PROGRAMME 2

THE IRISH RIVIERA

This Irish Tourism Association film promotes the sunny south visiting Cork City, the remote outposts of Mizen Head, Dún Chaoin and the Blasket Islands (then inhabited).

FILM INFO: Irish Tourism Association, 15 mins, 1936, Ireland, Black and White

FISHING THE SLOE BLACK RIVER

In Brendan Bourke’s adaptation of Colum McCann’s story, an aging couple in a Co. Kerry

village express their sadness at the loss of their children to emigration.

FILM INFO: Brendan Bourke, 14 mins, 1995, Ireland, Colour

See also Archive at Lunchtime: Programme 1 and our Double Bill.