Join us for free screening of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday, Wednesday and double-bill Saturday this January 2024.

Simply book and collect your tickets in-person at IFI Box Office. Radharc document the experience of the Irish in the UK in the 1960s.

PROGRAMME ONE

HOUSE HUNTERS

This film documents the work of a young priest from Limerick, Fr. Eamonn Casey, with the Irish in Britain. He formed the Housing Aid Society, which gave Irish people on small incomes the opportunity to buy their own house.

27 mins, Ireland, 1965

PROGRAMME TWO

HOTEL CHAPLAIN

Radharc documents the work of Irish immigrant chaplains specially selected by their bishops to minister to the Irish in England, originally to the Irish construction workers who are on isolated sites with little opportunity to go to Mass, and later to Irish women employed in hotels in London’s West End.

26 mins, Ireland, 1965

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn