Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office.
FILMS BY JIM MULKERNS
A focus on Jim Mulkerns (1927-2003), talented stalwart of the Irish film industry.
(Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.)
Double Bill:
Brendan Halligan will introduce the double bill on Saturday, November 5th
Programme 1:
AN TOILEÁNACH A D’FHILL / RETURN OF THE ISLANDER
This fictionalised account of a London labourer returning home in Inis Mór provides a vivid record of island life in the late 1960s.
FILM INFO: 22 mins, Ireland, 1970, Digital, Black and White, Irish with subtitles
Programme 2:
IRELAND INVITES YOU
A tourist film showing the beauties of Ireland “where no-one is a stranger for very long”.
FILM INFO: 14 mins, Ireland, 1966, Digital
CAPITAL CITY DUBLIN 1974/75
This film, co-directed with Brendan Halligan of the Labour Party, is an unflinching portrait of a city crumbling after years of official neglect.
With a haunting new score by Josh Johnston.
FILM INFO: 20 mins, Ireland, 1974/1975, Digital, Black and White