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YULE OF YORE
PROGRAMME 1
AMHARC ÉIREANN – AN NOLLAIG
Christmas stories from Gael Linn’s newsreel
FILM INFO: 6 mins, 1959-1963, Black and White
IRISH BASS FOR CHRISTMAS
Niall Toibin encourages foreign fisherfolk to come to Ireland for pre-Christmas angling holidays in this delightful film directed by Robert Monks
FILM INFO: 16 mins, 1999
PROGRAMME 2
IGLOO A THÓGAINT
(Building an igloo)
A film made by the Canadian Film Board and later translated into Irish to teach Irish schoolchildren the invaluable skill of igloo-building.
FILM INFO: 10 mins, 1949
BLESSED FRUIT
Orla Walsh’s irreverent tale of a woman who seeks divine intervention when she thinks she is pregnant but is unsure who the father is.
FILM INFO: 16 mins, 1999
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn