genre of sensationalised anti-Catholicism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century… Continue reading →

Reflections on Beckett provoked by ‘Dance First’

Beckett’s life, gravely played by Gabriel Bryne, unspools magnificently in a sequence of austere performed memories. Continue reading →

Verdigris and the Poetry of Change

A Film Review by Frances Devlin-Glass Verdigris (1923), Directed and written by Patricia Kelly and starring Geraldine McAlinden and Maya O’Shea. Cinematography by Tania Freimuth. Verdigris is a gentle film about violent men, and it takes us on a slow journey of revelation. The title is a poetic evocation of the toll time takes on a metal … Continue reading →

More films from the Irish Film Festival

A powerful documentary which exposes a trade in babies, high death rates in Mother and Baby homes, and a reluctance to tell the truth. Continue reading →

Irish Film Festival Reviews: Tarrac & Dance First, That They May Face the Rising Sun, and more.

Tarrac, a heart-warming Irish language comedy drama set on the Kerry coast in Dingle… Joyce feels like someone we can know, though probably not like very much….The scaffolding and the bedrock of this visually sumptuous film is what it does with landscapes and cloudscapes and the imposition of the human impress on them. Continue reading →

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