This is an open invitation to students, staff and members of the
public who would like to view a few Irish language (subtitled) / bilingual
films during Easter Term. The films will
be shown in the English Faculty, Sidgwick Site, 9 West Road, Room G-R 05. All are welcome.
Fear na nOileán
30 April, 4 pm
English Faculty, Room G-R 05
Duration: 55 minutes
Duration: 55 minutes
Following upon the engaging
lecture and memorable performance of
'Songs from Donegal' (and Tory Island) by Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, Senior
Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at University College Galway,
there will be a viewing of the Irish documentary Fear na nOileán (Man of the Islands) on 30 April in the
English Faculty, Room G-R 05 at 4pm.
The award winning film, directed by Loic Jourdain and filmed on location
in Tory Island in 2006, charts the efforts of the islanders and a Jesuit priest
(during the 1980’s) to improve water and electricity supplies and educational
opportunities for the inhabitants of Tory Island. The islanders took their
cause to the European Parliament and the United States Congress and petitioned
for houses, jobs, a secondary school and a harbor. Parallels to the struggle of
other island communities in Europe are considered, including the evacuation of
Scotland’s St Kilda. Fear na nOileán won the Celtic Media Festival Award
in 2007. The film is in Irish (with
subtitles) and English.
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Toraigh
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Kings
14 May
5pm
English Faculty, G-R 05
Duration: 88 minutes
Kings is a 2007 award-winning Irish film (bilingual) based on the play The
Kings of the Kilburn High Road. A
group of young Irish men who leave the Connemara Gaeltacht and emigrate to
England meet thirty years later for the
funeral of their youngest friend.
Flashbacks to Connemara and their youthful hopes for a better life are
set against the harsh realities of their lives in England in the 1970s:
sporadic work on building sites, unemployment, alcohol addiction, fragile
relationships, loneliness. The film won numerous
awards, including Best Irish Language Film. Irish actor Colm Meaney was
nominated for Best Actor and Tom Collins won the Director's Guild of America /
Ireland New Finders Award.
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| Colm Meaney in Kings |
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| Conamara, Co. na Gaillimhe |
Máirtín Ó Cadhain sa gCnocán Glas / + Gearrscannáin (short films)
18 May, 5pm
English Faculty, Room G-R 05
Duration: 30 minutes (+
30 minutes for optional Irish 'short-films')
This black-and-white film was produced by RTÉ in 1967 and was
restored by the RTÉ Libraries and Archives in 2007. The script is by Máirtín Ó Cadhain
(1906-1970), one of Ireland's most prolific and accomplished writers in Irish,
perhaps best known for his novel, Cre na Cille, published in 1949. The
film presents a personal portrait of Ó Cadhain, who is filmed in his native
village, An Cnocán Glas, in Connemara. Ó
Cadhain introduces the viewer to the places of his youth and the ruins of the
house where he was born. He recalls the
native the Irish tales and European literature which influenced his life and
work. Ó Cadhain was a political activist, writer, lecturer and Professor of
Modern Irish at Trinity College Dublin. The film is in Irish with English
subtitles. A selection of short Irish
language films will follow.
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| Máirtín Ó Cadhain, scríbhneoir |
