Irish Film Institute -ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME 1 (FEB 2017)

ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME 1 (FEB 2017)

Director: Liam O'Laoghaire, Jim Clark


PROGRAMME 1

OUR COUNTRY

Liam O Laoghaire’s film for Clann na Poblachta discredits the Fianna Fáil leadership and presents countrywide images of poverty, emigration and deprivation never before seen on Irish screens.

FILM INFO: Liam O’Laoghaire, 8 mins, 1948, Ireland, Black and White

 

THE IRISH VILLAGE

Crookhaven, West Cork has been abandoned by its young people. Jim Clark’s film presents daily life noting there is nothing special about this sleepy village “except that it is dying”.

FILM INFO: Jim Clark, 22 mins, 1959, Ireland, Black and White

See also Archive at Lunchtime: Programme 2 and our Double Bill.

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