Wednesday 26th OCTOBER
TIME 8 - 10pm admission €FREE
Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir : Dún Chaoin
PREMIER FEATURE FILM : IMIRCEACH
Ó ÉIRINN - AN SPAILPÍN FÁNAC
Breandán Feiritéar Ireland / 2005 / 54min / Beta
/ Colour-BW
Seod é scéal Shéamais Uí Mhuircheartaigh
a d'fhág Ard na Caithne sa bhliain 1898 in aois a fiche
bliain; imeacht gan filleadh. Ina shaol geárr mar imirceánach,
chuir sé cúis na hÉireann chun cinn agus
bhí sé dílis dá dúchas go
tharraing sé an anáil deireannach. Scrí
Muiris Mac Conghail faoi'n scannán ‘An Doras dúnta
a bhí le haon insint ar an imirce as Éirinn gur
oscail Breandán Feiritéar an doras san lena insint
ar scéal fhear Ard na Caithne, Séamas Ó
Murcheartaigh - An Spailpín Fánach a chuaidh go
Meiriceá le haisling agus amhráinagus d’fhan
dílis dá dhúchas go fiú nuair a
thráig ar a dhóchas ag deireadh. Aisling dhorcha
na himirce canta go fileata agus le faobhar ag an Feiritéarach
ina scannán atá ina cheacht gléineach staire
duinn agus a mhíníonn conas mar a tháinig
scaipeadh scannallach ar an bpobal Duibhneach agus muintir na
hÉireann mar aon leo.’
‘A painstaking filmic account of a painful event brought
with such anguish to the screen. Breandán Feiritéar’s
film narrative on the exile of Séamas Ó Muircheartaigh
from Ard na Caithne to the United States of America is a relevant
and urgent text for Ireland today. This film Imirceach Ó
Éirinn brings into an unpleasant focus the realities
of exile and the extraordinary courage which An Spailpín
Fánach displayed in the face of cruel adversity coloured
by a cultural indifference of the Irish exiles around him. The
film is a new reading of the facts of an old history brilliantly
and disturbingly told.‘
SHORTS : COMPETITION 3
Mac an Athar (His Fathers Son) Colm Bairéad
Ireland / 2005 / 21min / Beta / Colour
‘Mac an Athar’ is the story of Seán Ó
Gallchóir, a 12 year old boy raised in the Irish language
in the northside surburbs of Dublin city.
Director Colm Bairéad Producer
Greg Corcoran Writer Colm Bairéad
Idir Dhá Shaol (Between Two Lives) John
Mallon
Ireland-England / 2005 / 25.35min / Beta / Colour & BW
This film is the story of the life of Wille Walsh, following
his journey from emigration from Connemara at sixteen, to his
life in London, and subsequent homelessness to his salvation
in the form of the Cricklewood homlessness Concern.
Director John Mallon Producer
David D’arcy
Cúilín Dualach (Backwards Boy)
Nora Twomey
Ireland / 2004 / 12min / BETA / Colour
Cuilín Dualach lives in a small town in the west of Ireland.
He is the apple of his mother's eye, yet his father shows him
little affection. Everywhere he goes, people stare at him. Cuilín
strives to fit in as best he can but that can be a difficult
thing to do when your head is on backwards!
Director Nora Twomey Producer
Ross Murray Writer Jackie Mac Donnacha
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