Irish Film Institute -ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME 2 (MAR 2017)

ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME 2 (MAR 2017)

PROGRAMME 2 

AMHARC ÉIREANN NEWSREEL

St Patrick’s Day, Dublin 1960

FILM INFO: 4 mins, 1960, Ireland, Black and White

IRELAND IN SPRING

An Tóstal, a series of festival celebrating Irish culture in the 1950s, was designed to attract tourists into the country in the spring. President Seán T. O’Kelly opens the festival with a float-filled parade in Dublin. The pageant of Saint Patrick is presented in Croke Park followed by a colourful slate of events around the country.

FILM INFO: 27 mins, 1957, Ireland

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

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