Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.

Marking the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

PROGRAMME 1:

THE COLUMBAN FATHERS PRESENT: PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN IRELAND

The only professional colour film of the visit.

FILM INFO: 25 minutes, 1963, Colour

PROGRAMME 2:

TAOISEACH LEMASS VISITS THE U.S.A. 1963

State visit to U.S. made just weeks before Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas.

FILM INFO: 10 minutes, 1963, Colour

JOHN F. KENNEDY, THE MAN AND THE PRESIDENT 1917 – 1963

The main events in the public life and death of Kennedy.

FILM INFO: 10 minutes, 1963, Black and White

Dr. Harvey O’Brien (Film Studies Lecturer, UCD) will give an illustrated talk looking at the representations on film of the JFK visit to Ireland in 1963 in our FREE Afternoon Talk on June 27th at 16.30.